Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' mm .* it'jd W?X r.i . < ... J ~ ; ,j 1J 1;:: f 11 IB & a SI 3L S 9 A" Ililfll. 1 ; ? -,1 BY F. M. TRIMMIER Devoted to Education, Agricultural, ManufactuHng and Mechanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE -kt* v . f? i ?* * . I . i ^ VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 18GC. NOTrT" THE RMVAST XI PUBLIIHID KVKRT ; TIT RSOAY MORNING, .. at Two Dollars (Specie) in Advance. " i? RATES OP ADVERTISING. One Square, First Insertion, $1; Subsequent V A 2 - *7 C IQ9?rUUU5, IU WUI8. Hr. Jefforaou Davla. Tho Cincinnati Enquirer, speaking of the report of Surgeon Cooper upon the health of Mr. Davis and commenting thereon, it oontinues : "This is the treatment that is accorded to a man who, for four jears, was at the i head of more than one-third of the States of the American Union, and represented their Government both at homo and abroad. It is the kind of revenge that is taken upon an individual who was the chief exponent of a national sentiment, embracing a couu try nearly as large as the Continent of Eu rope, exclusive of Russia. It indicates the ' manner in which the dignity of the country is displayed toward that great combatant, who tor years wilded a power that resisted forces that- would have overthrown nnv nt the mighty monarchies upon the Continent of Europe. It is completing tho record that we are making up for future history. By that it will appear that tho great hero of eleven sovereign States, after a long and desperate struggle with their twenty five compeers, at last, by the fortunes ot war, fell into their hands. There were many times when a trifling change of circumstances would have sufficed to have thrown the balance into the other scalo. A long career of success shone rcsplcudcut uj>on the banner of these Southern belligerents in the strife. The names of Bull Run, first and scoond Shiloh, the Seven Pines, of Gaines' Mill, of Fredericksburg, of Cedar Mountain, of Hurper's Ferry, of Chancel iorsvillc, oi Antictam, of Cbickamauga, ol Murfreesboro' and Gettysburg, of Spottsyl vania, ot Coal Harbor of the Wilderness, of Charleston, and R ohmond, and Petersburg, suggest the greatest military even's, both in tujir uiagtmuue ana in mo bravery and * determination of their contestants, that appear in modern history. "Prisoner Davis," as ho is called, in this Fortress Monroe dis patch, had under hitn military commanders as ooiisuiuiuatc as Marlborough, Wellington, or Prince Fugene. He commando-! others who possessed the fire, the dash, the intrepidity and the heroic bravery of Marshals Ncy, Murat, Lannes aud Davoust, the great military pulladiaus, thatsurroun Napoleon I. For four years " Prisoner Davis" was at Richmond, with his so-called Confederate Qovernment within one hundred and twenty miles of the scat of the American Government. A million ot soldiers under arms, the best in the world, were not adequate to its capture. It required a force as large as that which fought upon both sides at Austcrlitz, or Jena, or hylau, or Waterloo, or Friedland, to protect our Government in its Federal Capital. Men talked about its being a rebellion, an insurrection, but, in fact, it asserted equal belligerent rights with ourselves and all of the nations of Christendom. Its guns were heard lor months with trembling mid alarm at Washington, and its hosts wero seen in great numbers from its capitol spires and domes. Its government was as strong and as perfect in every respect, as much found-1 eu in tne cnoico ol tbe people as the one that ruled over us at Washington. While we, blinded by the funics of rage and passion, had outlawed all this mighty mass of people at the South, of us who were contending lor the Constitution as it Lad been interpreted by the ablest American statesmen, their deeds and achievements had awakened a feeling akin to admiration in their behaif in all tho disinter ested nations of Christendom. Tho names of Davis, of Leo and Stone wall t? T_* - - -? ????ovu, uud uouPTVon, of lvOng streot, of A. p. Hill, of Beauregnrd, of Hoodf of Ewell, of Forrest, of Stuart, were < carried to the remotest boundaries of oivi lisation and inspired even at the North something warmer than mere respect At length wtly superior numbers and j some grave political mistake^ of Jefferson Davis decided the day against the eleven ,' sovereign States of the South. Their < leader fell into our hands, and we, to our J shame and disgrace, have been treating i bim like a felon and malefactor. Tho treatment of Napoloon Bonapart by the \ English Governmeut upon the island of St I Helena, which has been a dark staiu upon I the honor and famo of Great Brilain, waa | I excellent and liberal compared to the mis- 1 arable persecutions and torture of our great t ItfAMUiiaf IVa keea J ? ?WMgW(fiDV. ff V MMTO DVUgim UIUOV 1 lUkUU* 1 lonely to belittle a (preafc national t ran sac- j tion down to the dimensions of an odious < and treasonable oonspiraoy. We have practiced upon our illnstriooa prisoner the refined cruelty, of the Chinese, in condemn- t ing him to death bj the slot? torture of a want of sleep. A man well stricken in years, with a constitution enfcoblcd by disease, and of the mo6t delicate organization, he has been confined in prison for more than a Tear, subjected to all the rude brutality that military turnkeys could infiiot, and that too by those who in times past dare not brook the gaze of the eyes of the imprisoned chieftain. There is not a man of ordinary sense and intelligence who does not know that the question of tlio right of a State to sc code, has always been nt least an open one in American politics, upon which, since the origin of our Government, the wisest of our statesmen have differed, and that no law applying to individual treason ever reached that cose. To make Jefferson Pnvis & victim, under such circumstances ?to especially singlo hi in out for punish mcnt, is the very highest of criminal injustice. During the war wo exchanged pris oners with the Confederate Government, and in other respects recognized it as an equal belligerent with ourselves. Whoever heard ot exchanging prisoners with traitors or rioters ? To go behind the3c events, after the war is over, and erect the gallows and the prison for those we thus treated, is simply cowardly and cruel inconsistency. We should have dune to Jefferson Davis long ago what we did to General Lee and his military compeers?released him upon parole, and considered the matter dismissed. Such conduct would have been worthy of a great and magnanimous pco pic. It would have shown that we, in one respect at least, deserved the victory we had won, and that we had the wisdom to appreciate the true character of the strug gle and to proGt by it. The sooner the President perforins this act of justice the better for liis own reputation and that of the country. None but the bloodthirsty and the cowardly d? sire the further pro ecution of Jefferson Davis. The shrewd nmong the Radicals do not wnnt an issue that they considered decided by the war to go again before and to be subjected to the arbitrament of a jury. In other words, to sink a great natiouu! struggle down to the dimensions of a criminal trial, by whose results they cannot possibly strengthen their position. The Chief J ustice of the L'nited States- trim !> < pre cut position, taught the doctrine upon which Mr. Davis acted, viz : the right of a State to secede, has shirked the trial, lie has invented excuses to prevent it, lor he knows, as we all know, that it would be worse than a shamef ul farce. The conn try wants not an exciting and irritating trial to open old sores?wounds?but it needs a general and uuivcrsal amnesty for all men. Habit in Well Doino?Everything is a labor just in proportion as we have to do it by a sepnrate effort. If a person were obliged to do up all his breathing once a week, to eat his food only at rare intervals, or to put on his clothing simply for a lew days in the year, he would hud them u very wearisome task. It is only frequency of these acts, only breathing every moment, outing every day, and wearing our clothes literully as a habit, that keeps them from being irksome. l)tive your wagon over a road where the planks are two feet apart, and the motion is cxcrusiating; let the nlunlra Ka dKaha/I * ' * ' ww oiiyitu up lugeiucr, unci u la one 1 delicious roll. So in the Christian lite. ' We must make our dut<c9 come so near to each other that they will touch, if we would have them a pleasure. It i9 easier to give titty times a year than it it ten ; easier to go to church every Sunday than every month; easier to pray cuch night und morning than only now and then ; easier to be a Chiistian on every day, and in everyplace, than only in the church, and once a week. Habit is the great helper that takes away the burden trom. !! labor, and makes even the roughest place smooth. And, in our well doing, the best way never to be weary is never to stop and rest. Bad for tub Finneoans?Tho following is tho Canadian law under which the captured Fenians will probably be tried by the Canucks. It is the first section, chap. 88, of tho consolidated statutes of Upper Canada: . t ? ?.?? . x,i uusu uujf iraiwii, ucing a cm- | sen or subject of any foreign Stato or coun- J try at peace with her Majesty, bo or continuca in anus against Ilcr Majesty within Upper Canada, or oomrnits any act of bos- 1 tility therein, or cutcrs Upper Canada with 1 design or intent to levy war against her j i Majesty, or to commit any felony therein, I < for which any person would, by the laws r>t Upper Canada, bo liable to suffer death, then the Governor may order the assem- j ] bling of a militia general court martial for [ | the trial of euch person, agreeably to iho , I Militia Law, and upon being f und guilty i by suoh Court ot offending against this uct, I mob person shall bo sentenced by suoh t vinrl. ?a ? 1 * ?. ~ ?<?vi ucwu, ur bUOQ oinor i punishment as shall be awarded by tte i >ourt A good word is an easy obligation not i o speak ill requires only your silenre. i The Women of the South. For some days past the Tribune, which generally posscs-cs the virtue of self res pect, not knowing, doubtless, how elso to give vent to its ill humorat the turn of af fairs, hps lavished insults upon the women of the South. It scorns to us that a thousand reasons, not to mention the simple one of propriety, should restrain a Northern journal from such attacks. The Tribune should remember, too, the heroism displayed by the Confederate women for their cause. Whether this cause wero good or bud, the Southern women have sustained it nobly and with a force of character which recalls tho ancient women of Sparta, and which has everywhere commanded respect and udtnirution. Not satisfied with attacking the Southern women, the Tribune institutes between thctu and the women ot the North a comparison as odious as it is unjust. "Our women," says Mr. (jreeley's newspaper, "arc everywhere a most cultivated class; the women of the South are more illiterate than the men." We dispute the tru:h of this assertion. There ure at the South, as at the North, educated women and ignorant women, well bred and ill bred, vulgar women. But we do not believe that the proportion is so uo favorable to the South. The ladies of Charleston, of New Orleans, and ot Richmond have shown in all the European saloons where they have appeared, as brilliantly as those of New York and Boston. That the Southern women are leas literary than their husbands is very possiblo; but UP (in r nt Pnne"" ? I" ? * ? 1 ? .vMo.ubi vum auiwijr a reproacu. We do not like learned women ; wc are re pellcd by women versed in lutin and phi iosophy, and, unlike Mr. Greeley, take the part of ilenriettee against Armando. A woman may be educated certainly, but let her never become a pedant; and, above all, let her uever parade her learning. We do not see at the South such physical and philosophical ladies ; we see only too many of them at the North ; and what these gain in seieuce, if science that may be called which consists in a great number of ideas, u I must always confused and superficially understood, joined to enormous pretension, they lose in grace and attraction. Wc say this without intendiug any injustice to those charming Northern women who avoid the grotesque and ridiculous, and resemble in this their sisters of the South. Let us permit the Tribune to insist upon the "gross ignorance" of the Confederate wouv.m, and to refer to this ignorance their energy and constancy during the war. We attribute the great qualities of which the Southern women have given noble example to a higher origin. Ignorance, the Tribune has said it a hundred tunes, oau engender only vice and meanness?and, it the Confederate women have been heroic, it is because they bad faith in their cause There are occasions in history when women, whose mission in ordinary times is to make the good wife, the tender mother, and to polish manners by the charm and grace which she brings into all social reia lions, may rise above herself and give examples to the highest Virtues. These oc casioiis occur when tho sacred soil of her country, and with it or through it; the domestic hearth nnd fnmilu nrn 1 ..J HIV luitulUUUU with invasion. These high virtues the women of the South have practiced without ostentation, without theatrical parade. They have borne all privations, they have dttied all outiuges by their proud and impassable attitude. Soldiers, diunken with blood, could outrage their bodies, but their victims remained as pure as those christian virgins whose memories the embraces of the cxecutionci could not defile. All tliut is precious to women?dress, jewels, the luxuries of home?all these the Southern women gave up?they did not even recoil before sacrifices still more painful?they did not fear to break their hearts, by send ing forth their sons to do battle lor a cause, sacred in their eyes, like that Lacedemonian mother who showed a shield to her son nnd said simply?return with it, or upon it?do thy duty, or die. Do not ex pcct such traits from ignorant women, from souls without elevation ! And while desolation over all the hearths of the South, while mothers had each day fresh tears to wipe away, yet bravely bore their grief, how were tho women of the North employed '( In developing a costly luxury against which the Tribune itself cried out, culling attention to its scandalous extent, feminine prodiualitv became mnr* and more unrestrained. We know to what disastrous result this state of affairs hud led. Some ladies, it is true, like Miss Anna Dickenson, gavo tiresome lectures to ' promiscuous audiences, others clamored for 1 pretended women's r phis, snd exposed 1 themselves to the derision of the puhlio ; . iiid others still enrolled themselves under he banner ot misoegenation. It is among 1 hese clashes of women, who defy good ! ?etibo and modest? in pubiio exhibitions, ' hat the Tribune finds its idoa ? Let this journal th^p ooasa to insult beee oonquered women, of whom the do- I eat bas not diminished the greatnesst 1st i t neaee to embitter ard dijbono; :te pes is ' sustaining an indefensible paradox. The North, like the South, has its contingent of good, graceful, educated and elegant bred women ; it has, perhaps, a IStger number of that class who so little deserve tho name of women, and for whom certain announcements are made in the journals; it possesses also a greater share of learned and pedantic ladies?but for these, will New Orleans not become envious of Boston. As for good aud well bred society, it is the same everywhere; and the Tribune may be sure that a woman of the world, coming from Boston, would not foci out of plucc in New Orleans, uor would tho contrary be true. In culumniating the Southern women, Mr. Greeley has siiuolv Droved mat he docs not know tlicm, nnd that he knows still less the common laws of propriety.? Courier det Etats Unit. Taxes. We used to smile at Sydney Smith's humorous account of English taxes, never dreaming that such would, at sotnc time, 1 be our own experience.?Since "misery i loves company," we re produce it lor the consolation of our tax payers : Taxes were piled on taxes, until they reached every article which enters into the mouth, or eoror* ;?1 - , ? wav.?| ur 19 piACCQ under foot; taxes upon everything which it is pleasent to see, hear, feel, smell or taste; taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion, taxes upon every thing on earth and on the waters under the earth; on everything that comes from abroad or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material; taxes on fresh value that is added to it by industry of man; taxes on the source which pumpers man's appetite, and the drug which restores him to health; on the ermine which bangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's specie; on (ho brass nails on the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride. At bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The school boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and tho dying Englishman, pouring his mediclue which has paid seven per cent, ioto a SDOOn that has no irt ? a , per tt!U. UlDgS himsclt baclc upon the chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds^or the privilege of putting him to ddfch. 11 is whole property then is immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probato large fees are demanded for burying him in the chaoccl; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to be taxed no more. Narrower?Still Narrower.?The narrow limit of the longest life is every day becoming narrower still. The story is told ot an Italian state prisoner, who af tcr gjme weeks confinement became sud denly aware that his apartment had become smaller. lie watched, and saw with hor ror, that a movable iron wall wus gradually encroaching on the space, and that as the movement came on. it mim v . y .. owu LIU3U h.m to death, and he could calculate it today. But you have uot that advantage. John Foster yet more appropriately rcsem blea our time to a scaled reservoir, from which issues daily a certain small quantity of water, and when tho reservoir is exhausted, we must perish ot thirst; but we have no means of sounding it to ascertain how much it originally contained, nor whether there be enough remaining even for tomorrow. ? An Iaisn Story.?Two Irishmen engaged in peddling packages oflincn, bought au old mule to aid in carrying the burdens. -:-i~ - v..v nvuiu HUH HXTIlllf, I n C II til 0 OthCF, carrying the bales of linen on the mule. One day the Irishman who was on foot got close up to the heels of his mule ship, when he received i^kick on ono of his shins. To be revenged he picked up a stone and hurled it at the mule, but struck his companion on the back of the head Seeing what he had done, he stopped and tegan to groan and rub his shin. Tho one on the mulo turned and asked what was tho matter. '-The bloody crathur kicked nie," was the reply. "Bo jabcrs he's did tbo same thing to rac on tho back of tho bead," said the other. John Randolph is said upon one oooasion to have visited a race course near tho citv , of New York. A flash looking stranger offered to bet him five dollars upon the result of the raoe, and introducing his companion, said : "Mr. Randolph, mr friend here, Squire Tompkins, will hold the U-ikes " "Bat, sir," sqneaked the orator ?f Roanoke, "who will hold Squire Tomp> kins?" A man advertises for competent persons i o undertake the sale of a new medietas, tod edde that it wil! he p?ofifable to the oadertaker jgSSBBSaSSa Josh Billings on Love. The only mtaral feeling the young knit possesses is lor. It is the first good thing the heart dux, and in after life it is the on* ly good thing it dus. Tharc is no poeatif virtu in love, and yet it may be the result of the holy eat of virtues. But there is, in this life, a vast deal of pontoon love, that has no more virtue in it than wooden nutmegs have. There is "Love uudicing," that general' ly lives about as long ss uncorked glag#v pop dus. There iz "Love untold," which is alsnna' old tew ennyboddy who will listen to it, and iz nz lull ov pathos as a tiork and s~ Deans nightmare. I And tnare iz "I.ovc at sight," to whisk I will add, Love for 90 dayi. ^ . These are some of the different kinds ov I#ovc that arc denominated pashun, nod iorm match ov the trading capital that lovers do biztincaa on. There iz not maoh sin in these different styles ov love; they don't seem tew sit up I to the dignity of sin; thare is deception in them withoat doubt; bat the deception it i i;l. iy? ? ? vurs ceieoratud Rat Exterminator, it won't hurt cnnyboddy else bat the tale. I am not prepared to say that I would like to see these things dun away with, for sumthing wuss might spring up in the place ov them; they seem tcW be ncCsftary in carrying on a trade in which judgment has to yield to fancy, and fancy is too often forced to yield to nonsense. If we oould (enny or us) bar our courtship written out and given tew us for perusal wo should probably look upon it at we would upon a Chinese ootnic almanack, unable tew understand the picture, and satisfied that the astronomical calculations were never designed for our latitude. A Keen Retort.?The poet o&oe in our village, writes a Vermont lady, waa kept in the bar room of the tavern a great resort for loungers. An old ahap more remarkable for his ooarscn? and infidelity then his good manners, was sitting there one day with n lot of boon companions, when the Methodist preacher, n new I comer in the village, entered and asked for his letters. Old Swipes asked bluntly, "Are you the Methodist parson just coma here to preach?" i "I am," pleasantly replied the minister. ! (iw.ii ? ?- ? - - .? ui, saia Old swipes, "will joa tell me bow old the deril is V "Keep yoar own family record," quieklj returned the preacher, and left the Puoui amidst the roars of the company. Don't be a Loafer.?Young man pay attention. Don't be a loafer; don't call yourselt a loafer; don't keep a loafer's com* pany; don't hang about loafing plaees. Better work than sit aronnd day after dar, or stand about oorners with yowr hands in your pockets. Better for your own health ?better for your own prospects. Bustle about, if you mean to hare anything to bustle x* ? anj a poor nhysioian has obtained a real patient by riding after an imaginary one. A quire of blank paper tied with red tape, carried under a lawyer's arm, may procure him his first case, and make his fortune. Such is the world; to him that hath shall be given. Quit dream* ing and complaining; keep busy and mind your chances. Tobacco fob Boys.?A strong and sensible writer administers a wholesome dose for boys who use tobacco in any form, assuring them that tobacco has utterly spoiled and utterly iuined thousands of boys, inducing a dangerous precocity, developing, softening and weakening of the bones, and greatly injuring the spinal marrow, the brain, and the whole nervosa fluid. A boy^ho early and frequently smokes, or in Wy way uses large quantities of tobacoo, never is known to make a man of much energy of oharaoter and generally lacks physical and muscular, as well as mental energy. We would particularly warn boys who want to be any body in the world, to shun tobacco as a most baneful noison. Scandal,.?The way in which some good sorts of people are betrayed into scandal is not by forging a false story, bat by tolling what they do not know to bo true. There is not ao much lying in the world aa want of solicitude about the truth. Another tosses the firebrand to us and we ton it along. Let suoh people remember a sentence of Barrow: "There is no great difference between the great Deril that frameth soandalous reports, and the little impa that run about and disperse them." A dootor lately informed bis friends, in a largs comp&nv. thai ha h*/t -:-VA day* in the country. "Yes," said om of the party; "it baa baan announced it do Times." "Ah ! said tba doctor, airatafc iog bit nook importantly, "pray, in what tar ma f" "Wall, at wall as I aaa reatafebar, in tba following; "Tbafa warn last waek evaotyewaw aaatha lata than ftia Vafora "