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-iii feras :-i!?/i'> ?i- .'"JV ...).. IO iii 7d ;r j . ?tr DURI S OE, KEESE & CO* ."l.,H"<l?<l.?llM.?l?'?,'l<,<?"?<"'"'""l|MlV",??,'???pBmimitHII|Ht..l.l.,ll,.t|,ll|.l>1Hll?I.Hl^H?H??lll?U??il?li?UI?U'lillM?M||lfcMt?IMMrf^MM?MHitMi?iM?tl H'M ". EDGEFIELD, S. C., ME 17, 1868. : ^ mi? nm*..*. COTTON STATES ?fe Insurance Company, Principal Office, Macon, Ga. HE business of this STRICTLY SOUTHERN and HOME COMPA l is confined bf law to legitimate Life Insurance alone. Policies issued on all. the approved Mutual plans. It also issues Policies t Stock rates, 25 per cent: under the mutual rate. But it does not advise ts patrons to insure on'the Stock plan,-that plan being very expensive in he lone run. It is known that'dividends in a good Mutual Company will average about per cent., especially at the South and West, where investments bring ood returns. 90 per cent^bf profitson the Mutual business divided annually amongst 1 the Mutni-PoEcy Holders without exception.. One-third' Loan en Premia** given when d?sired. Interest'charged only pon first loan. Where all Cash is paid, Policies .will become self-sustaining ; that is, pay fut, and have 50 ger cent, added to ' their faces, which is one-third more an the original'sum "insured. Ample provision %gainst forfeiture of Policies in the expressed terms of e contract. The Company willful way s purchase its Policies at. their Cash value. We offer 'ie people of. the State the same financial security as Northern jompanies, the accumulating premiums of the insured, and in addition ereto a Capital commencing with $500.000 ! Millions of dollars have annually hitherto been lost to the active circula ron of the .South; in payment of premiums in Northern Companies. In benefits derived from the investments made by these Companies in Northern real estate and securities, our people can never share on equal terms. Let 1 then sustain, our own Life Enterprise; and thus keep our money and the profits too at home. Officers at Macon, (Ka : WM. B. JOHNSTON, President. '.WM- Si. HOLT, vice-President, GEO. S. QBEAR, Secretary. JOHN W. BURKE, General Agent, C. F. McCAT, Ac?uai f. W. J. MAGILL, Superintendent of Agencies. J AS. MERCER. GREEN, Medical Examiner. JBSyThe Cotton States Company is a Georgia-and South Carolina enter prise, is a good Company, ano: is now fully identified with the interests of" our people" This ? tate is ably represented in the general management ' by South Carolina Directors. L?VA1& & AMEY, General Agents for North and Sonth Carolina. WM. J. LAVALL, Esq,, Office, Columbia, S. C., ) M. W. ABNEY, M. D., Edgcfield, S. C. J June 7 tf ' 24 New Spring Dry (goods I James W. Turley, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS, fl, IAS JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK, and is now fully pre pared to offer to the public a completely assorted Stock of SEASONA-. BLE FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS. Great care has been tak?n to .supply each Department with EVERY THING NEW AND FASHIONABLE, as well as the more staple articles of the Trade.' The Cash System wall be Strictly Adhered to, and it is much cheaper to pay 25 per ceut. for money, and buy your Dry Goods Jbr Cash, than to buy them on time. The best judges of Dry Goods, and the closest buyers, are particularly requested to examine my present schedule of prices. JAMES. W. TURLEY. . Mar 29 tf 14 But such is a fact S And if you want fine LIQUOR, either by the Gallon 'URE or Bottle, go to SANDERS' DRUG STORE, and vou will get a Pl ARTICLE at low figures. All LIQUORS wan anted. Examine for y our selves, which is highest proof. June 7 tf 24 SPRING AND SUMMER SUPPLIE. M. O'DOWD, Wholesale Cirocer AND Commission Merchant 283 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., ' _AS NOW ON HAND a Full and Complete Stock of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES and PLANTERS SUPPLIES, among which may be found the following :- ' . 100 Hhds. BACON,. 50 Bbls. LARD, 500 * FLOUR, all grades, 50 Hhds. SUGAR, 300 Sks. COFFEE, 300 Boxes SOAP. : 200 ". CANDLES, WO " STARCH. .100 " . SQDA. 5100 Bushel? CORN, 3000 " OATS, 500 Sacks SALT, 100 Cases LYE and POTASH, 10 Bbls. COGNAC BRANDY, . 30 Bbls. CORN WHISKEY, 100 " RYE WHISKEY, 10 " -APPLEBRANDY, 20 GIN and RUM, 20 " ' SHERRY & PORT WINI 200 M. SEGARS, various grades, 150 Boxes TOBACCO, 200 Doz. BUCKETS, 50 Doz. BROOMS. 50 Nests TUBS, 50 Hhds. MOLASSES, " . 100 Bills. SYRUP. AU CHOO?IS wail- be sold Verv ?Low. Wive i?e a CaBI. Mav2 tf; 19" Gil ttHtg? SPARTAN BURG COUNTY, S. C TlTIS Delightful Wafering Place will be open for Visitors, Juno 1st, I87I-. Being situated in the Northern part of th'? State, in a section remarkable for do lightfal climate, beauty and hcathfululss, together with thc virtues of ifs waters, make it ono of the most desirable Water ing places to be found. Tho Medicinal qualities of this water are not excelled, and aro a sovereign remedy for ali Female Diseases-all Dis eases o*f long standing-Diseases of thc Liver, Bowels, Kidneys and Bladder, Stomach, Eruptions of tlio'Skin, Scrofu la, Dyspepsra, Rheumatism, Dropsy, Sy philis, dc. Arrangements will be made to accom modate a large number of visitors. The best Music will bo in attendance to enliven the Ball Room. Fancy Balls during the Season. Ten Fin Alley, Billiard Saloon and Cro quet for the amusement of tiie guests. A livery will be kept at moderate charge*. CHARGES. $2,50 per day. $30 to per month, ac cording to room. Cottages to Rent at $2"> to $">o for Season. Stases from Jonesville direct to Hotel. ^ w. D. FOTW?L^R; Proprietor. Jane 7 hm 24 j J. M. Ni?r.LKTT. 1 W. H. GooDRicn 'Cotton Grin MANUFACTORY. THE Undersized respectfully an nounce to tho people of EdgefieU : and adjoining Counties, that they are stil ? engaged in the manufacture of Cotton Sias, Of thc well-known and highly approver OGLESBY PATTERN. MR. ' if EB LETT, who has fourteei years' practical experience in makin) thes?* GINS, will give his personal atten tion to the business, and wo feel cunfi dent of giving, entire satisfaction to mos favoring us with their orders. EVERY GIN WARRANTED. Old Gins RENOVATED or REPAIB ED in tho best manner. iNEBLETT & GOODRICH At Goodrich's Machine Works. .?T?T-Capt. LEWIS JONES, of Edgf field, is our authorized Agent, and all oi dors received by him will meet Wit! prompt attention. May 2 * _5m _19_ Patent Medicines. JUST Received a largo and fresh a? Kortmeni of PATENT MEDICINE: ol' all hinds. G. L. PENN. Druggist. May 24 tf & Don't Forget the old Folks. Don't forget the old folks, L/vve them more and more, As they, with unshrinking feet, Near the "shining shore." Let your words bo tender, Loving, soft and low; ? Let their last days be tho best They have known below. Don't forget poor father, With his failing sight, With his locks once thick and brown, Scanty now, and white ; Though he may be childish, Still do you be kind- . Think of him as years ago, Wim his master mind. Don't forget dear mother, With her furrowed brow, ' Once as fair, and smooth, As the driven snow ! Are her steps uncertain ? Is hor hearing poor? Guide her gently till she stands ? Safe at Heaven's door. Don't forget the old folks, Love them more r.nd more, As they with unshrinking feet, Near the*"shining shore." Let your words be tender Loving, soft and low ; Let their last days J>e the best They have known below. ----*.-m ? The Peddler's Siosy. I DO not think I ara naturally su perstitious ; but I have all my life been troubled with a kind of superau ric.ular sense. By this I wish to con vey the idea that I hear things over and above the natural sense of hear ing. The sound, as of a human voice, comes to me and syllables, words of meaning, when I know that no human being is near, and that the whole must be some kind of mental deception. Sometimes these words are of common import, and sometimes of deep significance. Well do I remem ber that once, when quite a lad. liv ing at home with my parents in Paris, I heard the words, spoken in my very ear.ds it were : " Pierre Boisaftt, prepare for sor row !. I was alone in my fathers library at the time, engagod in solving a difficult problem, and," therefore, in no .condition for this to be the effect ol ian excited fancy or imagination. What followed ? My father at thai; I time was accounted a rich merchant. Three weeks after he was a bankrupt. If I had been the most imaginative person in the world I could not have presaged this. Three years later the same words were repeated. I was then alone, on "the road to Troyes, engaged in the humble calling of peddler, to which my f.ither's misfortunes had reduced me. 1 felt that something serious was about to happen, and I took the first conveyance back to Paris. 1 hastened to my father's then humble lodgings', and found him dying, and my poor mother almost distracted with grief. She was surprised to see me : but when I told her what brought me home, she said, it must be the voice of the Lord. I did not agree : with her in that respect, becauee I often heard that same voice saying trifling things. Well, my father died, and my mother did not long survive him, and then I was alone in the world. See ing nothing bettor before me-at least nothing that bettor suited my disposition for a constant change of scene-I resumed the humble busi ness of a peddler, and after two or three weeks spent in France, went to Sardinia and established a route for myself among the retired villages of the mountains, where at least I was looked upon as in no wise inferior to the farmers, artisans and peasants with whom I dealt. 'I was now in a region wild enough to suit my romantic turn of mind, and perilous enough to keep me in a state of almost constant excitement, which was as much a source of pleas ure to me then as peaceful serenity is at the present time. Some of the routes between one habitation and another were so long that one day's journey would not take mc through, and then I would be obliged to find my lodging among the caves, rocks, or trees, as best I could. Some of the mountain-passes were very dan gerous, and a single slip o: mis:step might send one headlong down ahun dred or a thousand feet. Then there were dangers from storms and hurri canes, some of which were terrible, and not least of all was the danger from robbers, who might be mot where least ?xpected. For six years I carried on my ped dling traffic in that wild region, with out any other misfortune than some serious flights and hair-breadth es capes. ?y that time I felt that, for a young man, I was pretty well oil", and thought I would return to Paris and set up shop-keeping; and an event, or perhaps I should rather say tragedy, that Lnppened about that time, fixed my resolution and hasten ed my depart uro. As I was going over a very wild and lonely pass of the mountains, the sun being nearly set and I at least seven miles from the, nearest habitation, my familiar voice, which had never ielt mo, said distinctly : " ?ierro Boisant, beware !" I was alarmed nt this warning, be cause I had "never recivcd.a warning of tho kind in vain. I looked up the rugged, frowning rocks above me, and. down into tho awful gulf below, and then before a'r.d behind at the narrow, zigzag path I was pursuing, but saw no living thing, except a large, black bird, ol the vulture species, that was slowly winging his way across the wild scene, as if from one mountain peak to another. I knew the voice was not human, and I felt there was some impending danger, but what it was, or where or when to. look for it, I could not tell. It wag not possible for me to remain where I was, and to go back might be as dangerous as to go forward, and so I continued to ad vance, looking carefully to every step, and glancing keenly and ner vously at all the surroundings. At length I reached a *'U vider and gloomier place, wb^re it was usual for me, when on this route, to .turn off down into the dark valley, to pass the night in a little cave, which I had accidentally discovered about a hundred and fifty yards from the path, and which was so secluded and concealed by a clump of bushes in front of it, that I believed it was known to noone except myself. About I this cave was a steep ledge of rooks, and by keeping along the mom side, without going down int .valley at all, I could gain a po j.directly over it, at a height of, i haps, a .hundred feet ; and thouj to this moment I had not thoug changing my course, I now fount self instinctively, as it were.movi ii that direction. A moment flection on the mysterious wami had. received convinced me this the bestthing I could do ; for if was danger, it was most likely robbers, who were, probably, lyi wait for me on my regular well-ki route-and as the night was w it could do me no harm to pass i the open air. So I went.on, slowly and caut ly,-till I arrived at a. point dirt over the cave, which I now ft was as far as I could go in that rection, owing to the rocks tera ting in a precipice a few feet bey Some bushes which had struggle? fi om the little earth between crevices afforded me a place of cealmenc ; ?nd crawling into the? disburdened myself of my pack, sp] out my blanket, and proceeded ,w out attempting to light a fire, to the food I had provided for my I per. By the time I had finished frugal repast the sun had set, and dark shades of night were coming rapidly. " Perhaps I am foolish in tal this precaution against some fane danger," I mentally said; "but matter ; I would rather be foolish this way than foolhardy." Scarcely had these thoughts pas through my mind than I l'ancien heard voices speaking in low, gun ed tones. The soundsseemed to cc up from below, and it may readily credited that I listened most intent straining my senses of hearing to utmost, to catch the words, if wo indeed they werej for after all, might be the breeze playing ame the rocks and trees. For perhaps five minutes I cont ned to hear these sounds, but was the time unable to make out fora c tainty what they were, and then tl ceased, and for another five mimi all veas silent. It had now become dark that nothing could be distille seen at any distance : and thougl crept cautiously to the edge "of I rocks, and tried to poer down, it v like attempting to look into soi '?lack gulf. My situation, under t circumstances, was lonely en'ous but I experienced a secret satisfacti in being where I was, and noido\ in the cave, where I rather f chan thought some ono or more pi -ons were lying in wait for me. At length that same low munni as ot" voices, was again heart], a again I listened, with my whole ser: of hearing on the stretch. . I soon t came satisfied that words were bei spoken---but then came the thoug that it might be the mysterious voie I had heard at the intervals nil n life. This time, however, I was n long kept in doubt, lor presently could distinguish the words as if tl speaker in the cave had come out in the Vpon air. " it is strange he does not make 1 appearance!" said one, " I do not know how to account t it!" replied another. " Are you perfectly sure you sa him at all?" inquired a third. " Am I sure 1 ara- here now ?'.' w. the rejoinder. " Have I not eye: and can I not see with them ? Itt you he was within a mile of he: coming along that narrow, dangeroi path with his pack strapped to h back. Here we know is where 1 usually passes the night in this regio anti why he is not hero is more th? I can conjecture." "If he had gone past, we shoul have heard from the others belbi this," remarked the first speaker. " Undoubtedly," was the repl] "No. he must be somewhere, on tl 'mountain-unless he has fallen ov< the preoipice and broken his neck in which case we shall find, all w want of him in the morning, and t saved the trouble of blood-letting. " Could he have got near enoug to have heard oflr voices?" inquire another. " $b, for Eicardo is so posted th. he would have seen or heard hil first." " Well, then he ra?y be here ye Hark ! hush ! there are ?teps comin this way now !" said the speaker, i a whisper, which I could just barel hear, the night being still, and m position directly over tho partie "Now, then, be ready, and lett] make quick work of it !" After this the robbers \yere as s lent as death, and with feelings th? must be left to the imagination, I .Iii tened to the approaching footstep: that I knew were mistaken for min< It was with a shudder, and a strang kind of dread, that I heard step slowly and steadily approaching, wit now and then a. slight rustle of th bushes, and the occasional loosenin and rolling of a stone. I felt th a some human being was moving or ward t,r> his doom, and I would hav called out to him to bevare if I hai known I could have saved him wit anything short of the penalty of rn; owii life. For the few seconds of awful suf pense which elapsed, I trembled s that I was fearful of being hearc and the perspiration started out c every pore, Suddenly there came a wild, pro longed shriek, and the thrilling words ii' Oh, Heavens I I am stabbed I am killed I I am killed 1" " Gracious Heaven I" cried anothei " what have we done?-that is Ri 1 cardo's voice 1 A light here, quick a light I"; A dark, lantern was in readiness and the next moment a bright ligh flashed upon the dark figure of a hu man being stretched out upon th ground, in the last struggles Of death A scene of consternation and con fusion followed, when the murderou robbers found they had slain thei own look-out or sentinel, in mistaki for me. Some blamed the man wh< struck the fatal blow, and some thi ill-fated man himself, for approach ing in the way he did, without propel warning. It was finally decided tba i the man had been killed by a natura I mistake, under the circumstances and that no one should be blai for a fore-ordained fatality. So t took up the body, from which the spark of life had departed, arid < ried it away for a speedy bunal. I humbly, thanked Heaven for own wonderful preservation, and co not but feel that the awful . retri tion was just. Tired as I was, I shouldered my pack, and, in the si dark hours of that eventful night, traced my steps across the danger mountain-path, resolved to quit t perilous country forever. -Thisp pose I am still living to say I accc plished. The Eest Society.; " No company or good campan; was a motto given by a distinguish man to all his young friends:' It v a motto he had always endeavored follow as far as in his power, and was a very wise one. The directic of the Bible are many withjregard evil company, and all through it < are taught to shun, such sotn?ty,' h we get a snare to our sonls."] Another of high position in t world makes it a rule t?fassocia with high-mine id. 'intelligent me rather than with fashionable idler and he said he had derived more i tellectual improvement from the than from all the books he ever rea Sir Foxwell- Euston oftefcspoke the great, benefits he 'hm derivi from his visit to the* Gurney famil Their words stimulated him to nial the most of his powers.- " It h given a color to my whole- life," 1 said. Speaking of his success at tl University, he remarked;: " I cr ascribe it to nothing but mY.visits this family, where I caught the ii fection of self-improvement." Surely, if our visits bavje such a influence upon our life, it should be matter of serious importance to us i what families we allow ^ourselves 1 he intimate. Boys and gijrls form a tachrnents very easily, an$often wit little forethought. In ;ihis, as a things else, you should, not fail 1 take advice of those who are old< and wiser, and never, never choof for a friend ' one against .whom ye have been warned by those who dea ly love you.* There are people whose very pre ence seems to lift you upy-into a be ter, higher atmosphere. Choose sue associates whenever it is in yon power, and the more you cnn live i their society, the better for both min and heart. " He that walketh wit wise men shall be wise1; but- a corr panion of fools shall be destroyed. f -OF THE ANTEDILUVIANS.-It mus have been a pleasant thjng to be a Antediluvian, one of the men wh lived five hundred and sixty and.tw years, and begot somebody. Antedi luvian life had its advantages. Wit a life of nine hundred and sixty-nin years before him, ? ^t?^ould ac complish much. He could Dy person? observation, settle the ' oft-aispute assertion that the polecat lives fo two hundred years-he could, if ?Burns or a Shaksnearo, celebrate hi own centennary-ne could be his aw oldest inhabitant, and could gaze fa along the vista of nine hundred year ol' early greon peas and spring chick en.1;, When time was meted by year; and, instead of eight-day clocks, the; had eighty-year chronometers, a ma: could enjoy the luxury of lying ii bed till September, or of going on ? three years' drunk. When biddinj farewell to his family, he might say "I am just going over to Methuse lab's for twenty years-dorrt wai lunch." And the hoary gran'dsireof toi centuries might-tell liistoddling grand son to go out to play until 1886, bu he must return then, and not keel his parents sitting up for him. Lif insurance would be cheap, and th rate bf interest, when men gave note for four hundred years, renewabl for thre? hundred more, must havi been, accommodatingly low. SLEEP.-How many persons an there that go to bed at a reason abb hour ? Many will sit up reading o conversing until twelve, one, or evei two o'clock at night. This is kept up and finally becomes a habit, and whet they do retire, cannot . sleep. The] gradually lose flesh, become dyspeptii and debilitated ; being.nnable to ac count for this emaciation, they ' con sult a physician. Certain medicina are prescribed and still the difficulty exists. The medical adviser ha? probably neglected to interrogate hil patient as to his habits, and he, too, is at. a loss to understand why his reme dial agents have not the.preper salu tary effect. The patient now changes physicians, and so he continues, uati! from exhaustion, he is compelled to re main in bed, and nature regains hei grand recuperative powers of fdeep, .and the patient comparatively recov ers for a few months, when, if tig same habit is continued, he relapses into his former condition. Many per sons will tell yon they cannot sleep ii they go to bed at niue or ten o'clock in the evening ; and this is true, when the nervous system has been abused ; but when perseus retire at a seasona ble hour, theywill soon fall asleep, and one hour's sleep, previous tc twelve o'clock at night, will do the system more good than three hours after that time Sitting up late at night impairs ;he eyes and destroys the complexen, which' adds much miserv to the life of young ladies. Young mensbv.U bearin mind, when they inflict thiir society on the fair sex till a late hoir of night, that they can leave wlen they feel inclinea, but their uosess is compelled to en tertain tun during their visit Medical Hcpi'ter. DIFFERENCE.--A teacher one cy, for yali of a? better thing tor ; the claBS to parse,. took up a tem . perance paier, intending to have i them parse i temperance story ; but as the story was a long one, ho told . them to stop at the "grog shop," and i not parse it He, of course, had ref . e'rence to abortion of the story. Im I agine his surprise next morning, to ? receive a n)te of dismissal from the i school comnittee formais intemperate . j ideas of advising his pupils " to stop . ! at a grog ?op and not pass it." An ; explanatioi ensued, in which ;f was [ found that parsing and passing are , 1 not the ?me. ' j .J-M ir,-' li-'rfO I '--.' . ii V' -. The Possessions of a Western Planter Prince. A correspondent, writing from Peoria, 111., ' gives the following ac count of the scale upon which farm ing is done at the "West : The farm of M. L. Sullivant, of Burr Oak, near Chatsworth, Living ston county, Illinois, is* not only a big, but a well managed and profitable enterprise. The.farm'is eight miles square, containing 40,960 acres--64 sections, Government survey. It is subdivided into 82 farms of 1,280 acres each. Each farm has a captain and a first and second lieutenant, all under control of a commander-in chief; its owner," and Brigadier Gene ra? J. M. Miner. There are 15,000 acres'under the plows, over 10,000 of which is in'corn this season, wh;ch looks finely. This required 1,600 bushels of corn for seed thia year. The remainder of the farm, is us?d for grazing, small grain,arid grass.. There are two hundred and fifty .miles of hedge fence, besides other fences ; one hundred and fifty miles cf ditch for draining wet land ; two hundred men and. four hundred work and horses mules are nsed on this farm. There is employed, also, onesiirvetyor, two book keepers, four blacksmiths and eight carpenters. An accurate ac count is kept with each farm, and with each man, horse and mule horses and mules being all named or numbered, and charged witfh.amount paid for them and their vfoqd,. and credited with their labor. ' There is no more regular or --systematic set of books kept in any banking or manu facturing establishment in the coun try than Mr. Sullivant's. The whole of this land was entef ed'fromthe Government about twen ty years since by its'present owner at $125 per acre. The farm at thistime, with the improvements made upon it and personal property connected with it, is'worth about $2,000,000 ; so you fee we have a millionaire in Central Illinois in the person ? of a sturdy farmer, who shows "what I know about farming" by his works, and can stand in the centre of his farm and say, truthfully, "I am monarch of all I survey." - ? ?HO.?? i A Woman's Love. The funeral of Halsted who was murdered in Newark, N. J., last week, -took place in that city on the 5th in stant, from-his late residence. His wifo Was present and manifested deep grief at his death- A telegram an nouncing the murder was sent her on Sunday, but it was not till Tuesday it reached her. In the meantime, however, she had read all the fright ful facts, and had already begun to make preparations for coming home. She arrived in Newark at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and immedi ately-contrary to all expectation on the part of her relatives and friends -asked to be shown her dead hus band. The body had not yet been laid out, and it was with difficulty she was prevented from viewing it outil yesterday. It had cone abroad that she had refused to recogniae the corpse. This was tedd her by Col. "Abe" Halsted, her brother-in-law. "Why. Uncle Abe." said she, " you don't suppose I'm going to desert him now? He was foolish and indis creet, I know, but I loved him through life, and I love him in death. He had his faults, I know, butstill ho was one of the best of men and of husbands. If tho whole world should turn on his corpse I wont." These, words embodying a degree of worn inly love and charity, thc like of which has rarelv if. ever been paralleled,- are vouched'mr by Col. " Abe." " Why, sir," said' the Colonel, "Newark doesn't know what hind of woman alie is ; she is a thoroughbred. She even expressed sympathy for the wretched woman Wilson and said she would like to see her and hear what she had to say ol' the matter. A no ble woman, a noble woman, is ' Pet's' widow." Tbis a Farming Country. Before the war, we recollect that some high authority expressed a pref erence lor a good plantation In Abbe ville over a Mississippi or Red River bottom plantation, assorting that the average profila for a series of years were greater. This year's experience recalls this testimony to mind. While the crops elsewhere are suffering from the seasons in various ways, in this whole Abbeville "belt of land, stretching across the State, they are doing about as well as UBual, and with renumerative prices, our far mers should have money in their pockets next winter. Consider another item-the price they can get for their provisions here. Upon some of the western farms, for ty bushels of corn are raised to the acre, but selling at but 25 cents a bushel, the money yield to the acre, with more labor of course, being in proportion to the bulk of^the crop, is but ten dollars. Why, eight bushels to the acre here brings ten dollars, and the fodder and peas are extra. ' Tliia country, again, is healthy. Without extravagance, we believe it to he the healthiec-t in the world. To the laboring man, indeed, to all men, what an invaluable blessing isthe en-, joyment of sound health I - Lastly, Mr. N. H. Davis insists that hillside hedging will malee our clay hills, the steeper the better, Uia most fertile lands in the whole coun try, - . . . These considerations should make the thriftless ponder, whether any chang? of locality will e\er make prosperous, money-making farmers Of those, who can neither prosper nor make money here.-Fairfield Herald. Profanity. Cowper wrote some lines about swearing, which it would bo worth while for ev.-uy-one to learn : " It chills my blood to hear the blest Su preme '. II j Rudely appealed to on every trifling theme ; Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise To swear is neither brave, polite nor wise." Some who would not swear by the name of God, think nothing of swear- jj iug " By George," or " By jingo," or ll by something else ; others often cry j out," " Good graoiaiw I" or i* Mercy i, .'.1 ? ;. ?>'v;;?:,. ti 07? ft : i'ia I Ol Birji?b on me !" and the like. These are the beginnings of swearing. They are to profane swearing what acorns are to the oak. Our Saviour said when he was on earth: " Let your yea be yea and your nay, nay ; for whatsoever is more than this, cometh pf evil." This means that we should use plain, simple language. David had a-short prayer to this point: "Set a watch, O, Lord I before my mouth ; and keep the door ?f my lips." James L? Orr. 2b the Editor of the kingtree Star : The Honorable' James L. Orr, Judge James L. Orr, is spoken of in the following-wise in "the Barnwell Sentinel. We take it thusly ; We see that this wily , man ha's been having himself, interviewed again. Before he turned Radical openly, he had his interview publish edin the World. Now that he has em braced Radicalism, he enlightens the the North through the Herald. It won't do, -Judge. The Republican party are not anxious to get such re cruits as the Radicals of South Caro lina, 'you arc too d?ad weight They ire ashamed of you. They know how you deserted nnd betrayed the Democratic party, just as Beast But ler .did*. :< ?They know how you sup ported President Johnson until he :ould no longer serve von. They iiiow how you curried^ favor with Sickles, another deserter. They know tow you tried to ho'ney-fnggle the jlack and tan Convention, as it was :a??ed, in Charleston. They know low you have made friends With" Scott and his crew} who have been Dreying upon the vitals of the State, rhey know the good men'you sneer it and .respect them, which is more ;han they rio you. If you think you ;an play a card for the nomination of .7ice-Presitlent on the Republican ricket, play it, but you can't'.win. Lrou may as well try, however, for it s your last chance. That party will ook for a stronger man than yon vhen they elect their-banner-beareis. ibu'are piayed out, and what is worse, bund out. Deserters may be received is recruits, but they will not be se ected as leaders." We say to our quondam Governor -the professional politician-the one vho has been tried, but is not to be rusted, that South Carolina has no ise for such ? as you are. You had )etter emigrate. We do not desire .our services aa Judge. You are out >f office as Governor (wc are happy o have it to say) and we have no use or you as a politician. He who tries ;o climb "both sides of the sapling ihould fall. CEAON. Brevities aiid Levities. ?S* A Nashville paper reports the ' obsequios of tho last surviving mern jer of tho first Grand Lodge of Masons n Tennessee." Why they buried tho ?jopic man alive does not appear. An Indiana damsel undertook to jreaka mule colt tho other day. At last iccouuts her head was two sizes too large "or her bonnet, and she had ordered arset >f false teeth. >-';?. A kiss is the alms which enriches lim who receives without impoverishing 1er who gives. j&B* We are reliably informed that he "Harp that once through Tara's ?alls," and tho "Harp of a Thousand Strings" are in no wa}' connected with he Jews-harp family ; nor are they re nted to Hiirp-ers Magazine. ; r^' ^'he following advertisement ap? jearea in an Irish paper: " Whereas Patrick Malohy has fraudulently take r, iway several articles of wearing apparel vithout my knowledge, this is, there ore, to inform him that if ho docs not urthwith return the same his name shall ie made public." ?3r Thc Texas Gazette speaks in this it vie of a politician of that State: Should :he brains of a docent white mau bo de josltod in tho Mississippi liver at St. Louis, ten dropH-of river water at Vicks burg would fully represent his intellect ial capacity." A Bostonian buried his sixth wife ately. Next day he mei the preacher, md offered him a three dollar greenback. Che minister declined to take it saying ie was not accustomed to take pay for mch services; and the bereaved indi vidual replied, *'Just as you say, but hat's what I've been in the habitof pay ng;" ??&~ There was seen, the other day, a ittle boy, in the streets of Colosse, New fork, crying. A gentleman, stepping ip to tho little follow, said: "My little nan, what is the matter ?" To which he .esponded: " I've got the stomach ache, ind I'll have it again if I've a mind to," ?sar A Nevada paper prints an elabo ?ato article upon the delicate subject of ' what shall wo drink." After a logical .eview, the writer concludes that "no han ever lived to a green old age who ?vas a renegade to whiskey straight and itooped so low as to take sugar in his iguor." . . . Tho State Department has received argo numbers Of letters from parties' in lifferent parts of tho country asking to JO supplied with some of the condurango he recently discovered cancer remedy Drought to tho attention of tho g?vorn nent by tho Ecuadorian minister. As ho supply is exhausted the requests.can lot be compliod with. n^r- A Virginia editor ha3 come to the xmclucion that a man might as well un l?rtake to hold himself a? arm's- length ind then turn a double somersault over i meeting boase steeple, as to attempt to publish a paper that will suit everybody. $3r An old lady gives this as her idea jf a great man : " One who is keerf?l of bis clothes, don't drink sperrte, kin read the Bible without spelling the words, md eat a cold dinner on wash day with sut grumbling.M jgr A young lady in Oshkosh was J. Lately presented with an elegant card, case from one of her admirers. A few days afterward, while showing it to a lady friend, "she wished he had given her a larger one. This little thing won't hold more than half a dock 1" An elderly Mississippian blew out his brains the omer day because his washer woman would pin ty's Bhirts at th? neckband. ' Several yonng men about our town ought to trim out their eyebrows so as to correspond with their mons .TENEMENT LIFE IN NEW. YORK. Some idea may be formed of tene ment life in New York, when it is known that two houses in " Gotham Court," known as Nos. 36 and 38 Cherry street, contain six hundred people. The Board of Health has .ordered a clearing out of thesepremir ses for the benefit of humanity there in imprisoned ; but humanity and avarice neera inclined to battle with the philanthropic board, and bravely struggle to reverse this order. It seems scarcely credible that such a phase of -life eau exist in a city of so much wealth and- .magnificence ; but, following the downward track . of the cars through the eastern avenues and lower streets, thc sight is truly, fiii" ?eui rig. Far up, to a height of four or ?jv? ?tories, in cramped and close rooms, or down beneath where God's sun light fails to" creep, men, women and children vegetate, growing in years and developing' in crime. Here the great masses congregate to eke out the gift of life, which is often hali spent before they know how to use it; but here are also found, even amid the squalor and poverty and darkness of corruption, braw and no'ule souls making these same hard lessons glorious.for their fellows. PHYSICAL EFFECT OF LAUGHTER. -Probably there" is noe the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the body that does not feel some wayelet from the great convulsion produced by hearty laugh ter shaking the central man. The blood moves more lively-probably its chemical,.electric, or vital codition is distinctly modified-it conveys a different impression to ?ill thc organs of the'body, as it visits them on that particular mystic journey, when a man is laughing from what it does at other times. And thus it is that a good laugh lengthens a man's life by conveying a distinct and additional stimulus to the vital forces. The time may come when physicians, at tending more closely than they do now to the innumerable subtle in fluences which the soul exerts upon its tenement of clay, shall prescribe to a torpid' patient " so >many peals af laughter, to be und ergo ne'at such i time, just as they now db that far more . objectionable prescription-a pill or*an electric or galvanic shock ; md shall study the best and most ?ffectuai method of producing the re quiring effect in eac? patient. WmmTsi co. Cettoa Faet?n AND Commission Merchants, AUGUSTA, GA., WILL give strict attention to the STORAGE and SALE OF COTTON and ?thor PRODUCE on Comrx.i8sion. And will mako tho usual ADVANCES Df PROVISIONS, Ac, to Planters. Consignments and Orders solicited. Office, No. 5, McIntosh Street, opposite Mcssrst Jennings, Smith ?fc Co. Augusta, Apr 17, 1871. References in Edgcfiel?'.--Gens. Bon ham, Dunovant and Butler. Capt. O. N. BUTLER, of Edgcfield, is wsociated with our Firm, and will repre sent our House in Edgefield and adjoin ing Counties. Apr 20 tf 18 Removal OF . THE BEE HIVE. 178. 176. Bi GEORGE WEBER >EGS leave to inform his numerous friends and customers that he has removed to the capacious Store, No. 176, Broad St., apposite the Augusta Hotel, where bc will continue the MY GOODS BUSINESS, And hopes to merit a continuance of the patronage so UberaUy extended to him at his'old location. Fresh Supplies of Dry Gooda will be received by every Steamer, which will be offered at the lowest prices Apr 12 tf 16 Augusta Constitutionalist. FROM and after this date the terms of subscription to' the TRI-WEEKLY and WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST are reduced as foUows : TRI-WEEKLY. One oopy, one year. ?5 00 Ono copy, six months. 2 50 . Ono copy, thre? months, 1 50 Five copies,. (cluf>) one year, 4 50 each. Ten copies, (club) ono year, 4 06 each. WEEKLY. Ono copy, one year. $2 00 . One copy, six months, 100 Five copies, (club) one year 1 75 each. Ten copies, (club) one year 1 50 each. Tlte TRI-WEEKLY, containing full Telegraph and Market Roporte, with all the loading Editorials of tho DAILY, is Siublished and mailed every Sunday, Veduesdav and Friday morning, j Tho WEEKLY, an'cijrht pagopapor, convenient size for binding, containing fuli and accurate Market Roports Tele graphic Nows, Editorials and Miscella neous matter, is printed and mailed every Monday. Wc shall strive to make tho CONSTI TUTIONALIST, in the future, worthy tho liberal patronage heretofore enjoyed. STOCKTON & CO., Proprietors. Augusta, Apr 22 2m ' 18 For Sale, 100,000 WELL B?RNT BRICK. A ND atnnng thom several Thousands CIR. A CULAR RRICKS ?or Walling Well?, -now ready for delivery. W. W. ADAMB. Mar 6 tf II I Keep Cool. :F you want a COLD GLASS OF SODA WATER, call at j G. L. PENN'S Drug Store. May9_ tf 20 Lemons! Lemons! TWO Boxes FRESH LEMONS just .received, and for sale by MARKERT &.CLISBY. June 21 tf ' 20 Confectioneries, Nuts, A.c. AFINE Variety of Fresh CANDIES, : NUTS, ?kc,, afwavsin Store;' W. F. DURISOE, Sr. " iowa i? a j Dissolution; * ?IGUSTA, Juno 22d, 1871. JLPIE INSURANCE FIRM of JEF FERSON- <fc RANSOM, as Agents pf the Piedmont & Arlington Lifo Insurance Company wa?? diseolvcd on tho 15th May hist, by rh? withdrawal of E. E. "JEF FERSON. M. A. RANSOM succeeds to, and con trols all of tho former business of said Firm, and will continue the business with dulce at 227 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia, Thc General Agency for South Caroli na of LEAPHART, JEFFERSON & RANSOM was also dissolved at same date by tho Withdrawal of E. E. JEF FERSON. Tlie business bf tho Agency will bo continued os usual at tho Company's Of fice in Columbia by LE APHA RT it RANSOM. E. E. JEFFERSON, M. A. RANSOM. A Caril. IN explanation of the above, it is but due to thc Company and my late Part ners, to say that my withdrawal was not occasioned by. any loss of confidence in the Company, or in its present manage ment, or distrust of its future success, but to accept c more advantageous, offer. My official and personal relations with my late Partners were pleasant and har monious to timo of dissolution, and I jordislly commend them to my friends: E. E. JEFFERSON. June 28 lm2u U. 8. MARSHAL'S SALE. ?ONE TRACT OF LAND, " Thc Hibler Tract," contain ?. S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE,) SOLTII CAROLINA DISTRICT, I Nehemiah K. Butler, ) vs . *> Wm. B. Dom. I Joseph H. Spears, . | vs Wm. B. Dorn. } BY Virtue of Writs of Fieri Facias to me directed, issuing out of, tho Sonorablo the United States Circuit ^ourt, for the District of South Carolina, n tho abo ve stated cases, I will expose br sale, tb the highest bidder, at public mctlon, at Edgettcld C. H., on tho 7th ?ay of August, 1871, (being the FLat Mondav in the month,) all the right, tl ie, and interest of the Defendant in and ? the following property, to wit : No. 1-ONE TRACT OF LAND, fnown as "The Rocky Pond Tract," c?n aining Thirteen Hundred and Twenty ive Acres, more or less, adjoining lands if George D. Tillman, J. M. Clark, Es iato of H. Newsome, and others. On this Tract thero are two.Grist Mills and one Steam Saw MilL No. 2--ONE TRACT OF LAND, inown as " The Brooks' Tract," contain ng Six Hundred and Fifteen Acres, more or less, adjoining lands of D. J. VVilliams, Anderson Walls* N. S. Horri .onmid others. No. 3 ?cnown as ing Eleven Hundred Acres', more or .ess, adjoining lands 'of J. L. Harmon, Thomas Perrin, Thomas Henderson and >thers. On this Tract there is also a good Srist Min. No. 4--ONE TRACT OF LAND, known as "Tho Shinburg Tract," ch aining Seven Acres, more or less, ad ioitiinfr land? of Dr. J. C. Lanier. Th*. J. Ii. Lewis and others. ? A good Grist Mill Uso on this Tract. No. 5--ONE TRACT OF LAN I>, known #s ''Tho Roguo Shoal Trac*." jonta'ining Seventy Acres, more or les .., ldjoining lands ot J. A. Talbert, M; susan Blackwoli and others. There b a ?ood Grist Mill also on this Tract. The above Lands levied on as the pro perty of thc Defendant Wm. B. Dom. ?28- TERMS CASH. Purchssors to pay the Marshal for necessary Papers ' ind Stamps. . //5?y-Salo to bo conducted by BEN J. P. CO VAR, Deputy Marshal, as Auctioneer. L. E. JOHNSON, U. S. Marshal. Charleston, S. C., July 6, 1871. 4t29 Comity Auditor's Notice. CO?NTY AUDITOR'S OFFICE, EDOKKIELD C. H., S. C., June 2Sth, 1871 THE Undersigned will attend at th;; following pinces in Edgefield County it the times stated herein, to receive RE TURNS of property uoidcrs, and to AS SESS THE PROPERTY, Real.and Per sonal, in ?aid County, in pursuance of thc Laws of this Slate providing for tho Assessment and Taxation of property, viz: Pleasant Lane, " July 10th, 1871. Cheatham's Store, 11th, " Libcrtv Hill, M 12th and 13th Whitehouse, " 14th, 1871. Red Hill, M 15th, 44 Ward's Depot, 17th, " . Norris'Store, " 18th, 44 Mt. Willing, " 19th and 20th T. W. Bleaso's Store, " 2lst, 1871. Coopersville, " 22nd, 44 Dr. Rushton's Store, " 24th, V Pina House, 44 25th, 44 Graniteville, 14 26th, Hamburg, . 44 27th, " Beech Island, Club H. 44 28th, 44 Cherokee Ponds, 44 29th, '4 And at Edgetield c. II. from July 31st to August 14th, 1871, at which time the Books will close. . . ' The property holders will be required to meet tho Auditor at thc times and pla ces aforesaid, and to make their returns on oath ; and to facilitate business, they are requested to como prepared with a - full staroinont of all their property ready made out Tlie attention of all property holders in Edgefield County is called to the follow ing Section of tlie Act entitled an Act to Amend an Act entitled An Act provi ding for the Assessment and Taxation of . Property, passed Sept. ?5th, 1868, and an Act amendatory thereto, approved Mardi 9th, 1873 : - Sec. 3. That whenever any tax paver shall fail to make returns to the Auditor of his County within ihe time prescribed by law, i: shill! hy the duty of the Coun ty Auditor to enter in thc. tax duplicate against such tax payer, thc property phnrged to .'din in thc previous year. With fifty per cent, penalty added.there to, except m cases ot' sickness, or absence from the County, when the truo amount of property onl'v shall lie charged. ; . ROB HUT A. LYNCH, Auditor Edgefield Countv. June 28 4t 27 Gin Repairing. THE Subscriber, with tho boneflt of a practical. experience for tho lost twenty-five rears, oilers his services to Planters of Edgell .?ld wishing thoir GINS REPAIREi , SAWSSHARPENED.&c, &c, and will attend promptly and faith fully to ell orders. Terms reasonable. Letters addressed to biiri ot Edgefield, S. C., caro of Mr. ?. R. Dur i s oe, will re ceive early attention. W. B. MAYS? July 5 Im 28 BOOTS A1VB SHOIfc ! MADE TO ORDER OR REPAIRED All work well done at reasonable pri ces, out of the best Loather, and by com petent workmen. Give me a trial, and I will give you good fit. Terms Cash. S. H. MANGET. June 7 tf 24 Electric Fly Paper. THE most effective article know-q* Killt Flies instantly. . For sale at G. z* PBarara DRUG STORE. May? : tf 1?