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THREE DoLLARs A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVAYCE. VgL. V. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1869. NO1. TREf'ERALU If PUBIISHED SREY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. U., >f o.kr, .a. 8 GRN ,NE . **E EAUH, IN CUERENCY "-O 90i1VSIQN;~s g aIesmtreuised invariably in advance. oKees, Funeral -Invitations, Obit -s( ,ub.erving-private Theq ' . ture-Homestead be Amended. - Is U y das passed a resolution to t iei s from the 22d iist, to l"5tJ'hnuary next. By'the resolution no pay or mileage is allowe daring the recess; this is in aceo'rdance with the provisions of ptit-uti-n. ta W and'misures wilf~not >e fingvoted on till-after therecess. We a4d0to see 'that a hill .has be. Antroduped to amend the HOie Act. It is certainly ver tive. We would cite Sth Zegislature to the Georgia act n the same subject. Parties laAlnip A homestead ought to be - ei to have it laid off, if so withiout waiting for a Ie Ad all improvements by the er his f4nily on. t)e aitde After its assign me t _hould likewise be pro teeted vy ind. sal.e. Pro "he msde to all<w tcenl of the pr wuhda-andiJerent tract of land or ae fe 'The present act most -absuwdly-provides for the final ie hbomestead to ceitor* after the youngest chiFbemes of age, the parents beig44l,. whereas, it slipuld be secured'o1he heirs, or allowed to bo disposed of by will. If time is fixed 'etr the homestead m.ust go o tfe-family, however re molb:&hat-time may be, it effectual ly -destoys one of its greatest benefits The - great object of a house4tead law-.one at least-is to enc6a'ag "'the 'permanent im . prememen1of the . country-.. No famni wil1 feel an interest to im pr6i6 'nd adorn the place: they lisat when the law tells- them thatmit must be surrendered to creditors after a while, with all. * thf impioMinents they may put upo.J$. :o -one will plant an oretiard, bgild houses, or do the knigd ooter acts of improvemlenlt ons homestead, when they know it ineatnevitably go to some. re . moreeless calculating creditor, whbo wil 0 and keep, Mlive bis juodge ment aginst the fatal day. We w ij4post earnestly urge upon the Legislature to incorporate in oUt gea.tea& law the peculiar features of the Georgia act on the sarn Nabjeet. True, they' are limised by the Constitution to onke 'th&ggld doflars as the assessed vain.ofte.omestead when laid ophilst Georgia has two thou. sand five hundred. But there is still.gretr necessity in this State, fog ea4Nfully guarding the little, we have g tgowies sof,-eacu lating cgedi ois. AnOther feature ' 0ti o.gislaw should4beincor pgthabt is,, an express pro vioi~ :that the. thousand dol lagr*4eans a thosand dollars, th &.. thiousand .dollars in ase value, otherwise, it may hsppe's'tligOne manjaM his home stead laid of when greenbacks are at, a.disc,oun,t of fifty per cent, and w g pospt $500, anothernwhitst curreney is at 25 discount, he will get $750, but udnae will really get the #gUgless the act defines it to be specie value, provi<Nd the coi t~dp not otherwise construct it; but t e law in this respect should not be1Yeft tu construcetion. .Tudges .are usually made of old lawyers, . and they usually go in for the m'Ost rigid -construetions against -debtor: IWe are however, in ho.es of liberal and enlightened views prEvailing, both with the T Lelau.nd the.Tudges. Under the old regime, the Legislature in this State was the most illiberal and merciless towards debtors. of 1 any'other in theUnion. No home stead was allowed, and the most miserable pittance of personal .property exempted from levy. It did look as if the reproach of our enemies -was justified in some re specte. There was no regard in our laws for poor' or unfortunate families. The laws seem to have been made for the benefit of sharp ers and speculators, wholly and solely. Everybody now sees how stupid, as well as heartless, were our old laws in not allowing a liberal hoimestead. -What immense suffering would have been pre vented, if the laws had been dif ferent before the war. We should also hlave had a larger population, more education, and a far better ooadition of society. Tbe.old, law likewise, that confiscated all a woman' property to pap the us band's debts was an abomination sterDly adhered to by the old fogy legislators.-This has added immensely to the di-rse of'general ruin t'hat has inflict4d this, State. . - .Greeaville En$erprise. Ramie. Alexander -S. MeCrea 'says in his last Liverpool circular: Hownay know that there is a:plant- growing and -fourisbtng (to an exteht-)DiiL i a, exas, Mississippi, Florida, . Alabama; yielding a fihre so tetile,. yet so beautiful withal,- that it can be treated to rival silk, and to super sede the finest cotton ? Yet so it is! Grw'ingini the forenamed States, and exporting "silly'- into Europe,-is this spren did product, ramie, or China grass. "We think (our largest consumer says addressing the witer) this article will occupy a very impor tant place in the:exports ofAmeri ca, provided it is got up in a prop er way. We are at- prestnt using a large qu'ntity weekly." Now, what is jt-what is itilike; how. isit to'be "got up,in a proper way ;" what Isits vaine and:wlhat its~application ? I. will.. reply .to each of thesequeriesin their order, subject to correctio.n fronm those be' erinformed. First, Ramtie or~ China" Grass is botanically named "B'ochmivia Tenaessibig,",of-the order "Utti cacia," so that ne one-need mis take it -oi in)quiry. - Seeondly', It is 'neither unrlike jute or hemp, but with .a b'older. crisper, yet more pliable fibre. Thirdly, To be got up in a prop IerWay (I speik of the raw materi Ial), 'it shoedd be dried, whenithe g'reen b6comes white. Fourthly-, The value in the green state is ?35 to ?40 per ten of 2, 240 pounds-white ?50 per ton dressed for mixing with cotton and silk, ?280 .tQ ?300 per ton. Fifthly ~- -pplication n~Ay American~s who~ have visited this side ther last year or two, may have seen- our ladies wearing for morning and walking dresses what might .appear to be a splendid French laveader silk ! American ]ladies, however, would not fail to Iobserve that though beautiful to the'ey0 it laokedithe inherent val ue of silk to the touch, though su perior in every way to cotton. Did any of these American visitors know that this silk-like material owed its base to their own soil that it was chiefly made from Ramnie or China grass, and is no other in Europe than the imitated, and so called "Japanese silk ?" Sufficient, then, has been writ ten to demonstrate that here is an 'enormous source of commerce open to the United States-that in pro duction and process, the thing is a veritable fact, that growing wild on the plains of the Southern States is,a fibre, which, from fruit to fru ition, is of the magnificent value of A Chapter on Planchette. A "R e f o r m e d Planchettist" makes the following revelations in Harper's Magazine: I have little more to say, and surely nothing further to confess. I have truthfully given my exper iences, and if it be of use to any of my fellows,. that knowledge is guerdon sufficient. A reformed Planchettist, I eat better, drink better and sleep better, than when pursuing my evil practices. My conscience is more at rest, and I no longer have troubled dreams. Let this eneourege those who are still under the dominion of the destroyer to emancipate them selves. It is useless to tell me that there is anyting in Planchette, or that by its aid every man may become his own medium ; I've been there. When you. cap put a terrapin on the back and get him to -respond in Coptic with his tail, 'twill be time to persuade me-that a block of wood can be "charged" suffi ciently to write sentences. Mine was charged, (it stands charged against me, I believe to this day), but it would only write when I moved it, and then it wrote pre cisely what I dictated. That per sons write "unconsciously" I. do not believe. As well tell me that a.man might pick pockets with out knowing it. Nor am. Iat all prepared to believe the assertions of-those who declare that "they do not move the board." I know what -operators will do in such cases ; I know the disto*ion, the d,isregArd of'trnth, which associa tion with this in Wrtal board su perinduces. I have seen charming young la dies, whose word I would take on anything else in life (even if they protested they were not engaged), who would not fib if you asked them if their curls were false, or if the red of their lips was natural, sit up with both hands on Plan chette-fortified in falsehood by he contact-and lie like lawyers. Bring me any two professors of the art-young ladies, for men are not to be believed under -any cir-. eumstar cs-not too far gone to be sensible to some moral com punction, who will pn.r one hand on Planeh ette and the other on the Bible-establishing a sort of gal vanic connection betwveen the neg ative and positive poles of.truth, so.to speak-aud swear- (as Ella says t-he customT of resorting to- an oath in extreme cases has intro duced into the laxer sort of minds the notion Of t wo kinds of ti-uth) that they do not write the messa ges they promuliate,- and I will discuss whethe.r they do or not seriously. Unt ii then I do not re cant one single expression, but stand firm .bzy these confessions.. A POINTED THRUTST. - During the session of one of the Recor der's Courts, the other day, a merry-faced and biright-eyed Mil esian was arraigned for disorderly conduct. Th.e Judge inquired, very angrily, "if he was not ashamed to be there ?" "Pon my soul I am your hon or." "You are in a very disreputable company." "-I know it yer honor." "It is shameful !". "Too true," was the penitent rejoinder. "If I permit you to go this time, will you ever be caught in snch company again ?" "Not unless your honor sends for me!" was the meek reply, in a tone so exquisitely sarcastic, that no doutbt of his meaning was left on the minds of the audience. [N. 0. Picayune. 'Did I understand you to say that I was lousy, sir?' 'Oh, no, I merely told my frieud that when it rained lice in Egypt I thought that you must have been walking about there without a hat or an umbrell-that's all. One Kiss, Maria. There was a funny little epi sode on the car? that helped to arouse us. At Montana a young man and a young woman came on board of the sleeping car, and the former said: "See here, Mr. Con ductor, I want one of your best bunks for this young woman and one for myself individually. One will do for as when we git to the Bluffs, hey, Diarier'? (a play"ful ant, affectionate poke at "Marier" with his elbow, to Tlich she replies, -'now, John quit?") for you see we're goin, to git. married at Marier's uncle's when we git Ther. -We might a'been married at Montanny, but we took a habit to wait 'till we, got to the Bluffs, being' -as Marie4s uncle is a minister, and theyj charge_ a gol' fired price for hi: chin' folks at Montanny." Maria was assigned to one of the "beat bunks," and John was given one not far away. IAfter a time the- imates of the car were all stowed away in their berths to go through the inevita ble altei'ations if aWeltering and freezing. During a stoppage of the train at one station' the voice of John was heard, raised in. pleading ac cents, all uncoiseious' that the train had stopped, and that tones which the noise of the rattling wheels had drowpd. while. the cars were moving could be dis tin,tly heard by all when they had stopped. "Now, Ma-ri, you might give a feller jes' one kiss." "John, you quit, oi I'll git right .out here R Ahof ack4o-M tanny in the snow storm." "Only one little kiss, Marier, and I'll go ; hope to die 'f I don't." "John " Jist at that interesting moment a gray head protruded from a berth at the other end of the car. and an old man cried out so that all could hear : "Marier, for God's sake give John ond kiss, so that we can go,to sleep some time -to night." It- is- needless to remark that a pear of laughter -rang from one end of the car to the other, under ~cover of which.John slunk back to the -solitary sclusion of his "bunk," leaving Maria to the un ,disturbed p?ossession of her mar riage licnse to John until ac companied by the proper certifi cate.-And Maieir was right. A CAUTIOUs SINNER.--SOmeC years ago there was a goo.d deal of exciternient among the people in a certain town in C - coun ty, Vermont, on the subject of religion,-and almost every man in the place was more or less awak ened to -a sense- of his sinful-ness; and rniade public de~claration of his intention to lead a different life. Among the rest were three of the principal men of the village, whom -wwill call M , B , and G . , who, being all present at one ef the meetings, took part in the proceedings, to the great joy of the faithful, and much, to the astonishment of' "the rest o4m an kind" then and. there assembled. t .rose fitst, and having made a general confession of his unworthiness, said in conclusion, that he had always intended to be an honest man, but if he had wronged any one he was willing to make full restitution. B followed, speaking in pretty much the same manner. G arose next, and spoke of his sins and wickedness in quite as strong terms as the others had done ; but, coming to the "restitution" clause, he remarked, with a caution char acteristic of himself; "If there is any man that I have defrauded, I shall be most happy to sit down and talk it over with him. "Hiram," said a farmer to his hired man who was working in the field, "it is going to rain ; sup pose you quit work and go play dig cella." Prints on Apples and Pears. A friend who has lately been on a visit to the "flub of the Uni verse," writes us thus: "I have just seen a very pretty idea de veloped on pears and apples, in the orchard of a friend at West Roxbury, Massachusetts. As you ramble among the trees, yon are ever and anon saluted by an in scription upon the fruit, done as it were by the hands of nature her self. On some you will find the names of Seymour and Blair, for orfriend is a -staunch democrat 1 of the conservative or State rights t school. Here you meet with the familiar name of Nary or Alice, or .a date (1863) in brief, every thing that may suggest itself to your taste or fancy, and all done in the skin of the fruit, without abrasion or any foreignimpression. The di.scovery was made by the Hon. Arthur W. Austin, of West Roxbury, in 1851-2. He observed during the'former year, that apples did not redden, in that part of te fruit where a leaf happened to lie upon it. In 1852 he cut out let ters from newspapers, and when the apples' were yet green, he pasted them on them with paste snch as the apothecaries use made of Gum Tragacanth. The apples would redden in all parts not cov ered by the pasted letters. When the fruit had reddened. to per- t fection the letters were removed, and they would appear permanent ly outlined in green. So, again when he pasted on the apple a paper in which the letters were cut out the parts would be green tnd.tht ara-would appear; die. tinctly turned in red, the green ground surrounding them. The experiment is a pretty-one, and produces a happy effect-let our fruit growess try it. How much sweeter must be the relish of ap ple or pear if the name of a favor-. ite should thus appear on it, as if written by the hand of nature. What superior price such fruit, so iscribed, would command in market, and what a pretty present it would be to any lady at a feast. (C'harleston Courier SOJOURNER TRU.-.This old colored wonian, now living in Michigan, recently visited Milton, Wisconsi n,s where she w as the guest of a Mr. Goodrich, who is an out-an-out temperance man, and a noted hater of tobacco. One morning she was puffing away with her pipe in her moutb, when r her host approached her, and com menced cobversation with the t following interrogatory : "Aunt Sojourner, do you think you are a Christian ?" "Yes, Brudder Goodrich, I speck I am." "Aun't Sojourner, do you be lieve in the Bible ? "Yes Brudder Goodrich, I be lieve the Scriptures, though I can't read em as you can."r "Aunt Sojourner, do you know that there is a passage in the Scriptures which declares that no thing unclean shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven ?~t "Yes, Brudder Goodrich, I have f heard of it." "Aunt Sojourner, do you be- 1 lieve it ? "Yes Brudder, I believe it." Well, Aunt Sojourner, you I smoke, and you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because there is nothing so unclean as the breath of a smoker there. What do you say to that ? "Why, Brudder Goodrich, I speck to leave my breff behind me when I go to Heaven." There is a grocer in Philadelphia, who is said to be so mean that he was seeb to catch a flea off his counter, hold him up by his hind legs, and look in to the cracks of his feet, to see if he hadn't been steali.ng somne of his sugar. Twenty million dollars have been ta ken from one gulch in Nevada in five are.I Remarkable Superstition. Not long ago the young and eautiful wife of one of the citi ens of Monongahela, Va., was alled to her final account, leaving ier husband sad, disconsolate, and ereft. She was buried in the emetery, and the husband return- i d again to his desolate home, but tot to forget the loved one. She vas present with him by day, in pirit, and in his dreams at night. )ne peculiarity of his dreams, and mne that haunted him-being re >eated night after night-was this: hat the spirit of his wife came to its bedside and told him that the Lndertaker had not removed from ier face the square.piece of muslin, >r napkin, which had been used to over her face after death; but had .crewed down her coffin lid with t upon her, and-that she conid not )reathe in her grave, but was in irirest on account of the napkin. le tried to. drive the dream. away, )Ut it bided. with him by night, nd troubled him by day. He ought the consolation of religion, nd his pastor prayed with him Lud assured him that it was wick d to indulge such morbid fancy. :t was the subject of his own pe ition before the Throne of Girace; )ut still the .spirit came and told mew the story of her suffocation. .n despair he sought the under aker who told him that the nap :in had not been- removed, but irged him to forget the circum tance, as it could not -be any )ossible annoyance to inanimate I lay. While the gentleman frank y.-acknowledged..this, he could Iot avbdOj Thg 4r tidi s nd ontinual stress upon his mind >egan to-tell upon his health. At ength he determined to have the iody disinterred, and visited the indertaker for that purpose. Here ie was met with the same advice and ' persuasion; and convinced mnce more of his folly, the haunted nan returned once more to his tome. That 'night, more vivid ban ever, more terribly real than efbre, she came to his bedside, nd upbraided him for his want of ifection, and would not leave him mtil he had promised tQ remove' ho cautse of all her sufferings 'he next1 night, with a friend, he epaired to the sexton, who was revailed upon to accompany hemn, and there, by the light of he cold, round 'moon, the .bodf ras lifted from its narrow bed, be coffin lid unscrewed, and the lapkin removed from the face of he corpse. That night she came o his bedside once more, but for he last time. Thanki-ng him for is kinidness, she pressed her co,jd ips to his cheek, and camne again to more. Reader, this is a true tar-y; can you' explain the myste y of dreams ? AN EXTREMELY bMELANCHOLY OccUa :ECE.--The- following.melancholy occnr ence is related by the Edgefield (S. 0.) dvertiser: On Saturday afternoon last there appened an a~ffair in our section which tan'd forever, in the memory of all, as a nost solemrn warning against the too free se of ardent sprits. An affair in which wo intimate friends, both under thie in. uence of liquor, fell to quarreting, and he one shot and killed the other. The etcr-s in this most melancholy scerte were' )r. William T. West, of Lioerty Hill, nd Dr. Thomas 11. Pattei-son, living ight or nine miles below the village. )r. West was the victim, and he is now ying in a bloody grave. On his way romn Augusta he stopped at Dr. Patter on'.s residence for a neighborly visit and riendly chat. The two friends drank ogether, quarreled and fought ; and the e,ult was as we have stated above Dr. Vest lived until Sunday, aud freely for. ave the unufortunate man who had taken is life. Neither one could remember rhat they had quarreled about. Dr. Vest was a highly respectable citizens ; )r. Patterson no less so. The man.y riends of these families are filled with loonm at this lamentable occurrence. "Look here, boy" said a nervous Id gentlemaa to an urchin, who vas munching sugar-2andy at a ecture "you are annoying me very nuch.'-"No I ain't; I'm a'gnawing his ero candy," replied the urchin. The youngest mother in England is weA e1a"en mes Love at Seventy. The Boston correspondent of he Springfield Republican tells the ollowing: "Here is a a touching little re. nance : Half a century ago two roung people-youth and maiden n a country village-loved each )ther. Unkind fate persecuted ;hem and denied the legitimate re-. vard of mutual affection. Beth narried and lived in widely.eepa 'ated towns, childi-en ~grew up xbout each, and the cares of life tame upon them; but the spark >f that early love still burned is 5oth bosoms. Once in a greM while they exchanged letters. At ast his wife died ; his children ;row up and went to the bad, and' ae was left i lonely (ld man, poor nd comfortless. This eumr$e' aer husband died. As soon as the 5lessed defunct was put comferta,' aly -under the sod the widow Packed up her goods and started br the home of her first love. 3he arrived one afternoon, and was directed to his house, but it' aster was absent. Nothing launted, she went in and sat alon* ill be returned. Imagine the eeting of tender old creatures of seventy, who hadMbeen faithful to ,ach other through fifty yeara. She remained in his house a few lays ; then they were married, and the neighbors say, that oever lid humanity afford such a timili tnde to two very sentiments4 turtle-doves as in the wedded bliss )f these absurd old people. They ire living now, steeped in happi" ness, it wou.d-seem, and n9 doW . Fufij1 blieve lo ihe meem'i$ w late than never.' "DARNEL WsnsTaa," remrakMd >ld Col. Geapey, *s he trimined ' 1uid of niggerhead and fasteed ft ecurely between two decayedteeth in the left side of his -eith, "Dr riel Web ter .was a great man.s There- wa'ot nothing' meen about rim.: 've heard him talk, |bt twa'n't his talk so mach as hit ginerosity that tuck me. He had kinder careless way like, ths kept him from gettia' rich. E aever seemed to think what things 'ost. 1 was a comin' up the Eud ion River along with him onceS, and in the miornin' Darnel Webster and me was washin'rour faces and slickin' our ha'r in. the cabin, and be t,ouk out a tooth. brush and arshed his teeth. I didn't see no >ther tooth-brush around, so I sorrowed his'n. And after 1 used it 1 handed it back to him, and and * hat do you think? Why, Darnel Webster just slung that tooth-brush right inter the viver. Anud I s'pose next day he went and. xought him a new one. that's all ie cared about money-s There ain't nio seoh men as Dar'nel Webstet' iving now," coneluded the~ Col. >nel, nieditatively, as he spitted a stream of tobace6-juice into the are-place at the other end of the~ room. A .GRAcELESs FziLLow..-While taking breakfast one trnng with friend, Diek D., at his beert. ing-house, the ftbllowing ineidee* was brought to my notice: We ivere all seated at the table-ous n number-when the landlady equested Dick to) say gae. Dick, noticing but three pieces of bam on the dish, and being some what of a wag, arose, and, with aplifted eyes, exclaimed: 'Three slic'es for four of us, rhank the Lord there's no. more of uui" It is needless to say, that. Dick was never afterward called upon o s,ay grace at that table. The following sentiment is at-. ributed to Napoleon Bonapate: 'A handsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the heart. The one is a jewel-. the other a treasure." Goy. Giipin, of Arizona thinks of ga1l. ng one of his farms. It contains a Ms ion and a half of acres.