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For Economy in Fuel ; "For Durability ; *og Capacity in Baking, Boil ~ad Broiling ; Sgg~ plicity in Manage a4o#CUleanhinessijn Cooking ; For. .pwekef Heat ini ndBoiling, with a eymnal eonsumption of Fuel; For Beauty of Design. For Bmoothness of Castings - nd-Elegance of Finish; 'Te"Cotton Plant" tTANDS UNEQUAL.LED. h DR ?Alfl, Calu.bia, 8. C., U.leAgunt*r one hulfthe Stute of S. C. STILES HURD, with the Weele A Wilson Manufac taring Company. BRIDGEPORT, CONN., * senabled to select the most perfect Aminhad Machines, and forward them to sewho may want, at - the manufac nrer's price, free of commissions to the ~p.~haae. Any orders sent through M.Johnstone & . Win, F. Nance, will .peei,e prompt attention. Dec 16 [For the Newberry Herald . MR. EDIToR:-Allow me first of all to return to you my heartfelt gratitude, for the pains, which you took to make my late visit to Newberry, both pleasant and pro" fitable. It was'a source of un feigned pleasure to me, to find a man filling the editorial chair, who -is 'not afraid, or ashamed, to iden ti fy himself with theicause of reli gion, and preside in a Sabbath School. Not that I think it a condescension, in the most gifted and elevated, to take this position; on the contrary, the honor is con fered by the cause, on its advocate; still there are not a few, who un dertake to control and mould pub lic opinion through the press ; who are flippant in their utterances, and irreverent in their manner to wards the whole subject of Reli gion. Whilst sitting in your sanctum, my mind was more deeply im pressed than ever before, with the value of our local newspapers, and their extended capacities for usefulness generally. There are some facts in relation to them, which are indisputable. First, they do and will exist ; and this, too, in the face of the generally conceded fact, that they are never profitable in a pecuniary point of view, except when they are man aged by practical printers. There is scarcely a country town from the sea-board tb the mountains, which has not its Weekly Newspaper. Somebody must find L-read, if not money, in their pub lication. Another fact in their history is, that they have a circulation in their own locality, which no other newspaper possesses. A firmer, or citizen, in country places feels, generally, that he nwst take the District paper, if he should be able to take no other. He wants to see the advertise ments, and to know what is pass iagaroand him negrIsi& trmet and-after these subjdcts have been disposed of, he looks to see what the editor has to say ; and then, if there is any news from Congress, or the Legislature. Then the young people look into the "funny" corner; and if there is any correspondence, it is almost certain to be read ; and the graver matter is laid over for Sunday reading. Another fact is certain, viz: The managers of our local press have never plantel themselves on that fearless and independen t basis, to which they are fairly entitled. The metropolitan newspapers (so called), have assumed to give tone and direction to public opinion, on almost every subject. This is attributable in part to the fact, that they are able to com mand more experienced men. as editors, and control an extended city patronage. The- "weeklies" can never comn pete with the dailies in newcs; but that is no sufficient reason. why the editors of the smaller papers should not maintain entire inde pendence of thought on the great topics which agitate the popular mind. It would be well for this last named class of editors to re member that they have an audi ence, peculiarly their own ; and that of the thousand or more read ers, who see their county news paper ; a very small proportion ever get a sight of the more pre tentious city issues. The days are fast passing away, in which the prestige of the city shall control the manners and opinions of the .ountry. Our farmers and me ebanies, are the bone and sinew of the country, and should cultivate independent habits of thought and feelig, as th4ey -are already=inde peidenti in circumstances. Our ocal press can do much toward bringing about so-desirable a re slt. These village papers will also afford . a most useful medium through which local talent can be cultivated, and encouraged to de velop itself. The Poet's corner, consecrated to shrinking genius, which is almost terrified at the thought of appearing before a critical public, will furnish an en couraging resting place for com positions of real merit. In conclusion, allow me to sug gest to your readers, that every family should have at least one good religious Journal, of its own denomination-then the District paper-and then as many more good publications, as means and taste may justify. Let me also say to all who pat ronize their District paper, that you should not allow the publisher to furnish you with this weekly treat at his own expense. Sub fr your panpes and non, for them in advance, and then you will have the double satisfaction of aiding an honest printer, and furnishing your own mind with valuable stores of knowledge. Yours truly, &c., S. S. AGENT. Interview of South Carolin ians with President Grant. Among the visitors who called on the President, on Tuesday morning last, were the Hon. J. P. Reed and Hon. W. D. Simpson, of South Carolina, who were present ed by the Hon. Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky. During the inter view Mr. Reed read, for himself1 and Mr. Simpson, the following paper in relation to the condition of affairs in that State : "We have called Mr. President, as members elect from the old Commonwealth of South Caro liua to the Forty-first Congress of the United States, to tender for ourselves, and the people we have been chosen to represent our con gratulations upon your auspicious assumption of the office of Chief! Magistrate of the American Union We are, sir, natives of the State from whence we come, and claim, as representative men ofits ancient population, to be familiar with their political and material con dition, their sentiments, and as pirations for the futue. "Politically, in addition to the loss of nearly all their pecuniary resources, they have, by the re sults of the war, been practically excluded, for more than three years, from the family of States, and the blessings of civil govern ment; but having been recently restored to their original position in the Union, upon the plan which the Congress in its wisdom saw fit to adopt, without concur ing in the manner of their restoration, they have accepted the accom plished fact in good faith, and are as loyal to the Government of a ummif -coniitry as any other equal number of the American people. "Their condition, socially, is and has been one of profound peace; and, aside from a few isolated acts of personal violence, that have oc casionally been committed in dif ferent parts of the State, such as are unfortunately of too common occurrence in all sections of the Union, good order has prevailed, and the laws, State and Federal, enacted for their government by bodies in which they were un represented, have been respected, obeyed and enforced without the slightest tendency to tumult or violence. "Materially the abundant har vests that have been vouchsafed to them, and t he high prices at which their leading staples have ruled, have relieved thenm in a great measure from their embarrass ments, and opened up to their im aginat ions the dawn of aprosperity so entirely unexpected as to lead them to hope that events which were deemed the most crushing evils may turn out to have been indeed 'blessings in dlisguise.' "In sentiment, whilst almost the entire native white, and a large number of the colored population, iae affiliated and been identified with the national Democratic party, their fetters are not of such controlling strength as to induce or permit a factious oppo sition to the party in power, or hinder them from yielding a hearty support to all such meas ures of your administration as will, in their judgement, tend to develop the resources and promote the in terets of a common country. "Their hopes and aspirations for the future are that their State may henceforth occupy precisely the same relations to the Govern ment, under a common Constitu tion and laws, that is occupied by by the other States of the Union; and to this end that the laws imposing burdens and conferring benefits on the people may be urn-. formly enforced, persons and prop. erty protected, the peace preserved inviolate, the unity and perpetuity of the Government maintained, and thiat uninterrupted fraternity, prosperity and happiness may at tend the whole American people, East, West, North and South, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. And such, sir, are the sentiments of the hearts of ourselves and our people-" In response to which, the Pres ident remarked: "GENTLEMEN: The sentimenits ex pressed in that paper should. meet the approbation of every law abiding and Union-loving citizen of the country." Do not spur a free horse to death. Kizia Hobb's Second Epistle to the Herald. GILBERT HOLLER, March 20th, 1869. .Mr. Edytur: I Learn tell of a man once, who wanted to get his name in the papers, and he stole a hog ; so he got his name in sure enough, and himself in a fine brick house, where he had to peep through iron bar's for the next six months. Well, I never stole any thing, but once, in my life. A young man accused me of steal ing his heart, and so I giv him mine in exchange, and he kept it, as long as he lived, and it was buried with him when he died. I have got too old to do that kind of pilferin now, and as you was so kind as to put my name in your paper, I thought I would write again. You see, I am away down here in the Sand Hills, where ther is no news papers, and nobody to talk to, and it is lonesomelike; so so I Jist thought I would tell you about my stay up thar. I left this poor burnt up Country, where one person ar'nt able to help tother one, and went up there to try and get me a home where every body had every thing but nigger's, as the yankees never burnt them parts, and the people up there, all belong to the Church, and are so charitable with all, that may be, some one would take me in; and, as Charity covers a multitude of sins, I thought some rich old sin uer might make a scape goat of me, to git rid of his manifold transgresions. But no body never covered up a single sin on my ac count. The old saw, "Charity begins at home," is true, and it ends thar too ; any.how, I never seed it git further than the dinner table. Well dont. they have good et p-har2-Ft for a royal banket every day, and the folks visit too, and every one tries who can git up the finest dinner; Tur key and bam and Cabbage, tur nips, taters and sour Crot enough to make a dutchman for get his Fader land-Them is the substantials. Then comes the nicities-peach pies, as fresh as in July, Chicken tarts, so rich and short, lemon and Cocoa nut Cus tard, and the wine to wash it all down. Is it not Chari-table, to give a poor old creetur sich a din ner as that, who had her house and every thing else burnt up; taint every old woman gets sich a dinner often. You see thar is too kinds of Charity-that is, public and private. Let some fellow carry round a paper to get money to build a great fine house, worth thousands, to be the makin of our town, and Liet. IRoostaire gives fifty dollars, Capt. Goblaire gives a hundred, Col. Gandaire gives too hundred, Gen. Pea-foWvl, five hun dred, the Right Hon Judge of the Fiddle de dee Court, slaps down a thousand, and all the smaller fry, put in their mites, when up goes the imposing edifice in a Jiffy. Now we will turn out-the Law yer, and doctors' and preachers. Well after a few years where is your big institution ? Echo an swers where, not here. How has the mighty fallen, peace to.not its ashes, but its fallen beams, and gable ends, not from age, but fal l'en in its prime; provin that all is vanity and vexation ofspirit ; that is public Charity. Now for the tother sort. A quiet benevolent woman,takes a little scrap of paper, and a pen cil in her pocket, she draws it timidly forth, hands it to one, he oks at it, and says: I am very sorry for her, but 1ecant give noth ing;- I have so many calls of that kind. She folds the paper up, re turns it to its resting place, and turns away with a saddened look, and her eyes filled with tears. Tis not for herself, but for the old and afflicted, who had lost all in the horrible Raid, with no home, no health, not even the necessaries of life. He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord ; but no body dident lend the Lord, an5 thing on that old woman's account ; and, that is private Charity. You see for the other, the Edytur would draw in a long breath, puff out his cheeks and give a toot, that would throw Gabriel's trumpet in the shade, while for the old woman wouldent never say a word about what we give her. She may be off with her Chillblains and Rheuma tiz, before she gits a yard of Flan nin or a pair of yarn stock ins out of me. Do you think the preach er, the doctor, and last, but not least the Edytur, stands much chrace rfatfing their duesA do know that preacher's wives has to economize mightily, to get through the winter, turnin their dresses up side down, and wrong side out, and gorin of em, to git t out the holes-not because it is i; fashion, but because they cant do no better. And the children's t clothes;is hairydittary, for thar handed down from the first one, h till the last. And I hearn a young Dr say, he couldent get u married,because he couldent suport r a wife, and I believe him, for his coat looked seedy, and his hat none d of the best, and I think a Dr next r to the Preacher, orter be paid; i the preacher saves the soul, the L Dr the body. Well, you see some people haint got much of a soul, but all of ems got some sort of a body, no matter how ugly, and they dont like to feel it a sufferin, so the Dr has to come; so a man what dont settle up when he sell his cotton, and pay his phisiker, orter die ; he aint worth wastin pills on. And Mr Edytur, talkin of payin dots, does them people do any better up thar, as my old man used to say, stan to the rack, fod der or no fodder? They should stan to it: I believe the folks will pay you, thougl, for if they dont, they wont get no more puffs, and t they wont have no body to send 1 their big pumpkins to. and ther t Surplus perduce. All I have to t say, I hope that they may git their s dues in this world, and the next, I and I am sure if they do not, t what is honest to God's ministers, r provide things honest in the sight i c of God, owe no man nothin-they t will git it. Charity snffereth long, and is kind. Charity never fail ith, and the good Book says, ~ Though I have all Faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not Charity, I am nothing and thems the scntimeuts of KIZIA HOBBS. r - i Remarkable Marriage - Be -trethed to Th ree-BrotheS. f The Americus (Ga.) Courier re- 9 lates the particulars of a case in that county, in which the bride I was betrothed to three brothers, and married to two of them, which is rather remarkable : r On the 6th of August, 1866, a young man came to Americus and procured a license to marry an es timable young lady, residing sev- t ral miles from this city; went home, and was married in the af- 9 ternoon of that day. He was at tacked by a conjestive cbill, which e terminated in his death the fol- ' lowing Saturday-the stricken 8 bride followed his remains to their t last resting place, clothed in the same sui-t in which her heart had I been made glad by becoming his bride. On thd following August(1867)- t the second brother of the same c family came to Amerieus for the t same purpose which had brought c the deceased one year previous. '] On his way home. rejoicing in e. happy anticipation of making the t worthy widow of his lost brother i his own bride, he was caught in a ( heavy rain, and arrived at home with his clothes thoroughly satu rated, from which he was taken with a conjestive chill, and died t the evening previous to the mar- a riage, whieh was to have takeni place the following Sabbath.- t Again, instead of~ listening to the merry ringing of the marriage t bell, the death knell was heard and a funeral procession took the place of the marriage feast. Sometime during last month the third brother of the deceased , procured license, and was happily married to the twice-bereaved lady.C Mrs. Kelly, of Black Brook,1 New York. is thirty-eight years old, has been . married twenty one years, and is the mother of' nineteen children without ever having twins, the youngest child r being thirteen months old. There a is but ten months difference in the ages of the first born and the second born child.t They have had a "hard times ~ party" in Wisconsin. The invi tations were written on brown c paper, and requested the guests to dress in their old clothes. Bean soup, crackers and dried e herrings constituted the refresh ments, with "cambric tea," and water.c A Southern paper is opposed tot the education of women as sur geons. It says that suppose one were put under the influence of n chloroform by such a doctor, what is to prevent the woman from kis-t sing you ? Alway drunk. always dry. h Forcible. Kimbal's romance of "To-Day," a Putnam's for April, has reached r be 12th chapter. The following u an extract : n The metropolis devours every- d hing. Its maw is never satisfied. t t cries always "Give." It ex- g austs the market for provisions, >r fabrics, for human beings. It ses, consumes. It wears out en as it does the omnibus horses. t ts wealth demands first what is ifficult, then what is extraordina y, fabulous, impossible. Its Want trains to supply those laboring d y day and by night. d By and by Want takes a stum- d le and falls. It cannot supply i ny more ; it begs. Possibly it e teals. robs. murders or commits d nicide. Wealth purses its brow. 11 What a state society is in ! Such v n increase of crime! The police o 5 very inefficient !" t Want does not always commit iolence. it cannot always beg. _ t sickens and amiably consents o starve without resisting. Wealth hears of it, and says, Lo! are there not poor-houses nd hospitals and beneficiary es. si ablishments which I have raised p ? Why does not Want go r hither ? Then Wealth proceeds n o the church, and kneeling on a I t oft cushion, prays for Want, t rays earnestly. Prays that God, t lie All-wise, the All-merciful, will d emember the poor and the afflict- i, d, and comfort them in their dis- r ress. Wealth, having performed this f uty, steps forth from God's pre- t ence into its carriage, and rolls t ome to dine. Sometimes in the lesson of the r ay a startling sentence is read. I tartling, notwithstanding the e nelliflous tone with which the t reaceer endeavors to soften it. I "It is easier for a camel to go , lrough the eye of a needle, than t or a rich man to entei- the kingdom t f God." Wealth listens, and changes its s osition uncomfortably. "My dear hearers, you must t nderstand by this not literally a ich man, r.ut the man who trusts e a riches." ] "Ah, how pleasant !" says t Wealth ; "surely I do not put my rj rust in riches." t "Go and sell that thou hast, and t ive to the poor." Wealth turns pale. The preach r comes to his relief. "This was inply to test the young man's t incerity. Quite inapplicaple to he riesent state of society." "Even so," quoth Wealth, and ods an app)roving assent. * * * * * But why do the poor cling to t he metropolis ? Because of its t ompanionship. There they clus- r er together and hold fast to each s ther in. one great' fellowship. t ~hey sympathize with, they aid, y ne another. Watch a decrepit t eggar. Who puts pennies in his rj at ? Children and poor people. a )f such is the kingdom of heaven. f t We cannot have figs from ~ horns, or grapes from thistles: t id if we wish to succeed in bus- t ness, we must rse means adapted ii o its end. A friend to everybody is friendt nobody.t A man is a man, though he rear a erownless hat. - c A handfull of common sense is I orth a bushel of learning. t A man may say many things ut of' time, even his prayers. r A man may talk like a wise s ian, and act like a fo~ol. 'l A merry companion on the road hortens the journey. An ass covered with gold is omre respected than a horse with pack saddle on. Better keep thme devil out than I urn him out.d You must be a friend to your elf and others will be. You had better pass a danger at s nce, than be always in fear. Empty vessels make the great st sound, and empty heads the- d lost noise. Every man is architect of his c wn fortune. You had better pay the cook ban the doctor. . bi A sure way to wealth :-Spend nly half you make. ,e A fool's tongue is long enough a cut his own throat. d Every man knows best where Vhat is Fitness in Marriage r The secret of fitness in mar iage is opposition of temperament 4ith identity of aim. Partners thus iated are iii perfect sympathy of iterests and purpose ; while .the ifference of the methods which bey use in seeking these common iterests supplies a stimulus, .a ovelty, an unfailing variety to ie daily experience of their lives. ach is thus the complement of he other's nature, One may be rave, the other gay ; one mainly itellectual, the other all heart ; ne impetuous, the other cool and eliberate ; the most timid aid elicate bride may wed the stur iest and loudest-voiced Ajax of a usband ; but these very differ nces will be mutually attractive, elightful, adjuvant to married vers that have a single heart and -ill. Unity of purpose, variety f means toward that purposer bese are the conditions whieh ,ad to the truly happy marriages -the marriages in which each artner Fulils Defect in each; and always thought ia thoght Purpose in purpose, will in will. they gro, The singte. pure. and peract animal, The two cell'd heart, beating, with one full roke-Life. And when this unity of per ose and difference of tempera ient combine in a pair whose ia. ures, intrinsically superior, have een developed by sufficient cal are, and warmed by genuin loWe, o not all the sonditionsseem to ex it that make life as well as iarriage happy? When men and omen aspire toward strength, .neness, nobility of nature In hemselves, and require this in rinsic excellence in their mates, 'hen they choose their part ers according to these laws of in erent fitness, they gain poises ions which are not trivial,~like he culture with which the cos3e8st uman grain is often veneered; which are not unstable, like fOr une, which are not mistaken aor ransient, like so much of loVe, Where the superior man dwellis," ays Confucius, "how can there,be fretchedness ?" The superior mn, he superior woman, these are the rizes in any relation of life ;'and specially in that of marriage. inding them, one need not ak he question with which I begsn. heir well-mated love is sweet; heir happiness, their highest for unes, are secure.-" To -Afdr,or 1ot to Marry ?" in April Galazy. L Thought for Young Men. All thinkers and careful obsert. r have noticed the gradu~ale and ery strong tendencies of sogne usiness men, and especially o,ar -oung men, to a restless disposi' ion. There are many causesefor is. -In common with the.rapid arch of events, inflation hxssgor ued its course, invading not only be walks of commerce, but has ,ermeated almost the entire men a range of-the striving -millions. :he rush for riches may shave bated somewhat within the past aw months, yet the unsatisfied hirst exhibits itself and surgss to id fro at the mere intimation or ossible hope of obtaining .a for une. Not the least feature of his deplorable mental exeitemebt Sthe assumed necessity to ob>tain realthi immediately. All substantial fortunes are ob ined by dint of patience and the ower of system and reasonable conomy ; the result of energy ooly and judiciously applied. [undreds are looking forward to ie coming spring, definitely or idefinitely for grand develop ents. oa some new line or enter rise, at all events to 5 change ggestive of more "material aid", 'hat, which is doing, *ell or rea rnably so, is not satisfactory. 'he brain is heated, while cupid yruns riot with its crazed vic The wheel miay have to be re ersed, to check this unreasonable base of human nature-and then omes both mental and material epression. Let it be borne in mind that the iost solid success comes from lid labor. Young man, be cheer 1, and thank God for the blessing ou have ; be prudent, and pationt, od culti'nte that calmness and eliberation which - foreshadows ower and guarantees future sue. A bad workman quarrels with is tools. A wild goose never laid a tame A white glove often covers a irty hand. A man is a lion in his own