SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUUSCUIITION. One Year....*.<....?.^,.St.60' Bix Months...,?..>....1.00 Ministers'of the Goapek.......1100 AI/V E?VrSEtt KNTS. ?First Insterrton.:.$1.001 ?Each Subsequent Insortion.501 f>ifberal contructs nmUo luv 3 mouth Mid over. JOB OFFICE ??iasl'HEl'AnWJ TO-DO Aome jcoromon-place ypntb, What warnings shall be Ut tered, tortbefo3 ^huaiasts?^ The for slruction of experience would doubt less be that love adheres where enjoy ment fastens, and that to know whether love will be persistent we should examine our feelings to deter mine whether our enjoyment of the loved one's society is based upon transient things or those wbicji will endure. Boy and girl love is gener ally only ? foruc of self-conceit. The complacency begotten by the adula tion of love-making is the largest in gredient in the reciprocating feeling, and attachments of this sort soon run to dissolution. JJut while it js fre quently the casp that ppople marry under the attraction of pretty faces, eyes and winning mannprs, without any real appreciation of one another s moral qualities, how common is it for such marriages to result in happy un ions. Tue yokerfcllows are in the Uexile, adaptive periods of their lives, and before the illusions disappear the}* are hound together by durable ties of aif-'Ctiou. But then, too, it must be admitted that a lire-fellow ship begun with ardent attachment loo often becomes filled with cruel and intolerable friction, and the sa cred bond of wedlock may gall like the chains of a galley slave. The man who is above all things a s??S of honor, will respect his marital ob ligation^ even should his youthful love fur hla wife wear away in the da\\y oontaot of life. Jn entering in to the lies of wedlock it is not upon ardent professions that lovers should base their expectations of happiness, but upon one another's truth and loy alty to duty, displayed when pleasure is not a motive force. Under the protection of honor love will nestle securely, and such marriages cannot provo unhappy. Paul Morpby, the onco noted chess player, in his insanity imagines him self a great lawyer, with nn abun dance of clients. The great case that absorbs nearly his whole attention is au imaginary one against parties who had charge of an cstato left him by his father. He utterly repudiates chess, and denies having ever known anything about \l. \\o lives in New Orleans. It is said that "true lave never did run Bmootli." Wc have never scou, \t attempt to run, but it does some of the smoothest kind of swinging on the front gate. Tho evening the young man hasn't money enough to take Ills girl into nn ioe-crPam saloon he sends her a note stating he is sick. Fr-oo Schools, JSditor Orangdburq Democrat: I am looking to your next to Ree something from some ono of tho fe male teachers in reference to the Hilly parenthesis by ''KseuUipius," (and 1 never heard of a woman being guilty of such a thing,) i. e., being compe tent to teach. They are well able to defend themselves, but if they do not notice such gross aspersions, you may insert this. There are many well educated wo men, who are teachers, and good teachers, too, who would scorn to tili such piaccs if they were not compe tent ; found to bo so by intelligent patrons, who have known them for years, and are sending to them still. Unt enough of this, such a sickly at tempt to lower their position and lim it their usefulness, requires no more than an exposition of its aim, to set tle tho matter. Another point. The usual vote for schools is Irom one to three mills; this gives a cheap school for two or three months. We ask how much has "Esculapius" advocated or pro poses to vote for this tax ? As to the question of fifty dollar teachers. 1 do not object to the best teachers, but there must be a line struck somewhere. Shall wo apply for one who is competent to till the presidency of a college, or take bn? who can write welt, read and spell oorrecilj', with a knowledge of arith metic and geography. Does any one preteud to say that unless our teacher is a thorough mathematician, a linguist, an astrono mer, &c.,he wont do for our piney woods' school? A carpenter may be competent a;id satisfactory for build j/ig a nice comfortable house in the country, who wouhi nojt undertake to build u five story one iu. tho city. ^Neither woujd the proprietor pixy the pr;ce for the latter. It' J3r. Cookc or the School .Com missioner will say that a good reader, writer,.cpoileT. /uid .arithmetician. U) pot competent to teach reading, writ ing, spelling and arithmetic, .thcjjj I disagree with .ihcm, and 1 11 have the millions on my side. Tixv&jee. Heavy on the Boys. Perhaps it is because of the grow ing scarcity of available men, per haps it is of the increasing independ ence of the fair sex?what ever the reason, it is a fact patent to all who frequent places of amusomeut that la dies venture abroad in '.he ovening without male escorts far more fre quently, than they did ten years ago, and it is greatly to the credit of our community that they can dp so wjth impunity. A lady would hardly go out alone of an evening, but if accom panipd by another of her sex, espe cially if one of the pair be tolerably along in years?it is not necessary to give exact figures?both feel compar tivcly aafe. The result is that young men are not so much of n necessity as they once were, and are raude to feel that they are no longer indispen sable. Time was when a ypung man, simply bcoause ho was a man, was permitted to feel that he was a very important creature, but now that a male escort can be dispensed with on occasion, he has been made to de scend from his high horse. He was wont to impose his cheap Mhorse talk" and slang ou his lady friends, and was permitted to parade his con ceit and ignorance simply because he was a necessary evil; but tiroos have changed all that, and ho now often Unds that unless he can command re spect by knowledge, his character, or gentlemanly deportment, his room is considered more desirable than his company, All of which is having an excellent effect upon tho average young man of the period. Bad luck is simply a man with his hands in his pockets, and hia pipe ;n his mouth, looking on to see how it is coming. Good luck is a man of pluck ; with his sleeves rolled up, and working to make it come out right. Giiti.9, whose opinion about such things, is always valuable, say there is too much shirt collar and too little young man in the present fashion to unit their tastes. Boys, something must he douc. The boy. who left a piece of ice in the sun, to wajw up was no more fool ish than the \\\a,\\ who opened a store and expected people to himt him out, and buy his goods. WilKamston Female College. Genend ffamcs F. Izlar: ?Dfaii Sin?fl have receivod through a friend, a .catalogue of the Williaiu ston Female College, from which I ace that you, with othors -cf m.y -old time pupils are its patrons. Do you occasionally photograph for the instant, the old log school house with its split long benches, its clay floor and chimney, and windows made, if I may make an Irish Bull, by neglecting to put in a side log. We learned to spell and read there, aud learned it well. But enough. Williamston Female College seems from its record to be the very place for our daughters, Ibat should and will be, the future queens of Southern households. I do not! see that they will bo carried there into an atmosphere so artideia'ly ele vated as not to know a garden vege table. I am pleased with what is set forth as to the elementary English Department. It says: Unusual importance is attachod to Spelling, English Composition, Pen manship and Drawing of Maps. Spelling is taught by a judicious combination of exercises, mostly in writing ; and the premium oifered for excellence in this branch is the whole of the next Session's regular tuition. Compositions are always written in tho presence uf iue teacher, who announces the subject to tho class af ter they have assembled. If a com position contains a prescribed num ber of errors (the higher the class, the smaller the number,) it must be duplicated in full with the errors cor rected ; and, if the duplicate has an unreasonable number of errors, it must be re-copied, until a respecta ble accuracy is attuiucd. I sincerely hope that others may sec tbe advantages of a so thorough tuition and All tbis College to over flowing. Yours truly, M. L. B. A Quaker Printer's Proverbs. Never send an article for publica tion without giving tbe editor thy name, for thy name oftentimes se ciir^B ^^Jtc?ti?n t?^w?flHess~nTti cles. \Vhou shoujust not rap at the door of a printing office ; for he that an swerclh the rajp sneereth in bis sleeve and lose lb time. Never do thou Ionf about, nor knock down type, or the hoys will love thee as they do t,tie ohede trees ---when thou leavest. Thou sbouldst never read J^e,copy on the printers' cases or the sharp aud hooked container thereof,,or,lje may knock thee down. Never inquire of the editor for news, for behold it is his business to give it to thee at the appointed time without asking for it. It is not right that thou shouldst ask bin) who is the author of an arti cle, for it is bis duty to keep t>uch things unto himself. When *hou dost enter his ofllce, take heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at what concerns thee not, for that is not meet in the sjgut of good breeding. Neither examine Ihou the proof sheet, for it is not ready to meet thine eye that thou uiayjit under stand.. Thou ?jipujdst ppt dpludp thyself with the thought that thou hast saved a few cents wjicn thou hast secured a dead-head popy of ))}a paper, for I whilst the printer may smjje and say I it's all right, he'll never forget thy I meanness. Marrying for Money. A lato author very truthfully aaya: "Gold cannot buy happiness and the parents who compel their daughter to marry for station or money commit a greivous sin against humanity and God. And a woman who marries a churl for his wealth will And that she has made a terrible bargain?that all the gliltcrings of heartless grandeur are phosporcscent glitteringsof heart wretchedness; that her life will be like a crag on the black side of a de sert mountain, where cold moon boama sometimes glitter, but no birds sing, hut wild storms howl and hoarse thunders roar, and through the sweep ing storms shall he heard the stern voice of the great God, saying, "Your riches are corrupted, your gar ments are inothcatcn, your gold aud silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall ho a witness against you, and eat your flesh as it were fire." A horse thief was huug at Sidney, Nebraska, the other day. He went West to go up with the country, and succeeded. Several Subjects Considered. Editor'Orangeburg Democrat; I propose to comment a little in your valuable paper if you wilt per mit, occasioally. I bave been the re cipient of a neW'oM mnu'a ipon" 'I cull it, a blunt one, and if it writes bluntly?your readers will please 'for give. I think the agricultural critic of the Times must 'have one of the same. Well, we get at the truth some tiraee, through pens that aro not too limber. Critic, you are right, keep them straight?C. If.," "J. W. S." and the old ?ogfes, and muke the way eo ?plain that a young farmer, though a fool, cannot err therein?a wide ring for Critic. O ir friend, Dr. J. H. Fao3er,*has found peipelual motion, of course. How often this has been discovered'; still we use the supcilluous steam, and drive the mdlc, instead of mak ing use of this stupendous discovery. When two bricks of precisely the same weight will lift each other al ternately, then Dr. Jno. Hunter can use them for perpetual motion. I have seen his machinery, and admire his mechanical skill,ingenuity and en thusiasm % but when he asks me to be lieve in anything except muscle as a propeller, I say, your most obedient, excuse me. I Tin history of the Edisto Rifles, by Gen. J. F. Jzlar, worries us like going over a troubled dream after awakening. It is interesting, becauso many of our friends were missed dur ing the war, and no one except the immediate comrades knew whither or how they went. But the war captain of the Rifles could only give us a sketch, a synopsis of casualties and events There is a history of the unwritted ; it1 will ever be nnwritten. It is the every day soldier life. It is> the enthusiasm, the hope, the fears, the personal joys and perils; in fact, each soldier's experience is a history by itself. I have bad opportunities to listen to recitals of personal ad ventures from soldiers of all sorts -T somi e~cspeueneo in that Btupeudaotrar corps, the old Reserves, and am sat isfied that if one single writer could command the camp literature of the war, his fortune wonld be made by the book. "Society of Friends/' by Muslin, a Utopian dream. It is to be feared that the "silvery light of intellect," that is to illumine from the Teachers' (Institute, will never make him who has stood at the bar, desk and coun ter, to say nothing of following the plow, u man without guile. J.'ic-nie /literature. Is not this get ting to have ,too /ouch of a sameness? Allow pic,to suggest a form that will cover nine out qf ;tep of these effu sions : "Wei came lq the djnncr talk, we saw the dinner .table, wo .conquer ed the dinner table." Any ,on,o wbjb can't stop ?t tins may add,t|iat Vbeaur ty was there,'' that "so and so went home without vest buttons/' ,?u. Why tjiere js mor? interest in the standing advertisement of s progres sive grocer! Let it be iinder*to.o4 that the pic-nic is not objectionable^ everybody likes to eat, frolio and cor ner beauty ; but when we have it iu a poluinn of oi)r paper, it is too much liko stale soda water which the edi tor and his readers arc obliged, tq 8we}l.oW' J? OitAH^EBUBjS, July 2{j. The Zulu Assegai. The shaft of this instrument of warfare is about fivp fleet long and about aa tlpck as roan's little Qnger. It is made of wood known to bota nists as t)ie curtissa of loginca, not unlike mahogany, brittle and clastic, the latter quality giving the spear a vibratory motion, on which its accuracy of flight depends. The head of the wpappn is generally blade sbaped, with a raised, pdgp along the centre, concave on onp sjde and con? vex on the other, being like the feath ers of an arrow. The tong of tho head is made red-hot, and so burns its way into the wood, around which a band of wet raw-hide is bound, thai* contracting as it dries holds the head as firmly as an iron ring. The Zulus fling these weapons with great accu racy, and they carry oval rawhido shields impervious to the darts to cover the'r entire bodies. Besides three or fonr missile assegais a Zulu soldier carries a shorter and. stronger stabbing assegai. How rapidly a num loses all inter est in politics qtyd, national finance when lie shuts a door pu his own thumb.