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I } % # THE K . NEWS, I PUM.liJIIMi Kvery Saturday Morning i T W. BEATY, Editor. TKttUMt One Year, 92.00 Six Months, ?... 91.00 Alt rdiniiiaulcntioiiM t?u4tM?r tocrt* l?rlVHlf 1 will b? etmr|f4?4l r.r M T11E ELM AM) THE VINE. , I 1 'W|Aiukl my feeble braiiehes i With tliy strong arms, I pray;** Thus to the elm, her neighbor? Ttw; vine?was heard to say; "Else, lyii?5 low and holphwt* * A weary lot is mine. i Crawled oVtr by every reptile, Ami brewsed by hungry kit**;" i i** -euii was moved to pity; , Then six?ke the generous tree; > helpless friend come lather. And Jind snpjtort In me." i The kindly elin, receiving The graceful vine's embrace, Sie.eame the chosen covert In which the wMd birds sing; IJec<.sne the love of the shepherds, And glory of the spring. Oh, l>eavtftil examplo For youthful minds to lieeiK ( The good we do to others Whall never miss Its meed; The love of those whose sorrows We lighten shall be ours, And o'er the path we walk in i The love shall scatter tiowors. ? William C'alien JJryant, My Mortification. o A fiXOUY FOli GJItLS. "I met the Wile and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Evann, <m Maiu afreet, guiU! fr'he looked tune., ImsI aan't at ali pretty. What eould he have seen in her to attract hitu? I can't nnderata-wd it. Ev. crybody thought <*e would marry <lertie Graves, ho was so attentive to her. Van sure ske loved him, and Gertie is very pretty and sweet." t^uite out of breath, Itella tossed her hat and gloves upon the piano, mud throwing herself into a careless position ou the lounge, awaited a reply. Aunt Sue, who was sewing *t the w'ndow, smiled at holla's remark, and then concluded to answei lior query by a story. She therefore vaid, quietly, as she went on with her long seanr. *'I don't kaow, bulla, but you may have explained ike reason of Have Kvaus' choice iw confessing your surprise at it. You say his bride is nice looking. Xow, although Gertie Graves may be a very pretty aud sweet girl, as you say., I am sure that adjective would .never accurately describe her. 'Nice,1 means neat, orderly and cleanly, and Geulio is neither cleanly nor neat.1' 4tWhy, Aunt Sue, what do you mean?" and holla's brown .eyes snapped, while the Mgirls," her two sisters, looked at one another over ll__ J I ? rni ? men tiuu'ikex ami mmica. i ney unaer* stood Aunt Sue, and thought she had taken a very good lemt and illustration, for the sermon fclsey were sure ' she was going to preach to careless i loll a. "I will tell you a matter-of-fact ertory, llella, that is litter-ally true, and then perhaps you may judge better what I mean. " When I was a young gir?l about your age,1 she began, "I was one of Yhe most careless n*>4 untidy persons you can imagine. It never mattered very much to me whether tny bed was made, or whethcprny room was fit to he seen 11 wo ugh the day or not. As for putting away or hanging up my .dresses and clothing at night, that I never thought of doing. My things were tossed upon chairs, or lay in little white heaps on the floor, in any spot where I last happened to stop out of them. You may imagine, therefore, that they never looked very smooth or.fr.cM4i when I put tlsem on / in the morning.' As she spoke, aunt glanced at the .elaborately trimmed overskirt. and knife-plaited ruffles of the rumpled ?i lk suit iiei J a had curled herself up in oh the lounge. "Of course I liked to he well dressed when I went out, and 1 had nice clothes, and was not an altogether plain looking girl, although yon may not think ?o now. Hut I never thought of'taking care of my wardrobe, and I never cared, to look neatly dressed at home. .1 "Anything would do for breakfast I used to say; and so in the morning, iny curls were usually crumpled together and tucked under a net, my collar soiled, my slippers burst at the sides or down at the heel, and my wrapper torn. Altogether I presented anything but a nice appearanco in iny breakfast toilet. "My careless habits worried rnothor IIOI I - -VOL. 8. CONWA k'ery much, lor she was one of the <. icatest and iuoat orderly of wo31 en; but I was an only child, and was j illowcd to do very much as 1 pre- i [erred. Mother picked up, and tnond- ! 1 rwl fi y?i? a<}il i-iirlil ml I lii iwru / ...... >? "6"^? vw...fer. iV/i , ino with untiring patienoe* j 'Well, the year that I was eighteen ' I went to tlie seaside to spend the summer months with a friend of mother's. S'lie had daughters about my age, and ottered to chaperone me that ! reason, because mother could not accompany nc. ^ "I was eager to visit a watering place, ot course, and that nothing might lui wanting, a complete new wardrobe was made for me. Kvery article was pretty and fashionable. H Besides thn, I bad a beautiful dressingcase, furnished with everything suitable for the toilet, a large new Saratoga trunk, and many little things that had boeo bought to make my room pretty and attractive. "The houoo at which we boarded was a large old-fashion building, with a piazza running all around it 011 every floor* Our rooms opened upon the first piazza, and were all connected by doors. There were a great manv vis itors that ueaaon, and as servants wore scarce, Mrs. Hamilton, the lady 10 whose care I had been placed, told our hostess that the young ladies oC law party would attend to their own rooms. "I was not pleased with this arrange- , meet, for I hated the care of the room; but I did not trouble uiysel( much about it. i had too many enjoyments outside, to allow this responsibility to worry me. "There was a very pleasant and merry company at the old seaside house that summer, and such boat rides, and baths, And drives, and parties as we hud, would have satisfied the most exacting pleasure seeker, livery day eetned only more joyous and happy thaw the last. To us, then ? to me, at least?-the whole world was couloir de rote, and the future as well as the piesen t had all the glory of a golden age. "Mrs. Hamilton's son, aud two ot tiiia college friends, Dr. Grayson and Prof. Blanc, came down to the shore towards the last ol the season. It was not long be tare one of these two became to inn tho 'one only, for whoso attentions I cared. "fie was a young man from New Kngland, and possessed all the b*?t characteristics of his race. Thoruglily gentlemanly in his appearance, nfnnners, and dress, talented, well educated, exquisite in his tastes almost to fastidiousness, bo was, withal, a person of most excellent character, and being fine looking, besides, it is no wonder that I was attracted to him. He was several years my senior, but that only gave additional eclat to my conquest; few it was very soon noticed that among all the 3'oung ladies at the bouse, X was apparently the favorite of the elegant professor. "My wardrobe, as I have said, was new and fresh, and I was not so plain looking xs you may suppose. My wrinkles were dimples in thr>se days, and my eyes wore as bright as Holla's, and I did not w-esir glasses then. In short, I suppose I was quite a he'lle. "Hut dresses, however pretty and fashionably mado^will not stay pretty, and whole and fresh, if not taken care of. More than this, a bcaulul face is of litite accoant when set in a frame of tossed and dowdily-done-up hair. It was not many weeks before my careless habits told upon my appearance Mrs. Hamilton and tho girls, or some friendly lady who took an interest in me would now and then in company pin op uiy gathers, smooth out my ribbons, or pull off some loose braid from ray urwHH hkiil. "Finally it became the habit of the Hamilton girla, and therefore a matter of course, to look me all over before we went to ride, or down to tho parlor*, lout I should lose some article of attire, and call a blush to their cheeks, "I remember that once I was very much mortified, when the professor handed me a fearfully soiled collar that had come ofl my sack, and which I was obliged to acknowledge was mine. Even I, thoughtless ah I was, had hesitated about putting it on in the morning?and, girls, always remember that 1 when a collar is indoubt, it is? i ^RY -An Indope YRORO, S. a, S.VTl lirty. "It I had only settled that point roperly when I stood before my glass 11 the morning, I should not have jeen stung with shame when Miss Grayson exclaimed, as tho professor inked toi its owner, and held it towards her: "'IMoase don't imagine 1 would wear a collar like that!' "Our rooms, as I said, opened on a long piazza, which commanded a tine view of the sea. The piazza was conae^ivently a favorite promenade. "You may imagine that my room was noi in a lit condition to be seen by the pionveuaders as thuv passed the long windows, wlieu I te'l you that sometimes for two or three days I did not make my bed. I would just throw the counterpane over the sheets, and 'make it do.1 "The contents of my dressing-casr and trunk usually littered the mantel and chairs and floor. Of course 1 could have droppeed my curtains, hut generally my carelessness was loo inveter ate to remember even that cheap ex pe dient. "Mrs. Hamilton once kindly spok< to me about my habits, but 1 received her counsel so ungraciously that she concluded to let me do as 1 pleased. St my room continued in its condition o chaos?ribbons, slippers, faded bou quota, shells, mosses, sen weed, anO garments of all descriptions hopelessly jumbled together. "The rooms ol the Hamilton girh joined mine, and their habits wen very meat a.ud orderly. Natunillv J J fouml their apartments much pleasant er than my own room, ami used to sii with them most of the time when W4 were not ?ril4i the other guests. '1XH< girls occasionally came in to my del and picked up my dreary scatterings and put me in order for Sunday. 1> 111 Monday morning would find me al 'odds and ends' again. Some how m) things wouldn't'stay fixed/1 used U say. ''The weeks flow on golden wing: after Prof. Plane became my dailj companion; and when the season drev, near its close, my Iv^art was mine n< longer. He was the one in whom . iouud all that was noble, and good and great, and my thoughts am dreams weie all of him. Ah yet there had been only the iu terchange ol pleasant thoughts, am those delightful attentions that seem l< mean so much. Like all modest maid ens, I dreamed, and hoped, and waitec for the words that would he the ful fillmewt of what my heart desired. "Words came, but they were no the words for which I waited, no were they spoken to me. 1 overbear* them, and they changed my whole lil< and character. "I was sitting in the summer hous< in the hotel grounds, alone, at dusk one evening, whero I had gone, hop ing soon to be followed, when, comim slowly down the walk, I heard tin steps ami voices of men. I did no care for the companionship of two, s< I gathered the folds ol my dress had into the corner, hoping the gentlemen wovid pass on and not notice mo They paused, however, among tin shrubbery at the entrance, and I, in stead ol making my presence kiwwi sat qnito still and listened. 44 'I suppose I may congratulate you too, then ?' "It was Dr. Grayson's voice thai spoke. " 4No, not in that way. I shall nev er marry a woman who oHoods al my ideas ol neatness and nicety.' "The professor's voice uttered these words, and my heart fairly stood still 14 4 But if you love her as you say, urged the doctor. 44 4It would not continue. When love has roason to blush for its idol the homage cannot last. Tho woman I marry must be as neat as her heart is true. So should every one he, ] take it, who calls herself a ladv.' 41 T>ut, Iilanc, are you not carrying this too far, and making it of more importance than it deserves ? There if reason in all things. I don't hoc much in this,' and the doctor's voice man a trillo impatient. "'No,' returned the professor, calmly. 4Tho point is this: natures like hers and mine are antagonistic?after a fashion. I am, by habit and nature, UP i 1 * " ? 1 ' NE" ?at ndont Journal. JRDA.Y, JANUARY L>: orderly and particular. Shu in decidedly the reyerse. Should wc marry, after the first low Weeks of blinded love, luy eyes would Ik* opened to the truth, and 1 should hate a Hint lorn.'* " 'You aio harsh and cruel in the way you argue. Don't you expect to Baorilice something? Don't you know men always grow particular the longer they remain unmarried V All young girls, I take it, are careless; and it she suits you in all other ways, and you love her, you are foolish to give up your thought ol asking her to be your wife.' u 'J am not harsh, and il there be , any cruelty in the matter, it is 1 who sutler it. 1 love her. She may not care for me. Uut, Gray son, I . couldn't marry an untidy woman. 1 | have too much reason to know what sort of order Miss Scldon keeps in li<e.r 5 room, and even what Ivor habits ol [ persona! neatness are. The Hamilton | girls' rooms join hers. The character of the inntales is stumped therein. . Whew you marry, you will have h , . neat, orderly, wrll kept house hold. Miss Seldon's husband will not. Hut. as I shall piobably never see her again j after to-morrow, it matters nothing to me..1 J "And with these words, the two > . gentlemen passed on. 'What did I do V1 . "Hwrning with mortification and chagrin, J hastened into the house ami r " 1 up to my hateful room. How forcibly the truth of the words I had just listened to cotue when I beheld the dire , confusion that reigned there, Then 1 I . ? wept the bitterest tears my eyes had ever shed. I saw it all now ? now my untidy, careless hahils had utterly lost me the man I loved, and who coialcsa 9 sed he loved me. i "He was going to town the next day, I should never see him again, I and he would forget me, no doubt, r and marry some pretty girl who would j never oflend his fastidious taste. "Hut ?.:i truth I 11 i< 1 not (eel the least 4 indignation towards him. 1 did not j see any harshness in his judgment of j me. It I had had thai leeling, 1 j should never, perhaps, have changed, 1 as 1 did. "-lh.it i-t wan true, what he had said. ) 1 i saw it. Two natures so thoroughly 'at odds1 in their habits?one f&slidi. ous to a fault, the other careless in the ] same degree, could newer live happily ^ as man and wile. There would he disturbances cyery day, breeding doj coed and linal dislike. The wedding music would, alter a few years?perhaps mouths ? he -only 'sweet hells ^ jangled out of tune.* " r "WhU hee.aiue of him?*' asked I>o!j la, in an anxious voice. "lie left the seashore the next day, without bidding any one good-bye." , "And did you never see him V" "Oh, yes," replied Aunt Sue, with a bright senile. "J married him live f years afterwards.*' ' "Uncle Ned ? Why, Aunt Sue! ^ Was that man he?" , "Yes, that man was-he. I will tell you how I came to please 1?i?n, uTtcr all. I made uj) my mind that night that I would mever allow mysell to he culled a '.slattern1 again, 1 would strive diligently to correct my untidy habits, and no one's love thereafter lavished on mo should have cause to 'blush lor its idol again.' "I accomplished my purpose. Jt was hard at tirst?as .it will he for every one naturally careless-?to learn to iold and arrange, and dust, and I smooth, ar.d pack away. Jlut I was determined I would cure myself ot my j besetting fault, and I did. "Four years afterward, when your uncle audi met again, at the same seaside house, iu the same old arbor, we came to a perfect understanding, and agreed we would trv iife togeth' er' i * "I suppose he took sly glances at j your hoot lacings, examined the rims of your collars and cutis, and peeped J , into your closets before he proposed, ' however," interrupted l>ella, in sart castio tones. "They all stood the scrutiny if he did; for there wasn't a ueater or more orderly young lady on the shore than she who wafl once the untidy Suo Sel, don." "And do you believe that is the reason Dave Evans did not marry Gertie \ V V v j =?- "f -* isrii. XO, 4. tirave??n l,I don't pay ho, but it may be. A young man of UstidiouH taHtea and neat habits ought always to conaider this question: 'Is the woman to whom I have given my heart one who will make my hotue eoulortable and happy V* "It ip an important question of char* actor to bo considered. Home com. fort-iuid happiness depend very much upon neatness, order, and system, and a lack ol them is sadly to be regretted in u wile." "Then a husband may bo as careless and untidy as he phases? * J'shawl" said Delia. dv.. .. . ? r. i \ . t> ?ti. ?>?> uyj^ I t'l 111 im I .\Ulll r->llU. "LI IS ceriuiely a most excellent thing to have a cleanly., wrderly man at the head of ones house; but lite man don't make .the Itorne yon see. He only procures it. The woman makes the home, and neuuu-ss is the beat of servants to her liieie, besides being a ~ n strong magnetic lorce to attiaet her husband i?? his own fireside. lie I la got up from the lounge, flirted Jaer crushed .i ulUes, and made some | biting link* speech, ajjout "nice" men in general. IJut as Aunt Sue and the | gil ls kucw that she had one in particuI lar in her mind, lUey hoped she would be benefited hv the bit ol lito history that hud been given her.? Yout/iA OJibA.NIZi: roll VICTORY. The Address ol the Stale Democratic Coiuniittee. At a mecUng <d the. State Central Executive Committee ol the Democratic party, held in Columbia oil Thursday, the Glli instant, the following address to the people ol the State was unanimously adopted and ordered to he published: Tllli A I >1 >11 l?SR, lo the People aj'Mouth (la vol inn: The State Central Executive Committee ot the Democratic party do not deem it necessary to publish any lengthy statement ol the reasons which induced llieiu to meet at this time. It is Hullicicnt to say that events with U.l.b.l. ll.n i.. i... - **m> w vm- jivojmv vfl cut; i -?i m,0 iii 15 pjllll" fully tamilliar, made it indispensable that ibe organization of the Democratic party in Souih Carolina should be revived, as the 8]>eedie?t and most practicable means of bringing together our hitherto scattered forces, and ol concentraiting thviu in the struggle into which we are X'oreed lor the maintenance ol Liberty and Law in the Slate. Thus it lias become the duty of the Siate Committee to take such steps as will enable the people of the State to begin the work of party reorganization at once, and make it thorough and complete. In the contest in which we are about to engage wo must win. Defeat cannot be borne. Success, however, canu?*t be expected to crown our labors unless there be absolute unity in the Democratic party, together with such discipline as wild en mi re the prompt and eilicieul execution ol its policy when declared. From our adveisar:es must we learn, at last, the lesson of organization ami activity. When the agencies on which society relics lor the conservation ol its varied inteicsts menace those interns with destruction, and threaten a whole people with ruin, politics are no longer a matter ol seuUmeut in which the cilixeu is free to engage or not, according to his tastes. Ipon the management of our political affairs depends the security of property, as well as the safety of person. I ?y political movements nlo??"?au the puliHoation of tho Slate (icvt'i11111?*111. be accomplished. Only through political instrumentalities can honesty, fidelity and capabllily regain a preponderating influence in the councils <>i the State. To politics then, lor ihciir own salvation, must the peop'e ol South (aroliiia now address themselves with the vigor, the persistency and the systematic endeavor which mark their conduct in businesw life. It would not be wise to declare a policy bo I We the party, which shall give effect to it, is ready tor both deliberation aud action. The ofticers imiHt not bo chosen until the rank and file ol tiie political army shall have been mastered in and trained. There should be, in line, such organization in each ward, township and county, that when the State Convention shall hhassemble, it shall represent, by its delegates, tbe known wishes, opinions ami purposes of tbe Organized Democracy of the State, Then will its voice be the voice of the peep lit; its determination I heir's; its fight their battdo. To such organization, searching and far-reaching, i should the people ol the State without delay address themselves. Without it the State cannot be saved! The State Convention, when it shall assemble, will determine authoratively the policy of the party; and by the decision of the Convention shall we all be bound. As, however, the Demo, cralic party, as such, has had no active I A D\ KimSEAii^v Ins*!!it'll .?i ?I.mi p#.r s<|imr? for llrsl, 9 II. 1 . ' 'i 1 > . i i ?iit>tCM|iiani Insulioit. on 1 \ I Mil' i'? i? n'l'-e will i-oustitul.1 \ *t\ nor# \vhfllitri" mi bowler or display typ ; liw tluu^ ? ,-4? iiM-lt will u? charged for .u a s<j taie. v ' $]PB ^lari iaj^*- iioi ?? * ivnn. , ^ lit'iillis ciml Funeral notices Ire*. IWuliKimi* nolliws of one square/roe. XV liberal discount will be mail! U> tboM , 4 wlio\" .vlvt rtittcmcnts aiu to l>? kept iu *?r | (luce IiuomMk. oi longer. exiwtuHicc in South Carolina tor some yearn, the State committee dun ire V,* nay emphatically that in recommending its instant and comprehensive 01gam/.utioili, their Hole purpose is to obtain an holiest and economical government in S<V ith Carolina, which shall maintain, Without abrigement <ur change, the pmblic rights and liberties of thi- whole poodle, and guarantee to all classes ol citizens the hlesH ngs ot treedoin, justice and peace. .Vnd 111 thirt crisis iu the constitutional life of the State, when civilization iiMt-ll is in peril, we look lor and confidently 11. pect to receive Hie sympathy and ai l ot every citizen whose aims and dr sires are 1 ik? 11 itf our own. In common wiili their folio w?citi/.I'lis, the State Democratic Coiomittes have watched .villi anxious solicitude and growing c >nti lence the course of the present G ivcrnor of tho Stale. They recognize and appreciate the value ol what he has done, in promoting Ih'lorin and It ironuliincnt, during tho past your. They applaud his wise and patriotic condu it in exerting his w hole official power and personal influence (or the undoing of the infamous judicial election. And they declare their heliofth.il the I >einocracy ot the StaLot rising above party uh he has done, will give an untxlt ling support to his elforts, as (Governor, for the ledress ot wrongs, for th reduction ol taxation, to obtain a just administration of the law, and to m ike the State Government a faithful guardaiu ot the public at.d private iut- rest* ol tho people. Therefore th State Kxeculivo Committee earnestly advise the people of the State to re nganute thoroughly the Democratic party, in preparation for the State Democratic Convention, which will moe' at a tiiue and place to be hercalter designated by ibis committee. The fo.lowing gentlemen him charged wicl: t .is organism ion ol the party in every precinct, ward and township in their respectivecounties: Abbeville?J. S. Colli rain. Anderson?d unes A. lioyt. Aiken ? G. A. Crott. liarnwull?T. d. Counts. Ilea u fort?W ill ism lilliott. Clarendon ?lb 1\ Harron. Chester?W. A. Walker Chesterfield ?A. McQueen. Colleton?J..I. Fox. Darlington- -F. F. Wariey. Jtdge.lied?.1. Scott Alh'li. JFairHuld~-John IIratlon. , Georgetown ?11. II. Wilson. Greenville?T. K. Fnrgusotl. Horry?J. T. Walsh. Kershaw?K. M lb?ykiu. Lexington ? Gerhad Muller. ! Lancaster?d. D Wyho. Laurens?11. W. Hall. Marion ? A. Q. \l? l>utbe, , Marlboro*?J. II Ilundsott. Newberry ? Y .J. I'opo. Oconee?It. A Thompson. Orangeburg?I. F. Ly.lar, D ^ ' ( 1'ickens?It. F, Ho won. Itie.hland?John McKeny.ie. Spartanburg?L I'. Kvins. Sumter?T. I>. Fraser. Fniou?It. W. Shand. Williamsburg- S. W. Maurice. York?J as. F. 11 art. The organization of Charleston County is entrus ed to the Committ no i if lt\ f I oini r\ f xr L.o.L i 'I i ^L ?- ' ww -J? j iiwvvii) "i n im;n i L, Simonton is chairman. In conclusion, the State Committee earnestly say to t heir fello w-citizmn that wo are not as those who are wit hout hope. The magnitude ol the tusk, betoro us can h i? <My be over-rateiL Every step is bo<et with difficulty, if not danger. J?ut, knowing this >>? ?pln, the committee are confident unit the future can be made as bright as the .present is dirk. This is the accepted tune.! JJy organization, labor, patience, boldness and liberality, ca? peace and plenty and political security be restored to t he State. M. C. !Jur..KU, Chairman. Samuel McGowa i, Wni. Wallace. I .John S. Richards >n, S. 1*. Hamilton, * Tln.s. V. Simons, Johnson liagood, I W. I). Simpson, M. P. O'Connor, j W. W. Sellers, K. W. .Dawson. COMMI1TKK tlx C IKUKSl'ONlrKNCK. The following named gentlemen constitute a sub-committee 011 correspondence to comma bctie with th? gentlemen appointed to o'-mnize the several counties, viz.: Col. Win. Wallace, ol Columbia, and Messrs. J. S. Richardson, S. P. Ma mil ion, W. 1). Simpson and M. P. O'Connor. "Out of Oun.vti, Sah!"?A disappointed carpet-bagger went into a ward meeting at Moueton, Texas the other night to press Inselaims for a judi Oial nomination. Uncle Jim Porter ? colored politician, was in the chair. When the aspirant arose ami bo cm tw state his desires, Undo Jim bhnidlv 1 ul_ . i M inir I ? mm v?? niutiown. " ?y K v, Uncle Jim, i*rri*l the astonished sj>?'ak?rx what have you against me? I a good ltepublicnit!" "Out ot order, sub, replied the President. "Yon ain't been here long 'null* t? git dc sturtiu' oni'n your car pet-bag. Set down, sab-* The blighted man "set. down" mad doubtless determined to bring Um circumstance to the attention ?f Senn tor Morton as a clear cae? oi "luinm elation." JH