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^^^^^^^^ - HM - m ??tm ? . a VOL. XXII WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13^1871! " ~"~ NO. 20, \j - ? " TImeo Da?aos Et Dona Ferentes.-Vir*. __|_DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 'he SiLmter Watchman {ESTABLISHED IN 1S50.) IS PUBLISHED tVJCKY WKIWKSDAY ?OKNIN? AT SUMTER, S. C.? BY IL8?RT & FLOWERS. Terms. year.:. .$3 00 months. 1 50 se months. 1 M S.DVERTISEMENTS inserte' at thc rate ONS DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per ire for the first. ONE DOLLAR for the nd, and F1FT? CENTS fur each subsequent rtion, for an^ period less than three months BITUARIEc-. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT Fall coramanications which subserve private rests, will be paid for as advertisements.. H?RICAX ABiO?lPT?ON IS 32UXE?. i We spoke in our last of American jsorption in Politics. We now come speak of American love ol'money, lt 'a mean and sordid tiling, thc love o? wey for money's sake, the worship ofl* golden calf, and the daily prayer : | j live me, oh calf, a big plantation, a j" tmptnous table, a splendid equipage, ld enab'c mc to outshine all my neigh irs." Kven Mr.* Boffin, in "Our Mu |u 1 Friend," the dustwau's wife, ap sars for tho first and only time, un feasiug, when, having heard of the rtuoe her husband had iuherited, le honest soul exclaimed, "Lor a massy >whcn [ thiyk of me in a light yellow iariot and pair, with silver bose? to ie wheels, and a footman up behind,! ld a coachman up in front, sinking )wn into a seat big enough for three of Im, all covered with upholstery in reen and white, and with two bay, irses tossing their heads, and with you j jj, |id me, husband, leaning back inside j ?s : grand as ninepence. Oh, hi-i-my ! ' Ia! ha! ha!" The materializing in ?uouce of the spiri: of tlie times stran? ges every generous sentiment, holds no rt in esteem exce pt the art of coining, imites uo pictures except those on, T mk notes, and applies to the :t.o-tj:. enerable spots thc question, "how do ?( icy pay ?" "And this." said a traveler j tj( a man who was driving a yoke of oxen ' ?er thc field ?f Lexington-"thisisit ierc our revolutionary forefathers j ?t ught and bled -This is classic ground!" > don't know anything about the' clas- \y les," said the mau, "but it's preciously pod for white beans; aint worth a cent _,, |r wbcat though." Men are valued and I* llue themselves according to their ca icity for getting out thc ore. It seems t0 us that the naked savage in his war j lint, howling ?ike a boru devil through JD ie wilderness, is a grander object than ac of the selfish millionaires of civiliza ou, ' sitting up'Mt their guineas," as oe has described them, " li ko a clucking 1 s3\ en on a heap of yellow addled eggs Dong the nettles." Even thc great an lvet.tions and discoveries of thc age m< .e chiefly valued with reference to their i 5a iplicability to individual gain. "Traffic !Is shares," gays Dickens, "is well known ' Pr thc wise in this gcncratio*, as the one j rJ' fling to have to do with in this world. j?n lave no antecedents, no established;"1' laracter, no ideas, no manners; have0* ^ares.-What arc your tastes ? Shares.! rbat yonrreligion? .Shares. What "? Fe your principles ? Shares. What arc j ur politics ? Shares. Where do; u conic from ? o'hares. Where arc you I ?^ ling to? Shares/' !lni Even in the gentle domain of love, I ^u amnion is fast seizing thc sceptre hut old idea-Love in a Cottage-with ^c ie woodbine and thc roses clustering "n >out the windows and the nightingale* lv,t nging sweet serenades in thc darkness. cu ,d ever anybody believe such rapturous j ? l?sense? Love looks for a palace, not ? f*or cottage ; has a sharp eye for real estate, : c'1: d is learned in bonds and mortgages, ?f s langnage may still bc outwardly. cot h, that I were a glove upon that an' nd, that I might touch that cheek," ca' kt inwardly, "Oh, that I were a key Prc lat I might unlock thc strong box of nc\ y sire," and when he tells a young loman of fortune that he is anxious to SW! lin her affections and possess her heart, lt 1 fe had better hand him the key of the j Prr fe at once, or reply to him with the tnc ruff old guardian of a young lady f jr ?" jhom a similar proposition was made : ''v .Vin her affections, and possess her [thc iart! Mew, says thc cat; quack, fcs lack, says thc duck ; bow. wow, says rro ie dog- Win her a?et jis and pos- ail: ss her heart! Mew! mcw>! quack, ? Sr? lack ! bow, wow." j cat: Yes,-Commerce is king, and Hags is!0* ^itne minister. Even some of thc boys * e catching the general taint, like thc j bot tlc fellow in Mississippi who p;ave a bea lan ten dollars to*hold him up to bet at l?(,ri le table of a faro lank, and even old c^ Dtncn iu some parts of the country arc |?f < infecte 1 with it that a story is told of ic,v Ie of them whose son was kicked to jeer lath by a mule, ile tottered feebly Jacti Jwards his mother's house, and f<_-tl j cn! ad in thc yard with this remark : j800 fDear mother, I'm come home to die." U? ' Bo I see," she said, "whar's the mule?" j lc lamented greatly at the funeral of ! lc lad, declaring amid many sobs and j >n J fpans, that "he died withoutsigcrfy?og : ';in. any respect, whor them mule went j mc? ' poo owi lars wht I and you oft ?A Si Oft wor A ? for he Th< air; A < roo "Tl bloi dow mot phc love of money is not only a peril the man, but to bis family and socio Our civilization is founded on thc sis of business, and an excessive dc tion to that at the expense of every ingelse, and especially of Home, is prominent and general defect in thc piety of our country. Now the life ld love of the household are the true Isis on which thc highest civilization founded. You may be a very perfect an in yonr own opinion, but if your mily do not reflect your exalted vir lesj it may. bc because you do not give icm a sitting long enough at home to guerreotype your eminent and varied .cellencos. You have thc right to say at you are showing your love for them, ' d?voting yourself entirely to business, li whilst it will not do for the husband d father to cat up the business by lying at home, neither will it do for i business to eat np the husband and end ber. It has been justly observed that tho: y only through home agency, and by you ive and constant communication of; dc3.; laren with the parents, who have the ! Let lt vital interest in the matter, and mutt open the young bad cautions, and tenderly r,o tho air and light, it the essential traits of.charactcr caa .developed; and external aids are ly valuable as Auxiliaries in thc eda tion of childhood and youth. The ?sequence of the present system is lt out-side machinery is made the incipal reliance in the work of home. ?i the head of the family is always in larry, tumbling intp the boase aud be ? dat; alie ask; A whe witl bad "De man Ifs< uaiblingout again, tumbling all through iie, and gctfng extremely black and due by the operation j taking in bis linner like Mr. Pancks, "much as if ho rere coaling, with a good deal of noise, , good doai of droppiog about, and a j tuff and a snort occasionally as if he ! cere nearly ready to steam away." "You i cad such a busy life," said an acquaint- i nee to Pancks. "Yes, I like business," aid Pancks. "What's a man made for?" '? Eor nothing else ?" What else ? rattle je out of bcd carly, set me going, give j ie as short a time as you like to bolt ' ay meals in, and keep me at it.-Keep oe always at it, PH keep you always at ? t, you keep somebody else always at it, ; here you are with the Whole Uuty of Ian in a commercial country." Yee, 'c know no simile more apt than that team tug man, never stopping at home sccpt to coal, and then puff, puff, snort, j aort, away they ITO, often bursting leir boiier.s in the end. The conse uencc of this exclusive devotion to ! usiness is that thc great work of home i done by proxy. Thc steam tug j rings novels and newspapers home to ilk to his wife, instead of talking to cr himself; his wife gets a nurse to do ie maternal work, you depend upon a acher to do the education, and a .cacher to do thc religion, and when ;u get old, you discover that you have .eu doing yourself out of all the reali? cs of happiness. Thc consequence is new social world; a club house and >tel world, without a domestic idea in ; thc gradual demoralization of the csent generation, and an impudent oung America, raised by the public, at looks upon its parents as mere iblishcrs, who have been thc humble id honored instruments ol introducing revised and improved edition of itself mankind. IMP HOUSES AND CONSUMPTION. Few people afc aware, says thc Pcnn lvanian, ot thc danger to health and c of living ir. damp houses. It is now questioned by intelligently inclined ?ii that damp houses are a prolific usc of consumption. This influence more marked in individuals who are edisposcd to thc disease of hcrcdita taint, but unmistakable instances are record wh :rc whole families have id ot this disease, in which no trace hereditary taint was discoverable by e most careful investigation, from the xious influence ol' living in a damp usc. What is remarkable about this phrase dampness, like that of malaria, is it its effect'} ?my not be immediate, t fdiow themselves years afterward seems somehow to produce such latent pravation of thc vital powers that at ne future time, when certain occult al conditions a.-c supplied, that tubcr iar generation inevitably takes place, family reared in a damp house may years be apparently healthy, but the mees arc decidedly f.-tt they will die consumption before forty-five. These ?clusionv. are borne out by carefully llyzed statistics by competent medi mcn. \ny r orson who is in any way (disposed to lung troubles is in immi it danger, if living in a damp house. Sot only docs dampness produce and ty th?; germs of consumption ; nanifes is itself in numerous ways in (ducting disease, and breaking down . power? of thc system. To intclli lt mediaa! eyes, those who have long a? in clamp houses are known by iir devitalized look. Children mani t effects of thc poison in billions ablcs, sallow complexions, scrofulous :ctions, debility and raiasmus; while wn pr opie suffer from rheumatism, nrrh, frequent colds and general loss vitality. ir? manifestly dangerous arc damp ?ses tc* life and health, that boards of ilth and civil authorities should prc? ?bc th cir usc and condemn them as ctually as thntiph they were centers ronfag.'on. Wc have no doubt but a il action for damages, and under tain circumstances even a criminal ion. would be sustained beforo an L'htcnc'? court, if brought by a per who had been in any way compelled live in a habitually damp house. ^ hou?e witn water continually in its ar is as unfit and dangerous to live is a malarious swamp. This is stro?g ;uage. but facts will prove the state it. Thc fearful mortality among the r of large towns and cities is largely ng to so many living in damp cel . Let no family live in damp houses ) value their health or lives. lave you enemies ? Go straight on don't mind them. If they get in r way walk around them regardless heir spite, a marj who has no enemies eldom good for anything; he is made hat kind of mat??tial which is so easily ked that everybody has a hand in it. iterling character is one that thinks himself, and speaks what he thinks ; is always sure to have enemies. ly are as necessary to him as frein they keep him a live and active. :elebratsd character who was sur nded by enemies used to remark : icy are sparks, which, if you do not ir, will go out of th cinsclvea." "Live rn prejudice," was the Iron Duke's to. Let this be your feeling while leavoring to live down the scandal of ?e who are bitter tgainst you. If stop lo dispute, you but do as they ire, and open the way for more aboso. the poor fellows talk-there will i reaction ii yon but perform your y, and hunderds ?rho were once nated from yon will f?ock to yon and aowledge their error. * V - *'-*' i Qoiok Roply.-Judge Jeffries, a on the beach, told aa old fellow i a long beard that he supposed he a conscience as long' aa his beard, rea yonr lordship," nsplied: the ole i, "measure consciences by beards ? ), yonr lordship baa nono at all. hi 0 h a n si c t< b fa c ft h b fi d ci r a a; tc M E ru C la ol io bi y< b c G o? tc sc of ol cc hi b: d< or it ta ri? al co ol lil co ac or bt Vi bi co tb th th th W! St tb ar F ?P co 67 bc an qt co fe! Qi bc oo fit "1 be th AN ENGLISH TRIBUTE TO GEN? Ri E. LEE. Under the head ofilAmerican Litera? ture," io The Saturday Review, we ?nd the following notice of Mr. J. E. Cooke's Life of Gen. Lee, in which the critic takes occasion to pay a noble tribute to tl;L. character of oar immortal country? man, Gen. Robert ?. Lee : The most interesting work on oar list for this month, beyond all Comparison, is the life of Gen. Lee, by Mr. J. E. Cooke, who, though ha assumes no military title, appears, by internal evi? dence and by one or two direct re? ferences to his personal presence on certain occasions, to have been an officer in the Confederate army of Northern Virginia, and, we should fancy, tem? porarily at least, a member of the staff of its revered chief. The work is in many respects defective, especially from the tact that the writer appears to have been unauthorized and unassisted by the General's family, and is consequently llmost without information as to the ?arly lifo of his hero. Indeed, probably from the want of material, he has con ined his narrative almost exclusively to :he Confederate War of Independence passing over with a slight and cursory reution the previous services which lad led Gen. Scott to recognize Lee as n comparably the ablest officer in ~ the Federal army, and his own fitting sac :cssor. This is a remarkable and un quest ion id fact, and it leads directly to an nferencc which ought to silence the )fTeosive and very ungenerous language n which certain Northern and English politicians' have been wont to speak of he "wicked rebellion" of the South. The leading officers of the Confederacy vere the men who, if they had chosen o remain in the Federal service, would lave commanded the army of the Union. Albert Sidney Johnston was jee's immediate senior, and Lee himself nd his comrades of the 2d Cavalry were Darked as the picked men of thc army. Two of Lee's subordinates in that regi acnt were among the ablest and most [istinguished of Grant's Lieutenants, nd no one can doubt that their seniors n rank and equals or superiors in ability night have at once commanded the srecs of the Union if they had chosen 0 do so. The temptation to adhere to heir colors must have been very strong, et almost every Southern officer threw n his lot with his State. Only the fanaticism of faction would arc to ascribe unworthy motives to ny of them-to Lee himself the most iolent of English Radicals never ven ared to impute anything of thc sort ; Il sordid considerations tended the ther way ; all of them were men of igh honor and virtue ; many, like Lee nd Jackson, of pure and deep religion ; lany of them did uot approve of seces? i?n ; yet one and all threw ap their nm missions, and fought and suffered >r thc Southern cause. We needed no iography of Gen. Lee to assure us that j j e was one of the best men and truest hristians, as well as one ot thc noblest )ldiers and greatest Generals, of whom ?story bears witness; but it ie impossi le to read this story of his life without nding our admiration of his character eepeoed and strengthened. His fellow itizcos evidently had, from the first, rofound and entire confidence in him; confidence which must have been due 3 much to the force of personal charac it as to his long past services io the toxican war, when he-a Captain of Inginccrs-was one of the interior lilitary council of the Commander-in hicf, and one of those to whom the ittcr chiefly ascribed the completeness F the victory. He was not successful 1 his first operations-a fact which his iographer explains, or explains away it he was as thoroughly trusted as aver y Virginia, and was selected by the OD federate Government to replace en. J. E. Johnston of the command : the principal army in the Sooth. From that time his history is the his >ry of thc Virginia army; and his per mality impresses itself on the character " that army. No atrocities on the part ' thc enemy, bitterly as he felt them, mid move him to anger or provoke m to revenge. After his native State id been ravaged and his own home :stroycd io wanton spite, by the direct dcrs of thc Federal Government and ? favorite generals, he refused to re? l?ate, or even to exercise the common ghts of an invader, in Pennsylvania; id in its self restraint, aa in its heroic uraga, the army imitated the example ' its chief. Hts relations with a man ie Jackson, whom no ordinary ohief aid have kapt ia steady co operation id doe subordination, and of whom any dinary chief would have been jealous, it who regarded Lee with absolute mention, and was treated by him "as s own right hand," testified in no mmon manner to the real greatness of oman. Wc find, from Mr. Cooke's narrative, at Lea wu equally awecessfal 'with c utterly different character of Stuart, e representative Cavalier, as Jackson ts the typical Puritan. Even when oort's misconception of orders took e cavalry oat of reach of. the maia my, and contributed in n j small dc ee to the lose of Gettysburg, Lee pears to haft spoken no word of mplaiot: To all oBder . bim he- waa er ready to give credit ; on himself > wai ever ready to take responsibility d blame ; and those nader him ra? llied bi? in kind. Mr. Cooke's aa? ont of the tamper of the army as it ll back from the fatal heights of Mtysburg/ thinned, haffled, exhausted, it still shooting alood ita ooahaked k ia I who kat the battle; you mast tip ma oatt." It waa perhaps as inoah is wonderful power over hts men aa s admirable genios for war that ol di P' si tl pl w st cr in ic Pl hi si in ro wi co av wi ai bc rn; re ?1 Di S? an m isl ap tr P? cu rp re mi ev ta co ab tic to fin be mi pr wr sa; ph atc aa fbi ia SE pt ca mi tn on tn im enabled bim to face tbree fold rjumbers. end never, save at Gettysburg, to be beaten In the Seid. Mr. Cooke shows that, except on tbe Cbickabomioy and at Gettysburg, where be took the offensive, Lee was always outnumbered by. nearly twp to one ; and ttt Chancellorsville, where be divided bis army and attacked the enemy at once in front and flank, he had not more than one to three. Of course this in? feriority of for?e exposed him to be Worn out by sheer loss of men ; and this Grant saw. "He could afford to lose ten men for one"-and he actually does seem to have lost three or four for one even in the campaign which ended in the surrender at Appomattox Court House. After that event Lee's life was ina of silence and retirement-it could sot be a life of obscurity-and finally, fvhile still far from old age, and of robust frame, he died, really, if not literally, from a broken heart. But, painful as his latter years were, they vere full of such honor as is rarely paid ;o a fallen leader; he was still the idol, ;he guide, the counsellor of his people ; [till the object of reluctant reverence rom the; conquerors, of deep respect rom those who had-fought against him, )f admiration from the world, of pas? sionate affection from his countrymen ; md, warm as was the sympathy felt for he Southern people, a large part of the espect paid to them in their misfortunes te ascribed to the profound impression ion made in the world by thc character of ?eoeral Lee. We trust ere long to have ome better and more authorized biogra ?hy of him than than this. In the meantime thin is acceptable as the only ne wc have ; and, despite some de iciency, of literary aptitude on the writer's part, it is not a wholly unworthy aonuraent to thc memory of one of the reatest soldiers and noblest gentleman hat ever spoke the common mother ongue of England and America. WORK DURING SLEEP. Those cases in which the brain is ard at work during sleep, instead of eing totally oblivious of everything, tay be called dreaming of soainambulis sm, according to the mode in which the ctivity displays itself. Many of them re full of interest. Some men have one really hard mental work Tr hile at leep. Condorcet finished a train of cal? ula tiona in his sleep which had much uzzled him during the day. In 1*56 collegian noticed thc peculiarities of a ?How student, who was rather stupid ian otherwise during his waking hours, ut who had got through some excellent ork in geometry and algebra during eep. Condilac and Franklin both orked correctly during some of their eeping hours. The work done partakes in many ises more of the nature of imaginative imposition than of scientific cac ula ons. Thus a stanza of excellent verse is in riot, which Sir John Herschel is said i have composed while asleep, and to ave recollected when he awoke. Gothc "ten set down on paper, during the ay, thought? and ideas which had resented themselves to him during eep on the preceding night. A gen eman one night dreamed that ho was aying jan entirely new game of cards ith three friends ; when he awoke the ruc tura and. rules of the game, as eated in thc dream, came one by one to bis memory and he found them so igenious that he afterwards frequently layod the game. Coleridge is said to have co-nposcd s fragment of "Kubla Khan" during eep. He had one evening been read g Purchas' "Pilgrim f some of the mantic incidents struck his fancy; he ent to sleep and his bu?y brain inposed "Kubla Khan." When ht roke is the morning he wrote out bat his mind had invented in sleep, itil interrupted by a visitor with whom ) conversed tor an hour on business alters ; but alas ! bc could never again earl the thread of the story, and thus vubla ,Kbto" remaius a fragment, r. Good nen tiona the ease of a intleman who io his sleep composed i ode io six stanzas and set it to osic." Tartini, the celebrated Italian violin ;, one night dreamed that the devil pcarcd unto him, challenged him to a ?al of skill oe the fiddle, and played a eoe wonderful for ita beauty and diffi ilty : when Tartini awoke he could not member the exact notes, but he could produce the general character of the usic, which he did in a composition er since known aa the "Devil's Sona ." Lord Thurlow, when a youth at liege, found himself one evening un? ie to finish a piece of Latin composi >n that be bad undertaken ; ho went bed full of the subject, fell asleep, ished his Latin in his sleep, remem red it next morning, and waa compli-. sotad on the felicitous form which it esented.-AU the Year Round. STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, iting from Rockingham county, Va., j*: A strange freak of nature hu taken sec in tnc track of the severe hail >rm weeks ago. We are not aware of ything of tba kind occurring hereto re. lt ia thia: that ail tba orchards tba iraak al' tba hailstorm v - ve coma t in bloom. Soma orchards ara in as ll bloom a? tnay arar wera in the ring. . Not only tba apples are in x>m, but tibe locust trees io many aces ara also in bloom. A gentleman me to my house lut weak aod told 5 oo bia road hera he ga? aa apple ;e tyfhjsV?era? bushels of ripe apples and thousands of blooms on the same se.- "? A^or* pretty-bat strange sight. tot: . r <.}"???<> . fte beat throw upon tba dice ia to row them away. A fl It OK EN PLEDGE KED KE.TI ED. Release of? Famous Italian Bobber Chief and Hie Eland? Rome has scarcely recovered from the excitement of the late auspicious events when a new commotion is created bj the arrival within its walls of Antonio Gasparone, the famous robber chief, with the remnants of his band, now again seeing the free light of daj after forty-six years' imprisonment. Men of the present generation may be forgiven if they plead complete ignorance of a name only too well known during the pontificate of Louis XII., a Pope who already reckons three successors in the long line of reigning pontiffs. At the time that Pope Deha Genga sat in St. Peter's chair, Gasparone and his bandits were the terror of the frontier districts between Frosmone and Terracina, hover? ing on the hills that skirt the Poutine Marshes, with their headquarters at Sonnino, the birthplace and home of their chief. Ad all thc measures of the Papal government against these formidable marauders had proved unavailing, a good priest, Monsignor Pellegrini, Vicar-General of Sezze, now stilt living, though eighty-seecn years old, mst thc brigands in one of their mountain haunts, and tendered theo], in thc 1 Dame of the government, a free pardon : ind liberal pensions if they would surrender to the public forces and to < SOOSCOt to quit the Papal States under ' jolcmn engagement never to return.- I The offer was accepted, and the bargain I struck. The band, twenty-two men 1 strong, laid down their arms and were i ?scorted to Civita Veccbia. where far 1 from being allowed to set sail for some ? land of freedom, they were thrown into I ?ail, with an intimation that, instead ol ' ihe^allows which they had richly dc- 1 .erved, their punishment would bc life- 1 !ong imprisonment. They were accord- ? ugly immured in thc State fortress of 1 Spolcto, and later in that of Civita t Castellana, where, upon the arrival of ? ;he Italian troops, on their way to { Rome, a year ago, seven of the twenty- : wo still survived. Upon thc news of v Victor Emanuel's late visit to his new t capital reaching the prison, Pietro Musi, G he only man in the bane who could f .ead or write, represented to the King hat Gasparone and his followers had f ?ever been tried, or even indicted, and ' hat, whatever might be their crimes- a Jasparone himself is said to have at r east fifty murders, besides arsons and f .urglarics, on hi* conscience-the law C lad lost its hold upon them after more > han thirty years' proscription, and they e rere now entitled to a full and free i elease. The justice of their dcm iud 0 ras admitted. The seven prisoners arc 0 low at large, and if not pensioned, are d t least provided with means of suste- t ance at a charitable institution for r [ecrepid old men. s Thc report of their arrival reawakened d n Home the memories of their former fi xploits,' giving full scope to that " opular love of the marvelous and the * errible which draws such glowing 0 ictures from traditions dimmed and il furred by a long lapse of time. The ld cut-throat heroes drove through the si treets of new Rome as the Yclics of fi bat old Italy from which, it is to be T oped, a whole age of progress sepa- p ites thc present generation. Gasparone c; i now seventy-seven years of age, and ii is youngest companion is only ten a cara his junior. The old miscreants 0 lade their appearance .in the Corso, in c: be Plaza Farncse, and tho Campo del n 'iori, in their gala costume-conical o' ats, with flying ribbons and peacock ti ?athera, velvet jackets and sorts, crira- ol 50 silk sashes, and high gaiters-their ?] Qowy locks and beard3, which reached S own to their shoulders and breasts, nhanciog the glance ot their dark ol yes, their wild but fine features, and tc leir firm and erect bearing, indicative il fa manly strength which nearly haifa fe ?ntury'a captivity bad not wholly pub- ir ned. A curiosity, not unmixed with ol srtaio admiration, wrung cheers from ni ie crowd, which pressed everywhere ij ri their path, the object of thc goner xl ci iterest being, of course, thc chief,! fe lasparone himself, who boasts of deeds d' I daring worthy of a second fra Diavolo. ol Themselves a wonder to the world, ci lose old ruffiacs gazed upon the world tc ith wonder, the discoveries of our aire a -gas lights, steam engines, telegraph ic ires, photographic apparatus, and es- nj ecially revolvers-filling them with as ei tuch surprise as if they were thc ?1 Seven Sleepers" just roused from a a] alf century's slumbers. All thar, a owever, would have passed through ai icir minds merely as matter of specula- ai ion, for otherwise thcee ajed pensioners ti re DOW not only perfectly harmless, nt even piously inclined. w In something less than forty-eight st ours they bad already visited most of c: iie Roman churches ; and Gasparone- j a bo, even, when he imbued his hands tl od arms in blood to thc elbows, wore 1 is Tapuhuiott, mumbled hts Ave Marias, I ad never "worked" on Saturday, being' ni ie day consecrated to thc Virgin-is at u resent wholly bent in "making his ia >nl f and to obtai? leisure for the w arp?se has id the meantime hired it imself out as a.modcl to some French 01 rtists, who want his fine patriarchal * ead to personate Moses io the Wilder- ri ess, or Joseph io a Sacra Famiglia. d ?erndon limes-August 12. '" i ?ai i A Gentleman who had been victimiz 3 by 8 notorious borrower who alway? >rgot to pay, called him one of the most roaming men jf hi? acquaintance. A lawyer once wrote "rascal" io the at of a brother lawyer, who, on dis jrering it, enterer} a complaint in open >urt against the tress psaacr, wfcu, he tid, had not only taken his hat, but, ad written his own name io it. ?; COTTON SEED AND ITS USES. Wc hope, through the mes.ns of the following article, to call the serious at? tention of our planters and the busi? ness men of our towns to a manufac? turing industry which has been quietly growing up in our midst, little attention having been paid to it by others than those immediately interested, yet one which may exercise a vast influence among the economics of agriculture, the cultivation of which are pressed upon us with an irresistible force which all must acknowledge. It, in itself, is an illustration of economy which cairies a lesson well worth studying. The manufacture of oil and cake or meal from thc cotton seed is assuming proportions throughout the South, and that with great rapidity, which ought se riously to attract the attention of us all. It furnishes ns a market, and a good cash market, for what was before almost a dead loss, in many cases worse than that, as the illness arising from huge piles of decaying seed on maDy planta? tions will testify. The meal, which is always exchanged for the seed, is a most valuable and harmless fertilizer, as well as a most excellent food for cattle, par? ticularly milch cows. The hulls are also an excellent manure, and make the best of ashes, cither for the application le? land or for lye. Thus it is seen that every portion of the seed is made avail? able. Lookiug at these facts, can our plan? ters allow their seed to remain longer in the rotting piles as formerly ? The meal from thc seed is by far a botter fertilizer :han thc raw seed; still it is much more economical that it should be used for stock and thc increacd bulk of their manure bc placed upon thc land. Ic seems very strange to us that of tb ,his year's production of cotton seed neal, probably fifteen thousand tons line-tenths should go to England to ced their stock upon. Wc are here icarching very earnestly for a grass vhich will give us hay, and at thc ram ime good grazing. Wc have at every rin house door that which will in ;rcat measure take its place ; and ye t we illow the English to take it away rom is almost entirely. Let us state here hat English farmers consider cotton ced meal one-third more valuable for 'ced to stock than the best of corn meal There are now engaged in this manu aclare one mill in Nashville, two in .Irmphis, one in Selma, one in Mobile nd three in New Orleans. These ore lot all at work at the present moment br instance, the largest mill in New )rlcans was burned within the past car, but a much larger one is being rcctcd in its place, which will soon be n working order. The total capacity f these mills is in the neighborhood of nc hundred tons of cake and seed per ay, yielding fifty tons of cuke and three housand two hundred gallons of oil, eprcsenting a cash value of two thoa and eight hundred and fifty dollars a ay, or about eight huddred and fifty ve thousand dollars. This large sum, rhich a few years ago waa utterly fasted, is now placccd in clear cash io ur pockets ; and still the business is in l3 infancy. This quantity of seed, large as it cems, hardly takes a perceptible amount rom thc great piles which go to absolute ?ste, with the exception of the small or ti cu used for manure. The farmer an make mere eventually by exchang jg seed for meal and either feeding or pplying to his land than by selling it utright; still there is always a ready ash market for all he raises, and if for 0 other reason than that of health it tight to be removed from the planta on. Wc all know what a sad instance ? its unhcalthfulncs3 occurred this aring on Mr. Mcllwain's plantation, elma. It is well to remark here, that there Ften occur complaints of cattle refusing > cat tito meal, and of its making them I. This is invariably thc effect of ovcr eding. The beneficial results are so nmcdiatcly apparent that too much is ften given at first, or it is not properly lixed with other food. This is especial . the ca?e when the feeding is entirely rttrustcd to negroes. It is exactly iikc ;cdi?g a man or. plum pudding-it may J for once, but two or three full meals [ it would probably most effectual!} ire thc victims appetite ?or ?orne time ?come. In no case should more than double handful be givea at thc first ;ed ; the result with a milch cow will bc [.parent within forty-eight hours In? case thc quantity very slowly, and tould the slighest symtom of scouring apear, decrease thc amount at once for few days. It is very strong nutriment, ad requires great care at first, least thc aimais be' thrown off their feed" cn reiy. Thc number of nearly starved cattle hich wonder in thc autumn about our rects is a disgrace to the city. Thc^j rouse of a lack of obtainable food is not. good ouc, and all should remember tat an animal, if worth keeping at all, worth keeping well. We m?y, in a future articlek speak tere at large of the details of mauulae ire, of thc especial usc to which the oil : put, of thc methods of refinement hich make it an equivalent of olive oil 1 taste, color, smell, and usc, and many thcr matters of interest in connection ?th a business which wc hope to see as ipidly increasing as it now promises to o. Tho estimates of quantity of seed used od cash value of product as given above re very low ones, thc approximation bc? ig made with great care not is any way a overreach the real figurer In conclusion let us again call thc at jntion mon earnestly of our farmers to lie great advantages which it will be to bern to foster in every waythu? "easiness, ngaging in it if possit wiciffsefrea, Of Utkisg thc utmost possible intelligent se of so profitable a product of their lat?tations as cottou need meal proves & bc.-Souffi'm Arywt, Selma, .ila. tl ti HOW NOT IO BE BEAUTIFUL. A vacant mind takes all the meaning oat the fairest faee. A sennal disposition deforms the handsomest features. A cold, selfish heart shrivels and distorts the best looks. A mean, groveling spirit takes all the dignify oat of the figure aud all the character out of flu countenance. A cherished hatred transforms the most beautiful lineament into an image of ugliness. It is as impossible to preserve good looks with a brood ot bad passions toed ing on thc blood, a set of low loves tramping through thc heart, and a sel? fish disdainful spirit enthroned in thc wilgas to preserve thc beauty of an eic gant mansion with a litter of swine in the basement, a tribe of gypsies in thc parlor, and owls and vultures in thc up? per part. Badness and beauty will no more keep company a great while thru poison will consort with health, or tm elegant carving survive the furnace fire. The experiment of putting them togcth cr has been tried for thousands of years, but wjth one unvarying result. Stand on one of thc crowded streets and note the passerby, and r.ny one can see how a vacant mind has made a vn cant eye, how a thoughtless, aimles ruind has robbed thc features of expres? sion j how vanity has made everything about its victici petty ; how frivolity has faded the lustre of the countenance ; how baby thoughts have made baby fa? ces ; how pride has cut disdain into tho features and made thc face a chronic sneer j how selfishness has shriveled, md wrinkled, and withered up the per? sonality ; how hatred bas deformed and lemonized those who yielded to its power ; how every bad passion has turned tell-tale ind published its dis? graceful story in the lines of the face ind thc look of tito eye; how thc oid nan who has given himself up to every ?ort of wickedue;;s is branded all ove: ?nth deformity and repulsiveness and bc will get a new idea of what retribution s. This may no! be all, but it is terrible -this transforming of a face once full >f hope and loveliness into deformity md repulsiveness ; then the rose blush ng on its stalk, now ashes and a brand. -Atiunal of Phrenology and Physiog lomy. WITHERED FLOWim Only a bunch of withered flowers, fet how their faint odor carries our houghts back to that little grave where re knelt one sunny morning and gath red these first born blossoms of the pring. It was only a chi Id's grave Baby Bell" was all thc headstone told. Jut oh ! how much of the joy and cora ort of our household wa9 expressed in hose two words; how they recalled the weet baby face, with the soft light hair lustering io tiny curls over thc white orehcad, the laughing blue eyes and inipled cheeks, the cheery lips that eemed only made for kisses, and in incy we feel her soft nrms around our eek-when there comes another vision. >ar darling is tossing wildly on her ouch ot pain, the dimpled checks urning with fever, and blue eyes wild rith delirium. Soon this scene is hanged, and now the little form is still, be fever's flush has faded from thc heeks and the blae eyes arc closed ; ut the look of pain and suffering has ;oce forever from that little face, ar.d a eavenly smile lingers round the lips ke thc gentle touch of unseen ange! ands, pausing a moment ere they b ar ?ie freed 3piritto the gates of paradise, ill this is recalled at the sight of tba* t?lc bunch of withered flowers au-,1 cur ;ars fall fast upon them as wc lay them irefaily away with thc little ringlet of lken hair and the best loved play tings of our darling, who, though lost ) us in this world, will bc thc first, cv? .ust. to greet us on thc other shore herc flowers never wither and sorrows innot come. LEVITIES AND BISEVITI21S. Thc slave of thc occau-thc surf. Wool gatherings-Fights between cgrocs. Persons given to abstraction-pick ocketa. When docs a man have to keep Ii is | ord? Whet? no -nc will ':.kc it. Thc latest thing out-Tl>o gas, whet) is turned o?T; :v.d every ouc has gene j ) bed. Beauty in a womin is like ihe flowers! i spring, bu*, virtue is like thc stars of j caven. Why is4 the root of the tongue like a ejected man ? Because it's down in ic mouth. An ill bred man is said to be like! ghtoing, because he docs not know how ? conduct himself. Cool-Totdke a man's hat with Lisir ame in it, simply because you want to ? e* et hi.* /infograph. A female lecturer says thc only decent ling about Adam WHS a rib, and that cnt to make snmethiog better. Advice-Avoid arguments with ladies, a spjuuing a vam amongst silks and tting, a wau is ?ure to bc iconUrd. "Would you call thin the calf of n g ?" asked Hub, pointing to one of his j ether limbs. "No," replied a lliber* ian, "1 should say it was the leg of a tlf." Hook and one of his friends happened j > come to a bridge. "Do y.n kuow who] uilt this bridge ?" said he to Hook. No ; but if you go over you'll be 1 dd." Modern Mirrors.-An old coquette! ?oking into her glass, and seeing her | v Tinkles, cried : "This new gla*s is not j ^ orth a farthing. They'ctnnot mike iirrcrsjo well a? th^cj used to do." It bas ramed so bard at Milwaukee ] ? >r four months that the Chicago Jiepn? j . em asserts that all tbe ehildren born ( acre are webfootcd. EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT TBE OFFICE OF The Sumter Watchman, -IN THE Highest Style of the Art Sert 6 UrE INGREDIENTS THAT COMPOSE ROSADALIS .ire published cn every packa<^ there? fore it is not a secret preparation, consequently PHYSICIAN rr.^scr.:DZ IT iitis a certain care fer Scrofula, Syphilis in all ils forras, Rhccma* tism, Skin Diseases, Liver CONI plaint and ali ciscases of thc Blood. CNS B0T5L3 C? S0SO?3 will do more good than ten bottles of tho Syrups of Sarsaparilla. THE ?JNDERS1CNZO PHYSICIANS .'rave used Rosndalis i 11 ?jeir prac: ico for tho past three yen rs an-.i f-rc!y endorse it asa rc;.u.L.'o Alterativa and Ulocd Purifier. DR. T. C. rrOTT. rf Ealtiracrc. DR.T.J. BOYK?X, " DR. R. W. CARR. " DR. F. O. DANNKLLV, * DR. J. S. SPARKS, of Nicho?asrille, Ky. DR. 3. L. KcCARTHA, Columbia, S C ?DR. ?. B. NOBLES, Edgecoo!:, N. C. loZZD A?7D ESOOBSED BY J. ^FRENCH ?t SONS, Fail River, IF. W. SMTTH, Jackson, Mich. A. F. WHEELER, Lima. Ohio. IB. HALL*Lima.Ohio. CRAVEN ?E CO., O. MOT?ST?IIC, Va. S-Oi'L. G. UcFADI>EX, ??urfrevs bozo^Tcaa. Or.r space will not aTJov of arr os. tended remarks ia relation to tho virtnesof Ro?ad\!i*. Totho Medical Profession\rcguarantee a Finid ET trartsuporiorto any tl.ry baro ever used ia the treatment of diseased Cloe*'. ; ar.? to th . afll Ictcd wo say try Bosadatis, ann j ou wilt bo rct'ore-i to health. j Rosada.is i3 sold hy all Drojrrssts, 'price S LOO per bottle. Address L-J?. Mun .SituLa a CJ. ilai'jfGdvrxvg Chemist*, EAtTZZtOBX, sr?. ly um m MIXTURE, WILL POSITIVELY CURE Chills and Fever, It does not milter if th? caso be chrome, MATIN AGUE MIXTCBB" will eradicate it en rely from tho system. Wc can refer to thoua ids in Baltimore, w'.io have been re'eivodby Platin Ague r&ixlure h. It. H. Higg-.r, Baltimore, Md : My Dear Sir-I have tho honor of ac novrledging thc receipt of the 10th ultimo, con ining order for fifteen thousand francs npon 'e?srs. Taillander ? Co., in Com; li: nco with our mtract of lath October last, ar. '. it ?j with ensure I constitute you Sole Agent of tho nited States. Central aad South America, for ic sale of Matin Ague Mirtwfe, which has al ady accompli >t.ed so much goet in our own inntry and Spain. Ti.is mixture contains ro qninina, and nof? \g Khatever that can injure tl< get-ral health; >r is it disagreeable to the taste. I purchastd io prescription of tho celebrated Spanish Physi an. Pr. Piedro (Jonza.cz, nfter his retirement om his profession, who gate SM thc mott con H*tceproof? and attmramcet that Se had need c proscription in ii* practice of forty (U>) yearn 'thint it* haring failed Mt tx ofaj/e wtfwacc. Motin A'jnc Mix<?re is chiefly C'-mposed of every bert and oli>o.>t wine, and the patient ?cd n<>t chance li* cus^rr.ary Dodo ot living iii'st taking thc reen: iv. Indeed, it if a pleas, it Muir, and if taken in small quantities before oak fa st each day, tl Will Pi\rr,,t i!, ill? and err in localities where wimma pr- rt,;;?. Tho iticnt will find that the Matin J ;-ir. Mi*tnte citei an appetite, and that instead of injuring, improcct th? general health. I warrant tho attn Ague Mijctnrr to effect r,:rr in all raie*. Tours, verv Truly, GUSTAVE DURANTE. r. V,':ii. Frederick S'. teart'* Certificat Baltiaore, .May 1,1ST!. Having analyzed thc Matin A gie Misfit.*,! n^?t hesitate to reeoaraend i: aa aa ex'.-vl'.cnt mci? f r Chills an?l Fever. 1: e n'ah.s aoth ? rvliich can injure the jrencra! health. WM. F. STEWART. M. P.. RcsiJest Physician .Maryii.iid II t; i:.:!, r../. H. W'Uiant*' Certificate : BsiiMr.-ra, April I9,1S71. I hereby fortify fha'. I have nw lc. a c.ir. ful alysts of tho **JTatin Agar. Misfire* and that .liv? not contain a particle of ,'i:n"r.o, 1 lo? re it to bc a ru'..?t ?:". icm remedy : .r t hilt* ?I Few. JNO. ii. V, ?LLlAMS, M. 1'., If Vari* Act-r. Mt\Tfi:::f..:'- itacvcriaH? >:.ey will be rc(ur:.<jd t? purchaser. R. Ii. BIGGER. Proprict r. and fir>eer, Snc ?*or t.. C. M. ur. 1 D. W. M Y KU. Nc WEST BALTIMORE Street Baltineorc, d ali .?rugrists. By i. A. McKAGUN,Druggist, r"aj.t?r. S. C. .<.,,{ r,- ?.:n LUcbvi.i.i i:.v..?^.j.'.'.i;i >0ARDMAN'? C".r! LIVER OIL.-This Oil 5 Ss pat ap wit!, rr. ?: rare Ir??ra perfccily ah Livers and ts, .ut I?*bt the ;".:.^ct p:o. ce?. "YARDMAN'S FRENCH WORM C0NFEC ) fl ?NS.-IavaiuaM? is a ?\ r Wi r.:i> d in thc t?.na tt .? ?Jy lozcs>?e aro idtlj taKca. ^0.\RDMAN"S Ct>NC"?? EXT.?JAMAICA > C INGER -A spica T ' . . itv? and tx .;; >. 'y n^cfel in C-.:ie>, ?,'r. -, ! er l.;:::*y .c "il-rities '.I ti:-: Ii ??..! ">R VXrS INDIAN PUR?.FV:NO EXTRAC. ) ,\ medicine l??agin J : I.- riersari^in* . i r.?i impere state oft; . l.\ . '. T:-:< article i# ( crt?rntvi ?. v ti ..-* o ? ..; i si v.* i ned the Ur^tartielcoxact f-.r ti.e ; nrpore. >R.\xrs INDIAN rr.."- Y ? A:. y JAM.-EvtcKsivcly u r KI'paltaoaar? irplainta, i*iiijr ; ?rely \< : . '.. uaiiko n?*t ?purations trC????^hs. C . . v-^., .: - j t.<-t nitij^te or la^c :v y . . nt after clfcet, it alway* affvr I? .-p' . dy r -?O?L "1 KEENE'S DYSPEPSIA REMEDY.-A JT sVc,pure and spocdy rare of thai oio^t .?rr .. "fcomj ! i !i'> s:.?>iv," jut t:p i?-> ui! oricitini rcet;?s ?' i1!-. ^iftr;t:^^". Port G?.by wiitin it ba? : l-t. u used with ?ad. : ? ?1 surcos?. y ANKER'S XfERVE AND BOXS LINI? MENT.-T!.e t>e?t c>tcr- .', i^isedy forman beast. A cc.-tVsti care f>r Rhcamatistn, amp*,Sprains, Bruises, Swelling, Wook Li:ui.s d pains uf all kittda. ") MIRER'S C0MI?0UXDFLUID EXTRACT BCCIIU.-Tho purest arti he.st it? as?. A rw reticf far all dtstwse* of rho Bladder sr. l idne>s.-ask for tio other,-PbjajcinBf re mmend it. HALIE! I", SEAVEH f< 19 Chat;ibcr?t and 131 l :oa<lo S'ro??:??, ?iEVv ?.'Oi$a\? Sept?-_ _ Iy_ ew Style Windon Shades. JUST HKA'M! V T:;>. i FrN.%??M.'tn.cnt ofDPN WIXDOW \_ SllAUKS, which i- r ih< . ilursl ?"try < \<-> 1 ', ??thPT?. K?r at ftc Sroter Enrnh?i-c