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_> . .... ~ . f .v-T ^ "" ^ ? . ' *;; > ^ ( . . ' : :v I I1 ?LJ L J . i L . ! LO--.BH tsa ?fia?s,!ifl sfaatai. BY P. M. TRIMMIER Devoted to Education, Agricultural,Manufacturing and Mechanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., T1IUKSPAY, MARCH S, 18GC. NO 6. T H K 18 PUBLISH EI) I V Kll V THURSDAY MOllNING, A T Two Dollars (Specie) in Advance. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Bquarc, First Insertion, $1 ; Subsequent Insertions, 75 cents. Tlie PrcMent DlMunionltiti*. The following articlo wo tako from the New York T imes, a paper which hns the reputation of being the exponent of the views of Secretary Seward : T1IE WAR FOR THE UNION AND THE WAR AGAINST IT. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and his Radical friends are not unlikely to oversho;! their mark. Their fiery zcul will in due time defeat itself, and bring upon their own heads the punishment with which they threaten others. For all this agitation in v.ougrcs.8, mis piling up amendments to t lie : Constitution, this denunciation of every | wan who differs from them, this anxiety to d'sublc and punish our fellow-citizens in the Southern States, is in strango forget j fulness of considerations which the states- , wan who would live must ever keep in : view. It pre supposes the continuance du- i ring peace ot a public opinion which uc I quired force under the excitement :uul ' perils of war. It makes no allowance lor ' the abatement of feelings which derived their strength from a conflict involving the lifo of the nation, and which are naturally wodified, if not eradicated, now that danger has given place to triumph. And it ignores the fact that lnnnv nf llio ?,.?.???*?<, 1 j by Radicalism, and which the Radical leaders would lain [tush to completion between the rising and the setting of the sun, cannot acquire any guarantee ol permanence, and may be annulled without ceremony by another Congress. Even wiih regard to Constitutional utneudim nts, it takes lor granted tho concurrence of the requisite number of States, although tho known weakness of the Radical element in several of theui renders such a result extremely improbable. There is lolly, therefore, as well as mischief, in some of the scenes now I being enacted at Washington. The idea ' of subjugating the Southern States and re- ' ducing them to the condition of conquered provinces, obtained no lavor during tho i period most likely to foster it. True, the | Wendell l'hillipses i n the platform enact- j <d the same role, of characters now played by the Stevenscs of another place, but the 1 great body of the people repud.ated it uii ; qualihudly and always. The Copperheads, ; taking their cue from the Phillips school of Radicals, opposed the war under the allocation thut it was a war ot conquest. Hut the people, from whom men and means to curry on the war were derived, never , regarded it us other thun u struggle to PrK" i serve the national integrity. All their . plans, all their arms, were predicated upon the continued existence of the I"nion in its entirety, and consequently upon t! e continuance within the Inion ot the r< hel States, throughout the whole term of the j rebellion. The entire policy ot the (Jov j crnmeut, foreigu and domestic, proceeded on this hypothesis. The proclamations ot i : 1_ .t jl imiuviii. jjiui:viii, me correspondence ut the State Department, the legislation of I Congress, the efforts and aspirations of the i Northern people?ull were in harmony upon this point. It was this and this alone which justified the war. It was this and only this which sustained the North under re verse, animated it when things wore their gloomiest aspect, and gave unceasing vijror to tho spirit which led to victory. The States weie held to he States all the time And the close of the war was held to imply tho resumption of their former relations as between the Federal Government and the , several States which had been concerned in the rebellion. This popular npprccin- ; tion of the question is of more value, for most practical purposes, than the abstract , arguments of publicists on either side. As ' the subtleties of the secession problem have , been blown into nothingness irom the can i uon's mouth, so the theuriziiu: ot Messrs. j Steven's ami Shellaburger is blotted out as , of no account by the deliberate judgment of the people. We have tho testimony of Gen. Grant to the good faith with which the citizens of the South acquiesce in the ; , verdict of tho war, and resume their alio giance to the old flag. Tho terms diet; ted by Gen. Grunt, with the full knowledge of President Lincoln, were calculated to bring 1 about this happy condition of affairs The | great soldier who guided tho struggle to j its ond dreamed not of arrogating to himself the iunctions'of conqueror, or of imposing upon the South terms of vassalage. | They who did the fighting felt always that tbey were lighting, not to extend n conqueror's flag over alien territory?not to add provinces to a republic and make it*? glorious symbol '-a flaunting lie,'' but to put down rebels and restore the authority of the Union over all its component parts The armies ol the Union f->ui?ht only for thaf. An-1 when that was accomplished, , soldier and people ulike felt that the work ! of tho war was ended, and that nothing rp I mainod to keep Northern and Southern Stutcs apart. The ft ion was ro toted, I and with the restored I "tiion came back the j Pfllltllitv ill #lw? 'liul tlw\ lull fif'n i?l' I -'1 J ? - "? I each to the privileges conferred hy the ; Constitution The Northern people have gone yet further. Froui the uiouieiit when the rebellion was known to he suppressed, they have striven to heal the wounds occasioned by the war, and to reassure the South in every rcspeet. They have established lines of steam communication almost j without number. 'J hey have provided the j means of reconstructing railroads. They have furnished capital to cultivate planta tiotis and to promote industrial and com lucrcial enterprises in every Southern State. They have settled liberally with Southern debtors, and have sent on cr?dit goods 10 i supply the Southern market. In this ! manner the question of the I 'nion and the ' relations of Northern States to Southern j States have been virtually and satisfactorily 1 settled by the people of the two sections. 1 _ \ i-i * * ? ! ouuiuvm pcopic come miner ami una friends and fellow-citizens, instead of aliens and subjugators. Northern people go there and find, in the varied resources ot States now Iroed from the curse of slavery, fresh grounds of confidence in the power and prosperity of the I uiou. It remains for men like Mr. Thaddcus S'cvens to deelaro the work, of the tirauts and Shermans of I the army unfinished, and to condemn the | magnanimous spiiit of the American pco ! pie. To a man who had dared anything 1 or done anything befitting a hero, we might be disposed to listen with rrsj.ee*. Hut that men who never shouldered a musket, nor exposed their precious persons to danger, should now Bcold and hector, ami talk ; about terms which a conqueror may die- | tatc, is simply intolerable. And when Mr. Stevens, who during tho war attempted | nothing uiore formidable than the drafting of ubsurd gold bills, spits his vriiniu ' ... .? ,L. > i 1 ? - - > > ujiKii me j it'Muviu, unu impugns me sa gacity and patriotism of Andrew Jolin-on. the people will not be long in deciding to whom their confidence should be given. On one hand, rluy see the type "t a elites whose radicalism \ears ago a Horded South- I em lire eaters the means of lounrntiug *cc tioiial strife, and whose zeal to day smacks mote of Austrian absolutism than of ra tional republicanism (hi the ollu-r hand, t they have, a Southern loyalist who risked life and everything in the cause ol the j Union, who did more than any other single man to organize loyal sentiment in , the border States, and whose poliey siuee his elevation to power has been marked by consummate skill and judgment, and by a disinterested devotion to the veneration ot national peace ami unity, which entitles him to the cooperation of the ; country. It is against this patriot, tried ami true?against this statesman, endowed so eminently with qualities peculiarly ) suited to the crisis?that Mr. Stevens presumptuously and insolently proposes to array the irreat Union nartv. - CJ I 'J - * important to am. i'krsons haying Claims against tiik Coymin mi sr.- I?y the tenth so--tion ??f an Act approved March 3, 1*03, (12 Statutes at Large, |>. T<JO,) it is enacted that every claim against the I nited States, cognizable by the Court of Claims, shall be forever barred, unless the petition setting forth a full stat merit of the claim be ft ed in the Court, or trans luittoW to it within six years alter the 1 claim first accrues, provided that c.aims accrued six years before the passage of the Act, shall not be barred if presented within three years after the passage of the Act. I'll us, all claims against the I'nited i States, cognizable bv the Court of tMaims ai.d ut more than six years' standing, will j he barred alter thu .1*1 of March, lMiti. i i l'hc claims cognizable by said Court i are : 1. All claims founded upui any law i ol Congress. 2. I'pon any regulation ol i any Kxecutive Department. !? I penally J] contruct expressed or implied, except (1) i claims growing out ot >r dep mdent on any ? treaty stipulation, and (2) claims for prop i erty damaged, destroyed, or appropriated i by the army or navv engaged in the .-up- i press ion ol the rebellion. i The above liinitution, though contained < in an act respecting the Court of Claims, i has hcun by many supposed to extend to j "all claims against the United States," whether prosecuted before the departments i or offered to be set off by defendants in < suits by the United States against them us i debtors.?National Jntelliijrncrr. I A cotemporary says: "Thorn is a man in our county who always pays tor his pa |?cr in advance, lio never bad a sick day ! . in hiH life?never had Corns or toothache? . the frost never kills his corn or beans? i < his babies never cry in the night, and his !< wife never scolds.' j ] Tlie South lu t'ouKrcu. The lion. 0. C. hangdon, formerly editor of the journal to which he writes, now a member of Congress from the Mobile lii.-^riet, has addressed to the " Mobile llegiiter and Advertiser" u letter, dated at Washington, in which, after reviewing very lorcibly the action of Congress iron the admission of the Southern representatives, he states that he has conic to the conclusion that the Southern States will i... .1 : ? i -4 - ui; ia|>u?i'u ui rcprcacuiuiion during the existence oi the pr?*s-nt Congress. The motives which, in hi* opinion, con trol the action of the radicals are so clearly and well stated in hi* letter, that we quote that portion of it: 1 ' The motive of all this is perfectly transparent. The radicals are anxious to pass certain measures, and among them amendments to the Constitution, for the double purpose of consolidating their own power, and al o as further punishment of the " wicked rebels." Were they to ad I mit the Southern members, all their well laid schemes would hceertainly defeated? especially all those whi .-h they require a two liiird vote?while, if the Southern members are kept out, the radical majority, in each llou.se, is S'iflioierjr to enable j tliciu to carry all tlieir measures, bidding | defiance even to the Kxeoutivc veto ; lor , instance : parties in tho Senate now stand j *? o 1.1: ? ? #>j i?i-piiuucans, it opposition and one] vacancy lrom Iowa. Wo will give the vacancy to the Republicans, making their | number 3D. Admit the -2 Senators from ] the Nmthcrn States, and parties will then > stand d'J Republicans, and <">.? opposition. > No two third voto lor thcui here And i besides, there are .'J Senators classed as Republicans, who will vote with the oppositiun on all extreme measures of the radi- j eals. These are Messrs. Cowan, Iloulit ; tie and Dixon, and this will make it a tie ] iu the .Senate?oti Republicans and do | opposition. .So the admission of the South- j ei 11 Senators would deprive the radicals ol ' their power in the Senate. And this is reason i uaugh for keeping them out. In j the House, parties now stand: 130 Republicans to do opposition. Adiuit the .?v Southern members ?n.t it>.-> is increased to tb??inukitig it impossible j lor tin- radicals to carry any measure that i mjuires a two-third vote. This view ol j the case satisfactorily explains why it is the *" outlicm tin to hois are nxf admitted, i It is power versus ?'oif-titutioual right." | ??<<? ?^ A Wonl lot- ?ariitleuien. The (itorgia ?'ttizeii contains some ; words of counsel to the sterner sex which we copy below : <icutlenien, you are very hard to please I in regard to female fashions. What must i we u<? to please you, gentlemen i Vou j preach one theory and encourage and ' practice of another. V.?u grumble when \ we wear leathers, flowers and small bun j nets. Quarrel over silks attd satins.? ! Make sport ol false curls and beau-cat eh- j ers, ai d make up laces at naint. now Jer I ami jm??i atuin. Vou abominate io\v neck-1 cu dresses, (orrr the I ft) and curl your lij> scornfully at a well wadded high necked one. Short waists objectionable and ' long waists intolerable. You declare we ' 1 ill ourselves with tight lacing, yet you go j into r.iptures over " splendid lorms," and the tighter they are drawn the more "an j gclie" they appear?(J think they look unsjy,) and the longer they make your j cab-, and p ir nth> .<?, whenever you see a lady w lose waist is " but a span" shorten your cai is lor the sake ol suffering hu- , inanity ! The dear creatures cannot live j without breathing ! W hen hoops are not in vogue you laugh at our slimness, and j net irr&u when we try to spread ourselves von luueh "be same. II our o>< you call u~ street sweepers ; if ihoy do I not trail you maliciously say wo wish to show our?-slippers. You grow sentimental over carnation i flit- ks and talk " beds ot roses." No ! won lor ladus cultivate roses when they I are 'u h objects of attraction and subject ! j| tlaiteiing i Unions l<et a richly dress- 1 jd and highly routed lady enter a ball I room and how many masculine hps exslaini,'4 How divinely bcuutilul!" " Mow lovely and bewitching! ' and 'O what a inugtiiKccnt creature!" Some knowing i Id togy in the cornet sarcastically mut- i lers " fudge ! merely a magnificent bun- j illo ol dry goods !" That remark leads us j ... i .1: 1.. !...? I .. .--- :- ? ' > LU III.' UU9 Ul'l'll i.Vivl'IJ 111 (I (it matrimony, by one ol those bundles, ami experience has taught iiiiu the truth ol the old proverb, " All is not gold that , -litters." .Now, gentlemen, bow and scrape to aa many hoops aayuu please, and hdluW with your eyes as many trails as you please, but lou t praise us one minute and laugh at us ' the next. Truly the poet understood your ' u.?v ki.-tfi.r t Ihiii n-o itn wli ?n In int.. 1 JV /* uuil.1 |i u *?" " II V A v lUiiiiLU, O, cousi-teiicy, thou art a jewel!"' The followint; advertisement appears in j in Arkansas paper: "Any gal what's got i bed. u cotfee pot and shulot, knows how [o cut out britches and take keer of chil lien, can have my service? till J:ath part? [)Olh on u?." The Three Wishes. There was once a wise emperor who made a law, that, to every strauger who caine to his court, a tried fish should be served. The servants were directed to take notice if, when the strau^cr had eaten the fish to the bone on one side, he turned I it over and began on the other side. If he 1 i did, ho was to Lc immediately seized, i and, on the third day thereafter, he was 1 1 to bo j of to death. Hut, by a great stretch of imperial clemency, the culprit was p<:r j j nutlet to titter one wish each day, which j i tlic emperor pledged himself to grant. pro I vided it was not to spare his lite. Many | : had already pern-died in eo?s<?<juenco of i this edict, ahcu, one d.?y. a count and his young son presented themselves at court ( The fish was served us usual, and when j the 0- unt had removed all the fi-di from j one side, ho turned it over, and was about to commence on the otlici, when lie was suddenly seized and thrown into prison, and was told of his approaching doom. Sorrow stricken, the count's young son besought the euiperor to ullow him to die in the place of his fither; a favor which the niouarcli pleased to accord him. The 1 count was accordingly released from prison and liis son was llirowu into Ills ceil in his ! stead. As soon as this had been done, tlie young man said to his jailors : 44 You know i nave the right to uiake three demands before 1 die; go and tell the emperor to send me his daughter, and a priest to marry us. The first demand was nut so much to the emperor's ta-tc; nevertheless, he felt bound to keep his word, and, therefore, complied with the reijue-t, to which the princess hid no kind of objection. This j occurred in the times when kings kept | their treasures in a cave, or in a tower sot apart lor the purpose, like the fcJui; efOr of Morocco in these days ; and, on the second day ot his imprisonment, the younsr man demanded the king's treasures it his lirsw demand Was a bold one, the second was not less so; still,an imperor's word is sacred, mill hnvinf* 'I- :? 1 , , iiiv 11U was lorccd to keep it and the treasures of gold and silver were placed at the prisoner's disposal. Ou getting poises-ion of theiu, he distributed them profusely among the courtiers, and soon he had nude a host of friends by his liberality, The emperor began now to feel cxcccdingly uncomfortable. I'liable to sleep, l?c rose early on the thirJ morning, and went, with fear iu his heart, to the prison to hoar what the third wish was to be. *'Now," said ho to the prisoner, ' "tell mo i hat your third demand is, that it may bo granted at once, ail i you may be hung out of hand, lbi i aiu tired of your do mauds." *' Sue," answered his prisoner, " 1 have but one more favor to request ol'yeur majesty, which, when you have granted, 1 shall die con tout, k is merely that you will cause the eyes of those who saw my father turn the fish over to be put out." " Very good," replied the emperor, : it i . ' i-i jour uvuianu is uut natural, nrnl springs 1 from a go>l ln-art. Lot the chumberluiu bo seized," ho c.utiuued, turning to bis , guards. ' 1, sire !" cried the chamberlain ; " I did not sec an)thing?it was tin- steward." " Let the steward ho seized, thou/' said j the king. ]>ul the steward protested, with tears iu his eyes, that he had not witnessed any* j thing of what had been reported, and said it was the Lutler. The Luller declared that lie had seen nothing of the matter, ' and that it must have been one of the ' valets. But they protested that they wore ! utterly gnorant ol what h id been charged j against the count ; in .- hurt, it turned out that iiubody could be found who bad seen , fill* nntnniif tl?.? >? ? . k . K ...? WW ?> ? vvM?u<a% liiv V4WUW , lijiu.'l VI 42 i U11 the princess said : "1 appeal to you, my 1 itlior, as to another Sdounn. It' n ibvidv saw tlic uffenecommitted, tho count eann -t be guilty, and uiy huibun i is inn ?.nt." The emperor frowned ; forthwiih the courtier.s began to muiniur; then he smiled, and immediately their visages became radiant. " Let it be so,'' sad his majesty; let him live, though 1 have put many ? man to death tor a lighter < ficiice than his. I'.ut if he is not hung, he is married, Justice has been dono." ' A Nobi.k Sentiment.?In his reply to ! the Montana delegation. published ycstcr? day morning, the President made uu utterance which, we have no doubt, will he rcmcuibcred through' ;it future ^enesations. It is this : "1 feel that 1 can afford to do right; and so feeling, God being willing, 1 intend to do right; and, so far as in tue lies, 1 intend to administer this Govern- i ment upon the principles that lie at the foundation of it." I his is the lungu r.e ol a nobio patriot, an 1 deserves tho ?joniuicu? , Uation of the good men and true in every section of our country. Soft Ginocriiri'ad.?One cup of molasses, one of sour cream, two eg^s, ono teaspoon ct soJa, 0'ie of glower. Mix rnthcr thtn. Female Society.?We endorse every word John Randolph said about ladies' society. Rend what he says, young man, and act accordingly : 44 You know my opinion of female society. Without it we should degenerate into brutes. This observation applies with ten fold force to young and those who are in 'he priuie of tuanho -d. For after a cot tain time in life, the literary ruan makes a shift (a poor one, I giant,) to do without the society ot ladies. ,u a voane man notli " ~ mf O nig i.s so important us a spirit of devotion (next to his Creator) to some niniab'o woman, whore image rnny occupy his heart, nnd guard it trom pollution, which besets it on all sides A man ought to choose a wife us Mis. ^Vtmrose did her wedding gown, for qualities that " wear well." One thing at least is true?that if . matrimony has its cares, celibacy has no pleasures. A Newton, or a more eminent scholar, may find enjoyment in mere study ; a man of literary taste can receive in books a powerful auxiliary, but a man must have a bosom friond, and children around him, to cherish and support the dreariness of age.4* Great cutties work great wrong, and the deeper tragedies of human life spring from its larger passions; but woful and ijiost melancholy urc tho uncatalogued tragedies that issue front gossip and detraction; most mournful the shipwreck often made of noble natures and lovely lives by the bitter winds and dead salt-waters of slander. So easy to say, yet so hard to disprove?throwing on the innocent, anil I unishing them as guilty if unable to pluck out the sting* they never see, and tosilenoe words they never hoar. Gossip and slaiider arc the deadliest and crudest weapons tuau has for bis brother's hurt. 'Ihe History of Mexico shows that during the last forty years Mexico has bad thirty seventy different forms of governtuenf. thirty two of which were " Kcpub? lies," and seventy live l*residcnts ! Its revolutions during that time have amounte-1 to over two hundred. Many years since a Mexican Hrotpctorate was urged upon the United ??tato3 Senate by Ucncral llouston, upon the ground that the Mexican people otherwise would fall a prey to some European power. Tho project was condemned and abandoned, out perhaps in view of tho post and present it would have been well. When cares " like a wild deluge cotne," when the soul i? weary and the burdens are heavy to bear, let us repose on that one comforting fact?that wo cannot get away, even it we would, from the love that encircles and pervades us. lielieve it or not, UoJ's promises never fail as; Ilia Almighty arms never cease to be about us. Sometimes, when low in tho dust, the earthly crosses and misfortunes, and the soul darkened, we lose this sense of the l>ivioe care?(lod seems very far from us thou ; but when He seems farthcreat He is really nearest. The Ciar has addressed a rescript to the Government of Warsaw, promulgating a series of educational measures to be carried out in Poland. Superior and elemcn tary schools are to bo established for Polos, Greeks and Russians, and separate schools for Getuians and Lithuanians. All scholars will le taught the Polish and Russian history and languages. The religious instruction will bo intrusted to the secular clergy of each respective denomination. Where we to .;sk a hundred men who, from small beginnings, have at'ained a condition of respectability and influence, to what they imputed their success in life, the general answer would be, "It was fro u bcimr early compelled to think. for and tbi-cuiou ourgclves." ? 9 ? ?? tlt.N'OKR COOKIE; ?Three tub!.'Spoons of incited bu ttr. throe of buttermilk; put into a teacup; till up the cup with niclasses, one teaspoon of soda and ore of ^in? L'cr.-Biir with a spoon, and odd as little Sour as possible, and roll out smoothly. Wife (coxpl&'ninglj:) "I haven't more than n third ui' the be J " Ilusband (triumphantly:) "That's all the law allows you." "What a Cue head your l?oy hns!" said an bdmirin^ friend. ' Yes," said the father?'"lie's a chip off the old block ; aint you my hoy?'' "Yes, father," replied the boy, "teacher said yesterday that I wai> u young block* head . As t.?c quick r-at way to make a fortune a coteuq>oiai\ roaming a fashionable young lu.ly auvl selling her clothes. Frugality id u fair fortune, ami iuilu?* try a good citato. Cwnnaa scu-'c is valuable iu a*l kind* ofb?tsinc*a wc^t k>~' Tanking.