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* s? I * . THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1869. vnrnun EMPORIUM OF FASHION. Fall and Winter, 1889?Specialties? Dry Goods and Millinery. He8s*?, Fowixr & McDonald are 1 now better prepared to show the Ltidies of Abbevillo District a handsome stock of Dry Goods than over before. Tho Ladies arc especially invited to examino their stock before buying. They will always strive to keep goods suited to tho tasto of tl?e Ladies of our District. In the DrcRS Goods Department they havo beautiful plain, striped and plaid Poplins, DeLancs, Empress Cloths, Reps, Flannels, Silks, etc., Black Alpacas. Oncra Flannel, DeBagcs and Silks. They liave a full Btock of llouso Furnishing Goods in Blankets, Counterpanes, < Sheetings, Towclings, Curtain Mate- ' rials, Shades, Table Damasks, Diapers, Long Cloths, Napkins, Doylas, Lin- i ens, Carpetitigs, and Wall Papering. Also, Hosieiy, Gloves, Braids, Tapes, i Hlankercliiefs and everything in White Goods. In the Gentlemen's Furnishing De- ! partment they have a sploudid lino 11 of Cloths, Cassi meres, Corduroys, ! < Jeans, Kerseys, Shawls, Collars, Cuffs, Cravats, Hose, Suspenders, Shirt Fronts, Gloves, Shirts, and | Drawers. i Abbeville can boast of as fine a > Millinery llouso as any in in the < Stato of South Carolina?in fact, as | fine as any in any city, North or s South. The stock will comparo with any Retail llouso in Charleston, Bui- c timore or New York. The Ladies t can have no pica for sending off for ( their millinery any longer, for Messrs. t Fowler & McDonald can show as prct- c ty goods, as tine goods, as stylish i goods as can be found in Baltimore 1 or New York. And, besides, they c can prove their prices to be from 25 i to 50 percent, lower than city prices. They have every style of Hat and Bonnet that is out. Should anv now / and novel ?t3-le make its appearance in New York, they have arrangements by which lo get it immediately, hence there is no necessity for the Ladiet of Abbeville to pay city prices when they can do better at home. Mrs. Saasard has had experience, both in Europe and America, and, we think, has the coniidence of every Lady of taste in Abbeville. She is assisted by Mrs. Jno. A. Wier whose 1 good taste and skill in this Department is well known to the Ladies of Abbeville, and will always be pleased to see her friends at thg 'Emporium of of Fashion. Mrs. Sassard ai:d Mrs. TVier will take pleasure to show the Ladies,. Flowers, Feathers, Bridal -i Wreaths, Plumes, Birds, Ornaments, I Jiibbons, Sashes, Curia, Switches, ti Chignons, Embroidered and Braided 'h Tokei and Bands, Skirts, Corsets, PM/IQ T5.? * vmuv x iUk^utul Dj i;UHUUHj Trimmings, Daces, Edging, Clonks, Shawls, Nubias, Hoods, Fur Capos t< a ad Muffs, Breakfast Shawl*, Col- 2 Jars, Cuffs, Chemisette, Necklaces, Shsll and Gold BeadH, cut and uncut a Yslvets, Satins, Silks, trimmed and uatrimmsd Patterns for all kinds of _ Ladies' and Hisses' Garments from [ J?. Butterick & Co., and Madame Demorest, of Now York, Kouches, ? Jfotts, Illusions, etc., etc. ^ They pay particular attention to e the getting up of Bridal Bonnets, t Tails, etc., and promptly attend to all orders from a distance. Salesmen in Dry Goods Department ?Jas. W. Fowler, W. T. McDonald, Marshall P. DeBrulil. Millinery Department?MrB. Sassard and Mm. \Vier. t By adhering strictly to the cash sys- t ^ Am katr OVA AnaUIn^ 4- rv n?U 1 ~ ?wu. ?*tv vuauiou bV OC&L UUO gUUUb | at reasonable prices. VALUABLE LANDS ! for taU in AObevUle. Importat to 1 Land Buyers. * ACRK lot in Greenwood, with fine ' tIv improvement*; SO aeree in original I fer?t?large yaang orchard. This place c*n ' be bought low. as (he owner has no use for it. \ T*o 1ft acre lot* on main atreet, in same vil- , lace, well improved. 4 Three vacnnt lot* near depot, desirably loca- , tad. ercaler Dortion of eaeli in fnr?ai cnni.in I J lag from 80 to 500 acres. One tract of 800 acres,kuawn bb White Hall; 800 acres in for- ] at, 60 acres prime bottoms; well improved, , aa4 contains an exce'leut store liouse, and is a 1 . gaod mercantile viand. Oaa farm an Saluda river, of 350 acres, ]2n ia fareat, 20 acres iu new bottoms, 100 acres f nplands fina for cotton, all under good fence, comfortably improved for tenants. Excellent /alia aa tha riyer and well adapted to machinery Oaa form adjoining the above on Turkey araak. of 450 acres, 100 acres upland cleared, 60 aarea good bottoms, balance in original for aat mbd pines, fencing good, and good tenant house*. Oaa farm of '22 acres, in Edgefield, five t alia* from Ninety Six depot, G5 acres in colli- a vatioa, orehaid from 8 to 4 acres, trees in good 1 oadition. This place is well improved. f vis iuiui ui tw BtttB, iu jDugrneiu?excelsat timber, i Oae farm of 900 acreas, in Abbeville, on Crover'a creek. 100 acrea in bottoms, well improved for teuanta. Ob* farm of 300 acre*, on same creek, eu- 1 peri or cotton land 126 acrea of auperior bottoms?iu fine condition. One farm of 600.acrea, on umt creek, superior improvements for family residence; laud f the first quality. The abova landa can ba bought low. Por terms apply to the Land Company, at . Orooawood. J. T. PARKS, W. K. Blaks, President, Secretary. 26 tf CLOTHING EMPR0IUM. W. T. HOKE Of?'? f?r * large and well selected stock of ' f(f JIWuvwm vMVftnmuf ' Gentleman's Fornisbing Good#. Hats, -Trunk*, Umbrellas, &c., which were bought at low prises and will be told obeap North Carolina Bank Bills bought. Store on Main Street, a few doors below the Colambia Hotel. Oet. 8,1869, >4?-3ai . Af*Uswortme?t of \ I>R>?PK8. WIKBf, WHISKIES < ? ' * INTEREST PAID ON Certificates of Deposit. The Carolina National Bank. ?OF? COLUMHIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. BY resolution of the Board of Directors of this Bank, Certificates of Deposit will be issued, drawing interest at tlits rale of skvkn x*eh cunt, tkr annum the local rate for money in the State ol South Carolina, for sums deposited in this ..->or.r>?r ??. ? I ? ' " ,?nUiic>| ?v? icuiniu uuu lO-O UJRJ1 llliriy days, payable od demand after ten day# notice. TIip Capitol Stock of this Bank is now $123 500, and authority lias been granted to increase it to the sum of $200,000. The security of Depositors is guaranteed S?y the lull piiyinenl of thi* C-pital Stock, and by the examination nod p iblished reports of its condition whenever required by ihe Comptroller of tbe National Cunency liu reiu. The Bank deals in Exchange, Gold and Silver Coin, and National and State Socurities generally. Deposits received in Coirt or Currency, and paid in the same. When interest is paid, it will he in k nd. Persons having fund* 'o invest, are respectfully invited to correspond with the President or Cashier on the subject, and nake all investigation they may see propjr to satisiy themselves o( the safety and iroiluclivcuess cf an investment in its Hock, The Carolina National Bank has pur. :hused for its use the building belonging o the Bank of the State, ii> the city of Columbia, which it will occupy so soon as he necessary alterations and improvements :an bemad*. Great cure will he takfn in i.? : - - " > iiu buiisn iiuuuii oi us v mu:i, \v ii loll will be arge and as strong as grannie and iron :an make it, affording every possible secuiiy to its contents. BOAItD OF DItlKDTOUS. L. D GUILDS. President, EDWARD HOPE JOHN PRESTON. JR, DR J. \V\ PARKER, R. O'NEALE. JR, J, G. GIBIiES. W. B. GULICK, Cashier, Deo. 3, 18G9, 32?4l 1 he State of South Carolina Abbeville County. ?r WILLIAM HILL Ksn P, , 'J J udye. OFFICE OF TIIE Dickson Fertilizer Company. Augusta, Gh., N?>v. I2th. 18G9. HAVING n IimiJ a Fail- of No. I PERUVIAN GUANO, and a ope now of being able to keep up the upply, we reduce ibe prioe of DICKSON'S COMPOUND n Sixtv-Five ($05) Dollars per Tou of .000 lbs. lor cash. And on time till Novembpr 1, 1870, to ;75 and Interest, for approved City Acepiance. DrayHge, in ttli cases, $1 00 ler Ton Di<*kso?'K Compound also will >e delivered Fiee of Charge, at any Deiot in South Carolina, in exchange for Cotton Seed, at the rate of 100 of the Vmnnun^ fnr 1K /oo 1 Wf V UUOItOID ^OO puumjh acb) of need. Bag9 (or seed also furnishd free of charge. Address E. P. ALEXANDER.. Columbia, S. C. Deccember 3, 1869, 32?tf WHEILEAS W. 0. Bass applicant has inn do Euil to me, to grant inn Letters of Administration of tlie Esate of Mrs. Mary Bass, deceased, late of aid county. These sire, therefore, lo ci*e and monish ill and singular the kindred and creditors >f the said Mrs. Mary Bass, dee'd, that bey be and appear before me. in the 1 D...L..... ?- ?- L - - ui i. i unit*, iu i>e neiu HI AUUbVille 3, II., on Tuesday 14 Dec. next, after lubrication hereof, at 11 o'clock iu the brenoon, to eliow cau-e, if any lltey have, why tho said Administration should uoi be 'rented. Givan under my hnnd, this 29 day of November, Anno Domini 1SG9, Published on the 3rd day of December, 18G9, in the 93d year of American Inaelendence. "WM. HILL, J. r. A. c. [L. B.] Dec. 3, 1809, 32?2t FALL OPENING FOB 1869! AT J. H. & M. L. KINABD'S COLUMBIA, S. C. We have just received, and have ready for ixainination, the largest and most attractive tock that it has ever bten cur pleasure to exlibit, consisting of everything pertaining to a its' class Dry Goods Establishment. .* Iso a frill line of CARPET INGS, OIL CLOTHS, w inuuVV BUAU1SS; tUK? IUES &U. Our stock ia so extensive and varied, that it ? impoecil>le to enumerate. We therefore incite our friends, and all in want of good and sh<-apDry Goods, to call and see for thetnlelves. We guarantee satisfaction as to style, juality and price. J. TI. <fc M. L. KINAUL). Oct 2i, 18?9, 26?8m nb Reward! DROPPED on the Public Road, between Abbeville C. II., and Wilntf inn. nn November 29, a SMALL S1I> PER CUP, marked "T. A.C., to E. C P.". \ liberal reward will be given to tbo finder >D delivery at this office. Decfmb^r 3. 1869 ? 32??f Wanted to Buy. A GOOD WHEAT THRE8HER and ?jL FAN, for wbich a fair prion .will b* iaid in mih. Vnna tutiu) ha nffariul Kill -lie best. ... it ' ^ , JT. P, G* DuPre. , Dec. 5, >W9, 8?-Hf : CARE OF INFANTS AT NIGHT. From the Note Book of an Eminent Physician. It is said that Sir Edward Codrington, when a young officer at Toulon, was eo anxious to distinguish himself that ho passed the greater part of the day on the deck, watching for signuls to give intelligence of the movements of the French vessels, and when he retired,lie sank inio a sleep so profound that the loudest noises did not awake hira; but when the word "signal" was whispered in his cabin he immediately sprang up. This anecdote proves how sleepless in the midst of theprofoundest slumbers is that faculty of the sou! which for the time being is intensely excited. The same truth is well illustrated iu the case of the mother. She is the most sleepless person in the household. For months, and often for years, she does not enjoy two consecutive hours of sleep. But it is not the noises in the' street, nor anxiety, nor nervousness, that disturb her repose. She can sleep soundlj when others arc made wakeful by unusual sounds or voices. But there is one sound, one voice, more potent in her ears than all ! others; it is the voice of her child. When that is heard even iu the faintest whisper, sho arouses from the deepest sleep: how insensible she may be to other voices, that one never fails to be heard by her quick ear. Mothers often relate that, long after their children have grown to manhood and womanhood, they are startled from their slumbers by the old and familiar erics of their babyhood. This instinctive wakefulness of tho mother to the wants of her child teaches a most important lessen in the care of children at night. It is a growingpractiee in our first-. nlncc fo m i 1 * a? *?? 4.11.. 1*? 1 viima 1UIUII1I.O IU UVJIIIIIUU lllU Illliint to the care of the nurse at night, that the mother may not be disturbed, but may have hep regular and full amount of sleep. This is done under the pretence that the mother's health requires that her night's rest should not be broken by the care of the child. Except in extraordinary cases, there is no truth in the assertion; if the mother and child are iu ordinary health, the proper care of her infant at night does not tax the mother beyond her Strength : while the iiulirinim nnro of the child by the mother diminishes greatly the irritability and restlessness ot the former. But there are certain positive evils and dangers atttending the care of the infant by a nurse at night. It will prove, in nine cases out of teu, that the nurse considers her own sleep of paramount importance, and in about the proportion given it will be found that she manages to obtain it. In the first place her affections are not stimulated by the child, and hence her sympathies are not enlisted in its care and welfare. She sleeps quite unconscious and of undisturbed by its cries. when its plaintive voice penetrates to the mother's ear, though iu a distant and secluded part of the house. Thus many a helpless infant that has become tired of lying in one position, and merely requires to he changed to secure perfect rest and }uiet cries itself asleep from sheer exhaustion, unable to arouse the leaden ears of its nurse. One of the first and most dangerous consequences of committing the child to the care of the nurse at night, is her liability when asleep tr? iiuorJnn on/1 I*- ?:i1-?* vv V*uiivt cuiuiuui iv wniiuui hearing its stifled cries. The English mortuary records show that two or three hundred children are thus killed annually. But if the child escapes death or injury from this cause, it is by no means free from danger from other ources. It is liable to be habitually dragged to sleep. This may and doubtless will' be regarded by mauy as an unjust suspicion upon their own "faithful" nurses; but there are too many facts accumulated againBt them to make it doubtfnl. It must be assumed as a truth that nurses will have their own usyal, amount of sleep:.. If they can not obtain it on account of the restlessness-of the child* they soon learn the reriaedr for Ua al?or?lAo?_ inesi. They try it secretly and cauiontly, end find it succeeds perfectly; they repeat it Vrith e^nal success sev^j^l /tjip??j PPTV wade bold and confident, tfapy a&> ; . i" S.*>! ' . . # minister tho anodyne with liberal hand every night, or at least when they fear the child will disturb their own slumbers. A child thus treat- 1 ed soon becomes unusually irrita- ( ble and peevish, its digestion is impaired, its complexion is a dirty, 1 sallow hue, it sutlers from con6tipa- 1 tion, and finally sleeps soundly ^ only when under the iulluence of its accustomed drusr. IIow manv w 1 children in every wealthy and fash- ' ionable coranluuity, with good na- f tive constitutions, fall into prema- i ture decay from this cau8e, it is itn- < possible to determine; but the cor- t oners inquests prove that many in- i iauts die annually from the impru- i dent ueo of the drugs in constant 1 U80 in many nurseries. ' It can but be regarded as an axt iom of the utmost importance in tho rearing of children, that the j mother should have the personal t charge and care of them at night. A medical \Oitcr of great experience says: "Ilow many children sleep the sleep of death through C the undue administration of carmi- j natives and other nostrums! It ? requires the mothers greatest vigi- j lance to prevent such weapons be- t ing introduced into the nursery; t lmnrnvni' 11 * uvu vivi uuivi n lot' u&uuuum, 18 apt I to prefer the comfort of unintorrup- t ted slumber to tlie performance of } duty in studying the welfare of the 1 child committed to her care." * i BOBBY ROB'S LITTLE SERMON. t Yesterday morning Bobby Rob j climcd up iuto liis grandmother's arm I chair, and preached this little sermon to the children in the nursery : J r " Beloved Hearers and Ciiil'rxn : t ?I'm goiu' to preach to you about j ahoes. It was what my aunty told ^ me oneet, and it is true. Every morn- { in', beloved hearers and chil'ren, there's two pair of shoes a stand in* by every boy's and girlH bed,?not by the cradles, coz babies don't know enough. Well one pair of shoes is c nice, and makes you good natured and | pleasant; and tho other pair is all . wrong, and makes you just as cross as Lirrfirs Tf vnn nnt ?' ? ??1 ? ?0??... j vv* |/uu vvn tiiU gUUU puir, I you'll walk through tho day as good i and cheerful as a birdy bird, and cvcrybody'll like to hear you cOmin', and your stop'll be just like tho music j of a beautiful hand-organ with little , men and women all danciug round and t round; aud everywhere'a you go, , things will seem all right and nice, and you won't even mind having your , face washod, nor your hair curkd, if' they don't pull too awful. But if you . put on tho other pair, you won't have t any comfort, and nobody won't want e you, and everything will kind o' crack. t Now, my hearers and chil'rcn, (Oh, j Mai*y Ann! mamma eaid you musn't jump up your witch box while any of us was a preachin'I) Now, my hearers, 'emember these two kind of shoes Is by everybody's bed every mornin'. You can't see 'em ; but they are there, and all you've got to do is to say, I'll ? T)llt mv feet int.n t.hrt <rr>nf}_no + it*T?/l - * --? shoes, and wear 'em all day, and not forget it, and you'll do bully. But * just aH sure as you don't, your fcot'll c slip into the bad shoes afore you know * it; and then look out! 1 "Now, my hearors and ehilren, I 8 must get down. The breakfess-bell is fl a ringin'. I want you all to 'emern- ^ ber what I just said to you,?and an- * other thing: if you'vo got on your ^ good-natured shoes this mornin', you'll a wait for me till I get my hair brushed, coz I'vo been preachin', an* wo all ought to start fair if there's griddlecakos."?Hearth and Home. ( A' Canary's Antipathy.?It may t interest some of your readers to note t the extraordinary antipathy for eer- p tain colors of a pet canary-hird of d ours. Any shade of violot or bluo C appears to drive him mad. lie not o only flutters, but beats himself against b tho wires or the bottom of tho cage, t and I really believe would kill him- r self if tho objectionable color was v not removed. Tho least bit of either b of these colors is detected by him in a a moment. One day, while my wife C was feeding her pets, the cook came t to speak to her, and had some ribbon v of a violet shade to her can. Poor I v littlo Dickey was off in a moment, * violently beating and fluttering till t the cap strings disappeared. We a have tried him with almost every e other color, and he takes no notice, C I may add that he was brought up by n the band, and is so tame that be te V constantly hopping about us .aa"; we ? get up inth^mopnieg; any stranger t can take Mm on "their * finge^. tn a i moment,- however, at the sight of a if JLl - ? * u?vo<? u# riuuun ox me ooior9 named, 0 i he immediately commences trying to i knook his brains out, or to do himself 0 some other "grievpns bodily harm." p any one aoconnt for the'strange I 'fttr eeWttt T 'j? 7) .r- ' , I ' . * r Hark Twain's Idea of & Good Letter. The most useful and interesting letters we get here from homo arc from children soven or eight years old. This is petrified truth. Happily ,hcy havo got nothing olse to talk ibout but home, and neighbors, and ?amily?things their betters think on prorLby of transmission thouBands of Biles. They write simply and naturally, and without strain for offoct. rhoy toll all they know, and then jtop. Thoy seldom deal in abstractions or homilies. Conseqnently their jpistlos aro brief, but, treating as ,bey do familiar scenes and persons, ilways entertaining. Now, therefore, f you would learn tho art of letterwriting let a child toach you. I have proserved a letter from a little girl jight years of ago?preserved it as a surioslty, bocause it was the only lot,er I ever got from the States that md any information in it. It ran ,hus : "St. Louis, 18G5 "Undo Hark, if you was hero I sould tell you about Moaos in tho bul ushes again. I know it better now. Jr. Soworby has got his leg brolco off i horso. lie was rididgit on Sunday. Jargarot, that's the maid. Margaret las taken all tho spittoons and slop* mckots and old jugs out of j*our oom, bocause sho snys bIio don't hink j'ou aro coining buck any more, 'oa been gone bo long. Sissy ilcEl oy,B raothor has got another little >aby. Sho has them all tho time, thas got little blue oyes, like Mr. >winley.that boards there, and looks list like him. I have got a now doll, >ut Joliny Anderson pulled one of ite cgs out. Miss Doosenbury was here o day ; I givo hor your picture, but lie did'nt want it. My cat has got nore kittens?oh! you can't think? wioo as many as Lottie Beldens' ^nd there's one, such a sweet little >uff one with a short tail, and I nam>H if fnr xt/mi ? -- ? .* "Ail of them'p got names now? Jeneral Grant, and llallcck, and tloeos, and Margaret, and Dcutorren>my, and Captain Semmes, and ExoIub^ and Leviticus, and lloracc Gvcc ey?i\ll named but one. and I am eavng it, bccauso the one I named for ,rou's bucn sick all the timo sinco, and [ rockon it'll die. [It appears to have )e?fc mighty rough in the sbort-t&ilid kitten, naming it for me. I wonlor how tho reserved viotim will stand t.] Uncle Mark, I do believo Hat.ie Caldwell likes you, and I know she .Links you are pretty, becauBO J loard her say nothing oould hurl roar good looks?nothing at all. 3he said even if yoa were to have the small-pox ever eo bad yoa would be ust as good looking as you were be ore. And my ma Bays she's over bc imart. [Very.] So no more thii ,ime, becauso General Grant anc Hoses is fighting. An nib." This child treads on my toes in ove y other sentence with porfcct loose icss; but in the simplicity of hei imo of life she doesn't k..ow It I consider that a model letter?an eminently readable and entertaining ctter?and, as I said before, it con. ains more matter of interest and inormation than anv latter T ?*a. :eived from tho East. I had rathox tear about cats at homo, and their ruly remarkable names than listen tc i lot of staff about people I am not acquainted with, or read "The Evil Effects of tho Intoxicating Bowl," il< ustrated on the back with tho pie uro of a ragged soalawag getting way right and left in the midst oi lis family circle with a junk bottle. PaiVATE Property IN LAW BOOKS -A good story is told of John W. Crockett and Jim Gibson, both ol hem able lawyers, and in full pracico, in .tho early days of Jackson's purchase. They both roBided in Fulled in Fulton, in Hickmaa county.? )n one occasion thoy were employed n opposite sides, in an ejectment case, eforo a magistrate. The Court was teld in a school house. Crocket was eading the law to the court, and ?hen he got through, Gibson asked iim for his book, saying that the tatote just read was new to him 'rocket refitted to give it to him on he ground that it was his own priate property, and if Mr." Gibson ranted tbo benefit of law books there vera some for sale. The court ruled hat the book was private property, nd that Gibson had no right'to see it zcept. with Mr. Crockett's coneonttibson was now puttied, but, being a a an of resources, he fell upon a plan ?hich completely upset Crockett^ alculati'ons- He stepped back and oirod under a desk an old copy ' 61 foah Webster's spelling book, and in ddrtSslng the Court be read from tfca poller: "Be it enaoted "by the Gener I Assembly of the Common wealth f Kentucky, that laws heretofore smiied (here fitting Crocket's law) % and the sameare^bfcwby meal< ; in;; y,& c.. ^ ! >. > *V;^ \ * 4 "Lot mo see that book." "No. yon don't," says Gibson, "this book, sir, is private property, and I am not in the habit of packing law books aroand for the benefit of others." It is need less to say Crockett lost his case, Gibson having tho last say on him.?Paducah Kentuckian. , Sleep ron Sale.?Ce Quincy says that whon ho first purchased opium, i it was liko discovering that plcasuro could bo bought by tho battlo and ob- , Iivion by tho rules of liquid moasuro. : Tho Now Yhrk Mediclo Society is j making known tho fact that some- , hi? .? - - - ' tuiug wry imo mis uas Dcet done in ( tbo discovey of tho anccstbotic known , as chloral-hydrate. When tho prop- j er quantity is judiciously injcctcd, a ^ sound, refreshing sleep ensues, from , which tho patient awakes with the , appetite and resilient spirits which , follow the sloop of health. It is ^aid I to bo superior to cither, chloroform ] and morphine, aud may bo taken with ( water, mucilage or orange-peel. It is , due to the experiments of Dr. Lio- ( bright, of Berlin, who first brought it to light last July, and was introduced , into this ceuntry three woeks ago by Dr. Jacoby. With the exception of tho small quantity brought by Dr. Jacoby, there is none in tho United St.ates, to that its success among slocplc8B Americans remains to bo tried. A Country Ciioie.?The 6in??ng of a couutry choir is thus described in a volumo called "Homespun, or Fivc-and-Twcnty Years Af?o." "As I look at such matters, nothing sweeter or purer, or more delicious to l a simple bouI, can bo conceived than tho unaffected singing of a country choir. There is so littlo scientific fusB and professional palaver about it. And tho melodies come out so full and clear?a creation each by itself, t rising and falling in its cadcncc liko the steady swell of the sea ! I know few things, for myself, moro true and hearty. There stands the choral row, male and female, heads orcct and mouths oponed wide, letting out souls and voices together ; the fiddlo squeaking with excitement to get tho lead, and tho hard-working choristoi', with quick eye thrown to one sido and tho j other, actually singing down the whole! As to tho molody itsolf?so simple and direct, so plaintive, so stir* ring, filling tho houso as with a flood from floor to ceiling, and drifting out through tho open doors and windows into tbo echoing street?it is enough . to move the moat worldly heart that ' ever tried to mint itself into money. One hardly thinks he catches such so' raphio strains again, though he goes * all the way from New England to * Rome." * Lira's Sunshine.?Tho sunshine of I life is made up of every little beam that is bright all tho timo. In the nursery, in the playground in the schoolroom, there is room all the time for little acts of kindnesv that cost nothing, but are worth more than 'gold or silver. To give up something 1 whore giving np will provent unhappiness; to yield when persisting will ' ohafe and fVet others; to go a little - around rather than come against an* other; to take an ill word, or a cross look, rather than resent it~these are the ways in which clouds and storms ' are kept off, and a pleasant, smiling ' sunshine secure even in the humble ' home, among poor people, as in fami' lies of higher stations. Much that we ' term the miseries of life would be > avoided by adopting this rule of con duct. Installation.?The Bev. W. "W. Hicks, who has for some time filled the positiod of associate pastor in St. John's Lutheran Chnrch, was fbrmally installed yesterday morning. Tho ceremony wes witnessed by a large 1 congregation. The Revs. J. Hawkins of Newberry, A. B Budo, of Columbia, ' affd T. S. Boinost, of Pomaria, were present and assisted. The pulpit was 1 onoupied by Dr. Baohman and the 1 Bev. Mr. Hawkins, Messrs. Bnde and ; Boinest taking seats in the chancel* and the Bev. Mr. Hicks, accompanied by the vestry and wardens, .was as' signed a pew in the main aisle in front of the pulpit. The sermon was deliv1 ered by Mr. Hawkins from 2d Corin ' thians, 3d chapter/ 5th to the 9th 1 verses. The installation services were * then read by Mr. Bade, nod the charge 1 delivered by Dr. Bachrfian. The ben. ediotien wu then pronounced by the ' assistant pastor.-? Ckarlaton Iftwt, 6th in*t. - ;, i Benjaman Baker Is a Floridian Who 1 this year raised * crop of 17999 worth, of pineapples on one acre and a half of ground. ' 1 . ' ^ h.:1 BnfcTaadand Pranob Sre throng great efforts to settle the difference J between the Vielory and the Sal ton. , AfWrl>**tabSr 21st, it win be t?e* ? gsi **it MbUm toaMrirklfcw 1 - ' baa ?3*?: Vv f 1^;' . f t I VJU' Horace Greeley on Farming. At a Press Dinnor given At Delmonico's on Saturday night, at which the magnates of the New York newspaper and periodical press?male and female?were present, one of the toasts, "Country Farming and City Bditing," waa specially provided lor Mr. Greeley, who, when called upon, ropliod as follows: I don't quite understand whether I .v, -> ?ui uA|jtLiuu iu uumuuBirate an agreement or a contrariety between these two things. At any rate, if the purpoao of the sentiment is to affirm that :>no of theae pursuits is as delightful and attractive as the other, I respectfully non-concur. ]Laughter and applause.] As to city editing, I have something more of it than I have do sired, and moro than I could onjoy. &.B to my farming, there aro gentlemen who have spoken of it rather more freely than their limited knowledge of tlio subjoct' would admit. I think I have seen somo elaborate statements of the cost of each turnip ? [laughter]?and these statements were made by gentlemen who I was not aware, were so attentive to the cost of things as these calculations would seem to imply. I havo not mado any such calculations myself, for I have been a little shy of doing so. [Laughter.] Let mo, howover, say a few words about country farming which is a thing very much believe in. Having done some share of work in the world, I lay down this proposition ; That any man or woman who can get their work done by eight o'clock at night need not consider their condition a hard one. But when the work stretches far into the night, to elevon, twelve, one, two, three, it beginB to bo irksome. I find it irksome. I am not now so fond of sitting up with a news paper all night, or with anybody else. This, then, I can Bay for country farming, that while it has somo ruggod aspects, and docs not promiso any such brilliant and rapid advancos to fortune as some of our friends like to achieve in Wall-street, it is ju6t about the safest and surest thing any one can ongage in ; and it is moreover, a tranquil aud certain delight to any human being who can enjoy his own society[Laughter and applause.] My little place while it is nothing to brag of? paughter]?there is this to be said about it. I have got the most delightful baru full of corn, rich, golden corn, that over you saw in your lives.? Now, that is something achieved, something to look at. I have been at work on the press for forty years; and this seems to be the hardship. Tou work for days, and months and years, and what have you to show ? Something, I hope, in mental growth; something in firmness of purpose; something in clearness of intention, but outwardly, nothing! Thirty years have passed away, and where is the fVuit of all that labor ? How can your labors compare with those of the man who hasproduced a book? And hero let me say that in my judgment, no good book ever waa or can be produced on the instigation oi of a $50,000 check. Such books as that of John Bunyan have been produced by authors who nover thought they would get a dime for them. [Applause.] Those are the books that live. The books that the $50,000 checks will buy?will ihcy sell? I hope so; but the world ip .charitable and soon forget them. Country farming will holp also to develope one of the phases of the question of woman's rights?wherein I have not so full a part as some of our friends would wist. Country farming gives just the right field for the development of your energies. [Laughter.] Lots of you are wanted to take your part in country farming. [Rehewed laughter.] Tou need not dispute nor olamor?there it is. "The world is all before you where to choose." If any lady wants her righta-3[ am a woodchopper?I surrender my share of work. There' aro plenty of opportunities ; so, then, why don't some of our frionds who want their rights come out into the country and take them ? There need be no controversy. "Vfade enough is the world; and there is work enough for all. I hope that some of this dto and controvorsy will roll itself abroad in the country ; and our excellent friend, "the last best gift," and so on, will achieve her rights with her own right hand, [Great applause.] .. . i. 1 i House ot Ekp'b mxntattvis to bk nrofc&iszD.?Data telegraphs the Baltimore Sun that among the featotei of the new census bUI, the com^lt^ will report a provision fbr increasing (he number of. members ofjtfce United Btate* House of Repreft&tjatfc#* to 800. By over-tight, ; tW 'p&tU#1?2$ not oonsiddred bjr tWf <tll^oomtnitto4' bat attention h*a bfia o4U?dto' A bjf th? aomfewi of * QfMrij? M. i::~* ; V'"; r" . -si; ujoijcj A. V 1JL?\NO? 33 ! SSHHSSSSHSBHSSSSS^^J^ Tue Men who win Womsn.?4?0d lias made tho sexes that women, liko children, cling to the men; lean npon them as though they were superior ia ' mind and body. They make them the sans of systems, and theif children revolve aroand them. Men are godt, if thoy bat knew, and woman burning incense at theso shrines. Women, therefore, who have good minds and hearts, want men to lean upon. Think of their reverencing a drunkard, a liar, a fool, or a libertine. * If a mau would have a woman to do him homage, he must be manly in overy sonso; a true gentleman, not after tho Chesterfield school, but golite because his heart is full of kindness to all; ono who treats her with respect, even, deference, because she is a woman ; who never coudescends to say silly things to her, who brings her up to his level if his mind is above hers; who is never over auxious to do right, who has no time to be frivolous with her. Always dignified in speeoh and act, who never spends too much upon her: nevor yields to temptation, even if she puts it in his way; ambitious to make ma mam iu the world, whether bho encourages him or not; who is never fumiliar with her to tbe extent of be* ing an adopted brother or cousin; who is never over-carcful about drese; alway pleasant and considerate, but always keeping his place of tho man ?tho head, and never losing it. Such deportmont, with noble principals, good mind, energy and Industry, will win any woman in tho world who ia worth, winning. ? l Simplicity in Beauty.?The late Filz Greene Hallock said : "A letter fell into my hands which a Scotch eervent girl had written to her lover. Its stylo charmed me. It was fairly inimitable. I wondered how in her oircumstacos in life, she could hav? acquired so elegant a style. I showed the letter to some of my liteiary friends in tho city of New York, and they unanimously agreed that it was a model of boauty and elegance. I then determined to solve the mystery,, and 1 went to the house where she was employed, and asked her how it wan mat, in bar bumble circumstances in life, she acquired a style that the* most cultivated mhaAt could not bat admire. 'Sir/ said eh*'I oaiaa Uy this country four years ago*. Then 1 could not read or write. . Bot since them X havo learned to read and wrdta^bot 1 have not yet learned to spell ;jso always when I sit down to write a let* ter, I select these words which are so short and simple that I am sore to* know how to spoil them. There vai the whole secret. The reply of that imp)e minded Scotch girl condensed a world of rhetoric into a nut shell. Simplicity is beauty. Simplicity is power. -w 1 Force oje Habit.?Habit is every^ thing. We have all heard the story 1 of the man who slept above a baker's oven for twenty years, then changed his lodging; but he had to go hack to i fllA AWfln 1-- 13 * V?vu UOIUIO UO CUU Id B169p? A case illustrating the same principal is reported in Ohio. A city man, accustomed to lodge in one of the koslest , streets, visited a country friend. Too much quiot destroyed his rest at night his friend felt for his distress, and said he would try and redove it. Accordingly ho went to a neighbor,s and procured a bass drum, which he beat un-. der the guest's bedroom Window, and . had his boy run a squeaking 'wheel* barrow up and down on th* porch, while his wife played on the piano, and bis servant girl poauded on the nhftmhnp **' '' >.?? n?utu? iuu^h. xq inia manner the sufferer was enabled to get two or three. hoars of qaite refreshing sleep, though it waa heavy on the family* ;v: ... ; I Mill An accident occurred at the Academical Department of the Peabody school at Greenville on Monday last The morning being cold,r as the boys and girl* were crowd- > ing around the firo, the daee*jof. Bettie Oauble, daughter .tofc Mr.'i u? n 1- 1 - * "? ' - jj.cuij v?uui?, caugnt nre ^iDd'1 threatened serious. dara*g? to hW. Mias Bailey^ one of thejtetofehets,' in her efforts to extingiifah1 ^the flames, had her Angora ; atrtl tho palms of herhanda AeV^rely though. , not seriously J?utn6(if.'; 3*he person'' ' tUnding OfjT clothes vertf. nearly : .r: T;:;:. i' ? >i>n . HLvemn reoentf r<breohftated *t the Phoenix Hotel, m GoftMjnd. < rAvdaali j of bee&teak ,*?d.? pUtof? Ashbalta mMt before Eimf.Snd'Fe immediMwy took one' of tbe aJpeft brtrttned ' flibbaUs Onbfa fork, 4ba7uttdertook 1 topeel ii. Two or tftrte o? <eoa?e 1 uuai^eeef^etteibiy^la s5s?si?ss i ivV .'wou b *. , ' . ] ! v " . -M .' ' :xf