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IBI ?. HUGH WILSON. """ ABBEVILLE, S. C , WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1875. _ VOLUME HXD-IO. 4. | <5 ' v 4 . .. | i i -i i - - * .. -.. . CLui_ II sr. ^OMAREE Proprietor* ^ Manufacturer of Steam Engines and Boilers. Iron and Brass Castings of all Descriptions niade to Order. I was awarded the first premium on castings at the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society Fairs, .held in Columbia, November, 1S71, two ?rro MANUFACTURE Cricular Saw Mills of all sizes. ALSO Took the First Premium at State Fairs held November, 1871, '72, '73 Manufacturer of Grist Mills Irons of all sizes. For Sale. Gin Gearing of tlie following sizce. ,9 feet wheel and pinion $30 00 t 10 " u " " 32 50 Ill " " " " 35 00 12 " " " ? " 45 00 14 " " " " 50 00 "With Bolts $6.50 Extra for each sot. A,nti-friction plates and Balls for Cotton Press $10.00 and $12.00 per set. D. B. SMITH, Agent, Abbeville S. C. Dcc. -10, Jft73, 85-tf New Store! NEW BOOBS!!! IrilHE undersigned have just opne* ' an entire new stock of GROCERIES, I Provision and Liquors,; As well as Other Goods in their Line. At the Old Stand of A. M. HILL, re-' cently TROWBRIDGE & CO., where, we will be pleased to serve the public j CHEAP FOR CAXI1. 1 A. M. HILL. Jan. 29, 1873, 42-tf j * virnrtm o n A WO B U. WMI a Duao, | ALADDIN SE<S2?TYi rn THE BEST OIL IN USE. $||: WARRANTED 150 DEGREES FIKE TEST. a| Water white in color. Fully deoderized. 1|[ it will not explode. MB It burns in all Coal Oil and Kerosene K I^amiw. TRY IT. Ask for "Aladdin I Security," and take no other. C. WEST & SONS. 313 and 115 W. Lombard St., Bait. Md. Nov. 7, 1874 g0-6m "NEW "FLOUR, 1ARD, SUGAR, BACON, COFFEE, tpnTiAnnn I NAILS, &c., &c., at Mil GAMBRELL & CO'S. Sept. 9 22-tf (eb. 17,1875, 45-tf "STAPLE DRY GOODS, Wood and Willow Ware, Boots and Shoes, Crockery and Glass Ware, A Full Assortment of Staple Goods of every description, at DuFre, Gambrell&Co's. 21 28-tf nrrvn r* nr T 15. JO. JNUftJAJCiJUJU, Harness and Saddle Maker, A T his Old Stand over Parker & Perrin's Drag Store, has a supply ol Northern HARNESS LEATHER, and other material for Making and Repairing Saddles and Harness. Dec. 2, 1874, 34, tf FRESH CODNRY MEAL, At $1.40 per bushel, received ever) week, by Cunningham & Templeton Nov. 11 31-tf I OR. JOHN S. THOMPSON DENTIST, ^"kFFERS his professional services t< iv the citizens of Abbeville, ana tru surrounding country. Office over Citizens' Saving! Bank, Abbeville, S. C. ' jQct. 2, 1873,28tf CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETS Have just opened a nice line of SEGrARS from $3 to 80 per box; a good Sega At 5 cents. Give them a call. ' Nov. 31 31-tf i STEAM " Columbia, S. C. F. W. WING,! BProprietor. ^ MANUFACTURER OF i Gr? 0V1 Dlin<]c UnnrR 1 UAOilj VA1UUU) wviwjj WINDOW * AND DOOR FRAMES, Mie Pivot Blinds and State COLUMNS, < Pilasters,) MANTEL PIECES, ? Mouldings, Brackets,! Hand-Rails, NEWELS, BALUSTRES, Scroll M o_f_all Description. All Work Guaranteed A No. 1. j May 28, 1874, 7-ly. J. D. CHALMERS & GO. DEALERS IN Chain, Parlor Snits, Chamber Suits, Walnut & Mahogany Bareaus,; Washstands, Tables, Bedsteads, Window Shades, &c. Looking Glasses, Oil G'hromos, &e. Abbeville, S. C. j Also agents for the sale of tlio cc!-j ebrated Philadelphia Improved Iius-i tic Window Shade, which for durability, cheapness, convenience and beauty, cannot be surpassed. J5ach shade is furnished with all the fixtures complete, and only requires two! lath nails or small screws to fasten i11 :.t- I ? I...,. h?w,mi. coili.il ; up Willi, 1,'UUUIU IIIVJ uvv?/u?v | by flics, they can be spread on .1 tabic,; washed and made as bright as new, and will last for years. This style of shade is much superior to cloth bhades. In warm weather, when the!, window is raised, the shade admits!, the air but prevents flics and mosqui-! j toes entering the room. The simplic-j ity of their fixtures is much in their! .favor, as they require no rollers, each j shade being complete, and any oncil jean drive two nails by which to hang j! | them. They arc low in price, dura- 1 j ble, convenient, and never get out oijl I order. Call at store and sec samples, j1 ir J\OV. 18, 18/4 32-1.1 je CALL AND SEEl ; 3,000 lbs Bacon Sides, j 1,000 lbs Bacon Shoulders, 1 3,000 lbs Bulk Sides, 1 300 lbs Plain Ilams, 1 500 lbs Sugar Cured Canvassed Hams, Barrels aud Kits New Mackerel. ] Barrels and Half-Barrels White Fish, j Barrels N. O. Syrup, l Do. Florida " i Do. Sugar House Syrup, J Do. Common Sugar, 18,000 lbs Fresh Wheat Bran, j 100 Barrels New Crop Flour, 3,000 lbs Assorted Sugar, 500 lbs " Coffees, 3,000 yds " Bagging, 80 Bundles Beard Tie, * " J- 1.^*1, All our goous art* guuiaiikevu, uum us ; to quality and price. Call and see. j | DuPre, Gambrell & Co. Oct. 21 27-tf DENTISTRY! DENTISTRY Ml1 Dr. H. D. WILSON !; I j; OFFERS his professional services to j the people of Abbeville County iaud of upper South Carolina. Having ijust finished a course of study in tlie| Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, lie fuels fully competent to attend ; to all cases requiring the exeivise oj | I skilled Dental Surgery that may be j brought to him. He asks the patronage j iof the people, and guarantees full audi complete satisfaction. He has procured j a full set of first-class Dental Instalments, and is prepared to do lirst-class work at most reasonable rates. J *af OFFICE jnstover Post Office. M. GOLDSMITH. I?. KIND. Groldsmitli & "Kind, FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, (I'HQSXIX IRON WORKS, COLUMBIA, S. C. ' MVANUFACTUllKKS of Steam En1TJL gincs of all sizes; Horsepowers, Circular and Mulcy Saw Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Or. I namental, House aiu\ Store Fronts, Iron j Railings, Agricultural Implements, etc. I Brass and Iron Castings of all kinds ; made to order on short notice, and on i the most reasonable terms. Also, man! ufacturers of Cotton Presses. May 28, 1873, 7-1 I'm ? C. E.BRUCE, ' HAnf and Shoe Maker. ilUW MUM. ? Over Parte & Perrin's Store.' [ .Abbeville, S. C. DESIRES to say that he is fully prepared to meet all demands the I public may make In his line. He keeps constantly on hand a large lot of the ! best material and employs only the finest 91 workmen. He keeps a full stock of custom-made Boots and Shoes, and r guarantees the most entire satisfaction in every instance. Sept. 1,1874 , 21-tf NEW FIRM] am - m? Christian & Co. DEALERS IN Groceri es AND FARMERS' SUPPLIES Abbeville, S. C., It Trowbridge's Old Stand TTTrT.T, Irpon alwavs on hand a ful W supelyof v; 30RN, BACON, FLOUR, CIGARRS, COFFEES, &c. Also a select stock of Jonfectionaries and Fruits CANNED GOODS, &c. We sell for cash at short prints. (!ivi is a call. CHRISTIAN & 00 Dec. 23, 1874 37-tf Nos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S.C. STAT10SEHS - ?-v T> l v First-Class Work OUR SPECIALTY, yf.t, bv vstko cheaper grai>es of stmic, WE CAN FURNISH WORK AT LOWEST LIVING PRICES. FINE FASHIOHABLFSTATIOIERYI Piries Paper and Envelopes. Redding and ,?all Invitations OH THE BEST STOCK AND PRINTED IN THE LATEST STYLE. [eep it Before lie People LAWSON'S is the place to ptirchasi your STOVES. Remember end ilove Las the following fixtures: - pots ham boiler, 1 Tea kettle, 1 spider, ong giiddle, 1 wuflle iron, 3 iron pane bread pan, 2 pudding and '2 custan >aiiB, 1 large fork, 1 spoon, 1 cake turn r, 1 coflee pot,1 dipper and 15 feet pipe We name below some of the Stove ve sell: CHARTER OAK. FORESI JITY, FIRE SIDE, MARION COOK iEIjP, DIRECTOR, STONE WALL COTTON STATES, COLUMBIA :OOK, ALL RRJHT, REST am VCORN COOK, warranted by til nanufacturcrs to last years. We will send any of the above Stove vitli fixtures complete, freight paid t Donnuldsville, Bolton, Ilonca Path -lodges, Greenwood, New Market am S'inety Six, at the following prices Co T .*:n \"f> K inr, xn. !>. S41. H. W. LAWSON & CO. Abbeville, S. C. Feb. 17, 1875, 4o-tf THE ABBEVILLE HOTEL BY JACOB MILLER. THE subscriber directs the attentio of the traveling public to hi commodious Hotel, located in the tow of Abbeville, and solicits foi the same full share of the public patronag< With convenient rooms, a well-kej table, and attentive servants, no ettbrl will be spared to give satisfaction. T A HAT) TUTTT T TIT* iuijjijXiXV. Oct. 1-1, 1874 27-:{m AND 0 NFECT10 N ER Y G. H. LUBKE1 HAS established a first-class Bake in this town. At twelve o'cloi noon, EVERY DAY, the best Fresh Bread, Crackers ar I - Confectioneries can be had by applying to him at t old Post Office, 011 Main Street. I May 20, 1874 C-tf J. H. BRYSON, Gr'reenwoocl, S. C ilT EEPS constantly on hand a lar IV assortment of ready niacJe OofBns. ! HE PA I IIS FURNITURE OF AI I DISCRETIONS AT SHORT NOTICE, j Jan.27,1875-3m. 100 Cottage Bedsteads Just received, at the lowest pric J. I>. CHALMERS & CO Dec. 1874, 34?tf. f THE SPIRIT OF THE SNOW c ' Robert Buchanan, in The Gentleman''8 j I Mayazinc. Ia Wondrous are flo>vers9trangely wrought j8 By unseen mystic hands; il i Won Irons are iillics of the lake, |a 1 Pink shells of the sea sands. j < ' 1 O, wondrous is the green deep grass j Forever bright and new, And wondrous on the grass-blades,: j i I hang [ ! The crystals of the dew. j ij The rayi is wondrous; soft and slow 'r j Pier measured footsteps chime ; 5: 2so touch is softer than the llain's j " j In the sweet .Summer time. r I a I Wondrous are all secret shapes c j Thatsilent come and go, c ' | But sweetest blesscdest of all s I Is the spirit of the snow. 1 1! t j A spirit ever with blind eyes, i I And silent foet and swift, f A spirit white and beautiful, 1 In the dark world adrift! t t Oh, she is fair, and very fair,? 1 j An angel with blind eyes, | She walked in that lonely air, 11 Or croucheth low, and sighs. 1 j IV.it when the summer days are here ' ! And bhiw with warm sweet breath, , i jShe lies stone-still in the North, | Yes, in a trance of Death ! ^ f j ( c|Tlie Lexington Centennial. ; I ? h _; THE GREAT SPEECH OF GOV. CHAM- t 1 BERLAIN. j Mr. Thomas Merriam Stetson presid- ! ied, and after an introductory speech an- . jnounced the first toast: The State of South Carolina. Never will Massachu! setts forget the prompt response of South J Carolina the very night she heard the war note from Lexington." (Applause.) , I And Governor f'hamhcrlain may vote ; anything he wants to except our earnest | i request for response from the palmetto . ! to the pine. (Applause.) I.SPKKCII OK OOVKHXOR DANIEL II. CJIAMHKHLAIN. ; To stand upon the spot where our faI thers gave the last test of their devotion ? j to civil freedom is a high and sacred i privilege. If your hearts respond to the i highest influences which human exatn! pie and eudeavor can afford ; if personal J gratitude for blessings secured ; if honor) ! lor self-forgetting, single-eyed fidelity to;', j duty; if a sense of the far-reaching, lim-1 ^ iitless consequences which are some-!? j times wrapped up in the actions of a L I few men; if any or all considerations j have power to effect us, this place and I this day must cull up the tcnclerest and .' proudest emotions, Such emotions are | ? j too strong and deep to be expressed in j": j words. The full inspiration of the occa-j ision must be felt in the heart. The lips j f ! i?At nf if j I ; I confess, therefore, that I am loth to i attempt to add to the tribute of words! ; which this occasion has already called! fourth. The outward scenes which were; [presented here a hundred years ago ; the | sequence of causes and events which led j J up to the supreme hour which witnessed ; the opening in blood of this great chap-j ter of American history; something j 'too, of the physical and moral linea-J i ments of the actors in those scenes: the : * vast results already attained and the iboundless future still waiting; these! i have been presented before us with all { ! the power which eloquence and poetry! . can lend. What remains except that! I [ we should fill our hearts with the lessons! land sentiments and principles which) tliis day has taught us, and again take I our places iu the ranks of that great I | army which 011 all days and on all fields j L* I must, still carry forward the unending 1. warfare of freedom against oppression, j Oi justice against wroiiy, ui iuiiii;iu i>iu-| gross against all efforts to circumscribe I j the thoughts or fetter tin actions of men Is, 1 except by the eternal laws of truth |C itsell! r The men whose memory we seek to j! honor to-day were great because they ; ,shrank from no danger or sacrilices I. ' I which were demanded of them in order! ' j to vindicate and defend the rights' i'which they claimed by virtue of their j' i.simple manhood. That grand and ini- * c'|perishable declaration of the rights]. which man may claim as the inalien-i. s ftfilo endowment of his Creator, which , (> was made one year later, was hut the j^ echo of the guns which disturbed the j1 morning air of Lexington one hundred : years ago. The grandeur of that hour was its absolute and unhesitating response to the call of duty. Here stood ^ our sires; and here they fell. They j . could do not otherwise. They were ' British subjects. No independence had i yet been proclaimed. No war had yet f been declared, And yet they resisted. ( The thought of founding a new nation j did not lire their hearts. And yet they ; I (lUI'CU lO JUL lllfJl uuuus ii^muni, mvi , j power of their lawful sovereign. They j counted no cost. They knew not that | they were striking a chord which would r vibrate through the land and summon }' every colony to their side. They stood | alone, alone with duty, fuee to face with * n an imperious necessity which their i* is manhood hud upon them. . 11 Ah, fellow-citizeus, is not this their!, a; highest title to immortality? JsTot that i. they opened the vast drama of events >t which followed, not that they werejj ts founders of anew nation, not that the j American republic had its birth in that j hour, but rather that in sublime fidelity j j to duly, alone, unsupported, cheered by >1 ? J no voice save the still voice of duty! speaking within their hearts, they dared j( | to be true to their convictions and to ' .strike a blow, however feeble, however : hrmi'lpqt fnr tlu?ir rilfllts an mill. i it they had doubted, they must have p ! despaired. If they had shrunk from ' jtlie perils and opportunities of that one * hour, who does not see that the decisive J moment would have been lost? ToIday, seen in the ordinary historical perspective, the scenes which we are now ; recalling are covered with a halo which ^ half conceals the heroism then witnessJKjed. If we can for a moment dispel this j false halo, we shall see more clearly ^1 than we are wont to see how simple, ! austere and devoted was the sense of I,i. tlu> men who! jWUljr WHICH uuiumkv? - . , I tirst resisted arbitrary power on their 'e spot. It is easy to imagine a great and proud ' nation pouring forth its wealth and ? strength to maintain its national sujpremney. It is easy to imagine a people stung to desperate resistance by the j merciless cruelties of the oppressor. IsTo i '^uch scene was presented here on the * 10th of April, 1775. No military pa-j jgeant passing belore their eyes aroused 8?! in the breast of those men the feeling of martial enthusiasm. Dramatic splendors, outward incitements, dreams ofj conquest, all were absent, and in their! T stead nothing presented itself but thisi J,J simple, stern issue: Shall we, Englishmen, descendants of those who have gradually built up the great monuments I and barriers of English liberty till that 1 ilw>rtv hnst become the birthriirht of all! Englishmen?shall we, a few weak, unprepared, unorganized colonists, assert In our own persons that great doctrine which lies at the foundation of English eB>! liberty?"Taxation without renresenta' j tion is tyranny ?" The very siraphcity .'of the issue discloses the grandeur of (the erent. These men were brave enough and true enough to accept the . ..... nil of present duty, find to Welcome whatever might befall in an efl'ort to ireaervc their freedom. They had courge, and they had what, as Carlyle has aid, is still better than courage, "no >articular cousciousnes of courage, but . readiness in all simplicity to do and iar^ whatsoever is commanded by the nward voice of native manhood. I come, therefore, first of all, as a derout pilgrim at the shrine of freedom.? : come to refresh myself for coming duies by calling up in vivid recollection ne images in inut. iugtic 01 uiarm, inui norning of blood, the undauted; courige, the pure simplicity, the high and esolute daring, which will forever^atnmlm the name of Lexington among he most priceless memories and InspM ations of human history. But I come lIso in another character and for anoth:r purpose. I come to bring to this feast )f patriotism the greetings of the defendants of a colony which, from the lour when Samuel Adams, speaking in he name of the town of Boston to its epresentatives, bade them, "Use your mdeavors that the weight of the other !^orth American colonies may be added .0 that of this province, that by united ipplication all may happily obtain relress," till the long struggle was crown;d with final success, never faltered in icr devotion to the cause on whose first jattle-field we now stand. . On the -10th of May, 1774, Virginia, inder the impulsive Patrick Henry's loquenco, declared that "the people of Virginia are not bound to yield obelicncc to any laws designed to impose fixation upon them other than the laws if their own general assembly." On he Oth of June, 1704, tiie Legislature of Massachusetts, on the advice of James Jtis, suggested the calling of an Amercan congress, to be composed of delegates from each of the thirteen colonies. Jn the 35th of June, 1704, the suggesion of Massachusetts was debated in lie assembly of South Carolina by the . _ i _i t t~i.~ r>..* lien youcmui unci eloquent, .unni nuiedge, and adopted under the leadership >f the intrepid and sagacious Christopher Gadsden. Thus Virginia sounded he alarm; Massachusetts proposed the mion; Soutli Carolina responded with he pledge of her earnest support." "JJe it remembered," says Mr. Bransroft, "that the blessing of union is due 0 the warm-heartedness of South Carolina. She was alive and felt at every >ore. And when we count up those vho, above others, contributed to the ;reat result, we are to name the inspird madman," James Otis, and the moglanimous, unwavering lover of his ountry, Christopher Gadsden." As South Carolina was the first to espond to the call of Massachusetts for 1 congress, so her delegates, Gadsden, iiutledgeand Lynch, were the fii*at to irriveiuNew York, in October, 1704, o attend that congress. The first qu^sion to be determined by that congress vas npon what grounds the colonists hnuld rest their resistance to the itntending usurpation of parliament, ihall they stand on the royal grants or n grounds of original, unwritten, im)rc.<criptible right? .Shall they plead heir parchment charters, or their birthiglit as men and Englishmen? Shall hey claim under the grant of the king, r under the grant of (Jod? Who does lot perceive that this was a vital cjuesion, on whose decision the distinctive haracter of American freedom and American self-government was to detend ? If at this moment of the first armuffttion of the claims of the coloilsts they had pleaded the royal grants s the source and ground of their rights, vhencc could Jefferson have drawn his mmortal declaration of the inalienable iglits of man? That discussion in that otigress was tne naruiuger nuu umj ?i Vmerican independence, but of what, s I think, was more significant still to iiaukind, the declaration of American ndependence. Here again South Car ilinu spoke through Christopher Gadslen. "We must stand," said lie, "upon he broad, common ground of those liatiral rights that we all fuel and know is men, and as descendants of Englishnen. I wish the charters may not eunare us at last by drawing different olonies to act differently in this great ause. Whenever that is the case all vill be over with the whole. There tught to be no New England man, no S'ew Yorker, known on the continent, mt all of us Americans." These sentinents, so truthful, so generous, so comjrehensive, were udopted by the con;ress; and from them has sprung, it is lot too much to say, the greatness of he American republic, tnegreaiuess 01 lie principles on which it rests, and the greatness of its success as a practical exunple of government of the people, by he people and for the people. In all the deliberations of that first :ongress, in framing the first formal leclaration of the rights of thecolonists, 10 influences were perhaps more powerul than the voices of .South Carolina's lelegates, Gadsden, Ilutledge and Lynch. It was due to the determined pposition of liutledge that the right of >arliament to regulate the trade of the solonies was denied. It was Gadsden ind Lynch who denied the propriety of sven approaching parliament by petiion, the former declaring with impaslioned earnestness, "We neither hold >ur rights from the house of commons lor from the lords." Animated bv ttich sentimeiits, inspired by such lead ;rs, Massachusetts and souin viuuuuu, ivith the other colonies, on the 25th of October, 1704, bound themselves to the Irst formal and united proclamation of :he rights which they claimed, of the jricvances of which they complained, uid of the relief which they uemaud,*d. These, fellow-citizens, were the hours in which American freedom took its form. These were the prophetic voices announcing the future which we now ??e. Listen to them. Samuel Adams? "There are certain original, inherent rights belonging to the people which parliament itself cannot deprive them of." John Adams?"You have rights antecedent to all earthly government; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained bj human laws; rights derived from tht great legislature of the universe.' James Otis?"Freedom and equality. Death, with all its tortues, is preferable to slavery." Alexauder Hamilton? "The sacred rights oi maiiKuiu arc written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself, and cii never Ik erased or obscured by mental power." Christopher Gadsden?"We neithei hold our rights from the house of coin' mons nor from the lords. From 17GI to 1771, throughout the whole of the first epoch of the Anieri can revolution, whileevents were hast' ening forward toward the final struggle of arm -, South Carolina responded witl earnest ami unhesitating fidelity to tin call of Massachusetts. The aggression; of Great Britain were hardly felt bi her. Her commercial relations wer* almost wholly with England, but lie oroud and unconquerable spirit drev her to the side of her siscer eonum-; "Don't pay for an ounce of the damned tea," was the message of Christophe Gadsden to the people of Boston on th 14th of June,1774. When the port ant fell with all its rigo on Boston, South Carolina was the firs to testify her sympathy ov a suusmuuu contribution of rice for the support c the poor of that town. And when th call arose for another congress, the plan tors of South Carolina again responde with Gadsden, Lynch, John liutledgt Edward Itutledge and Midleton as lie representatives. When, in October c he same year, congress resolved tha1 if1 the grievances of thp colonist were not redreessed - before the" September following, ho merchandise should be exported to Great Britain,-^Christopher , Gadsden, against theprotesfcof his col; leagues, declared himself rSady to adopt ! this measure, though it brought ruiu 1 on his state. "Ty i On the 11th of January, 1775, South j Carolina again resolved to stand firmly , by the demands of the colonies, and "if , blood be spilt in Massachusetts, the sons of South Carolina will rise in arms.1' ] ; Three months later the blood of Massa- , I chusetts was spilt on this spot. Ho#t| truly, to the end, the sons of South ) Carolina kept tiiat resolve history has .i;ecorded on her imperishable pages. it Is'a record which the sons of Massa- ( chusetts and South Carolina, which every true American, will recall with patriotic pride. Time forbids me to A 11 t^^z. |AMU T4. ~ : u IUWCII uu its uiuiuuuis. wtw a spirit ? which rose high above all personal or j local interests and feelings, a spirit I which bound together the man of J3osi ton and the man of Charleston, Massachusetts and South Carolina, by the .great bond of acommon determination to maintain the freedom which the^had J inherited,[and which belonged to them as ! men. I come fellow-citizeus, to remind you, j on this great day, of this early, unbroken friendship between Massachusetts and South Carolina throughout the whole revolutionary period. Differing however widely in lineage, in habits in iristitu-| tions they were still bound together by a i common love for civil freedom. Together they watched the beginnings to tryan-1 ii) , tugeuier iiiuy ])ianiieu rusisiauce 10gether they declared their independence ' from Great Britain, together, with their i lives and fortunes, they maintained that declaration through the long war, together they devised the frabric of gov- 1 eminent under which the public has 1 grown to its present proportions, togeth- < er they long labored to build up the , strength, prosperity and the glory of , America. Those precious memories of the past are secure. To-day, at least, 1 we may call them. At Lexington sure i ly South Carolina may still claim a place , to do honor to the co&imon cause of America liberty aud independence. KR-UNITED FOREVER. I know that I am commissioned here ' to-day to say for South Carolina that she ' joins with equal gratitude and reverence with all her sisters of the early days in , honoring the lUth of April, 1775; that she claims her share in the glory of the 1 struggle begun at Lexington ; that as of 1 old she made Massachusetts cheer in the ! struggle, so now she unites with her in J, these patriotic services. it is not for me, it is not lor auy one on " this occasion, to speak of later events in which those two ancient alies stood face to face as enemies. Who that has an American heart does not rejoice that j back of all'the recent bitter struggle here lies the gracions lieritego of those eom! icon labors and dangers ami sacrilicea in I founding this common government? Who that looks with a just eye even cn I the recent struggle docs not now see, on i either side, the same high elements of J character, the courage, the devotion to duty, the moral lineaments of the Adani!sc3 and Hancocks, the Gadsdens and iRutledgea, of a hundred years ago?| Who that has faith in the destinies of America does not sec in this early friend- j ship?aye, and even in this later conflict?the potency and promise of that | coming union under whose protection i lil,nfto ulmll nviip wolk lininl in hand I I with justice, wherein the north and the! 1 j south, re-united in spirit and aiuis, shall i < again respond to every call of patriotic , duty in the old tones of Samuel Adams and Christopher Gadsden, of James Otis 1 and John Ru tied ye ? That spirit still lives, fellow-citizens, in youth Carolina. If in later days she has erred, forgive her, for even then she dared and suffered with a courage and ' j patience not unworthy of its strength! I in its days when Ciadsdeu and Itut- i ledge illustrated her civic wisdom, and Sumter and Marion her martial porwess. "Magnanimity," says Mr. Burke, "is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill to! get her." i Fellow-citizens, I offer you to-day the I P.? a 1 nf Wnnfh j iraiLTiiui, iwiiu ^iwckin^o W4 kjvuv.. Carolina?of all her people. Khe marches ; again to-day to the music of that union which a hundred years ago her wisdom (helped to devise and her blood to cejment. There'in that hallowed union, endeared and sanctified by so many ! blessed memories, and radiant with so f many proud hopes and promises, there, J there she "must live or bear no life."?' Oh, welcome her anew f.o-day to the old) fellowship! The monuments of mar-1 ble and brass which we build to-day to | the memory of the fathers will crumble j land corrode, but there is one monument j which we may erect to the hearts of alii the American people, acre jjerennius?j the monument of a re-united country,1 jafree and just government, "an indo-l structible uniouof Indestructible states." Garibaldi wore the traditional| costume when he was sworn 111 me| Italian Parliament?a red shirt, t whito mantle and blue cap, emibroided with gold. When he answered in a clear voice "Giuro" ,j("I 8wear,") there waa a burst ofj applause and cries of bravo. | Hon. Edward Kent, ex-Judge, and ex Governor, tripped ou "sy-j nonvnie" at the great Cangor speTl- j ling match but he entered heartily! 'into the laugh that followed. That' is the way to aid the fun. A miss! !once and a while adds wonderfully! materially to the interest of these' occasions. An honest old gentleman from a I rural county, who came down to . New York to spend the Sabbath ' with friend.*?, was asked what tliej people up his way thought of the J . Beecher scandal. lie replied that i lie never tried if, and did'nt know j any thing about it?that he and all | , the neighbors burned kerosene. i < 1 Napoleon was one day searching j tor a book in the Iibarv atMalmaison j and at last discovered it on a shelf ! somewhat above his reach. Marshal Money, who was present?one j of the tallest men in the army,? Mstepped forward saying; "Permit i'me, air; lam higher than youai f majesty.', "You arc longer, mar? shal," said the emperor with a1 v frown. I Detroit boys seem to advance in r!education whether they attend e school or not. A newsboy who (couldn't change a ten-cent picce a ? I year ago, was recently heard rc,t j marking: "William Scott, if you 'f : ever corrugate your brow at. rnc in ? that way again I shall temporally dcj' posit my papers on the pavement, i and cause the blood to coagulate unrfj dor your left optic. Ileal-me, Wil!; liarn?" A KOMANCE OF THE SOOTH. The following comes from the Ocala (Fla ) Banner: Some years ago there lived in Virginia i beautiful and accomplished young lady? a. member of ono of the oldest and best families in that State. She was the reigning belle in the society in $hich she moved, [n the course of tine ahe Quarried a young lawyer of the highest respectability, both us regards talents and family connections, tn due time they had a son born tmto them. Thtj were very happy. - _ Th^Tawyer, in the course ^f his business jperations, becamo in aoijfe another nitangled in a quarrel. witL a ti&fcher lawyer. A duel was the. result. In the contest the husband was killed. The wife become inconsolable. A severe fit of sickness 1 Followed. When she recovered, the only thing to lavish the whole affection of her I, heart upon waa her son. Her entire attention was given to him. After a year or two slio was surrounded by an immense number of admirers, and several made proposals of mareiage. She leclined them all. Her heart waa true to aer first and only love. At last many of tier admirers importuned her to marry them, offering |her fortune, station, everything that would be likely to win a woman's leart, but all of no avail. She replied to them that she could not give them her band without her affection?her heart was with tho buried dead. The widow found these approaches were made to her so often and so earnestly that she withdrew herself from society as the jnly means of obtaining anything like quietness ; but even then letters would annoy ier. bo sno determined to get out or tne i ( way of society entirely and seclude herself j in Borne retired spot. She did not care , where Bhe went if she could only obtain J quietness and enjoy tue pleasure of train- 1 ing and cultivating her boy's mind and have his exclusive society. Ho was a noble little fellow. Well, after looking about for a place j where absolute seclusion could be obtained, ^ ind be unknown, and the climate would be :ongenial, sho determined upon Florida. , So she removed to a retired spot about a uile or two from Ocala, where she found a j nuall hut already built and suitod for her | ( requirements. She pi -chased it, and there j lived for eomo time, when, unhappily, her [ 1 boy was taken sick and'died and was burled near her house." Sho planted an acorm \, icar by that was found after death in j , lis pocket. _It has now grown to be a large , ;ree. ( Alone in the world, without a single soul . jO converse with, she fretted and pined her j , ife away, her only consolation being in her1 :ominunings with her maker. She prayed I, for peace and obtained it. She had no do-1' nestic servant to wait upon her, but cooked 1 her own meals, ?&c. Occasionally, she would see persons ap-1 pioach her little home, and, not wishing to | ho seen, would retire to a small cave near [ by, where she could watch the movements I if strangers until they were gone, when she ! would come out und take possession of. her shanty. One day she walked into Ocala for the! purpose of obtaining some medicine at the j drug 8tore. She was closely hooded and) disguised. There was a gentlemon in the j town, howersr, whom she recognized as an i old suitor. She unm* liatuly left and was j lost to sight quickly. Tho gentleman saw j the eyes; he thought ho knew them?their j influence in the past had kept him awake j many a night. He - as at first staggered j with the thought that it might be her; in deed, he was almost paralyzed, tor ne was still single and remained so for her sake# | When ho recovered his sensea sufficiently! to know what he was about,, he turned into the street to look for her, but she was gone, and no one could tell him,anything about her or in what direction she had gone. He searched the country all around, but his of-! forts were fruitless. At last he gave up the I pursuit. Ho was very unhappy. Well, the lady lived for many years of-' terward, still staying at the same place.; At last she found thsil. her health was giv-' ing was; that the hardships she had to un-! dergo?living in so wild and rude a condi- j tion?necessitated her making a confidant of somebedv, bo as to obtain help. She called in the assistance of an honest, quiet, colored woman?Aunt Polly Fudge?who * oAnio mmforts and did chores neipeu uci w for her. At lost she became sick and con- j fined to her bed. Polly faithfully nursed1 her, and at length the lady died. Sho told Polly her history, suppressing her real name, and told her to get her buried in the grave beside her darling boy, under the oak tree that she had planted1 near the cave, and that alio was to be bur.! ied in her wedding dress?a beautiful white! satin one?and on her head the wreath she' wore on the occasion of her marriage, j Faithful Polly attended to matters as she was told, and Mrs. Neville?for that waa the name the lady called herself?gave to' Polly all her money, which was $100, and her clothes. So rests, within a mile or two of Ocala/ in one of thu hammocks, the last mortal remains of the poor, broken-hearted widow.1 The relatives and friends will never know her end or her burial place. So "we point a moral and adorn a tale." A woman rode homo from a ball in Boaton on a recent cold night, and the driver | upon heaving the door of the carriage open j and shut, supposed she had alighted. He > drove away, without having got down from j his seat, and left his carriage standing as usual outside of his stable after caring fox j his horses. The woman, who had been' drinking freely, had not got out of the carriage, and was found in it tho next morning, frozen to death. =5 J "?:J?4 iir5ie*? fcfnt an auto-! V ICO XTUBlUCUli r graph album in which ho has obtained the signatures of all who sat with him in the Senate, accompanied by tho dates of their; j birth, and the number is now two hundred | and sixty, embracing many of the greatest ; and some of the worst of tho public men of ; this eventful croenLt-mn ; A life inauranco company has refused to 1 pay a $10,000 policy because the insurer I committed a moral suicido, ho having procured the policy in reply to a message from a friend in the unseen world to tho. effect j that he would certainly die upon a certain I day and hour?which he did. AGRICULTURAL. J Fixed.papictfles in Aohicultube.?All b fcmds eft1 which clover or the Jjraases are grown, must either have lirad'nea^ every other inorganic constituent which "x^Su^'b? found in the ashea of the cfifcer if biA?8tow|9^ or those minerals must be artificially '"flBSgEyP plied. All permanent improvement of lands must look to lime, potash, and other ' . ; constituent^*; common to plants, aa it* flSff-'j. basis. Lands-which have been longincal- r tivation, will bo benefitted by ap^cn,tiaas sr.; of phosphate of ligie, treated with sulphuric w acid, so as'to render it a soluable .phos- jT-- ~ ji phate; supplied in the form of bone-dust, jf' composts of fish, guano, ashea and -oystc *1'*^$ shell lime, , AJ1 highly concentrated aDimal manures . sire increased in value, and their benefita prolonged by admixture with plaatef, aalt, or pulverized charcoal. Deep Dlowiust &.'< ' greatly improves the productive powers of every variety of soil, that is not wet, J>V though the depth should be increased gradually. Sub-soiling sound land, that \ is, land that is not wet, is eminently conducive to increased production. All wet land should be drained, and especially such Land as has a heavy clay sub-soil. All grain crops should be harvested before tho grain is thoroughly ripe. Clover as well is the other grasses intended for hay, should be mowed whoa in bloom. S-ady [and can be most ?ffoctual]y improved by the addition of clay. When such lands ro- ' jnire liming or marling, the lime or marl *V is most beneficially applied when made into compost with clay. In slacking lime, V: lalt brine is better than water. '" The grinding of grain to be fed to stock,-' md mixing it with cut hay or straw, ope^- . rates as a saving of at least twenty-fire per cent. Draining of wet lands und^ *' marshes adds to their value, by causing' them to produce earlier, <md a greater quantity* and better quality, and improves the health of neighborhoods. To manure or lime wet land, Is to throw manure, liino and labor away. Shallow plowing operates to impoverish the ?oiL By stabling and housing stock through the " fvinter, a saving of one-fourth less food may be effected; that is, one-fourth less r? food will answer than when such stock are exposed to the inclemencies of the weather, A good dressing of plaster or clover, where the land is deficient in lime and sulphuric icid, will add one hundred per cent, to ,ita Droduce. Periodical applications of aahe* ' tend to keep up the integrity of soils, by supplying most, if not all, the inorganic substances. Thorough preparations of la.mj \ is absolutely necessuuy to the successful a.nd luxuriant growth of crops. Abundant crops cannot be grown for a succession of years, unless care be taken to froriu an equivalent for the substances carried off the land in the products grown thereon. To preserve meadows in their productiveness, it is better to harrow them every second autumn, apply top-dressing, and roll them. All stiff claya ore benefited by fall and winter plo.wjiio's;. but should never ? be plowed while tley are wetrv H. at such plowings, the. furrow be materially deepened, lime, mMl-or>."ftqfie?-*ahoald be applied. Young stock should be moderately fed with grain in winter, and receive gen erous supplies 01 proveuuui, n, uciug tial to keep them in a fair condition, in order that the formation of muscles and bones may be encouraged and continuously carricd on. Milch co.vs in winter, should be kept in dry, moderately warm, but welh ventilated quarters, fed and watered three times a day, salted twice a week, having clean beds, and in addition to their long provender should receive roots. Full complement of tools and implements of husbandry are intimately connected with success. Liqotid-Grajtinq Wax.?Mr. L'Homme* Lefort inver ted, not many years ago, ft grafting composition which is very cheap, very easily prepared, nnd keeps, corked up in a bottle with a tolerably wide mouth, at least six months unaltered. It is laid on in as thin a coat as possible by means of a fl&t pieco of wood. Within a few days it will be as hard as a piece of stone. It is not affoctad bv severe cold; it never softens or cracks when exposed to atmosphere action. When applied to wounds in trees, it acta aa an artificial cuticle. After a few days exposure to the atmosphere in a thin coat, it assumes a whitish color, and becomes as hard as stone, being impervious to water and air. As long as the inventor kept the preparation secret, it was sold at very high prices. It is made after the folp lowing formula: Melt ono pound of cnol< mon resin over a gentle fire, add to it aa ounce ot beef tallow and stir it well; toko it from the fire, let it cool down a littla, ' and then mix with it a tablespoonfnl of spirits of turpentine, and after that about seven ounces of very strong alcohol, (ninetv-five per cent.,) to be bad at any drug gist's store. The alcohol cools it down so rapidly that it will be necessary to put it again on the fire, starring it constantly. Still the utmost care must be exercised to prevent tho alcohol fiom getting inflamed. To avoid it, the best way is to remove the vessel from the fire when the lump that may have been formed commenced melting again. This must be continued till the whole is a homogeneous mass similar to honey. A pouLTRT-raiaersays: I have tried several remedies for gapes but have found none so effectual &3 assafcetida. Put a few ? J 1.4 grains into the wateruig-trougn uxiu ic? the chickens have no other water, and they will not bo troubled with gapes. I have found it to bo a preventative as well as a cure. At a poultry show in Elmira, N. Y., a goose liatched in 1803 is the principal curiosity. The seventy-year-old fowl is to b? oxhibited at the Centennial. - * -1 As an illustration or tno sptrcu an <uw? the cloctric current travels, a message sent from the observatory of Harvard College j direct to 3an Francisco and back, by way ! of Canada, over thirteen railways, occupied f only two-thirds of a second. I Joahua Bailey,, of Cohoes Falls, N. Y.* i promised tho bulk of his fortune to whichever of his nephews raised the largest fam. i ily of boys. W. W. Bailey, of "Waverly, j Iowa, raised five boys, und got $2,000,000 at the death of his unclc.