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afc^he Press and Banner. If ABBEVILLE, S. C. V Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1879. A Great Sufferer. A. I,. MoOas!:ni, Ksij., is now a s?ro?t KitlTor-! f?T from cancer oil the nana aim arm. wnn , new ulcerations on his body. Due day last ?.'oek an artery In the arm was broken and | the tlow of blood could only In: stopped after J?r. Pressly bad been sent for. The i'octor! caiitcrizea the bleeding artery, and sue-! coeded in stopping the tlow after nearly a1 gallon had been lost. Mr. McCaslan Is considered to be In a very critical condition, as] this cautctl'/.ed par: of the artery may slough oil'at any time, and start the tiow of blood 1 again. * skk the advertisement of the Greenville and Columbia Kailroad, reducing the rates of travel over their road. It costs the company i no more to transport a man than it does toj carry a sack of guano or h hog, and we see no | reason for charging a man ten times as much j as they do a hog. We are Jimeli pleased to see this move in reducing the fare. It will cer-j t:i? nly increase the travel and the prorits of tiic company. i'kkshxai..?We had (he pleasure of a enII on Monday last from Hon. F. A. Conner, of Hock liill. Mr. (\?nnor until recently had | been all lite life a citizen of this t'ounty. and in the troublous times he was called upon to; represent this County in the Legislature, j which he did with great credit, not only to! himself, hut to'the people whom he repre-i sen ted. Mr. Connor lias a host of staunch I I,, lklun.|llftP,i,inlt II?AX?FKnrs Fai.i..?A little daughter of, Mrs. James H. 1'errin fell from tin- top tailing of ttie stairs 10 tItc lower iloor, at Mrs. s?ssnrd's last Saturday afternoon. One bone in the fore arm was fractured; the head and Ktioiihier was painfully bruised. It is hoped] that ii" permanent injury \v:ts sustained. Mit. W. C. Vkuki.i.. of Green wood, was in J town last Saturday. lie is one ol'tlie best far-1 niers in the County, and is the man who was | so disgusted witli Hckens a few years ago. i f lie has t wo cows from which lie gets from live 1 to six gallons of milk a day. He thinks the i stock law the best Jaw that we ever had. Mr. Jamks A. Bowie leaves to-day for the Northern markets where he expects to buy a ' larne stock of charming goods for the young ladles of Abbeville County. His store is al-1 ways an attraetiveplace. The ladies' depart- j incut is presided over by Miss ICIiza Cater, j i and none are more competent to please. Kil.KKD.?Mrs. Uetsy Johnson, died at Mr. I David Penny's residence near Gilgal last Mon-1 rday night, at an advanced age. Sunday night j xlie fell ofl' the piazza, and received such in-1 Juries as to cause her death the next night, j ISlie was a COIIIMMUIIb Illl'lliui'l UI UIV- VUU1V1I I for many years. ciiaxfjk ok Residences.?Mrs. Ooogler will return to her own dwelling which Is now occupied by Judge Lyon* Judge Lyon will occupy Mrs. James II. Perrin's residence ; Mrs. Perrlu has rented rooms in Mr. l>e lirutil's residence. ' Mr. James A. Bowio and Mr. James H Cunningham,and perhaps others of our town have received complimentary tickets over the railroads to Atlanta. They were sent with a view of inducing them to buy their | goods in that city. 1 Mr. T. G. 1'errin has taken a situation in L the store of Messrs. W. Joel Smith A* Son, > where he will he pleased to see his friends L whenever they wish to buy anything. Mr. K I'errin answers to the call of the belle at the I I Alston House. V Kktcuned.?Mr. V. E. Hell, of our town I who has been at Poughkeepsle business College for several months, relumed la.-t week, and is again at ills post at Messrs. Wardlaw & Edwards. A good and true inuu, we welcome hi in hack. | The monthly meeting of the "Woman's Missionary Society" of the Methodist K. Church south will he held in the church next Friday afternoon, at half imst .5 o'clock. A lull attendance of the members is earnestly desired. % Mrs. Dr. McKripr after spending some time at Walhalla, returned to Abbeville on Saturday. She went there for the beuetit of her Infant's health Which was much improved by the trip. k Enterprise.?'The Sunday's liryiitvr and Sunday's Chrunicle mtcl Sciitini'l came to us on K, Monday morning. We presume that the paW ' pers had been mailed by way of Charlotte. I Fiiwt Bale.?Mr. J. S. Jlritt brought the first new bale of cotton to this market last Saturday. Mr. 11. W. Lawsou bought it at 10U cents, weight. -J.SS pounds. Paralyzeu.?Mrs. Sassard, the mother of ^ our townsman, Mr. N. T. Sassard, Was slrick t il W lilt parai.vsis iiutb .-Miuruii.t, unu is nun | ? lying in a critical condition. S Mit. 11.51. Haddon lias returned from n fen two-weeks trip to NVilliamston. He gained j V four pound* in weight, after drinking several j H gallons of mineral water. w Ik yon do not sow enough wheat to feed I your faini' y you have no riuht to be classed as I ! u farmer. W heat can be raised at half the I I cost of corn. Mi:. U. P. QrARLRS of Ninety-Six was in at-j tendance upon the Court .Monthly and Tttes- j tlay. It's about lime Itichaid was getting; married. I.ast Wednesday Mrs. Livingston and Miss | Livingston returned from a visit to their brother Jlon. J. \V. Livingston at Seneea City. l'ltofrssoit Pattox of T)u.! West, was' among the distinguished dignitaries in at-J tendance upon the Court last Monday. I Mi:. Jakk 7.khji.ki: and family Iff! for ' Louisiana yesterday evening. Ma? ter Kdciit-, Ueleher left with theinr j Messrs. W. Joel Smith, W. A. Tempi eton, nnd 1. Giitieson, left for New York last Wednesday. Pkatu.?Mr. S. T. Martin, of Harrisbnrg dietl at his home last Tuesday, aged about forty years. Til scorn crop of fhls Conntw. will be much better than it was thought at one time, that it would be. Miss M amik IIii.i, of this town Is now on a visit to Mrs. Malcomb Krwin at Krwin's 4 Mill. Tiik Xncx and Courier publishes in full Mr. ? llenet's address before tlieTeacher's Institute. SS .IninK I'ukssi.kv Is Klrmiilnsr with his kins- i folk the Misses Cater at the Alston House. What about your harley patch ? It is all Important that you attend to it at once. Mr. John J. Cai.houn ami family have gone back to tlieir home In Georgia. Mrs. Smith lias returned from Ashevillc somewhat improved by her trip. Miss Logan, of (tree nwood, is 011? visit to Mrs. 1,. 11. Itykard of this town. I?r. J. II. Jennings wasin attendance upon the Court Monday ami Tuesday. \Vk had two full moons in August, and two meetings of the Literary Club. THERE will be a picnic at Erwlu's Mill next Saturday, tith instant. IIavk you sowed your turnips? If not attend to the matter at once. We are going to have a .rousing Fair this Fall, and you must come. Poi'iilk daily trains everyday this week on the Abbeville branch. a few cases of drunkenness on the public square Monday. mn. and Mrs. II. G. Pinckney of Charleston are in town. Coroner Cociiran Is in attendance upon the Court. Have you sowed oats? Don't forget to do so. Business Locals. I have been looking around and found I can do as well at Rogers' Cash Store, as anywhere In the city. If you dont believe what I tell you go and see for yourself. Rogers will treat you kindly, whether you buy Iroin him or not. rresn giocer.es ai nogers cneap ior me cash. Price tl<at coflcc at Rogers Cash Store and be astonished. liuy your groceries from Rogers. Iiuv your dry good* from Rogers. Buy your clothing! ^ from Rogers. Bay your boots and shoes'from 1 Rogers. liuy your candles both plain and ' French from Rogers. Buy everything you need this year or next from Rogers. (k> to see Rogers whether you want to buy anything or not, he wants to see you and give you his prices. I>ld you go to the Ranch while you were here Saleday? If not you certainly lost the j "golden opportunity of your life." The next i time you come,to town go and spend your money where y<3u will gel the best goods. 1 can't buy any good <!orn whiskey In Abbeville. Yes you can by calling on the Ranch man. Headquarters for Segars at the Kancbe. Don't you forget it. Justin at th6 Ranch o barrels assorted whiskies, brandies, ?fcc. I will receive shortly 'i.OOO the best Segars cner sold in this market. ISecr still on ice at the Ranch. Ice kept constantly on hand. + + Our Pablic School System. [JYViot and Courier.] The address of W. C. lionet, Ksq., before the Abbeville Teachers' Association, which was published in the .Yews afol Courier yesterday. Is a bold, able and striking presentation of the conservative, and therefore unpopular, side of the quest Ion of public education, and more especially of public education in South Carolina. Of Public School KySleniK in ccneral Mr. iienct says that tliey are the outgrowth "of an age of material prosperity, universal suffrage and materialistic and utilitarian mid that tliev derive from their origin some objectionable features." Of tliese objectionable features he mentions as the chief: k. 1. The tendency to regard results rather than methods of Instruction. 2. The lowering of the standard of education. 8. The loss of Individuality : mid 4. Theinenlcation of rtspirit of Odmmunism. The present Public School system of South Carolina Mr. Benet considers a New England Institution, entirely nnsnlted to th<s character and circumstances of onr people,and be treats as one of its most objectionable features 'he fact, that the schools are made free for everybody. One practical suggestion In the way of reform and retrenchment which is made In this able address will probably meet with universal acceptance even by those who are opposed to the spirit and ideas ol the address as a whole. We mean the limitation of the school ago to the six years between R 14, Instead of befeg extended over ten years aa now, from 6 to Hi. There are many other striking suggestions In this thoughtful essay, which, In its entirety, is well worthy the careful consideration - of those who make our laws. Union, August 2!).?Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, on T. R. Cudd's farm about six miles from Urilttn, Mr. Scove Cudii and two farm hands were blastinir in a well. While packing some gravel on the powder it caught tire anil burned out one of Mr. Cudd's eyes, and the physicians think he will lose " the sight of the other eye. It blew a sledge hammer out of the well, and it struck one of the employees and knocked him insensible for some time. The other man was not seriously hort. Mr. Cudd It is tUought is {danger* otisly burnt in the face. W. S. U. A Live Beaver on Lou:; Cam j T?asi Saturday C'?i>tain J. N. Cochri rovcied signs of a beaver about liis mi | and upoii digging soon discovered thoi j When found he ran from his hole, was led hydoiis, bill was killed by a sin U'apl.G. M. Hodges' pun. II weighed I? ! It had cut several small b'.islics varj I Kin- rriiin two to live inches in diamet | cuts resembling those made with :i hat Many years ago these animals were ous on Long Cane, anil their former w building dams across the streams i building lodges for themselves and f; conies to ns in tradition as interesting are marvelous. \\Y cannot help from e iini regret that tiiis strange visitor have been killed. For the in forma those who are not familiar with the eh; istics of tiie animal we append the iir:: The beaver lias the head compressed an unbroken line of profile from occ: mux./.le : - large incisors and S molars ] jaw, with large ami powerful muscles ting the movements of the inferior jar disproportionately small and vision o range; ears small, but hearing very sense of smell powerful; bociy short In the fore and hind legs, broad, hca' clumsy; length when full grown, from nose lo end of mil.ft. ? or X in.; weigl ;tii to ti'i His.; color reddish (in some lot yellowish) brown, in rareinstances Mai a few albinos or white beavers lmv found. Th- fore feet of the beaver are grade, and the hind ones plantigrade paws are small in proportion to the a and compared with the hind leet ; In ming they are not used, and nie folded the body; but. they are capable of som ry movement, which enables the bei handle and carry sticks, limbs of trees, ami stones, and to use his paws, as while sitting up or walking on his hit The hind legs are the propelling po< swimming, and the feet are fully <vcb the roots of t heclaws. The most consj organ, the tail, is from lO'-.j to 11!/, In. I< in. broad, nearly Hat, straight, and covc tlie length of !? or :?? m. wim ouick scales, ami is attached by strong muscli posterior projection. Theconimon orr the tail is the heaver's trowel Is conTn1 the tact that the animal always uses in soft earth as mortar ; but it always ser< pounder to )>ack mud and earth in con ing lodges and dams, is used in swiinm a scull, elevates or depresses the head, the body, assists in diving. and by stril uoweiftii blow, the report of which heard at the distance of half a mile, it an alarm ; while the strong muscles the beaver when standing erect to use t as a prop. Ileavers are rnonotreines, a; section is necessary to distinguish tl The female brings forth from i to <! y< May, ami weans thein in six week.' beaver lives from 12 to 1"> years. AVate natural element of the beaver, and its mentson land are awkward and slov commercial purposes, besides its fur. Mi er furnishes eastorcum. a secretion ii medicine as an anti-spasmodic, and it is much esteemed as food by trappers ji dbuis.?The beaver is social, pairs and up a family to maturity, anil soinetlni or more families inhabit the same pom common supposition that heavers live lages or colonies is erroneous. All the m?v uv<ici iii constructing or rci tiic common (lam,but each family linsi lodgeand burrows, and lays in itsow ply of provisions for the winter. A work Is carried on by night, little is ai known of their method except from i amination of what they ctleet The; build dams when they have eliosen the their settlements 011 running streams do not afford a sufficient depth of wate secure acainst freezing in winter; at they do by cutting down trees, invarlal stream of tlie place selected for tjieir \ that the current may bear them down ' the site. The trees which they thuseu wltlli their fore teeth are often live incites in diameter. Where current is the dam is carried horizontally acros where the water runs swiftly, it| is bui an angle or convex curve up stream, materials rest on the bottom, where tli mixed with mud and stones by the hi and still more solidly secured by the < of soil carried d< wn" by the stream, s the occasional rooting of the small 1 birch, and pojHar trees, which they pri their work, in the soil at the bottom, houses or lodges, seldom made to 1 more than four old and six or eight beavers, are very rudely built; sticks, mud. and ail the materials usi d In coti ing the dam. are piled horizontally. \\ method beyond that of leaving a aw the centre. There is no driving in o wattling of fences, and mud plastering scribed : and when leaves or grass are woven, it is done casually, not to hi mortar, as men apply hair for that pi The beaver conveys the materials bctwi fore paws and chin, arranges them w fore feet, and when a portion is placed wishes it. he turns about and gives it with his tail. In the breeding season, early summer, thebeavers do not live i houses, nor in communities, but only 1 gregarious in the winter, and when pre lor it. They begin to build ordinarily latter | art of .\uimisi, alHtouvh they HUM'S us i i II> ir 11 nn'iri vonn i ? but I heir Initio's arc not finished and | < <1 until late in thesoason, when the fi nf tlic nnul Hint water :is I Ik* material on ndi!" much to tile security of the I njjiinst ilie wolverene or glutton, whic! the exeepiion of man, is iheir worst ( The food of the !><?: vcr consists of tin I' th?-iispeii. willow, titrcii. |K>|)lar,an< of which i! lays :i|> in summer a stock winte-, on the hank opposite its lodge iiiile-*-ri.inipolli'?i hy necessity, it nvol resinous eve-greens, <nch as the pir heitiluek. Tnc heaver is easily domes! and becomes very tame. ilrecinvood Notes and Commei ny quip nunc. Cotton picking has begun in good ear 'J'ne season has been excellent l'orcuri tier, Mr. Wru. liaiicy and wife havejust ed from a visit to Anderson. Mr. James I'.ailey, a former resident < place, now of Macon, Ua., is visiting tiler's family here. Kev. Mr. I'ratr of Abbeville, lias re valuable assistance to Kev. II. Nina inutiie past week .n the conduct ol on here ami at 1'ine Or ive, during the ci a nee of wbicii. the membership of tiie church was cortsidi rab.v ttUgmcnted. Jolinnic Arnold, lilties >u < i Mrs. l-*Ii Arnold, fell from a tree which he had c for acorns, fracturing his leg just abo ankle joint. ilenry \\ illiams, colored, fell on the Saturday evening, and died in a ,shor after being taken to his room. Ilenry quiet good boy and had the esteem of white and colored memis. ucari in* supposed to have been the cause of !i ?lcl> dentil. Mr. st. Olsiir Lec lias purchased tli anil confectionary buslines of I'arks ?x tor. McNeil & Davis have removed store vacated by tlie* latter Ann, and 1 Reynolds X Co. will occtti'.v Ihe former of the last named firm, whose recent p business Mr. Leo occupies. The supply of chickens in this mark been unusually steady and abttndanl stringency brings to market cverythiu will brim; a few cents. Au old negress, ninety-seven years < lately Joined the Itaptist ciiureh and v merged. she had previously received tl tismai ordinance, but stated, alter sc five years of reflection she had reach conclusion that it was Irregular. Mr. Fletcher Anderson, telegraph op and wife, are now visiting relations in son. Mr. Jas. Davis and wife have returne tii eir mountain trip. Mr. Davis' uppe in dicates that niountain air is more ex t ing than the atmosphere of edgers. The dancing class are waiting for an rcgnum of tne revivals, when the soite be resumed with usual eclat. Rev. Mr. l'orter began a series of si at the Methodist church on Thursday continuing for several days, which wer attended and much serious interest wa lfested. The double postal cards, arranged u messages, enquiries and replies, k moi vunlent contrivance, have uot made tli poarance nt tliis oflice. Prof. Townes, of the Columbia Feina lege, and Miss Etta MoKellar, were n iti the iiaptist Church on the Uijtli ult. b H. C. Smart. Mr. C. K. Oldham of Paris, Ky., brol Messrs. J. H. and Lee Oldham or tills married on the 2t> ult. He mid bii< probably visit Southern relatives later MrSi Georgia Williams is visiting re near VVlllinmstnn. The public are thankf.il for the coi ed Itailroad rates. The local travel ai consequence, the local trade will be j. ingly increased, the itailroad cotters u and marked prosperity to the adjacent try will certainly |ensuc. | Mrs. Nancy Reynolds, wife of Itennc nolds Sr. died Tuesday evening after hours illness. She was attacked with < tive chili, followed by aonvuislons. Mrs. (i. K. Isaacs, of Columbia, is qi nt the residence of Mr. Isiutcswlio lly she has been visiting for several di Nctts From Ninety Six. [Frotn our own Correspondent'. 1 Ninety Six, S. Sept 1, Editor* Press caul Manner? J HO llVUIIrU "I "111 IMnil IVIJUHUC9 a single ease of fever making its appt here tills year. The good of ditchi "Kale Fowler" can now be seen. An will be made at the nex? session of the laturc to compel property owners streams surrounding tills place to ditel ami kct<j> tlicm cluuinl out. I Col. it. Wyntt Aiken has accepted a: tntion to address the Ninety-Six I, Club on the ISStli Inst, tliut being its anniversary. i Mr. Geo. C. Hodjres addressed tho ! I Schools at the Methodist Church on I dny. Miss T .a Horde lias returned hero, ) sunu'd the exercises of her school this ! lnjr. I Cnpk .1. N. King brought. the first ' now cotton to this market on Saturri vast 30. it was sold to Phillips & Jucl ! 10% and welRhed 4^'ti pounds. | Lieut. T. Stuart, Lieut. i>. L. Bryi . Cupt. W. Z. McOhee, were elected ju I the Inst meeting of the start Fort ( The white plume prize drill will take ] .Shumate's Hall on Friday evening th ! Inst. After tho drill the company will dance. j New pood* aro belnc received and tl iMiunfu ftiitlAlnalpa vrx>i! Km 11 trade. | Mm. Kaiuilo CaulJin, mother of Mi | Gauldlu, died at the residence of the j Friday evening August "4>. She hud i tlie ripe old age of KK) years. I A petition was to-dny forwarded [ County Commissioners signed by eve j In this place and vicinity praying that I Hridge" be built at Roreman's Mill I bridge is a necessity to the public and be built at once. Give us a free bridg ! Largo quantities of oats are being i j from here to different parts of th< i Our farmers are sowing largely. X. ! Tprnip seed may still be sown. All | make use of the opportunity and put | ral crops. There will be a mooting of thociti Abbeville 011 Friday evening to now ticket for town council. I ** ? I Grants Candidacy. [Ill UIS- ' J rjpj u'tlmal' WHAT IS THOUGHT ABOUT IT. fSill- I . , j T% , , / ( .t' rrt.iii !S(,,,alor Hill Anxious 10 ucueve ucn-i ; pound | eral (?rant?Senator (ionlon Doubts .-iiif? in. His Sincerity. ] 'l?"K i [X i*. Herald Oirrc.ipondcncc.l ||," .diet. | .\ti.ama, Ga? Auuust ?">, lsj?.?Your cor-lth iiuiucr- i respondent called on Senator Mill at his home! ti" ork in I this morning aiul called his attention lothc'ii; , sn interview between General (trailI- ami the! ea ' I Viceroy of'i'ictitish, in which General Grant's I sei unlllcs j possible succession to President iinyes was j pa as tliey j discussed. .Mr. Hill said: j ne v.,r?.siv. ' iiave read tin- short conversation to which j tii ''"! you allude and i can assure you that, I read it j tie should I with great interest. I noted with pleastirei tli lion of General Grant's positive expression of dism-j <|ii ;cltnation to alio! tier Presidential term." or inuur-; "What did ,v?iti think of the effect ofthatiini follow-1 interview upon our politics?" I po I "i am anxious to lielieve and J will believe i it., I with that General Grant is sincere in these utter-Jen J | ances. 1 desire to believe that we have some-j Ki< in fieii i ll'lngdecent and even great left in American co ' I I politics, and these words of General Grant, if da i' * eves i were uttered sincerely, and if he Is stead- on r 'short | f;,sl enough to act upon them, are both decent l-'r and great. indeed it is not too much to say foi [ 'tween I ",:l1 " (ic'n,'ral Grant shall act upon t lie wise re: ' j and patriotic sentiment lie lias thus express ev< ,tlu of eiilie will prove himself to be afar greater nn , f . ! man than ever his warmest admirers have ilitles claimed liim to be. Jtui If it shall turn out "|. . i that he has uttered these words merely to dee been ceivc as a means of seeming to push aside the i H i,; Presidency, only that lie maj >eize it the | The nloru certainly, as t'asar did tiie crown, thin * nitii-il be will prove himself to lie a man of the low- , swiin- ?st eunninjiand far worse than his littcrc-st I ly ' under I eu<-'n,les have ever claimed him to be." j - j f roia-l General Grant's Great Words. j tlx 'Yiiu'l"! "^? vou think it possible that General!sl." ' tin tiiiu I Grant could he using these won is with a view i )Vuf deceiving the public?" | V) < iver Tn Sl?v "'at J desire to believe that he is sin-1 bed i,)Icere,ami that i will believe it until forced to,}'" licuous 11111 "Pposite conclusion. There are some!1'" in" 5'/: I cu,'"l,s points in Gen. Grant's character. 1 wj Ted for l,0,lbl " he could make an argument. lie Is | " ' hornv certainly not a constitutional lawyer. And J, to ? I yet lie bus frequently said great things. lie J'" or tint! uttered expressions equal to anything in led bv I history. Hut It. must be conceded that lie lias j "1( ,U1 .,?;i not always lived up to the spirit of his past! r!'( .'esasa I Si,yings. i I Is conduct and ills words at the c"' struct- I 'he war were-fully equal to those of!'"' injr ns I the greatest eommanders in any ace or conn-I j!) turns! l|-y.and when hcdcsccnded liiio politics bis j'' j.|T1>P j", | actions took all the brighter pl??ry from the 0!; can"be j'"ceord he had made, as a great general. On a (VV:| irives celebrated occasion lie said, 'No man worthy I enable 11?? Mold the Presidential ollice would take It. j nl.1 iie'tall J tiii ii led with fraud!" Nothing greater or betnl (lis-1,(-r than tins was ever said by any man. Hut | .,ni le sex 'l,rns out that at that very moment he was ,'{M iuii" in" doing wliat. the Constitution did not author< The 'Zv' su'd what no precedent could excuse?a p-1 r Is the P0'n<f"g visiting statesmen, who stimulated j' niove- encouraged thegreatestfraudeverkuown j v For "'C history of any people. No man did j,.' e'beav- half so much as General (irant to give liiislf "1 seil 'In fmud tinal consummation. Hut I believe that i { '/ s flesh 'n ",c instances noted ami in the similar inind In- stances (ieiieraityrant meant what lie said, ; , brines '"in that his meaning was destroyed bythcae- : es two tlon of bad men who unfortunately had his!}!' 1. The confidence,anil wiioeared nothing for Gen- "J.1 in vil- er;l' ' "rant's fame or for the country's good. , , iniiab- "Now," continued Mr. Hill, "the same class- '.V lairing of men will try to nullify General Grant'sj, , ts ()U1"J grand words to the Viceroy. They "'III try to 1 n sup- use General Grant so that tliey can make s their raid oil the otlices. If they succeeil with him :'. . Hially 1" this instance,as they have in the past, they | j* ' iiw.'i.v. I will ruin ii is fame irretrievably. Hut it Gen-i |j v"<?niV eral (trailt will only lu: linn enoumi 10 msrc- t . site of IJard them, and toiiet out liisown wise and! which patriotic utterances he will live in history by j r to be tlieslde of Washington." | ISV'un Ilappy for tlio Country. * | veir.so "If General (J rant shall so act what will be j }ji< toward tlie cU'eot ?" jl,, t down "The ctfect of General Grant's declination j m or six will be happy tor the country in every re-; gentle, speet and In a great degree. lie is the only i s(|. s ; but man living?he is tltoonly man that will live! ne It with in many generations?who would dare tons-1 jj;i The?e sault the most sacred traditions of our his to-1 ^vj icy are ry and our most sacrcd guarantee of tcpuhli-1 [ avers, can government. No oilier man will attempt vcj ilcposit the sacrilege. I am not speaking now as a mil by party man. This lucstiou rises above parly (.,j A'lllow, [ or party considerations. Besides, I thinf; ov! efer lor thai the Kepuhlicans might make a iifuch ]*, Their stronger iiominatiati than that of General j ontain Grant would be. They could male* a much do young belter race under such a man as Kvarts or v<? s'toni 8, Justice .Miller in Ismi than with Grant. I.ut a., istruet- General (irant could defeat either of them in ir? illi no a nominating eonventiou. And I must con- j(l Ity in foss litniocral as lam, that. I would regard f piles, the election of Kvarts or Miller as a less na- ai , as de- tionai calamity than the simple nomination j)n inter- of General Grant. If (irant should be nonii- jj,. nd the na'ed in ISS'i we would have one of the most j,e" nrpose. bitter and dangerous campaigns that ibis ,,r, ecu his country has ever seen. 1 most, heartily wish j |,j.. it I) his to avoid sueh a campaign for I In- good of the I. ! as lie I country. I am not ashamed to say that 1 : r" a slap I hope?I sincerely hope?that in ?both parand In I ties will nominate their very best statesmen, n their; In that event we shall avoid the danger and I ?. iccoine I sluinie of a bitter sectional campaign. :>11 -1, 1 jr", paring whatever the result may be, It wiil not be j j3j, in the I destructive." I ;lt, some-j Senator (Jordan's Views. Hi nim-'T; J co laster- I m''' Gen. Gordon atthc (Japllol and nsk-] .in ree/.ingj Pl' him what lie thougitl of General Grant's j1((| is iaid 1 interview with Prince K'.ing. I ,I( ?eavers j "1 cannot put much confidence," said he, j y |i, with ' "I" ho apparent motive of Ceueral Grrul's 1 ' lieniy. j words. Ji s?'iu< to me that In* does no! de- j' , ; bark ciiue positively. i?ut rather puts Himself In j .'' raider, | the attitude of being able to say, iu case of i for the i tne failure of his party to give lilin the nom- ' ' s ; but1 ination, that he had declined it, and iu ease i: j ' ' Id's the' is tendered him lo say that it came lo him'. io and unsought ami over his protest. I must cou-il Heated, I less, therefore, that 1 cannot consider this j declination oil the part of General Grant. It 11 , I would be very easy for him tosj.eak positive-] f ' ly upon the subject." ] t j(, "l?oyou think it will be accepted as uosi- j x i "I do not know. I think this: I do notbc- . s. j lievc that'Jeiicral <jrant,could hp elected if j , hcMvcro nominal <!, and I tliinl: that tin- par- ,u, i ty managers know that to ho true. The art!- jfl nest. I clcs of the 'Herald' <111 Cfej;ari.xiu of several I . ngfod-i jearsiigo made an ineilaecable impression j upon tun American mind, and (iencral ja', return-1 (irant's nomination now or hereafter would j'() I ho i!a>.rat-.tly in violation of the* spirit Dialj >f this j inspired these articles and an outrage "!,o:i j his fa- the sentiment, of the country. The example . I of Washington has b<-en so strengthened hy ' ntlernd continued examples that it lias income the 1() rt Uur-1 miwritten law of the country, and one of our ,, iictings most essential laws. The people will no; sec ' '1 >niinu- it violated, save in some tremendous ciner- ' j latter j getiey. $0 emergency uxisis at present, ex- ^( jeept lite cniel^eiiey i?!'a tew dispossessed o!'-|^0 /iiheth | lie- iud.lets. So, I say this feeling ag.lnslja!' iimhed third term, would inevitably defeat. 1. en era I ' ve the t?!ant, even if there wro no vulnerable Jj ' poJm.s in his record and weakness in his ad- ... street j ministration. I J.(._ 1 w.',1!1? I The only Chancn for the Kcpsilili- j pe many ???* ^ case is "I11 addition to this,'' continued (ieneral | (tj is Mid-1 tiordon, "I do not believe that any'stalwart' ,j(.| i can carry the country in l*sti. or ever a'^ain. I ?j?|J e drug j The oil,y chance for the Hepu'diean party in ,.p. Hun- my opinion, is to nominate some man til lih- j (lf' to the oral and patriot!" views, who can win back n, Bcnnct to the ranks the liberal men who have been Lr, 'stand driven from them. If I thought this country cjj lace of could be carried on a sectional or violent I platform next year?after the war has been I faj et has elosed for fifteen years?alter the pcace-lov- f.,| [. The in<.'{ law-abiding record of the South for the jn ig that past six years?I should almost despair of the Keptildie. I should know to a certainty if nee, | that we need never hope for complete nation- I k'ns im- ai harmony and reconciliation,and that the for ic bap- South would he held in continual and lasting I W; venty- subjection to the North, or that sonic fearful ] At ed the disaster would befall us. Of -course if (Jen. 11; ( rant is sincere In his words they are very in) erntor, important. Hut. whether he is sincere or Inn Ajaler- cunning, J do not think he could be elected j \v< J l U'MUVllu^.iiu ; uaiM-, wwiii.^ *a?v .....v ....... <1 from | people wiil never alve a third term of the kc arance presidency to any living man; and, second- af hilara-j ly, because he has represented und still rep- on resents, through his friends, a policy of pro- ioi Inter- jserintion and sectionalism thu* can never ah eswlll naain. in my opinion, carry this country. It ha could not do it in J<7l?: it will never again! I e crvices come so near doing it." It ln night. , , , ! nr, e well in sman- A Swindling1 llncninc. tii t [Cluster JJullelinA I f'1 it con ' The last issue of t!ie Abbeville Press and, ( ir -iii- i lf^nner, says the 1'eriiisy Ivania Land Comiia- '!" ' i nv now proposes to lend Ahheville county (,c i r. . | farmers money on their farms to one-half J1" i their value at 7 per cent, interest. No loans J."1 v ltcv Iar,!1,1 ^l? ll,:ide for a shorter period than three !il' j lvev. i yt.!irS) or (or a period than twenty "jj , . f years. Mr. John 1{. Moore of that county, i P" I ? having seen tho advertisement of this con- su le will ' ccr,,? has written on for the agency, and if lie in tiin has, will post haste, we venture to say, rej ceive his eotnmission. We don't know, but if j ! ,, ; this is the concern that advertises in some of wj j the State papers under the name and style of I s;t mmut I l'ie "United .States Home and liower Associa- i n i "Z tion of Pennsylvania," it is a most infernal fi. 'nitlfv i swindling niaehine. V , 'ill till' United .States Home and Dower Asso- t tl ' ' '! rial ion of Pennsylvania." has been advertis- .... , coiiii- jDjrj,, tlic Creenville Enterprise and Mmm* t T!nv. ' to'iiecr. and has established an agent there for a fev;<ireenvitle, .Spartanburg. I'liiou, York, Oco onires ' l"'?' ^"derson, ],aureus, Newberry, and Pick- m, ' * I ens counties. This'concern had established j() iite ill 'u business in these counties.with W. A. Hud- .... <e fain-1s"", OI ?i'eenvillc. as agent, and E. A. Whit- j,j * comb, Manager, with his headouarters at At- ... ^ I I..Ml.. 11.1 'l'l,..U/. M'lw, ?m,li?.| ft IP 111.. .if .. money were required to advance S-VJ as a j guarantee of faith, and over one thousand S!l dollars have thus been mulcted from 'citizens j.u of Greenville, Abbeville. and .Spartanburg. .,r Whitcomb, whose o|ierations have been ex- j,,| 1S70. tensive, suddenly disappeared from A!lantaj;m last Week. carrying oil' in liis sal'eahoutS-S.OiH). i jj, When investigation was made it. was found tj, od, not that no applicant had received his loan. <^c . araticc | j>| "cfillrt i Itftilnind Passenger Kates. ^ : Legis- [ (Charlotte Obs'tver.) w| along Excursions have been run every two or li them , three days, since the middle of June, over the I/;< j Western North Carolina Hail road Irom Sails- | ,,< a invi- bury to the head of the road, and the sails- j j.-j ,iterarv : bury Xvux remarks ilial tliey have been well ?c second I patronIzed. It accounts lor tnis l>y tlie fact I that tickets have been sold <USi for the round ail Sunday i trip, and that the people are always ready for | pj yester-1 recreation when they can enjoy it tor tin jj I amount tif money which is within their I w and re-; means, Undoubtedly tills is the solution of RlI , morn-1 tiiu matter. Empty ears may be pulled day j ,n ! after day over any road which maintains i jjj bale of j hi?h passenger rates, but let these be lowered ay Au? and the trains are crowded. It may be said cson at that the low rates are well enough to attract ,,, an occasional crowd, hutthat they will not do in, and lor a steady thing. This season's experience u, dges at on the Western North Carolina road has jj, ,/uards. proved that the contrary proposition is cor- ,n place at reet. This case could not be cltetl In support j), e 12th., of an argument In behalf of low passenger t() have a rates If there had been but one or two excur- fr, sions and tliey had been well patronized; but S(, 10 mer- they have been rim weekly, frequently as many as four times a week, and it is stated ( ,. .juiiij miut ill uvurjr iiimuijuu iiivir pnytxiwrs im??; t ]n s latter, made money. Many persons have gone on ; u, readied them three or four times during the season,)^. m> that it cannot l>e said that curiosity to see to tiic the mountains or the enginecringou tlie Ulue p, rybody Kidge has carried thera: the explanation of M a "Free their going is that they could go clwaply and 0. . This rest nnd refresh themselves while observing v" should the rules of economy. It is not asked of the >v e. railroads that they make any business sacri- ,.j shipped flee; it Is, on the contrary, sought to beshown ,| ; state, them how they may Increase tlicirrecelpt-s by Y. Z. lowering their mtes and carrying more peo- Y( pie. Railroad managers are supposed?and (), , .. with good cause?to know more about tl?e < t<. should practical operation of railroads Hi an other j,, in libc- poonle, but it is doubtful if there are not. oth- p, ors who know more about the temper of tlio- ,, masses than they do,nnd could not give them j; zerts of some points of value about their own afl'airs. liuuto a!a" friendliness the subject here discussed i j. j is couimeudcd to their consideration. ju 1 i mm h iiwhm* ihil. uu.>ji.t.-yuwlil.iju nni.ai nn; diary of a public max."' io True Inwardness of the Civil War. Ily One Who Lived in Washington ( and Knew. [Xorth American Review.] I THE W.SINESS ASl'EOT OK SECESSION*. fn came s , with a face n.s long as his ' ;s, to show me a note from .Senator Uenja-11 m, t(? whom he had written liitjiilrinjf as to j e ell'ecl, if any, which the farce at, Mont.-1' liicry would lie likely to have upon patent]; ;hts. Jtenjaiuin writes that ofemir.se he . ii only speak by inference, and under re- [ J rve, but lliat.in his present judgment, every ;' tent riuht granted by IhernliedsinYos will ;1 ed to bo validated by the (ioveriiment of.! e (,'onfcdcratc States before it can he tield to j of binding force within the. territory ol'jj c new reputitic. No wonder S isdis-j leted ! It the tiling only lasts six months!' a vcur. as it easily may unless jrrcat and 1 I' list say at. present not-to-be-looked-lor | j iitical judgment is shown in dealing with j; what confusion and distress will thus be I a I oil throughout our manufacturing reins! J have no doubt myself, though I ' 11 lil not eel Mr. l>rnj>er toseo it as i do to- j y, thai these Confederate eor*trivers will at ' ee set negotiations afoot in Knglntul and in |' anee for free-lradeagiveinents in some such j' 'in as will inevitably hamper us badly in uljusting matters for the national tarltr, L'li after we aU'eet a basis of political accoinnlation with them [. I.INCOt.N ON NEW YOIJK, MAYOR WOOD, | AN I) THE IMt'OllTANCK Of DEMOCRATIC ' SUI'l'OUT. ily conversation with Mr. Lincoln was brief j d hurried, but not entirely unsatisfactory? | s lecd.on the main point quite tin; reverse, j t ; is entirely clear and sensible on the vital 11 portanee of holding the democrats close to I i' Administration on' the naked Union is- u "They are." he said to me, "just where I Whiss were in MS about the Mexican war. 1 D had to take the Locofoco preamble when s ylor wanted help, or else vote against help- > 3; Taylor; and the Democrats must vote to I Id the Union now, without hotlierlng 1 icthor we or the Southern men got things < lere they a-e, and we must make it easy for I . m to do this, because wecan'^livc through I j case without them," which is certainly i ssimp'e truth, lie reminded me of our I ;ot I hit at Washington, but I really couldn't 1 all the circumstances with any degree of arncss. lie is not a great man certainly, < d.but for something almost woman-like i the look of his eyes, [ should say the most l tavored son of Adam I ever saw: bu^he Is t ifly ami sensible, ami owned to me that ho t ,s more troubled by the outlook than lie \ jiigiil it discreet to show, lie asked me a * ruber of questions about New York, from i lich I gathered for myself that lie is not so ( ...ii in tin. immis of Mr. Seward as I had I i : ? k'i| to think, :tiul 1 incline tobelicvethat! | . Harney is nearer the truth than I liked I s morning to think. Hp was amusing < , [>ut Mayor Wood and his speech, and seems i have a singularly correct notion of that i irtliy. Jlc asked me what I had heard of I b project said lo he brewing here for delaeli- .< : New York city not only" from the Union ? t from the State of New York as well, anil iking it a Kind of free city iiIce Hamburg. i>hl him I had only heard of such visionary ins, and th.it the oply importance I a It rib- , ,'d to them was, that they illustrated the t cessity of getting our commercial affairs j fk into a healthy condition as early as pos- , tie. "Thiit is true," he replied: "and no- J dy fecis it more than I do. And as to the j e city business?well, I reckon it will be f ne time before the front door sets up iiouse- j oping on its own account," which struck ( s as a (piaint and rather forcible way of putig the ease. , made an appointment for Washington, t lere lie will be at Willard's within a few ( ys, and agreed to write to . .Mv cousin , ??came to me with a most amusing ae- '| tut of the I'resident-clect at the opera in v . (' 's box, wearing a pair of huge black ' 1 gloves, which attracted tin; attention of 3 whole house, hanging as they did over the ( I velvet box-front. V was in the box j positc, where some one, pointing out the , ange, dark-looking giant opposite as the , xv ('resident, a lady first told a story of | ijor Magruderof the army, a Southern man ! | io tool: otl' his hat when a profession of ( nle-awak''s passed his llroadxx'ay hotel last ( irand said, '"I salute the pall-bearers of the , nstitution": and then rather cleverly ndd, "I think weougbt tosenil "oino lioyers , i-r Hie xvay to the undertaker of the , lion." j Hiring one of the rutr'actrx, V xvent , xvn into what they call the "directors' , an" of the Academy, where shortly after j pearcd Mr. (' with Mr, Lincoln, and a ; iop of gentlemen all eager lobe presented , the new rreshlent. V said Mr. Lin- | :i looked terribly bored, and sat on the sofa the end of the room with bis hat pushed ( ck on his head, the most deplorable figure : it can be imagined, putting his hand.out to , shaken in a ijueer, tne.'lianical way. i am j aid V ha* a streak of his sarcastic tndmatnma's temper in him. E Ki.N'OMINJOtr.4 XKilfT-UIDE KKOM IIABliismruc. ; Wasiiinton, February 21th. since I sat and listened to the silvery but , lly satanic speech of Senator I'cnjamin, on <taking leave of the Senate three weeks f). nothing liasntlectcd lue so painfully as is most iiiifortunate ni^ht-tripof Mr. I.inIn's from llarrisburg here. It is in every asinablc way a most distressing and ill vised thing, and i can scarcely trust, myself think of it,even here alone in my room, p. Sexvard feels about it as I do, though h" eels, with his usual and rather exasperating aunptioii of levity, to laugh it oil". Hut ii sshaken my confidence, and it will shake confidence of a good many more people in p reality of his influence over this strange w man from the West, It. gives a xveiglit d importance of the most dangerous sort. ?. to tlie stories which t he opponents of a , neeful and satisfactory adjustment have en so sedulously nutting .about in regard to e disposition of the border Stales, and parnlarly of Maryland; and It can not fail to cite a most mischievous feeling of contempt the pers-riial character of Mr. Lincoln in>elf throughout the country, especially at p South, where It is most important that epic should at this moment ha ve !>cen made i understand that tin- new Adiiiidistration mes into power hi the ordinary legitimate i.v, and will be presided over i>y a man of v anil order, w ho has confidence In himself, the people of the eotintry, and in the in to loyally ??i \moricans 10 wit; i;nv. . no t believe one word of the cock-and-bull irvof the Italian assassins, which Mr. SewI told nic to-day had been communicated Mr. Lincoln as coming from ({"nerat Scott; d it was dear to ino that Mr. Howard himf did not bellcVe one word of it. Kvcn t!i the brief glimpse! got in New York of r. Lincoln, I a;n slow to bellevein his being weak and valvar a tnan as this perforinee indicates, ?nd I am satisfied that, some traordi nary pressure must have been everiupon him to make him d<> a thing wiiicli, any time, would iiave been deplorable and indiilou?;. and which appears to i:ie, liapninjr at. tiiis moment, to be nothing less in calamitous. 1 can think of nothing e. It really throws the whole machinery our system oil'its center. Arc we really I ft ina into the wake of Spanish America? lis can not. lie; and yet, when we have lehed a point at which an elected President the United States consents to he smuggled rough by night to the capital ofthocnuni*. lest lie should be murdered in one of the ief cities of the Union, who can blame tinit of the world for believing that we are a lure, or quarrel with desperadoes, like \VlgI. for taking it for granted? It is sickeng. MR. STANTON'S KSTtMATB OF LIXOOI.X. called at Willard's Hotel, and left my card Mr. Lincoln, who had gone out. Hut, as I is cross ilia Fourteenth street, I inet tiie torncy-tieneral, who stopped me to ask if lad been the President-elect since lie "crept lo Washington." It is impossible to be >re bitter or malignant than he is; every nit was a suppressed and a very lll-supesscd sneer, and it cost me something to ep my temper in talking with him even for ew moments. When he found that I had ly met Mr. Lincoln once, to my recoiled l, he launched out into a downright tirade out him, saying he "hail met him at the ? <im<1 ft.mi/1 liim <i Imu* j'llliliiipr HoU'll.'' ould not.resist telling lii:u as \vc parted, nt! hoped the President would takean oflltl mid not a prrxonal view or his successor iinv relations lie might lmve witli him. I Ink lie fell, the thrust, for he bowed morel /Illy than lie is apt to do, when he left me. it .Mr. Stanton's insolence shows how very Isehlevous the etloet of this wretehod iilunr has already heen ; and. while It appalls even to suppose that Mr. Seward can have d any hand iu it. it is not in licit more satls:tory to helieve timt ho really has so little iluencc with Mr. Lincoln as would bo lulled in his not hnvlns boon consulted as to eh a st'-p ut such a juncture. WITH Jilt. MNCOI.N IN* WASHINGTON'. WashiN'fiTON, February i-'th. ilalf an lion* with Mr. Lincoln to-day. lioh confirms nil my worst fears. I should y ho Is at his wits' ends, if he did not seem | 1110 to t)o<so thoroughly aware of the fact ;it some other people are in that condition, j old hlin frankly, on his own provocation to . e subject, what I thought would be the ad-j ntages to his Administration, and to the untry, of putting into the Cabinet, and | vc him to understand, as plainly as I ought becoming, that he must not look on i! as acting in concert with any set of men nrj.'(.' mat, nom inn: ion, ?>t ?n,i umi-i i., .JIon, nnon l?lm. 1 iMnk Ik* saw that I was I earnest; ami. at all events, lie advised me write to?In thetcrmsin which 1 wished to I itc to him. [ was sorry to find him anxious about. the let.v of Washington, and he asked ine some j estions iiliout Captain Stone, which surged men little, and annoyed me more. I Id him what. I knew of Stone personally. I d what had heen said to nie about him. by | u most competent men in the army, at (lie j lie when be lirst came here, by Genera! ; otfs wish, to reorganize the militia of the i strict. He seemed very glad to hear of) is, and was very in neb taken with a story lich I told him, and for the accuracy of iiieli I could vouch, that when Captain one, upon an urgent recommendation of meral Scott., was appointed totheeoinmand the JMstriet militia, in January, Governor oyd was excessively en raided, and tried to t his own nephew, "Charley ,Iones?" who id been previously nominated tor the post, id who Is a desperate fellow, to insult.Stone, ek a quarrel with him, and shoot him. Mr. tcoln s melancholy countenance lighted up itli a twinkle In Ills eye. "That was not eli a had Idea of Floyd's," he said, in a slow, editative sort of way. "Of eotirse, I'm glad [ one wasn't uhot. and that there wasn't any i each <>r the peace ; i>ut?if tho custom could ] ! generally introduced, it might lubricate utters in ilie way of making political a|>- I ilutmentx!" After a Ilttln, lie recurred to i o dangerous condition of Washington. I en spoke very earnestly, for it was clear to e that lie must be still under the pressure of esame evil counsels which had led liini Inthiit dreadful business of the night-ride inn llarrlsburg; mid I urged him toputnbliute confidence in Hie assurances of Captain one. I told him, what I believe to be perctly true, that tho worso stories about the itr-nded Incursion* into Washington, and ic like, all originate with men like (icoiuc Hinders, of New York, and Arnjild Harris, ' Tennessee, once a particular follower of resident lUiehmiRn, but how a loud and noisy icesslonlsl?men whocsiuio into my mind bent si: t had passed them in tho hall of the try hotel in which we were talk in?, and in i hicli they have been telling wonderful s(o-| ..c .if ,.,.,iL.,lr,K.v mi,I ivtulKttill.'llloil. frolll I ic hotel porches, to anybody who will listen > thcin for weeks past, Kc listened to me cry attentively, and, sinMeiily .stretching I it his hand, picked up and handed ineanote I > look nt. i recognized Senator Sumner's iindwritinfr as I took it, and was not, there?re, particularly surprised tofiml it alarmlsh j nd mysterious in tone, biddinx Mr. Lincoln, j >r particular reasons, to bo very careful how i? went out aidno at. ni;:ht. 1 saw that Mr. I ineolii watched mo while I read the note, j nd i perhaps may have expressed iu my rountenancn an opinion of the communication which I <lid not think it civil to put Into words,merely reiterating, as I laid It back on the tal?ie,'my own conviction that there was nothing to tear In Washington, anil no occasion lor measures likely to Inlltienec the public mind unfavorably in other parts of the country. As I arose to so, Mr. Lincoln pulled himself together up out oftho rockingchair, into which lie had packed himself, and, winning me good-naturedly for a moment, said, very abruptly, "You tiei-er put backs with Sumner, did you ?" I suppose I looked is much surprised as 1 felt; but I laughed and <aid tlisit, I tllil ilOMliiiiK i ever iiiiu ut#iic m). ' Well, I suppose*! licit," In.- said; and then, hesitatinga moment, wont on; "When he ivas in hero I asked liim to measure with me, ind do you know lie insula a little speech iliout it." I tried to look civilly curious, sind Mr. siiu::iln. with sin indescribable glimmer i'd over his face,conr.inucd: "Ves," he said, 'lie told me he thought 'thiswasa time for uniting our front sand notour backs before the enemies of the country," or something like that. 11 was very line. lint I reckon the truth was"?and at this p >int! was coin pel led lira Inst my will to laugh aloud?"i reckon the truth was, lie was?afraid to measure!" \nd with tills he looked down with some complacency on his own really Indescribible length of liinb. "lie is a Rood piece of si man. though ? Sumner," lie added, halt tui/./.leally, half apologetically, "and a good inan. I have never had much to do with olshops down where we live; but, do you tnow, Sumnor isjust my idea of a bishop." Vt that moment a door opened, nnd sv ludy ame In, in not a very ceremonious way, I thought, dressed as if either just about to go nto the street, or having just come In.' .Mr. Lincoln presented me to her as his wife, sind i exchanged a few words with her. Perhaps [ looked at her through the mist of what Hen* ilor Douglas had intimated to me; but cerainly she made a disagreeable Impression on ne. she is not Ill-looking, and, though'her nanners sire not those of a well-bred woman >f the world, there would be nothing partfeusirly repulsive ahoutthesn, were it not for the nird. almost coarse tone of her voice, and for iiincthing very like eunnisig in the ex prosiiosi of iier luce. With the recollection of Mr. Douglas's account of her relations with icr liusbann, the thought Involuntarily oc:urred to me of the contrast between his own lenutifuland most graceful wife and this cor nisily dowdy aim bi mo musi uujuei.ti.-oe.-^.ng little woman. I think if the wives Imd teen voted for,oven by I lie women, Mr. Dongas would lie President-elect to-day. Tlic passases were thronged as I came out. )n the stairs I met Mr. licit, who stepped islde with 1110forn moment to tell me how ii ticli iic was impressed with the conservative one of Mr. Lincoln's mind, and to go over he story I had yesterday heard of the Interview of Tuesday night. . I did not think it .vortn while to dampen his feelings by hintn:r whatjudgmcnts I had formed of It all mm Senator Douglas's account of It, nor to isk him what hope there could he from tlie.se impositions of the Peace Con arress after what ook piace yesterday in the New York deleration. littl the truth is, lam losing all heart ind hope; there has been more Cabinet-makugihaii peace-making In theI'cnccCongress; [ am beginning to he afraid that tho Virginia iccessionlstsnre trilling designedly with Mr. Seward and *11 our friends. MK. I.ISCOI.N HIS OWN PRIVY COUNCIL. Senator Douglas could not or would not sec ,liis. even thotmh he admitted tiiat he knew lie Inaugural address to have been prepared jy Mr. Lincoln himself, without consulting m.vbody, so far as It appears, at Springfield; ind though lie could give me no good reason or believing that Mr. Lincoln has so much as iliown it to Mr. Seward or anvbody else sinec io reaeded Washington. Everything seems o me to be at sixes and sevens among the very men who ought to be consulting and luting together with united elforts to force ,be conservative will of the country on all lie desperate intriguers of both sections. Senator Douglas tells me to-night that, an effort is making now to get, not Corwin, but iuniner, into the state Department, but that Mr. Adams has refused to have anything tc io with it. Is is only what was to have been xpected of a man of Mr. Adam's good sense ; tonly Illustrates the desperation of the rnk >r ruin faction in the Republican party; and hat, I can not help but feeling, is a very formidable force to deal with, especially when iirought to bear upon such a man as Mr. Lin (Mil, Willi IIIH U.M'CUU YU INr.\|'i-llUili:u, llliu III tin; presence of the unprecedented dlilicultie? ivitii which he Is to deal. ? Still I can not think lie will lot go Ills hold in -Mr. Seward unci the great hotly of strong, sound opinion which Mr. Seward now undoubtedly represents. My chief fear, and a> to this Senator Douglas agrees with me, If from Mr. Seward's own friends and reprcson tattves here. These New-Yorkers are the most singular combinations of arroganet und timidity in polities I have ever heard r>r read of. I do not wonder tnat the Wcsterr men dislike them; they are almost as muel" if a mystery to their nearest neighbors, lie fore going, Senator Douglas had a word to saj ibout President liuchanan and the South Car olina Commissioners. Hetclls me that it hat now been ascertained that the President nom iiialed his Pennsylvania Collector at diaries ton on the very day, almost at the very mo inent, when he was assuring Colonel Orr through one of his retainers, that he was dis posed lo accede to the demands of South Car iilina If they were courteously and with propel respect presented to him. They rewroM their letter accordingly, submitted It to tin President's agents who approved It and sen it lo the White House. This, Senator Doug las says, was on January ;id, in the morning The Commissioners spent tnc (ifternoon ii various jilaces, and dined out early. On com lug in, tin y found their letter to tiie I'residen ii v. iiltln'_' them. It had been returned to then by a messenger from the White House, abou three o'clock 1'. M.; rind on the back was ai endorsement, not signed by any one, and In clerkly handwriting, to the eirect that tin President declined to receive the communl ration I They ordered their trunks packed a one.*, and left for home byway of Illchmom mi the four o'clock morning train, feelilit: not unreasonably, that they have been botl duped and insulted. INCKEASIXa uusi.vk.ss troit11les and COM PLICATIONS. Washington, March 2il. The distress at home grows hourly wors und worse. And this preposterous tarll which they have assumed to establish a Montgomery points to a still worse state o tilings. If there are many at. Montgoiner; bent, like some of the worst men we liav here, on really driving the t wo sections int war, they are taking the direct way to the! liorrilih' purpose. 1 can pet no positive ligh lis to the actuai stale of things In regard t< Fori Sumter; though writes to me fron Xew York that he is positive Mr. Ilolt ha taken measures to ^secure reinforcements fo the fort,and that it will not be evacuated cei tainly before -Mr. Uuchanan retires. Tli news that the Confederates have made Mr i'oomlis their Secretary of State is voryoml noits. There Is no wilder or more unsaf man a I i v<?; and his last speech in tlieMenat was as detectable In point of spirit as tli maiden speech, on the other side, of thn n >isy and vulgar cockney Orator l'uir, Semi tor linker, who came here heralded as such i wonder ot eloquence, and who went to piece so o unpieiely in his tlrslCiTort under theclos and withering tire of lienjamin. I met tli mail aeain to-day as J passed Into the Nation al, ami 1 really could hardly speak to bin civilly. It Is such men as he who play int the bands of tli.* worst enemicsof thecountr, and of common sense at. the South. JT* The StatistIcs of Marriage. [yews and Courier.] Marriage has been called a lottery. Tli Chicuyo 'fours makes It 011 the contrary 1 mere mutter of tables. Jle iias examine* eight thousand marriage licenses issued b; the County Clerk during the twelve month ending with the second day of the presen month, and from them lie deduces certain im portant conclusions. In the light of hisinvo tigations It appears that women begin tomai r.v at 15 and stop at->'i,lhe tluctuatious betweei these two terminal points being, however very curious and Instructive. Few begin a early as l">, and still fewer go on as long as .V At the age ot li? women are at their most fa vorahle tUiie, more of them marrying at tha * !? ?*? ??t 0Mi? />( Ii/If 'I'hn Ml' probability with u woman arc from is to '? cti I in I nut i 11^ lit At at and 21 the chimcc arc oven, being better at 111 and -J than a either of tin* intervening years. At 2"J begin a steady decline, but not until theage of .'i-'i d tin* chances fall below one in a hundred; aftc that age they do, and in the rest, of her life he chances are hut six or seven in a thousand At the age of ">8 the vanishing point appear in sight, no marriages occurring at that age oriilthengc of ."it. At. and aO occurs oil marriage each, at ">7 none, at 58 one, and nfte that a woman has literally'not one chance li a thousand'of wedding. Her best years ar four in number, being from 1!) to "J2 inclusivt Man's best years arc ten in number, from S to W inclusive, ills very best years are at 'J and 'Si, corresponding to the feminine 10 an ?!. From 21 there Is a pretty steady increas up to i">, and then his ciiances slowly declim not dropping suddenly, however, until li reaches :tO. lie begins to marry three year later than a woman does, but lie keeps it li live years longer. Men's chances, indeed, d not fall below 1 in Ion until the age of -li Then man verges on the perilous realm of o! bachelorhood. * ()f inurrla'-'cs wnicli leu under our pm losopher's scrutiny 1K7 were between person living In thesame house. Was it not'i'hack erny who said that any woman could inarr any man she pleased, given propinquity.an* not an absolute liuinp on lier back ! It Is to evident that in these 1*7 cases at least proph: quity was largely to lie blamed (or thanked for the result, o, great goddess Opportunity mijrhty is tlry power over the children c men. To sum up, our calculator concludes that woman's changes of marriage arc 1,02!? to I,Of if, as hi; cautiously adds, no disturb!ni;cause intervene, ihit It Is melancholy totindtha as a matter of fact, the disturbing causes d intervene to an extent which throws the bnl ance the other way. And so, niter all, ih even tlie abstruse calculations of sclenc would seem to impair the wisdom ofllei rick's advice to the maids of his jovial day: "While you may, jio marry, Lest, having lost hut once your prime, You may forever tarry." Mason & llamlln Organs. Endorse l>y over 100,000 Delighted Purchasers. Not lowest priced, poorest and dearest. 151 highest priced best and cheapest. Cost bti little more than inferior organs. Gives flv times the satisfaet'on. I.asls twice as loni Victor* nt all world's exhibition. Acknow edged best by all disinterested and compete! musicians. Solid facts, indisputable, such r no other organ maker In the world can sul slantiaie. (iloiious news for purchaser (fraud introduction Sale, Xew Styles. Nc prices. (?Stops, ekganl ease, $S0; superb ml ror top case, h)stops, only 6HH). 15 days (ria Freight paid both ways If Organ don't sui Sold on easy terms, licnted iniiil paid to Delivered anywhere In the Sot ii for51 extr For full parlieulars, address Ll*HI)KX 15ATKS, Savannah, (in., Managers Wholesal Sovthern Depot. Prices ranie as at Factor; A new cause of death to horses has recont ly bceu discovered. Mr. 11.1*. Kllerbe lost Iu.i'lh ?nino u-oolrii which U'JIS JstXJiniTOl affected, ami su tic red ijreat pain before deati The symptoms were similar to colic and jjnr el, combined. A post mortem examlnatio revealed I lie aslonlsliln^ fact that, the panne anil smaller entrails contained from half bushel to three pecks of sand. Later he lift n mule to die, and on examination found in the same condition. They had been o crab grant pasture, and dranl; water from shallow branch.?Merchant and Farmer. liKXtN'GTov, August 2.S.?John Oeizer sho and killed (.'ephus fc>turkey yesterday iuori j l?iJ ; Oar Pretty Girls Abroad. AN ENGLISH TRIIIL'TE TO TIIEIR MANY CHARMS. With ft Little Candid CriticIsin--TVliat Prevents Them from Rein? Angels-* Will They Wear Well J?Dr. Primrose Would not hare Crossed the Atlantic for his Rride. [From the London Mai/falr.] It Is ?loul>tc<l whether any country In the world produces so niiuiy pretty fcirls as America, and it is certain that some of the prettiest ill nn- mum iUU . Iiil'-Jiciin*. i ill! lilCt IN Il? Indisputable as the causes of it iiro obscure. It was one of the peculiarities of Venus, as a goddess, that there could he no doubt whatever about her beauty. There was a great deal to be said lor Juno, as she swept along with that stately peacock* trailing its tail on the sward; and it was impossible to deny the attractions of Minerva; still the , moment Venus came Into the field, Paris liclil out Ills hand and put the apple in hers. So It is with the poeltet edition of the goddess which the busy city of Bunkum and Shoddy publishes in wholesale quantities. The little New York beauty is irresistible so long its she keeps her mouth shut, and almost Irresistible even when she opens It. Everything seems to be against Iter. "Give me blood," said that aristocratic and pre-eml1 nently carnivorous old lady who met young j DavidCoppertield and asked him whether tie went much into society, "give me bloxl; | there's nothing like blood." Most peiplp would agree, in a limited sense. Wo know the beauty of our own aristocracy, and attribute it largely to high birth and good breeding. \Vc know the dignity and bearing of an Austrian lady, and the commonplace comeliness of a little German parvenuc. We have . our pet theories, ready cut oiit and dry, and can apply them to every case. The Hon and the unicorn arc fighting for this crown of beauty, and up comes the llttlo Yankee oelle and knocks them both down. The Impartial I'aris (In a suit of dittos) standing with Ills hands in his pockets on the ilhlno boat, and not paying the slightest attention to the scenery, but looking at the pretty girls of all the countries in the world, singles out the New York Venus In a moment. He has not a doubt hut he Is right, and she thinks that lie's an excellent Judge. And yet ? as we've said ? everything Is fitraint her. She conies to us across the At lantie. .'th that horrible twang which spoils overythIns, and of which sho seems utterly unconscious. She perks it up in your fiice with the most provoking xait'/frotd, and so do her sister.*, her cousins and her aunts. Her mother accompanies her, and a hatchet-face objectionable brother, who seeme to have the grace to know that lie is not a gentleman, and Is, in consequence, alternately depressed and defiant. A man. however matrimonially inclined, gazing on that alpaca mother, llnds serious courtship a difficulty. A little genial flirtation Is, howcver.delight.ful, and it is impossible to withstand so much beauty set off by such a charm of manner. The little American docs not object to the flirtation, i but she has a frugal mind, and knows the kind of lover who Is likely to develop Into a husband. Yet, with all her frugality, she lias a mind on pleasure bent; and flirting, which in England is a practice, and in France an occupation. Is i for her a science, which she studies conscl! entlously, and in which she makes daily pro> gress. She Is still young, perhaps not out of ' her teens, but she has heard a great deal, 1 -seen a great deal, knows a great deal, and ! certainly makes no secret of her experience. She Is perfectly frank, and her absolute realism protects her from some of the bad effects which flirting produces In English girls. It 's hard to avoid admiring her, and It is iinpossi< ble to believe that the lady in alpaca Is her 1 mother. The hatclict-faced brother seems to smoko so much of his life out through his ; nostrils as he has not already expectorated ' through his lips. On the whole, the property l atl'ords a delightful view, but the incumbrances are heavy?uncommonly heavy, i It lsjust at this season of thoyear that, the Importation of pretty Americans begins. They ' come over to us on a delightful trip of trl> umphand pleasure. Not. Indeed, that they think much of the English, or care atall for I our sights and Institutions. They believe In i Alhani and Kellogg, In Mark Twain ami Haw tliorne, In Tiffany, in Southern.and in I.eland. ' London Is the first big city they see, but for ' them it is only a halting place. Theysuhmlt to be taken to Its few places of resort. They regard Westminster Abbey as having but a second iiiiiui uppfHrjvnro, sum umin. urns1 ham hotel small and dirty. Thoy are very 1 lively In theircriticisrn of English girls, whom ' they pronounce for the most part, to he "gaw; kios." Itotten Row Is tolerable, and the Royal Academy a wonderful place for a headache. * The conscientious parents take them down ' the river, to the Tower, '"to Improve thelt minds," but. their dresses arc so spoil! " in the steamer, and the display ol " "mind" on Tower Hill Is so very ; trifling, that there is scarcely anything to Improve. The truth is lliev are longing for thl? " weary part, of their Journey to be over, and are anxious to push on to something Inter. 3 ostlng. l!y something Interesting they mean ! Paris?Paris with its hotels. Its bois, its shops 1 Its pleasures. Its civilization. It was not till ' the Miss Pecksniffs hail been a few days Ir town, and after endurinz street sichts ant 1 shows, were entertained by the gentlemen ai Todgcr's that one of them confessed toth< ' lodging-house keeper that now for the firs time she f.-lt, herself in London. Andsothes( ] pretty New York girls do not consider Kng ' land Europe, but tlrst And their tour pleasanl * when they sleep in the Grand Hotel with th< Boulevards right and left of them, and tin j Rue de la I'aIx opposite. As she thinks on tin , glories of Paris fashions, and the cheapness o ,l Paris shops. and that both are within hci ' reach, our Yankee belle does, for thoflrs ' time, renlize that she Is In Europe. And the French have a great, sympathy . will) hert They admire her pretty face, anc rather warpish figure; the beauty of complex Ion that suggests eosmeiles. and the art It their application that conceals them. Tt li p said that no woman c;in consliler anothe: r plain If she Is thoroughly well dressed. Bu t here are trlrls who are thoroughly pret ty am if thoroughly well dressed. And the Frencl y modiste, moreover, agrees with tho Amerlcar 0 verdict, on our own beauties. She, too. think! ii them "cawkles." Sho sees them entlrel: r from the dressmaker's point of view; am I, there Is too much nature In them to suit thi ii Parisian notion of a beautiful woman, ai ii being a kind of block whereon to fit a beau s tifill dress. The belle of New York come r much more close to her Ideal. And then - too, this pretty girl is so rich, and so In (j dependent. She has all the Interestof the In . genue without her Incomparable stupidity . She thus furnishes the French drcssmakei e with the everything the French drcssmakei e wants. For tho new fashion, as decreed li e the capital of fashion, is that wom^n are to bi t dressed like babies. They have bibs, andthci i- have tuckers; their hair Is cut al'enfant, an< ii their slippers come from the nursery. A llttli s white ribbon confines their waist, and It nuis r.. he said their conversation Is often onalevc e with their dress. To seea middle-aged matroi i- wrapped about like one of her own bable n Is not entirely a pleasant thing. Still fashioi it is paramount, and a corpulent beauty inns y he attired as if she we.-e teething. On th other hand, the French younir girl Is such i baby that the illusion appears a little tor) per feet. The American comes In and suits th< character to a nicety. She looks so Innocent so fresh, so childlike. And yet she can hoh her own even with a young French mar-rice e lady. Our poor English beauties remali gawking In long clothes. 1 At least tho Americans tliink so. Perhapi .. it.noy (ire rigm. tv imi is n, .nr. o?uiu..n. J; | says ? t "I'.irds quick to (lodge and fly at call i- Are quick to full." The English critic, admiring freely this un ' paralleled beauty, begins to think whether II 1 can lust. Well, let it be confessed that the as ? nect of an American mother is not encourag s Ing. Ono wonders whether she could cvei > have been pretty, or ladylike, or attractive One looks from mother to daughter with i ' puzzled anxiety. Surely all the America! fathers must have been very handsome. Ant yet those citizens of New York who do cotm s over the Atlantic arc no doubt, cxcellcn 1 men of business, but have very little In com s| mon with Apollo or Antions.. Perhaps, aftei 0 all, the English girls are not. so bad. l'ossibl: r they may not be snch gawkles as they an i" said to look. If they are, one fact is at leas ' clear; they soon grow out of it. America! s beauty has some consolation even n?r ?jc?i ous English critic. He must iw/mire it. Hi u cannot deny it. It Is not :i matter to argiti r about or to dispute. The little New Yorl 11 parvenu, with an ancestry that throve 01 c shoddy, anil a parentage Hint grew rich 01 ' petroleum, has, notwithstanding these ante !' cedents, a beauty that is at once captivatlnj and rcttned. And yet there is consolatloi 'I for the Knglish girl. "I had scarcely taker e ordejs a year"?says the dear delightful Vlca N of Wakefield?"before I began to think seri 0 onsly of matrimony, and chose my wife, a s siie did her wedding dress, not for a Jim P i glossy surface, but for such <junlitles as woult 0 wear well." when we look at the New Yorl ' beauty, brilliant In silk, and then turn to tin J faded, worn-out mother dingy in alpaca, w may feel perfectly certain that Dr. I'rimros< *i would not have crossed the Atlantic for hi * bride. 1 UIHTIIS. o I) At Abbeville, Mrs. M. E. Ilolllnsworth, Au | gust 12,1.S7U, u son. ?f | mmrnmmamnamumwm "j MAKIU.T KKS'OKTS, t i M:\v voijk, i-pji; . i ? r_- m. ? oi<n;k ,J firm ; money "?(?. li, cold l.iM) ; cxehani;c1.1 loiiji 4.M ; short ;J Slate bonds dull ,11 governments Ilrni. Cotton ?juiet; sales I5C ,, | middling upland 12'/,'; middling; Orleans-12? Futures weak; September?12.20; October ho.oo November 10.il; December lu.;U>; Janu ary 10.42. Louisvu.r.R, Sept. J. ? Flour quiet Wheat dull; corn quiet;Oats staedy ; I'orl dull; bulk meats easier; bacon dull am a shade lower clear sides 5.10; whiskey stead; I at l.Oo. II AUGUSTA, Srpt. 1 ? Cotton tjulct middling 10%; low middling 1(1%; good ordl nary lu'/J; net receipts OS; sales -is. CiiAiti.Ksriix, Sept. 25.? Cotton steady ! middling IV,i; low middling 10J-.J: good ordl it, I nary W/t net receipts ltKi; gross ; sales50 it! slock '1W: export coastwise 105. jl HOTEL ARRIVALS. it ^ .. ? ? ... _ Ai.ston IIot'sk. ? Judge II (' rressle.v s< Charleston; K II l.aml, Augusta;.! Reuniting iv! ham, Hooky River; O T, Smith, llodges; J J r- i l'luitt,.) \V Krwin. Mllhvay; .1 K Todd, J I. i Johnson. W I, Iladdmi, Mr Cowan, Hue Wesl I* i F, Cox, liiamond 11111; 15 C Kay, l.owiulcsvIII< ! ?11'CSuber, Aalreville; I) It l.eak, Winston,! ! C; .1 N Walker. Magnolia; T (i I'errin, Flora inn. it wn??., W*.111, n I In. Win I ti *! I ltaiK'ti Ic keepsle; Mr Connor, W K Connor, Cokesiuirj y, . ~ CONSIGNEES. ft] Kukicsiit.?'W.fc.T .VeN'olll, ttn?i>iest.t K., y ! A Clarke, W It brholcs, .1 K Caldwell, W J i. iTnsgnrt. *- i Eximikss.?J W It.vknrd, .1 1* White, J n I Dnuulilas*. MIss.VT MeCaw KC l>eleon, He\ l> : II IvoliinHon, J A ltiiike, a S Cade. J li .Mark) 5 EXPECTED. 7-> KB CLOVE It HEED. 11 Silvan Parker. ! A 27, 13711. 0 1 A Newspaper Institnto. [Chamber'a Journal.] At n "mooting of editors recently held in America, it was strongly urged that the art of _ Journalism should be taught in the leading L colleges. The instruction received at college, ,fhowever good it might be in other ways, was .Ae considered wholly innde<iuiite to qualify a young nmn for a position on the editorial A stall' of a newspaper. Jle was never told what 1,1' studies to Uike, what to learn. and what to c's' omit. Ho was not taught the art of conden- A: i no ilrtn L'livlnrr miu.h In lift In unnnn iiml * saying it attractively and persuasively. In England, as In America, the lack of a special education for reporters and Journalists has been, frequently referred to, and many on sugccstlons have been made from time to time to meet the ease. It may therefore be Interesting to tho^e who Intend to adopt Journalism as a profession, to know that a "News-1 paper Institute' under the auspices of I>r. i Mack to, has been established at Crewe. The1 nn Doctor points out that while all professions <;r and many trades have Tnstitutos exclusively (Jt set apart for the special tuition which they ; require, those gentlemen who wish to bo connected with the newspaper press have no means of becoming technically educated, except by serving along apprenticeship with its I attendant drudgery. The result is seen, helm says, in editors who know nothing of the du- lis ties of sub-editors, reporters, 'readers'?who ' revise and correct proof-sheets for press?or kt bookkeepers, and sire cohsequently at the mercy of thclrstatf. Sub-editors are also fre- T quentlv ignorant of the duties of reporters, A and cannot give proper instructions. Reporters, when not familiar with the work of protf- "J [readers, iilve unnecessary trouble; which 111 I readers, if ignorant of the art. of type-setting, I materially increase by ill considered corree| t.ions ; all ending in extra expense, beside delay and errorat the critical period of going to press. ci. With the view of enabling adults who are ... competent In every other respect to reach I proficiency in at least one of these branches, and to be so familiar with all jus to take an intelligent oversight of every department, I the Newspaper Institute litis been formed. Hut even In this Institute persons will find I no rovald road to learning the various deI partments of newspaper work. They must ? ' ?-I ? ? I..KQ m I Milium, 1,1.1 III J, HIWIIaIA piuunov i than that which is undergone in an ordinary J printing-ofliee. As to their reaching proficiency in any of these departments in six months, it is impossible. Hut in our day, many men become newspaper proprietors who have no knowledge of newspaper management; and such persons would undoubtedly profit by six months' experience in such an Institute as I>r. Macule's. Hut it Is as a training Institute for youtns that it is chiefly intended, and arrangement* . have been made for their education in the following branches, 1. In Typ-setting, so as to know the names of all kinds of tiews types; to bo able to set in case of necessity ; to give intelligent instructions to a foreman printer; to calculate how much space a manuscript will occupy, and how long it will take to bo putin type. 2. In Proof-rending, by instructing the student to punctuate, and otherwise correct his own proofs, or the proofs of others and to do so in the manner le:ist troublesome p to the workmen, whose Interests should al- i; ways be considered. 3. In reporting, toy teaching Pitman's phonography, and giving such opportunities of practising it, both in tho office and at meetings, as will enable any industrious student to master tho whole duties otja reporter. (Great attcntlon^wili bo paid to the preparation of manuscript, or as it is x technically termed'copy,'so that it shall be " readable, properly punctuated, and so fit for ? the printer that it may trouble neither the ? sub-editor, compositor, nor reader. The dif- ? ference between good and bad 'copy' -In a ? large office Is almost Incalculable.) 1. In <? Sub-editing, so that tho students may have a ? fair knowledge of sub-editing, including the < best means of securing good copy and present- ? lug it in an attractive form. 5. In Book- ? keeping, by giving such instruction as will ? enable a newspaper proprietor or manager to superintend the keeping of a full set of books and especially with a view to an accurate Weekly Return of profit and loss, without which no newspaper bookkeeping is complete. n While students will thus attain a general " familiarity with all kindsof newspaper work, ? they may follow up any one department as a ? specialty with the fullest confluence that six' ? , months' Industrious application will flt them ? for taking an assistant's situation; and an- (l other six months at outside work bring them ? to average perfection. They will also nave at 4, . the works the opportunity of dally witnessing ? type-casting, stereotyping, type-setting by ? steam driven machinery, machine printing, ? , Ac.; and the workmen being instructed to ? give every information within their power, tlio amount of information which industrious j, youths may gain in six months may be readi- ? ly guessed. Every effort will be used to find ? situations for students on leaving the works; ? but any one may remain three or six months ? longer without extra payment, on couditlon ? that he continues to give his services. ? Such are the subjects which Dr. Mackle pro- ? poses to teach, anu the inducement put forth ? ; to learn. It seems to us, however, that in six ? r months very few would be able to attain a ? 'general familiarity with all kindsof news. paperwork,' and fewer still to 'master the i whole duties of a reporter,' even if they dcI voted their time to this branch exclusively. . It would take at the very least six months to i learn the theory of phonography, and anoth. cr six months to attain any proficiency in the I practice: and It is obvious tliat a youth who i could follow even an ordinary speaker would i not be able to report scientific meetings and t. historical addresses. Still when a youth has ? acquired sulllcient manual dexterity to fol, low a speaker, he will have no lack of reporting practice at Crowe, as lectures and political meetings arc very numerous, as are local Board and town Council meetings. Agrlcul- . tural, educational, and religious meetings are also frequently held. The meetings are thereforo sutliclently varied to give him some f conception ot the nature of the duties of a rer porter ; and he will find six months in such j t iui Institute worm tar more man me money It cost him, should he find himself mentally ' : qualified Corn reporters!) in. 1 'If I lmd had six months' training at the . outset of my career," said the editor of a large i provincial Journal to the wilter, 'It would k have been worth six years of my subsequent r experience, and would have enabled me to i t take a good position very soon,' Many other I j reporters and editors are doubtless of the J i same opinion. At any rate, other things boi ins equal, the student Is likely to bo well 5 qualified for taking an assistant's situation. ; We say other things b<-ing equal, because no ] amount of mechanical training, however vai- 1 9 liable In itself, will make up for the lack of J r tact and general aptitude needed lu a report- c - er. e s In piintine, also, a youth will not learn suf- f t flolent to enable him to earn anything, even i . if he should qualify himself for taking an as- f . sistant's situation, as few masters could en- ci . Rage him without Ills Indentures. lie Is like- ] r ly however, to become a more intelligent r printer for his six months' training, and a i valuable apprentice. e The Institute seems to us more useful to ; those who contemplate becoming reporters, 1 sub-editors, or readers for the press; and such c> would learn more here In six months than i t they would in a newspaper otliee in the same " I amount of time. In tbo latter, little or no 1 time can be given to instructing a novice, In s teaching him short-hand, and in superintend- j t ing his first efforts at reporting. Ho Is left t very much to himself, and is consequently a c longer time in learning his duties. Hut in . { the Institute he Is placed under the care of } . special men, whose sole duty It will bo to In- i el struct him In the various branches of news- { . I paper work. Theadvautages of the Institute } i | to such arc therefore self-evident; and as ^ j | complaints are now becoming very nuiner- 1 i ous as to the falllngofi* in ability of reporters, . sub-editors, and readers, the establishment of } k an Institute of this kind seems to meet a } 0 want of the times. j ABBEVILLE j ; Graded School i r I M*Tf r i>T?_m)rv * ; Monday, Septsier 1879.!j : S. J. GRAHAM, M. A., Principal. f 5 Miss L. WHITE, 1 Assistants t Miss S. LIVINGSTON, fAsslslanrs1 n - 'TlilE Scholastic year will consist of ten 'j ? 1 months of four weeks each, divided Into 3 two sessions sis follows: A Paying Session of c twenty-eight weeks, (with fees as below,) and > a Freo Session of twelve weeks, paid for by \ i the 1'nbllc School Fund,?Free Session to be- c * gin on the first Monday in April, IStiO. 1 Fees for Paying Session. r > Primary Department,SHI.?) orfI.oil per month, i r Intermediate, $l!l.:i5 or per month. - High School,or Sl.7-5 per month. 1 s Fees to be paid monthly and promotly. m b None but pay-scholars will be admitted or 1 1 continued du"lng the Paying Session. > c The fees are ilie same in amount for the f c year as last year's rates. The apparent In- . c creusoonthe monthly fees Is owing to the 0 F.'eeSession when no fees are chanced. s The above rates are lower than at. any similar institution In the State. No extra charge ; is made for Mathematics and Languages. \V. H. PAKICKR, President Hoard Trustees, t \V. 0. Henkt, Secretary. 1 Abbeville, "Id September 1870, 4t 1 Greenville ail (Mia EMi! REDUCED RATES! s nv \VT) M.TFU SKPTKMliKR 1st the fol- ? : U low! UR Tickets win lie on sale at,all the! Ticket station? on tlic Greenville ami C'olumbw, Railroad: 1 1,000 ]VEile Tickets^ ; AT THREE CENTS A MILE,' y good over the Greenville and Columbia Rail-' road mill its branches. i{ ItoU.N'l) 'i'lttl* Tickets from any Stntlon on ; ' 1- the Greenvilleaml Columbia Railroad and its < brandies to any Station oil Hie same, good for ; TIIRKK DAYS, AT TilUKK CKNTS A MILK. I- ROUNDTRIl'Tiexets from all Stationson : i tlic iircenvilleaniiColumbia Railroad and its. i branches to Charleston, pood lor K1GI1T ; i)A VS, AT TIIRKK CENTS PKlt MILK. R. II. TK.Mi'I.K, General Superintendent. Jahkz Xouxos, Jk., Genorul Ticket Agent. Sept. :i, lSTil ! $1,500,000 TO LOAN. s ? "i I lA/*' f'OXTUOL the above sum to loan on ; 1 ; W llrst class farm plantations ami biisi- j " | licss properties. ' ADDITIONAL CAPITAL procured for nierelianta, nmnnfacturer.s and others. STOCK Ii<iS1 is anil MISCKLLAXEOI'S, _ SK( 'ii K1TIKS bought and sold dm commls-' ~ Islon. l-'KKD. W. Cisco ,t CO., Hankers and! J j lirnkers, :: ? and :!7 liroad St., New York City, | il LAUiili TltACT oi TJMliKIt LANDS and h I LANDS suitable for COLuN'IKS wanted. ApUI ply to above RtUlresV. j August J7,1S7U, It. ) "; Shoes and Crockery. Ar.FIAUTiri. L line of these goods have I Jusi turn r^eeivedbv Cunningham & Templeton. | AlljatM IT, IV.tf, U <?!! I ii ?<anM?pp uwhjibmwi?m?mm, ? F. M# Godbold, Exccutorj against N. E. Vance aud Othorn. HJR.SUANT to an order rendered by the Court of Common Pleas at February rm, IS79, I will soil at public auction at Abvlllc Court, Ilouse on SALtOSDA Y IS OC?UEH next, within the legal hours of sale, u following described real property of the late of John Vance, deceased, situated in jbevllle County. . The tract ot land known as the Old Homestead Place which I now reside, near Cokcsbury conInlng Nine Hundred Acres, ,ire or less, and bounded by hi:i<ls of .T. M. iiiiHiii, \> liiuiiii iuiey, >v, /#. .hciiiicc anu hers. Also one tract of land, containing Twenty-Five Acres, ore or less, and bounded by lands of W1Iiiu Uiley, w. 7j. McGliee and others. 1. Also one lot in the village of C'okesbury iown as COLLEGE LOT, containing wo and One-Sixth Acres, ore or less, and bounded by lands of G. M. | odges, J5.0. Hart, and others. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser to pay for paper*. If parties pur-1 mslng fall to comply Immediately the lands : 111 be re-sold on the same day at their risk. I F. M. G0DB0LD, Qualified Executor. Sept. 2,1S79, tf REPORT i I CF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF ABBEVILLE S. C., or the Year Ending Aug., 31st, 1879. -DRoCash from former Council ? .">4 11 " " Liquor Licenses 11(K) 00 " " Billiard Licenses 55 00 " " Livery Licenses 65 .10 " " Auctioneer Peddlers, &c... 75 50 " " Shows, &c 15 IX) " " P'ines 71 70 " " Hemphill ?fc Hemphill...- 14 00 " " Delinquent Taxes .. 71 02 " " County Commissioners.... 7 10 " " Commutation Tax 355 00 " " Heul and Personal Tax...- 28T> 40 82172 70 CR y cash paid past indebtedness 3 S3 70 " " Accountofformer cound I 133 67 " Town Marshal 307 (X) " " Extra Police 14 75 " ' Street tax worked out 304 ?0 " " Work on Streets <52 84 " " Oil, Matehes, &c - 37 55 < " Clerks, Commissions 108 02 << ? Muio ioo oo m ? Wajjon, Harness, <Sc 60 05 " " Com. Fodder ?fc Oats ... 43 29 " " Sundry Merchants 63 34 " " Lumber.... 20 62 " " Printing ; - 89 35 " ' Hlacksinith 28 00 " " Kepalrlntr Markethouso... 32 80 " " IilRhtlns r.amps :.... 10 10 " ? Marlon Wilson (Wagoner) 77 00 " " Walterboro Sufferers....;... .r>0 " Sundries, Stationary, Ac., lo 00 " " Wheel harrows ?? expenses ain " ' Picks and expenses 12 18 " " LnniDs and Kxpenses II im) " " Well fixtures <t expenses 7 5-1 " " On hand 400 46 82172 70 T. P. QUARLES. Secretary Town Council.* August 30, 1879. iiiiliS rnis INSTITUTION Wiil Open on the ffflST MORDAY I OCTOBER rTS FACULTY Is complete. The course o; L instruction, thorough. II Is now the besl indowed Institution in the State, and otl'en xceptional advantages In the way of delight ul climate, healthy location, moral comniulity and moderate expenses. The last are a? ollows: Total expenses for the year, inclulinsr Hoard In families, Tuition, Lights. Fuel looks, <!fcc., SI 19.50; Hoard In mess, siw.->j. Send for catalogue or address tlie President W. M. GEIER. August 27, 1879, ltn n reenvillkTcolumbia railroae jr summer schedule. On and after Monday, June 2d, 1ST9, the 'assenger Trains will run as follows dally, Sundays excepted. UP. ..cave Columbia at -...10 33 a m jeave Alston :..12 20 p in .eave Newberry..;;..;....:;...; 1 33 a in .eave Hodges.....;.. . 4 27 p m ^eave Bclton. (J 03 p ni Arrive at Greenville 7 .'10 p m DOWN. iCave Greenville at fi 45 a m ieave Helton - 8 25 a m weaves Hodges " 9 55 a m jcavc Newberry 12 45 p ro jCave Alston 2 17 p m Arrive at Columbia - 3 45 p ni ANDERSON AND BLUE RIDGE BRANCH # UP, iCave Bolton .. 8 03 p m jCavo Anderson 0 50 p m .eave Pendleton 7 45 p ni ,cave Perryvllle S 2") pm Arrive at Walhalla 9 00 p m DOWN, i . .BIS am iCavo Perry vllle....X. 5 55 n in ,eave Pendleton (J 40 a m .cave Anderson T 85 a m Arrive at Helton 8 13 a in LAUREX8BRANCH. Laurens Branch Trains leave l<nnrens C. H. t7.HU a. m. and Newborry at J.40 p. m., or Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. ABBEVILLE BRANCH TRAINS. Abbeville branch Train connects at Hodgerith down and up train dally, Sundays exepted. Leave Abbeville 8,-'i0 a. 111.; leavt lodgos 4,:!0 n. m. Up and down Trains, on the main stem nake close connedtitfn at Colutnblla with tin ip and down day Passenger Trains on tin jnuth Carolina Railroad and with thethrougli 'relght Trains, with Passenger Car attached >n the Wilmington, Columbia and August: tail road, and at Alston with the trains of thi Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Kailroai or Union, Spartanburg, Hendersouville Vshovlllo, Ac., Ac. THOMAS DODAMEAD. General Superintendent. J.vbnz Noktox, Ik., General Ticket Ageni WANTED. k'S'SMS retlr> canvassers to engage In a pleasant ani irotltablc business. Good men will find thli V rare chance to make money. Such wil dease answer this advertisement bj' letter ncioMiii; siiuii|> mr rcf'ij i iess tlu-V have been engaged In. ><me bu hose who mean business need apply. Addicts FIN LEV, llAllVKi & CO., Oct. 2. 1878, lyl Atlanta, Oa. Bridge Notice, jjMIE rebuilding of tbe Bridge Over Hard Labor Creek it Cothran's old Mill will bo lot to the lowes >H1dcr on tli? -SUi of October, lsTil, at clcvu: /Clock it. in. J. P. LIVINGSTON, County Commissioner. Sept. 3, 1ST!). tf C. E BRUi BAKERY, CONFECTION! MAIN STREET, xl Fresh Stock of Gc UREA P. CRACKERS, Ihrt'TOMATO PDIIXl) CAKES, 'SARIHXI KRUIT CAKES. lOriKiw (! oinoer cakes, -.Likely, < TEA CAKES, "^RAISINS SI-OAK CAK ICS, jSKEDJJ^ DROP CAKES, ^iPICKLKM CAKES OF all KINDS,j^PEPPER OINOEK SNAPS, !5>jPEA NU' CAN DIES of sill kinds,| POTTED CANNED OOODS, ({/i TOMATO Pill. EKl'lTS, i OINOEK, P1N E A PPI,ES, |rC KitESLI < APPLES, PEACHES, |?,SALT. S All the above 0' fi Aomist I t. 1579. tf ^ < ^pn II.ijujui II.BIJ i i u? 1 1 * ^^ *,' > Tax Notice. TitKA.SUnER'S OKFfOfJ, * August 27tH,k4879i -* IN ajccordanctj with the Supply Bill, approved December 24th, 1873, notice is herebjr given that this office will be operi for tlio collection of Taxes Monday, 15tli September, and will remiliri open , until' OctdUer 31st; except tile drtys iilciuded iii the Schedule of dppointriibiit^ triade below : The Rate Per Cetittiiri of TiixBil is as Follows: ? State purposes, V. Mills. County;..:..:..:.:;::. :..l " Past indebtedness,...:::.::; J " Public Fiance;: j 41 i Schools;.....:.: 2 ' " ' Total :: Mills. Poll Tax, $1.00. In rtll cases wliere tlie May Installment has not been paill a T> n n I f rtf Daw ? J VI Jk ttv A CI VV-HfcUIII will bo added to said Installment. All Taxes remaining unpaid oil the 1st day of November will ihcur a . PcnaltV of Fifteen Per fcentum, and Will be collected by distress or otherwise until loth November;, after that * date the Codtity Treasurer will procecd to collect by levy and salo as provided bjr law. Trttes are Payable in the following kinds of Funds and no other: , Gold and Silver Cotri, United States Currericy, arid" National Bank-Notes, and for County Taxes Jury and Witnesses' Tickcts. Parties liable to Pbii Ttt* # / and refusing or failing to pay- the samd will be indicted before a Trial Justice for a misdomdarior and upon conviction shall be lined not moro tHan ten dollars, besided costs, or by irriprisonmerit in the County Jail not niore than thirty days; In Order to Accbmtaodilte thb Tax-Payers wHd sell their produce on tho lino of the Railroad, i will attend at the following places at tho times designated. To Wit: At Due West,Monddy, $2d September: At Donaldsvillo, Tuesday, 23d September. At Hodges, Wednesday, 24tli Septom- y ber, from arrival of dot^h irain to same hour next day. At Greenwood, Thursday, 23th &eptem* % ber, from arrival of dovtii train to bame hournextday. At Ni nfety-Si x, Friday,' SCtll September} from arrival of down train td samfc llour next day. Tho balance Of tho time from the 15ttl of September to 31st October, I will be hi tho office in tho (joUrt House. All information as to Taxes freely giveri by mail dr otherwise. j. W. PERItIN, Cotinty Treasurer. j August 27, 1879,12t CHEAP CASH STORE, BILL & Mil, The New Merchants of Abbeville; ARE now rpfceltlne a complete and lidmense stock of GROCERIES, ?A&D^ DRY GOODS, l of nil style*, prices and quality. Best calicd t ut 0*4 cents. No one will recret an inspection of thesq new goods, for prices as low as tliey can M i sold. Respectfully; Hill & Thomson. August 27.1S7?. tf . SILVER SOAP. EdWirt Parkers Aug. 27, 1879. O Mil, Between White's Block and iL. TT~4.nl iuu V/cuutti auicii EVERYTHING in tho Drug line at reasonable prices. Give me a call. E. H. McBRIDE Agfc gofdue west -AND HAVE YOURWatches, CMs aid Jewelry Filed / BEING permanently located at Due West^ I wish to call the atterttton of the people of Abbeville County. UJ th^ fact, that I aqi prepared to do all kinds of work on Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, <?c., In the beat style and foe less money than any other watch maker li& the Suite. All work guaranteed togive entire satisfaction or no fcharsfo. J. M. VISANSKI. ? Feb. 13. 1K71). tf Due West, 8. C. r n rffsf JLJLd A/a JLl JU W WMJ Watel Maker ami Meier, ; ABBEVILLE, S. C. I WILL be pleased to serve his friends and the public with the best of work In hi* line ftl the lowest prices. Cull at the storfi.or Messrs. Barnwell & Co., where he jnay always be found during business hours; 1 April 9,1879. \ Notice to Creditors!' 14 0 ? THOSE holdlne Claliijs^sainst the Estate of Thomas J. Hin.uccqused are requcst ed to met't me In the I'raTjuie ortlce at Abb?-'. t vllle Court House on Krt'.'t.ny, the '2'>tli of July, _ next for the purpose of canvassing tiie sul?t claims, with a view an early settlement- d( said estate. W. E. WALTERS, ArTmjfifstratorof Estate ol T.*J: Hltl 1 July 2,1 W9. o MTT f TITPDV I UTTT1Tti PB? I ? ! iUIUUJLnJIini ! JJIlM&liWini : : <>? *' , JUST received ftnotUcfcwWdf new and desirable Millinery jrdods? new shapes or , Hats and Honnet*:. TtesV Jabot*, Huntings, . ,f Flowers. Kins, Fau' Olnllcs, Parasols,. Ac. u We arc alsooilcTlug Jomc bargains' in tills department. . - ... R. H.- Haddon & Co. Tillv 2. ISTft- (, OE, AGENT. 5RY JW RISTiDIilrt.' ABBEV Jf^E, S. C. >oas aJways on nana. CATS c?l lf/1'BLUEI^. STARCH, ' cs, S.' Li\tox,'o'l'T.OUR, RICE, . HOV/ -ZSiMEAJli-GRlTS, ' ITI / >* l[~ COFFEE, SUGAR,. (;l I&ANTS,'C HUTJTKR."CHEESE,, jS.' i v IS INS, lO DI.ACKWELLS SMP'? * IN . ~i KING TO BAA-CO, S \ >ic'i.i I ^4 ti EST CI-l EWIN G, '! r i, ' i^ClG AKS-NO BETTER 1 / \ \I !** GUARANTEED ILAI s? ol'vw oi VANA FILLED. <&<* Air vTA'.tiv Call ami &eo them for V \\[F.. s! P" yoursolVCH. j;?A; ^ 3 Guaranteed FRESH.