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/Mk/ nfi^ ?2 If EB ANNUM, J !>/( ?ID// no Mlit "On we move inrissolurly firm; Gon kity nature rid tor same.') f i Ji:- r< Vol. 1 ORAM GEBi K(2, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER O, 1872. d voVi ..0 -<i ..'jiwti?jin?iO x .ITAJU MlJT230nAJ ? r-S-^ ', lS^ti-J-ttT,_~~ ?. ?i > * >** i <*& Una ? TV .? i \ u!T tit Ivfft'vuii - ? r,M /?iA /-* i im. ? ? ? rt #J) lot THE ORANGEBURG TIMES Is published every WEDNESDAY, at ORANGEBURG, C. If., SOUTH CAROLINA by JAMES S.*HEYWARD. RATES OF ADVERTISING. ?pack. 1 square, 2 firiunrcp, 3 squares, 4 square*, 1 column, ? column, 1 column, 1 1 In sertion 1 50 3 00 4 00 5 00 5 50 8 50 12 In sertion 24 In sertion 48 In sertion 6 00 11 00 15 00 18 00 20 50 33 00 10 00 18 00 25 00 30 00 33 00 50 00 12 00 27 00 37 00 45 00 67 00 75 00 - I 13 001 55 001 83 00! 125 00 Ht'BHCIliPTIOJf nATKS: $2 a rear, in adrnm-c?Si for six months. JOB PRINTING in its all derailments neatlj executed. Give us a call. 1ZLAR & DIBBLTil, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, RUSSELL STREET, Orangeburg, S. C. J \*. F. 17i..\n. S. Didbi.r. nirh 0-1 vr Kirk Robinson, DKAI.ni IN Rx>ks, Music and Stationery, and Fancy Articles, AT T1IK ESOIXE IIOJ'SE, ?RAXGEBURG, C. II., S. C. mch 0 DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE, BENT A Id S i: RGKON, "?Jtnduute, Baltimore College Dental Surgery. Of-ft, Mark ft tief ft, t her Stare of J. A. Hamilton Irb 14 W. J. DeTreville, ATTORN E Y A T L A W. Office at Court House Square, (>ran<o!inr^, S. t'. mcl?13-lyr FERSNEH ? DANTZLEK, x) is ist t i s rr s Orangebarg, S. C, Office over store of Win. Willcuck. F. Fkiunkk. I*. a. Dantzi.kU, 1). I>. S melt 12-3mos BROWNING & BROWNING Attorneys* At Law, OraNt? Kiur ncs, C. IL, S. C, M.M/.oi.M I. BaowNiNo. A. F. Bbowkixo mchO-lvr To Arrive g x Friday Next; LOT OF VIRGINIA II O M S E S . Finest l>royc of Horses ever brought to this market. Those in want of a ijood horse hail better enl at once. AT Sale Stable* of W. M. SAIN & CO. ?ug27-tf. POETRY. Fifty Yean Apart, They pit in the winter glonming, And the fire burns hright between; One has passed seventy summers, And tho other junt seventeen. They rest in a happy silence, As the shadows deepen fast; One liyes in a coming future, And one in a long, long past. Each dreams of a rush of music, And a question whispered low; One will hear it this evening? One heard it long ago. Each dreams of a loving husband, Whose heart is hers alone; For one the joy is coming? For one the joy has Qown. Each dreams of a life of gladness, Spent under the sunny skies; And both the hope and the memory Shine in the happy eye*. Who knows which dream is the brightest? And who knows which is the best"/ The sorrow and joy arc mingled, Jhit onlv the end is rv?U How Birds are Taught to Sing. Every kind of bird sings its own pe culiar notes, but all may be taught to ."ing regular tunes. Tlic mocking-bird ittitl thrush lenrn tunes without training. But, by a regular education, other birds, may become tine performers. A contri htttor to the Nursery says : "East .summer I was at a friend's house at Nnhaut. I rose early hi the morning, mid went down stairs to walk on the piazza. While there 1 beard, as I thought, ?pme person whistling a tune in n very sweet style. I looked around, but could see iij one. Whfiiu could (ho *#?ond come from ? I looked up and daw a lit tle bird in a cage. 1 The cage was hung in the midst of flowers and twining plants. "Can it b ," thought I, "that such a little bird as that has been taught to sing a tegular t ne so sweetly ?" I did not know what to make of it. When my friend came down stairs she told me that it '.ins the little bird who had whistled the sweet tune. Then my friend cried on* to the bird, "Conic Bully, Bully, sweet little bluefinvh, give us just one more tune" And then this dear lilt 1? l?ir<l hopped about the cage, looked at his mistress, and whistled another sweet tune. It wns so strange to hear a bird whistle a regular tune! "Now, Bully," said my friend, "you must give us 'Yankee Doodle/ Co-no, come, you shall have some nice fresh seed if you will whistle 'Yankee Doodle.' " And the little thing did whistle it much to my surprise. IMy friend then told me that sh : had brought the bird from the little town of Fulda, in Germany, where there arc little schools for teaching these birds to sing. When a bullfinch has learned to sing two or three tunes, he is worth from forty to sixty dollars, for he will bring that price in France or England. Great skill ami patience arc needed to tench these birds. Few teacher* can have the time to give to the children tinder their charge so much care as the hird tcachcrs give to their bird-pupils. The birds arc put into classes of about six each, and kept for a time in a dark room. Here, when their food is given to them, they nre made to hear music, so that, when they have eaten their fund, or when they want more food, they will sing, and try to imitate the tune they have just learned. This tune they probably con nect with the ac'. of feeding. Ak soon as they begin to imitate a few notes, the light is let into the room, and this cheers them still more, and makes them feel as if they would like to sing. In some of these schools the birds tire allow ed reicher light nor food till they begin to sing. These are the schools where the teachers are more strict After being thus taught in classes, each bulfinch is put under the care of a boy, vbo plays bis organ from morning till night, while the mastctor the mistress of the bird rrhool goes round to see how the pupils are getting on. The bullfinches seem to know at once when they aro scolded, and when they are- praised by their master or mistress; and they like to be petted when they have done well. The training goes on for nine months, and then the birds have got their education and are sent to Eng land or to France, and sometimes to America, to be sold. All animals, all birds, and all reptiles? even fishes?am susceptible of culture and improvement. 60 are plants, roots and fruits. And, above and beyond all hu man beings capable of almost illimitable development, both of body and mind. Rubiostein'8 Playing. And, finally, with his shy, awkward bow, like a school boy doing obeisance to a committecman, and his long, unkept black hair straggling over his tugged Slavonic features, the great Rubinstein steps on the t-tage, and without prefatory glance or gesture, drops on the piano-stool and plunge*,;into his work. For a single evening, either thro'igh personal mood or unfavorable position, we were at some trouble?let us now confess it?to judge how great he actually is. Rut a second hearing dispelled all doubt. Rubinstein is not only the greatest we have had here, but almost out of comparison great. Facile princeps, baud simile aut secunduuraj or any other well-worn phrase which th( reader may manage to pick out of his dog-cared old Latin grammar, becomes literal in his case. In brief plain English, there is nobody like him, or who cornea near it. Of course, the most immediately evident feature of this greatness is his mechanical command of the instrument,, imprimis, the amazing hard work of which , ho is capable. The mere labor of plny-^ ing, well or ill, the four tremendous num bers on thjs Iv.vH pi'Og.tittt^iyti. xit'i "mIiIcII/Will heard him, would have reduced an ordi nary day laborer to syncope and a stretch er. But when we reflect that every note was played with the most, exquisite and conscious discrimination, with the most admirable weighing of power and self command, that every staccato was ussharpj and clean cut,every trill as liquid and reso nant as if he had been (hung nothing else but practice tlietri for an hour befyre, we begin to realize bis power cs a mere me chanician, lhit behind this lies the taste, ami, still further, the soul and the inn gi nation. With most pianists, even of the better class, the piano is, after all, rather ati obstinate and ungrateful instrument, a little wooden, a little niechnnhnl, even a little tin-kettlish, ( n occasion. But with Rubinsten it absolutely gives up all sub stance of being a machiue at all and be comes a living agent, interpenetrated by and responsive to the spirit of the master. Under his wonderful fingers it sings or thuiidcis, murmurs or tingles, laughs or weeps, in apparent freedom from all phys ical law but that which puts it in imme diate relation with the soul of the |>crfor mer. Su :h soft dy ing resonance of single cords, such microscopic diamond-dust of trill or pearl-drop of^tden/a, well infinitesimal diminution ofTairy-likepian issimo, ij will never probably be our fate to hear again. That any mortal lingers can strike a luinltcring, resistent, .'csiliunt machine like a pis no-key with the abso lute self-cbinmand and nervous discrimi nation, the infinite variety of shading and flower-like softness of Rubinstein? that any human power of combination can blend a series of percussions to the liquid resonant chant and spirit-like mur mur of his cantabile, is a thing which we beg pardon for the trite pi 1 raze?must be heard to he believed. If any one is inclined to deem these mere technical merits, to be acquired by the average per former though inere length and assiduity of practice, let him hear the tragic in tensity of expression, the picturesque in dividuuluntion in Rubinstein's "Eil Koing,"?the dreamy melancholy pathos and poetic sweetness of his Romanze und barcaroles, and repent. But why should we waste voids in doing that for our reader wich he will surely do for himself? Suffice it, that, so far as wc can judge nt present, Rubinslicii is tho king :>f pianists, royally arrayed in nil the apparel and insignia, rich in all tho. gifts and graces of his pre-eminent station, exceptionally great alike in pow er, jnAcnsity, delicacy, sweetness, and imaginative expression. His advent here will,form an epoch in instrumental nrt; from his achievement our own pianists miijifc take a new departure, and from the study of his transcendent art must draw at^hce reproof, instruction, and inspirn .?[Seribner's for November. ft Rev. Jean Henri Merle r/Aubigne. ft ? Rev. Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne, thn eminent historian, died suddenly on Monday last in Geneva, Switzerland. He W fstborn in that city, August 16, 1794, a id 'descended from a fondly who were d "iyen from France by the revocation of tl e Edict ot Nantes. Tie was educated ii 'tits native town, and after his collegiate course there went to Berlin to attend the lectures of Nenndcr. In 1817 he entered the evangelical ministry, and was for several years pastor of a French church ar Hamburg, and afterward the favorite Can t preacher of the King of Holland. J^jToHO he returned to Ge .leva, and when kite Evangelical Society of that city t\ muled their theological school he was 'a'/'pointed to the chair of Ecclesiastical History. He wrote there his great work, tlj^ "History of the Reformation of the S^ucnth Century," of which three edi tions have been sold in France, and 200, WO copies issued of the English trnn?la& f.^n. He was also the author of several inkier works, including "Recollections of a S^viss Minister"and an account of Crom wcll's Protectorate. In his last visit m 8 jbtlnmV (1856) he was presented with the freedom of the ci y of Edinburg. M. i'crle D'Aubigne was a man of enlarged itjfid liberal views, and evinced in his .'Actings a spirit of earnest devotion united with a strong adherence "tVtUo' Protestant faith. He muile historical re searches with great earnestness, having devoted more than 30 years to the His tory of the Reformation atone. Jj&i, Tlic Itnundary Id no Between the Cnitcd States A ami (brent Britain. Among the questions submitted by the Washington Treaty was the true boun dary between Great Britain and tho United States on our Northwestern and Pacific coasts. The English Government claim that the line should run through the Knsario Straits, the American Gov ernment through the Canal de Hnro. 'litis involves the legal title to the Islands of San Juan, Orcns, I?pey, Blake)cy; Decatnr and Shaw, which lie between tliesc two points. This forms a portion of formerly Ore gon, but now of Washington Territory. There will be well remembered, the famous controversy some years since in reference to our Northwestern Boundary, when the I'ttited States claimed the whole of the. Northw est territory as far as the Russian possessions. It was in 1844, neatly thirty your* ago, that Mr. Polk und the Democratic party aroused the rational pride by the utterance of 54 40, or a fight. If the British claim of boun dary had then been permitted, the United .States would have be.Mi without a seaport ?i\ the Pacific. Finally, the. Askbnrton treaty was adjusted in 1840, by which forty-nine degrees was agreed as, the parallel, but to extend Westward "to the middle of the channel, which separates the.Continent from Vancover's Island, mid thence Southerly through the middle (?f said channel and of Fuca Straits to die Pacific Ocean." It will be observed that the name of the channel is not designated. Tho w hole question, therefore, turns upon the point, vhicb is the channel which separates the jontinent from Vancouver's I land? Is it the Kosarin Strait, or the Canal <b [laro? Which of these was the main thanncl in 1Mb, when tho treaty was igncd? On this one is3ue thei whole sub ject matter rests. It is a matter of eon lequencc, on ncconnt of the value if the Island of San Juan, as a coaling and other station. By the fol lowintr. thft S-Uh Article of the Wash'mg tos Treaty, the whole subject was sub mited to the Emperor WillitunjfOfGer? nitnv, for bis final decision : "Article 34.?Wherevs it was stipu lated by artiele 1 of*the Treaty concluded at Washington on the 15th of June, 1840, between Her Britanic ^fbjupty' and tho United Stales, that theHitJpf boundary between the Territories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majes ty, from tho point on the forty ninth parallel of North latitude, up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued Westward along tlie said parallel of North latitcde "to the middle1 of tho channel w'hich separates the Con tinent from Vancouver's Island, and thence Southerly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific Ocean;" and whereas the commissioners appointed by the two high contracting parties to<h?tcrmTne that por tion of the boundary which runs South erly through the middle of the channel aforesaid were unable to agree upon the' same; and whereas the government of Her Britannic Majesty claims that such bounr'nry line should, under the terms of the treaty above recited, he run through the Kosario Stratos, and the government of the United States claims thntit should lie run through the Canal do Iiaro, jt is agreed that the respective claims of the government of Her Britannic Majesty and of the government of the United State; shall be submitted to the arbitra tion and award ot* His Majesty the Em peror of Germany, who, having regard to the above-mentioned article of the said treaty, shall decide thereupon, finally and without appeal, which of those claims is most in accordance with the.truc inter pretation of the Treaty of June 15,1845." It now.appears that the Emporor Wil liam has -referred the question to able jurist^'' of his own domain, who have rendered a written judgment in favor of i.tjie claim of the United States, and against that made by Great Britain. It but awaits the final signature of the 1 Kaiser, when the vexed question of boun dary will be forever settled. The San .hinn Boundary. Bici.i.ix, October 2G. The names of the Imperial advisors, on whose reports judgment is based, are Grenim, Vice-President of the Supreme Court; Kicpcr, an eminent geographer, and Gohlschmidt. number of the Su perior Tribunal of Leipsic. They charge England with vagueness in wording ot the treaty of 1 .S4?, and state that the word "Southerly" means tho shortest channel to tho Straight of Junndez. The drinkingiof absinthe has wonder fully lallen oil* in Paris. The drinkers have also fallen off wonderfully. mma _ Louisville girls wear chunks of ice in their panicrs, enclosed in oil-cloth sacks, und keep cool and happy its a cucumber ^all the day long. A person addicted to the habit of chewing the finger nails show a want of decision of character, at least so say the cranium savans. The Secretary of tho Treasury directs Collectors to forbid the importation of horses suspected of disease. Collectors report that the dkease is epidemic but not contagious, nnd when taken early yields readily to remedies. The construction of the Port Royal Railroad is progressing rapidly. It is finished to a p?ih* seventy-eight miles be yond ltcaufort, and within thirty miles of Augusta. It is firmly believed that the road will be running by the 1st of Janua ry. The bridge at Augusta will be com pleted in December. Bailed. Capt. W. W. NM!, ,1. O. Duck? t and Ludy Tribblc, w ere before Commissioner Runklc on last Wednesday. Tiny were released on a bond of five thousand dol lars each toiappcar in Columbia on the 4th Monday in November at the sitting of the United States Circuit Court. Dr. Dave Richardson and (apt. Joel An ler soi\ ato before the Coihhlissioncr aft wo go to press. This completes the lisi oi the late arrests in this county.[?Laur ensville Herald. Fai.l Fioiits.?The fall t&Kh? liavo begun in earnest, and arc nbu^mfimP. individual, who had evidently Imbibed loo much tangle-foot,-. tu^eidejUally^-otn loosened his ann, which nought icsfugo in the eye of a spectator, putting that'mem ber in mourning. No 'other damage tloue. Lauge Squahjiv*,?We were shown a couple of enormous squashes at, John No laud'a this, week, - ";u<"1 5" iTlHrlifllV^niirr' ty?the largest we ever taiv. i*A^rt?afiiiw urcd 6i feet in circumference and weigh ed 140 pounds, and Mite other measured 0 feet and weighed 1:12 pounds. Pretty good for high I [Oregon Ex. -m ..?, ?? The failure of the'potdto crn pin Eu rope hits brought out many curious ex planations of the phenomenon,'' "the prin cipal one being the great prevalence of thunder stoims. Hence it i? argued that electricity not only turns beer and. cream sour, but also rots potatoes.. M Persistent effort and untiring? pcrseVer nnce will moVO mountains <d' diliictllties? and smooth tho roughest places. Fortune seldom lays her bounty at tho feet of the indolent, listless and indifferent. She must be courted by unceasing vigilauce, flattered by patietit attention, and man aged by guarded and politic action. In Cincinnati, iu a pertain.locality, tiiere has been an intense excitement occasioned by the discovery that a Doc tor hud fallen in loVc'with an TJndeirta ker's wife. It might have been a iittlo more natural perhaps if the Undertaker ?h^td fallen in love with the PocttuVviai) j The hist novelty in the church jiuHd. ing line was the shipping of a birg?? I.Oothie iron church, for .Limn', Peru, in a ship chartered for the purpose. Its cost, including the accompanying organ, was over $100,000. The church was first entirely finished and set up in New York, and then taken down and packed for shipment. ?.? ? ? ?-?- '? .Tosh Hillings never said a bettor thing than this: "1 hcv al'ttrs observed thajt a I whining dog is ?hto to get lickt in n fight. No cur of well regulated morals can resist the temtation tohite a cowardly purp that tries to sneak off with bis title between bis legs. The whiuin business man is just so. A good ringing bark is wurth more to put greenbax in a. man's pocket titan forty-two years of whjnin." Mrs Fair mnnages to keep herself be fore ?hc people in S.vn Francisco. fcSho lately sued her mother tor debt, and the mother contributed still further to tho excitement by taking u small dose of laudanum when she heard that the ver dict had gone against her. Meantime young James Crittcudcu adds fo tnc interest by dogging Mrs. Fair alxiut with a cocked pistol, ami intimating that it would be heal thief for her in some .dis tant clime. The Scientific and ExpJnvftfg Expedi tion to the copper lands of Northwestern Texas conducted by Coli Wl C. MeCarty, of Texas, report that vast copper and coal beds have been found. Tho coal resembles the anthracite of ciute.ru Penn. and the copper assaying K4 pec treat with a valuable trace of silver. The Expedi tion located .'15.000 acres for the T-xns Land and Copper Company, i clcav e? r poration, with no stork for sale. The coal di-covery is regarded as most important, as the Southern Pacific Kail road passes through this region. Please Notl o TIIETIMKS gives regularly to its readers the latest Rail Hoar, Post Office; Express and market reports. It also furnishes all the legal notices of County tntorest, whether emanating from our County sent, or from the State Capital. To do this requires money. 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