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The Press and Bannei. By llugrh Wilson and H. T. IVardlatv. Wednesday, April 14,1880. Acts of the General Assembly. No. 41. An Act to amend the Statute rvlating to the administration and distri- ( bution of intestate estates, which strikes out 8o much of the Statute as made dis- ] liniiio to refund proportionally |' if debts owing by the intestate were sued for and recovered after distribution. No. 92. An Act to repeal section 2,; Chapter XXXVII of the Revised Stat-1 ?tes, relating to text books in the public! schools:?which section made it the duty I of the General Assembly to "provide by i, appropriation for the payment of the' books aforesaid.'' So far, we think the' Act a wise one; for surely the State does! enough for tho public schools by giving j them the Two-mill Tax and the Poll Tax 1 without also paying for the books used j therein. Only, it is matter for wonder that the General Assembly which repealed this Section should, by Act No. in, have tried to enforce the use of a uniform series of texts books in the public schools. Tf the State be ever justified in enforcing the use of a uniform series of school j books, it is when she also "provides forj the payment"' of them. But it seems that the State is now relieved of the latter duty and yet is trying to force parents to buy the books of certain publishers.; This is all very nice for the publishers if! Act No. 10 was not a blunderbuss, as we j Kaid hist week, aud utterly inoperative, j null and void. j By Act No. P9, legislative enactments j take effect "on the twentieth day after the | day of its approval by the Executive, un-1 less some other day bo specially named in the body of the Act or Joint Itesolu- j tion. Act, No. 104, crcates a Department of j Agriculture, and a Commissioner of Ag-; riculture with a salary of ?2,100. The Commissioner says the Act, "shall be an I agriculturist." Query: What is an ag-1 ricultnrist? A practical farmer? Or a student of agriculture, one versed in ag-*; riculture? The Commissioner is elected! by the General Assembly, who are able, |' wo suppose, to supply an example of an j agriculturist, even if they fail to define I the meaning of the term.# Certainly the first Commissioner, Col. A. P. Butler, is 1 abetter ' agriculturist" than any that , could be obtained in accordance with a' clear definition. |' No. 116. An Act to provide for the in-j vestment and use of tho Agricultural College fund. j j Of the financial Acts the following are; ( probably the most important: No. 133, j which extends the timo for funding the j unquestionable debt of this State; and Nos. 135 and 194, which provides for fund-; ] in? the bills of the Bank of the Stato in consolidation Donas or slock. * By Act, No. 144, the election Act of '78 is repealed. The '78 Act provided fot separate boxes and managers "for Members of Congress and Presidential Electors" and for "State, Circuit and County j Officers" a very wise Act, but too cost- ( Jy, aud its wisdom is therefore sacrificed I j to economy. j ] Of great interest to every township in ;1 every county in the Stato is Act, No. 153,! j which makes it "the duty of the Hoard of j ( County Commissioners of each County !> annually, during the early portion of;j each year, to appoint some suitable and 1 j nroper person Superintendent of High-1 .< ways for each highway district,?each 1 township constituting a highway district. J Said Superintendent of Highways, (by tkn wav. hp is sometimes thus named in t the Act, and sometimes called the Super-|' Sntendent of Highway Districts), shall : { divide the highways in his district into!) suitable sections, ard appoint Section j1 Overseers. How is that l'or high ways ? | And who offers for theoffice? Sixteen,] townships in this County need sixteen ;1 Highway Superintendents.?A fair ohance j j for office-seekers. The emoluments of,, the office consist in paying a fine of ten-1 to-flftv dollars if the Superintendent fails ; ^ to do as the County Commissioners com- j niand him. What is the meaning of Act No. 239?, "An Act to change the name ol Lyrfch'sj Creek to Lynch's River," says "lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met aud sitting ia General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the name of Lynch's Creek, which empties into the Great Re Dee River, shall from and after the passage of this .Act be changed to Lynch's River." Is this because the creek has grown too big to be ! called a creek ? Or is it an illegitimate stream which the Act legitimatizes that it j may inherit from respectable rives ? Or ; is it because Lynch Law is becoming so , respectaole that nothing less than a "River" is worthy ^of the popular Judge) Lynch ? We believe the dwollers on the i banks of this "river" have been accus-n torned to call it Lynching Creek on ac-! count of a tradition that Judge Lynch, j was bom on its banks. It not the Judge, I was Lynch, and why should he have a, "River" all to himself ? ! Act, No. 243, makes a close season for, deer the period between March 1st, and 0 September 1st; and the close season for any wild turkey, partridge, dorc, wood- ( cock or peasant'1 between March 15, and ? September 15. Let sportsmen beware. t I Hon. John R. Cochran. ' The Anderson papers this week issu|t1 a supplement containing "A letter to the : | people 01 Anderson," i>y Hon. Joun n. Cochran, in which he us a former mem- j bcr member of the Legislature sets forth1 his acts and efforts to secure for South Carolina an honest and economical Government at the hands of the Republican part}'. The record which Mr. Cochran i shows is truthful, and one of which any | member of the Legislature, either be- j fore or since the war, might well; bo proud. He certainly was the; author of more than half the good Leg-j islation of the Republican Legislatures! during their supremacy in South Caroli- [ ua. We took occasion to Bpeak 11 commendatory terms of him long ago. and see no reason why a full meed of praise should be withheld from him now. Wo uudcrstand that Mr. Cochran is seeking | the office of United States Marshal for i the District of South Carolina. For our j own part, we would as soon see him have j it as any Republican in the State. Tliei? fact is, we would sooner bad it than f any Republican whose name we have!' seen mentioned in connection with the; Marsbalship. Senator Cothran ha^ always beeu a stannch Republican, and | his native, good sense, and great energy have been directed in a course which we believe ho thought was really fori the reformation of the corrupt party of J which he was a zealous morn ber. i The Presiding Judge. j fGreenville Enterprise and Mountaineer.] j We but reflect the views and sentiment* of! the entire Greenville Bar, as well as those of; our citizen* who have met hiui, when we say j that Judge Thomson's presence In our city j Jk a great satisfaction and pleasure toall. An able jurist tie 1111k the IU*nch with distinguish-1 id fitness; an irreproachable man in hisi prlvntc life, to dispone Justice Uu function lor which tie Is qualified. As a Judge lie; preside* with dignity that inspires the re-j mxh'I and contldcuce of practitioners and ; audience alike. He exhibits much readiness i In th? quiet delivery of his views on lcgnl| questions and points?and exhibits courtesy of demeanor In his intercourse with court officers, Jurors aQd lawyers, which it is pleasing to observe. Judge Thomson iu his personnl oppearance bears strongly the chaiacterlstlcA common with the Scotch-Irish-Fresl.rl?l?n . .o,.o ..f .1, Iw, 1C!| 111 ?l hi Til I *h fd C member mid ornament?a race which has j t glTt-n to tbe State mid country a number oi 1t mruter minds; kucIi a* Calhoun, McDuflle, p Andrew Jackson. eic. Ciroeuville delights In u honoring #uch a man, and recognizes in his < j-ermn, inU'lh-'d and churacter, uu ideal Curo- j t lJnian. jr ? t V ?~= Arc the Religious Newspapers .Tic Scrupulous than the Secular Papers ? No class of persons are so liberal in ) use of printers' ink as the advertisers frauds, cheats, humbugs and iinmor: ties of all kinds. These incn can atfo and do spend hundreds of thousands ilollars annually in advertising their i iquities, as the columns of almost a secular paper will testify. It requi some nt/ve and a good* deal ot mo principlo to discard such liberal patr< *re. I air. afraid that some of the pt Ushers of our^eligious papers need a 1 tie bracing up just here. Certainly t conductors of the secular press do. A: rule our secular papers are defenders Kood morals, so far as their editorial terai.ces are concerned. Hut their lo and advertising columns often seems be managed in the interests of lie djcebi ?Correspondent of the Southern Christi Advocate. The above is an extract from the<SV)? n tt Christian Adrocatc conuuendatory the News and Courier for their aunoi: ced determination to exclude hereal from its columns the advertisements cheats or frauds. What we desire to i tice just now is the comparison betwc the advertisements in secular and r< gious press. That comparison wot Je.ivo the impression that the seen press was less particular as to the char ter of its advertisements than the re givns press. His intimation will i stand good, if he or nny other readei the newspapers of this State will comps the advertisements in the religious j pers with those in the secular pre A '1 perpetrators of frauds find the religic press the most profitable mediums circulating the injurious advertisemen and wo think wo would be justified saying, with the exception of lottery a whisky advertisements, that frauds ... I,]iimn rnnro lihei'illlv 1 ITVVIJ Ainu uttvv v vcrtiscd l>\* the religious press than the secular press. Bloody Affair in Edgefield. From a private source we learn the f lowing particulars relative to the part to the sad tragedy irt Edirefield : 1 Bland is the son of Col. Elbert Blar who was killed at the head of his re ment, the 7th S. C., at Ohickamauj Young Bland is a man of fine intell und high character, and gave promise ft useful life. Mr. A. A. Clisby is a in chant of the village, and is a son-in-1: of Mr. A. A. Glover, the third party, w is memorable for having killed the Q millions, father and son, a few ye: since. The sentiment in Edgefield seei to be strongly in sympathy with Blar The whole village is grief-stricken ov the sad event. Last night we learned, via Columb that Dr. Bland i.s still living, but not e pected to recovcr. C'.isby's wounds r lot considered necessarily fatal, a 31ovcr is but slightly wounilod. ANOTHER VENDETTA. Bloody Work at the Edgefield M nicipal Elcction?-Dr. W. E. Blai Killed and Two Men Dangerous Wounded - Cause of the Ternb Affair--Jledical Aid from August Avgusta Chronicle and OonsHlulionalLst. ?1 thn t-nnnrt I'OHplli 1 eNlttl llilV 1UIUI IIUUII HIV I V J'V. * ? Vug'jsta that another bloody vendetta h jcoiirred in Edgefield, whereby one pr ion was even then in a dying conditio md two others dangerously wounde From mouth to mouth the rumor spc jntil the whole town was aghast at t epctition of a final affair of only eightei nontlis ago. Telegraph and newspap iffices were besieged for news from t icene of bloodshed, and perhaps of deat md the evening train of the Columl Road was boarded by several natives Edgefield, now residents of Augusi mxious and apprehensive over the e ent of the trouble. The first dispat ivas brief, but fearfully suggestive. i\as this: "Another shooting scrape occurred he his morning, about the election of Tov Jouui'il, -which came oft' to-day. Julii Uland and I)r. W. E. Bland, A. A. Clisl md A. A. Glover were the parties ?. ?aged. Dr. Bland was shot in the abd men?considered mortal. A. A. Clisl iviis shot through the body and receiv % wound on the head from the blow ol pistol ? considered dangerous. A. [ lover is shot twice in the thigh ? n langerous. Dr. Campbell, of your ci lias been telegraphed J'or, and will cot up to-night." Excitement culminated in the evenii late, when it was announced here that Dr. Wallace IJlnnd Was Dead. Reports reaching Augusta, even up ti late hour last evening, were sotnewl shadowy, but an account of the affa fi;om seemingly trustworthy sources, li been obtained: On Thursday, April 1 the voters of Edgefield met at the Coi House to nominate citizens to fill the in nicipal offices, and the following tict was selected: For Intendnnt, C. L. Marsh; for Wardens, Lee llolson, W. Brunson, W. N. Burnett and K. S. A derson. During the meeting, howevi trouble arose regarding a reduction the whisky tax of the town. One par led we learn by Mr. \V. B. Penn, favor a retention of the license at existing ti ures-$200 per annum?audit was up this issue that the gentlemen nam above were nominated. The other pari led by Mr. A. A. Clisby, favored a redi tion of the tax to $150, and finally plae a second ticket in tho field, the nomint Fnp W'nrilons beinir Messrs. A. A. Clisl Dr. W. D. Jennings, W. E. Lynch a Geo. Siinkins (col.) Win. Marsh, t regular nominee for Intendent, we leai subsequently declined to run, and \ H. G. Honhani was put up iu his pla Now, among the supporters of the rag lar ticket were Dr. Wallace E. JJland, young physician of 25 or 30 years of a; ind his "brother, Julian Bland, mu younger. On the other sido wore Mr. <V. dishy, one of the candidates for Ws jen, and Mr. ArtLur A. Glover, his ;her-in-Iaw, and a gentleman wen Kno\ in the county. In the course of the morning, Lawren ?ain, a colored man, and lbrmcr .St: Senator from Edgefield county, came ;he polls to vote. 11 is vote was challeng t>y Clisby, who contended that Cain, i li'ding beyond the corporate limits, con lot east his ballot in a municipal electi< Dr. Bland contended that Cain had a rif> x> vote, and an altercation ensued, in t iour.se of which Clisby shot l)r. Bland :he bowels. Young Julian Bland imm liateiy drew a pistol and shot Clisby he body, and also shot Mr. Glover twi n the thigh. Clisby's wounds were co tidered dangerous, Glover's being r lecessarily so. From the first, howevi Dr. Bland's injury was thought to be I al, and he lingered in agony, it being it possible to probe or extract the ball, ai ,vhen Jate in the evening intelligen cached Augusta that I)r. Bland was de lie news was not unexpected. He wi ls above suited, comparatively a youi nan, had been educated with great eai inishing up his professional training Paris a few years ago. Drs. C'atripbi md Ford, of Augusta, were both tel craphed for last evening, and at last ? :ouiits the surviving men were doii veil. The whole allair is greatly regr( ed both here and in Carolina, that anot ;r dark and bloody da}' should ha oiled over the records of Edgefield. Items From tlic Association Reform Presbyterian. Reconstruction.?Prcllminarr steps ha >een taken to reconstruct the village chun The Improvements will be mninly In cupt tnd galleries. The latter will be lowered, a .he seats so arranged as to arise one ubo mother. This arrangement will be inu nore convenient,as well as tasteful. We; mine that the work will be completed befi Jommenceuient. 1' Commencement.?Already we are begi ting to look forward to this literary festiv The programme has not been arranged In ts details, but there is no doubt that it w )resent the usual variety. As already i louneed. the Commencement sermon will jreached t>y l?r. Jones, oi the Method I'liurch. The reputation of the speaker Is fiifllcient guarantee that there will be llssanpointment here. Those who have he:i jr. J. bear testimony that "he can spei veil," as was said to Aaron. B.v the way, i >ur readers ever know a Methodist preaeli vlio could not "speak well" ? P ImI'ltovtNfi.?The condition of I)r. 15. till somewhat precarious, although, up he whole, more encouraging. The chills ji '.xceedlngly stubborn, and difficult to he c< rolled, coining on at irregular Intervals, a caving the patient very much prostrat lis sore affliction, personal und relative, las t lie sy 111 patbleu anil prayers, not only he community in which he resides, lint i?? niinwh nt lursre. Every reader of t "resbytt-rian will behind to see film resut il? editorial labors. In the Fcinule C'ollei oo, he Is sadly missed ? I1 The Meeting ok Pke3BYTeky.?This ho event of the week, ami promises to he tension of more than ordinary Interest, T ipenlng sermon will be delivered by He v. A irudley, of (jenerostee. Messrs. Boyce, Hh Ion, Patterson, Stevenson, and Wiseman, he Seminary, will deliver trial sermons <1 Inc the meeting. It Is ox peeled that the viil be a full attendunee of the inemhe Liid that our |?eople will enjoy the rare tie ifliiree sermons prr (Item. \Ve anticipate east of fat things, of wine on the lees \vt rumru: . * ? "c j CiTilizaflon, Ancient and Modem, I ho'OR THE DEBT WHICH MODERN ?h ol, tn ,11- PROGRESS OWES TO ANrdj CIENT CULTURE. hr i of c,r in- an ny An Essay Bead Before tho Abbeville Ei res J Literary Club by >V. A. Lee, Esq., on Friday Evening:, April 2, 1S80. ^ ib-1 An extensive subject embracing (he past dr lit- ! history of imui, tlie origin, migrations and ti |101 in mat ions of races, the rise wild fall of na' j tioiix, I lie progress and ileC'iy of arts, wc ' <*. can only attempt to portray its prominent TI of| features, and leading characteristics, define |u lit-1 its nature, trace lis origin, sketch some ol its j'{" L.a) j earliest developments, contrast Nome of the ?? j lending anil essential features of civilization I a I; . | ancient and modern, mid fIiow how large a th '" jdeht modern progress owes to ancient cul- th <tw I ture. 111 ctvli.ir.ation, what? ? til-' Civilization Is n state of culture and refine- er , / [ nient, and in this sense Is a relative term, op- m ? ' posed to barbarism. Hut inseparable from the! m-'idea Is that of progress. Thus Cousin tho tu [French philosopher defines civilization as the I lor i development of man In history, and (>uizotjt?i i of i attributes to It. as Inseparable from it, the no-1 th j tiou of progress and development. A devel-jtu io- cipmeut of what V you may nsk. Of two ele- . ,.,n | ments: society and the Individual, the pro-i ' _ j sress of social life, and the improvement of. th li- the faculties of the individual man. Man is j m , i I formed for society and tinds his true develop- j I*' J,u I ment in no other state. The progress of so-jCr lar I cict.y and tlie individual go hand In hand, and re | without the safeguards of government there | di ilc" i could l>e no progress. Ilence from the politl- J 'i >: i mi i.rirnnizsitlrm of society, as the essentlclfn 1 condition of its boin?, the term civilization i in lot > (from the Latin civil as.) takes Its origin. . 0f Civilization in its most restricted sense may 1 m [betaken to mean only the multiplication of re nre j physical wantsand the means of theirgratifl-1 nc |1?. i cation : and iu this sense it may be a matter! lh 1' " I of doubt whether it be n good or an evil, but j in "liej In Its enlarged signification as implying the.m I progress <if society and the advancement of [ 1{j ,us I the individual, the elevation of the moral and | of | intellectual character of the race, it would be , | a contradiction of terms to deny Its blessings.' II V 'j HOW AND WHKN HI D IT ORIGINATE? j j?' in Did it spring like our coram progenitor J 0f nd I himself in the full possession or all its faeul-1 Cl] . ties and the exercise of all Its functions, or 01 j was there a gradual advancement from a con- u, j dition of barbarism ? The past, history of the | ? I world is opposed to this last theory. The no-; by tions which have risen from barbarism to, W] civilization, owe-thelr elevation to coming in ; contact with a higher civilization, and .,, I not their own unaided e.'lorts. So great (j], is the tendency to deterioration, that lt.Wi requires all the aids of the highest cnlIture to raise the barbarian in the scale AI ?'* j ot intelloct and morals, anil to perpetuate }t.<j i ainongsavagetribes, the manners, intelligence w| I and blessings of civilized life. So far as his- w, >r.; tory and tradition throw any light upon the1 (,t id_ | subject, they point to that portion of the ; J earth, where, according to the Hible, the subi?l-1 Kidinc flood left the family of Noah as j Pr => " ja, THE REGION OF EARLIEST CULTURE ANI) RE- Hf CCt FINEMENT, ft r the original centre of liuht, from which as,er 01 j DHlions receded, they lapsed Into barbarism,' .M cr but by remaining near to this centre, others : Jj, ! retained tlic arts, science aiul religion of their 1 c|, ,,w J fathers. As modern civilization finds its 1 nt ])0 I sources in the Greek and Iioman worlds, so c>0 , these classic nations of antiquity trace back I <jc ?o- their lineage to the coasts of Jteypt, the plains j ol] irs Herein, and the high-lands of Central Asin.' d0 Secular history and the most ancient monu-lft) ms mental inscriptions confirm the sacred nar.v j u. j j live, and show that tiie earliest development til m* | of civilization occurred in the great alluvial er; plains, of the Nile, and iheTigrisand Etipbrn- (]c j tes. In the latter was built the Tower of Ba-1 C|, j bel and here occurred the confusion of tongues ai; ia, iuid tiie dispersion of the race. ! (j, lX. THE RESEARCHES OF PHILOLOGY I ar | show the kinship of the various members ofi j the great Caucasian stock, divided by modern ' K[1. I iv.iminrv in-/>niiiimi tn liniMiistic neculinrities. 1 Into t h rec great branches:-1st, ^The Aryan or;en Indo-Gertnanic.comprising the present and Ti; past nations of Europe, the (irreco-Latins, the Germans orTuetonw, the Celts and Slavonians J . together with the Persians and Hebrewsjiy1 thev all showing a near family likeness and ; KC ii. tracing their origin to Central Asia. 2nd. fie-;"' mitic, comprising the ancient Hebrews. Phce- rJ lid | nic.lans, Assyrians, anu Arabians. 3rd. The "1 ... | Hamltlc.represented by theancientEgyntians * j and probably the Chaldeans. These are em-j *}' lo phatically the historic races. for whatever tho j," Chinese, the Mexican and the Persian mnv 1 J? " have done, their civilization was too mucu Mj' circumscribed to produce any marked ett'ect; ! upon the world's history. ^ ,t(| I ARYAN, SEMITIC AND IIAMITIC ! CU ' These are tiie historic races?the first the lead- j cit ' ers in the progress of the world's history, the; dr second the founders of the three great rellg- ' an '? ions, Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan, j fit) (1,1 the third or Egyptian characterized oy a pe-| At |,e j culiar type of civilization. j "11 C!J1 THE EGYPTIANS. j *'' erl Turn for a moment to the history of that' .,r he I people, who were doubtless a civilized race, [ac u I three thousand years uciore uic i [ihmi?u cm; no .' five hundred years after erecting the py rum Ids;! en ,iat five hundred years later when visited by' tin of Abrahnm a flourishing monarchy; five hun-i i La, dred yours later in the time of Moses enter-|nn x_ Ing upon three centuries of a brilliant career;, n< * in the sixt h Century before (Christ conquered ! tic ' by the Persians; two centuries after over-: tb It thrown by the(Jreeks under Alexander; then | } for twocenturies under the rule of the Ptole-* nii re] niies: and then a Roman province after the nn death of Cleopatra thirty years before Christ. | In what consisted j jy THE BOASTED "WISDOM OF T1IE EGYPTIANS ?| What was the peculiar tyue of their clvllira-l tlon ? an unchanging, stereotyped character i wl y~ which impressed itself upon government, so- its In* eiety, religion, learning and art; a hereditary of ell monarchy ; a priesthood which monopolized 1 liv f a all power; a population of /jUO.OOO, most of; esl . whom were bondsmen, and whose stout arms te< ' reared those colossal structures, which were J of the wonder of the world ; a wonderful build- pr ty Ing instinct; some skill In painting and I tin ue i sculpture ; a religion ennobled by some great j go conceptions, but degraded by the most re-j ag I voltlng kinds of animal worship; some so "o | knowledge of mathematics and physical i th j science, and some skill lit engraving, dyeing'at | and the working In metals. Such were some ! flu i of the features of this ancient civilization. I cl( ">a Next, come upon the stage of the world's ' I'oi ir, TlIE THKEE MESOPOTAMIAN KINGPOMS, I ias the Chaldean or early Babylonian, the Assyr- J (ji st, | inns and the later Habylonian; the Assyrian a j co ,rt Semitic race; the Babylonian partly Iiamitlcl j and partly Semitic, whose history goes back | u" I more'than two thousand years before Christ, j or 'fit J and extends to the six th century before Christ th B. when Babylon was overthrown by Cyrus, n?i H, Their history is the more interesting from its ha . ' I connection with that of the Jewish people, an j and the conllrmntion which it affords to the pr sr>. truth of sacred history, and tiie verification ev ot which it plvcs to prophecy. de ty. In astronomy the Chaldeans attained great ev e(j eminence and also in architecture and the of I' arts; and in these two last, the Assyrians al- pi k" j so excelled. Modern research has brought to i th "n j light the inscriptions upon the ruins of their I th ed i ancient cities, and thus dispelled something j de tv 'of thedurknesB which covers the primeval i sp to j wor,d* ^ ecl | THE HEBREWS ;eS were a Semitic race, tracing their lineage to VV( )V Abraham two thousand years before Christ, nr j, but having no history before the Exodus 1320 tn 11111 before Christ, and after passing successively Ktl lie I under the yoke of the Assyrian, the Uubylo- |e, n, | nian and the Egyptian, becoming u Human tjj province, sixty-three years before Christ, and r.f,' | seventy years utter wards, overthrown by'i'itus mo uoman mupcrur. u" The Hebrews nmcio no progress in art, in i 0f a science and politics, but the literature of the re, "chosen people," the works of their inspired t.K bards and prophets, form the most precious i legacy which tlie ancient world has handed Tc /v* down, and furnishes the prolific source of Mi *r- whatever is best and noblest iu our civiliza- tic fa- Hon tli Vn THE riKENICIANS j1'.1 were the navigators, merchants and colonists j ,ni ice of the ancient world, extending their incur- w< ito sions as fur astlie Uritish Isles on the West, r(M ,? and India and Ceylon on the East, and rose 0f , to eminence centuries before tiie era of Greek | ca civilization. They were the Inventors of the i j10 ro- alphabet, and scattered the civilization of the j ?p id East as well as Tyrian and Sidonian fabrics j an ,n> I over the shores of the Mediterranian. by ;jit j THE HINDOOS J Ml ho' constitute one of the Asiatic representatives1 L?' in j of the great Aryan race, which had its origi- j e. nal seat Northeast of the Caspian sea, over-1 .running Ihe Indian peninsular three thou- , 1,1! sand years H. C., lirst visited by Alexander, 11111 CO ! and then exliibillngall theevils of the system lit n-| of casles, speaking and writing a highly orl0t ganized language, and possessing a literature, .. the oldest specimens ol which are the Vedas. J, ' ] the sue red books of the Itrnhinins,. boasting , 'a*! an antiquity two thousand years 15. C., hold-1 w' n- ing a religion pantheistic In character and asid suming the forms of lJrahminlsni and liud-lPi: (>(, hism; a people distinguished in llteratureand | V , , thearls, and for ages the centre of a great i,u maritime and caravan trade. iS? THE PEKSIAN3 p|, r,^? tvprn the offsnrinsr of the same great Aryan de j stock, and under Cyrus became tiie leading l lie 1" j power of Asia, overthrew Babylon In the I of all sixth century B. C., and Egypt a lew years iif- j til e. ter, and making several unsuccessful attempts' tin I to subjugate the (ireeks were themselves con-1 de quered by Alexander In the fourth century B. thi "S10. They were a nation of warriors and hence I 'J ?t- | made no great progress in the arts ; but with | of h-1 the models of Assyrian and Babylonian art dls ve I belorc them, erected noble palaces and royal j ho ] tombs, richly sculptured. With the excep- de > tion of the Hebrews they held the purest re- ni< . I llgion of antiijuity, and the best of the impe-1 tin C(1 j rial governments, and had a considerable iit- In i eraturc contained In theZenda Vesta, compil- dr 1 ed by Zoroaster. it>| ve I , such IS a rai'id sketch of omental 'la i civilization, | an '" J | exhibiting a race of despots ruling over vast!?)'1 F empires, with a people fixed in castes,and ex-: ,c" ; hibltiug no social progress. This civilization 1 l"i* ( furnished, howevw, tiie germs of a nobler de-1 H l,rc vclopment, and the ricii fruits of a wider and ; P , ' I more varied culture. Let us turn now to ? n- (ireeccand Koine, where thought found lis,?'.1 al. j highest exercise, and cenius achieved its'?., all (greatest triumphs?lands to which we owe ' c ill some of the noblest elements of our own civi-1 l?o in-! lizatlon. ' THE GREEKS WERE A BRANCH OF THE SAME' pr , ft j ARYAN : Pl> n"! or Indo-Rnropean race; coming to Grceco : '''j r" two thousand years 1$. 0., and Ilrst as 1'elasgl I [lk I and afterwards as Hellenes over-running ihcjpi, "d j peninsular, their exploits forming the staple i |tg [er (of the heroic or pre-hlstoric age, and furnish-1 ZH. ing a subject for the "wondrous tale of Troy Unj! is J divine," us found in the Iliad and the Odyssey , ?|1( on ;of Homer. In the eighth century B.C., begins >scj trc I tlie auilioillll-IllHtory OI uren^ uuu in inv-jj], <?. i fourth ccntury 15. C.t Grecian liberty was ov- rt.( ml erthrown at t.'heronea. Into those four hun- er In ' tired eventful years lmw much of the world's I jjj he: history has been crowded !?Die rise and 11)| of' greatness of Athens and Spuria. th? triumphs of of Marathon, Sulnmts and l'latca, tl|e age of J Jj, he1Pericles the era of Ueniosthenes. "?)-Better a century of Europe, than a cycle of | J1" " Cathay." Iln I He* is i Grcece fell before the conquerlne arms ofjvc an | Rome, and J-KJ B. ( ? became a Roman nrov-ieri ho . luce, but. even in defeat captive Greece aclilev- j th' lr. I ed the hjuhest victory over the conqueror In wl d-1 the ascendency of her arts. wl of; The kinsmen of tho Greeks, the Romans t set [11-i inicing lIH'ir origin mini nil" imiiuc li.it. Ivi iii 1 re ! race lixt'il I lie building of their city 753 years th< rs. for two hundred and Jifly years were un- VT at tier kinaly rule, and then ensued live hun a dml years during which the Republic first .11 ! KtruKpiinK for existence at hoine and rent by 1 to . j in ten line titrlfu, ovcr-rau the Itailau penlusu-1 an ???? r, deFtroyed Carthago, conquered Gaul nnd i >aln,and sent her victorious legions to the I rthest East. I THE EMPIKE ESTABLISHED BY ATTOCSTU3 ! years B.C., embraced in lis widespread arms | o whole circle of the civilized world and , ualling the Republic tn duration tinally ent down under the tide of Goth-Vandallc j irbarism. sweeping down like some stream j burning lavaupon thefalr citiesof Pompeii , id Qcrculaneutn I7(i B. C., the Western , mplre passed away, nnd with it closed the | irlod of ancient history. Now begins the history of those new races j L'elts, Teutons and Slavonians?who with e Grreco-Latins form the chief actors In the , ama of modern civilization. j IEY AI.L CAMK FROM THE GIIEAT ARYAN I STOCK. 1 ie Celts came tlrst and receiving some culre from contact with the Romans, estab;hed themselves In Western Europe, the I irinans found their home in Central Europe i id appeared tlrst as chief actors in the over- ] row of the Roman Umpire, the Slavonians, i e ancestors of the Russian and the Pole es-1 ] Wished themselves in Eastern Europe. Itlj from these four historic races that we de- > ice the origin of the various nations of Mod- ; n Europe, and from the blending of Oer-|| an and Celtic elements with Greek and j itin, we have the rich fruits of modern cul- < re. i VVp have njlther time nor inclination to en- ( r the wide field of modern history, nor truce i e successive epochs und characteristic feures of each , iikvei.oi'ment of modern civilization, ! e rise of the European States, the establish- , ent of the feudal system, the growth of the ipul power, tfie origin of the free cities, the , usades, the rise and decay of Chivalry, the , vival of letters, the progress of maritime scovery, the achievements of science, the uunph* of inventive skill, and those varied ] jits of genius, learning and art, which form ( c; glory and crown of modern civilization. . l'lie most superficial glance at the developent of modern civilization will confirm the mark of M. Gulzot, that In variety and rlchtss, It is far superior to that of the ancients, at whilst In tlie culture of the taste and the tellect the Greeks attained a higher and ore rapid development, yet from the chkegs and variety of thk material of modern progress, has assumed a wider and more enduring ' pe, and has perhaps entered upon a bound- , kk career. T.pon the culture and rellneinent Grecian art and Roman law It has engraft* , the morality of the Christian Church, and e free spirit nnd personal Independence ot c Teutonic races. mat these new elements form the serais of 1 that is best and noblest In our civilization, Itliout which it would be but "Rounding ass or a tinklinc cymbal," let us contrast icient Athens with any free state of modern ines, with England or the United States,and e shall find wanting 1,1, T1IK SAFEGUAHPS OF PRIVATE RIGHT AND PERSONAL LIBERTY liieh we have been accustomed to think, it nfethedutyof the government to furnish: it instead Institutions at war with the very irit of humanity and the proper destiny of un. We shall And a lawless democracy excising legislative and Judicial functions la single assembly, and without ariv of the reralnts of constitutional liberty controlling] e lives and property of the citizen; a govnment of passion, ciiprlce and arbitrary j wer. We shall find no Magna Charta, or i uhens Corpus, no Press, no Jury trial, no jar definition of crime, no rules of evidence, ?security from arrest, no immunity from nllscation; we shall find a people, not Ined divided in to castes but pervaded throughit by the haughty spirit of race, and looking iwn with contempt upon nil mechanic arts; populace idle, needy and rapacious, living >on the plunder of the rich and themselves e tools of artful and Indigent demagogues, s a consequence we find the institution of imestioslavery an essential element of so>tv. sanctioned by its schools of philosophy id regarded by acute thinkers us the haslsof e excellence of the Greek In literature nnd t, Less than one hundred thousand Allienlis lorded over some four hundred thousand ires ; and In Spartu the disproportion was 11 greater, and the Doric racc was said to bo camped amid enemies. IE WHOLE FRAME WORK OF SOCIETY WAS j FORMED FOR WAR, tilch was the chronic condition of the gov-( ument. Hence the origin of the ancient scijiline nnd education, the exorcises of the ' mnaslumand stadium, the prevalence oi j fnntlcldc, the rapacity, violence and cruelty I the ancient governments, which infected e whole spirit of society. As a fruit of this j iteof war, originated tho idea so oppo*ed j the spirit of modern governments, that tho j dividual existed only for society una inicini i sacrificed for Its benefit. Thissplritntt-iln-1 ItRhighcst development In the Iloric states ; d especially at Kpnrtil where the laws of I,yrgus Interfered with every concern of the Jzcti, with marriage, the education of chlion , the holding and disposition of property, d made the citizen the mere slave of the *te; but however mitigated among the lienlans and other Ionian races, pervaded the institutions of antiquity. In opposing to all this, Is the deep-seated feeling of rsonal Independence and the sacrcdness of I IvaU; property, which is the lending chiir-j teristic of modern society. C'lvU and re-1 lous freedom are the watchwords of mod- , 11 progress, and furnish the elements of all lit- Is best or noblest in our civilization. IVith all the culture of the Intellect, t istc d Imagination of the (Jrcck, and thai splrif obedience to law and regard for the salients'of domestic ties, which characterized e early Roman, they were the slaves of a basing superstitions, which deifying hu-j in attributes, and vicious passions, led to aj iversal corruption of morals. Sow came a ; XXGION WHICH TACOIIT TI1K COMMON OKIGIN AND COMMON DESTINY OF Tit Kit ace; llch taught even from Mars' Hill through . great'-Kt apostle, the common brotherhood | man; which laid deep tlie foundation ofr dividual responsibility and personal liberty j Lablislicd a purer system of morals, initiga- j J the ferocity of war, elevated the condition j woman, and made benevolence an active ! inciplo arid organized system. It taught I nt man was not made for govern men t, but j vcrnment for inun.n means to an end, an ent in the march of progress. that whilst j cicty is temporal, man himself Is eternal, i at whether or not human perfectibility bol| lien 111 of the philanthropist, man finds his 11 lal destiny in the next world, and that so ty and govern men tare only appliances to! ward him on his high career. Unt whilst eulogizing our modern clvlllza>n, let us not nnder-rate the ancient or put o low an estimate upon the master-pieces of; eeian and Roman genius. Whether we nslder them as the NOBLEST I'KOnUCTS OF OENICS, weigh their influence in moulding the oughts, and shaping the destiny of liicliunn race. The very language of Greece, us it is well been said, is as great a wonder as iy it records. In compass ami flexibility, in ecision and force of expression, adapted to cry subtlety of thought and exactness of ttnltlon, with a power of accommodation to cry variety of style and subject, the pathos oration, the elevation of the epic, the slniIclty of the pastoral! How wonderful are e immortal productions which itcnshrltios! e poems of Ilomer, the history of Thucydls, the orations of Demosthenes, and the cculations of Acadcmic and Stagyrite, of oicand Epicurean. In everything which addresses itself to the ste and tnc imagination how pre-eminent *re the Greeks! in painting, sculpture and chitecture without a rival, as exhibited in e stately columns of the Parthenon, tho ili.nc />r l)l,l,ll?c ntwl flio tnilntlli.ru r,r A tin! !. Great in themselves who ehu estimate!1 e i FLUENCE OF THE IMMORTAL PRODUCTIONS OK ATHENIAN OKNIl'S, poets, orators, historians and philosophers, "These are the sceptered sovereigns That rule uh from their urns." i adopt the brilliant tribute of the essayist ncaufay : "If we consider merely the sub- i >ty of disquisition, the force of imagination, i e fcrvornnd eloquence of expression, which aractorize the great works of AthcniaVi geus, we must pronounce them Intrinsically ast valunhlc, but what shall we say when ' ; reflect, that from hence have sprung dielly or indirectly, al 1 the noblest creations the human Intellect, that all the triumphs truth and genius over pride and prejudice ve been the triumphs of Athens, that her irit has been present Inspiring, encouraging i d consoling, by the lonely lamp of Erasmus, i the rostless bed of Pascal, in the tribune of irabeau, in the cell of Galileo, on the scafd of .Sydney. Who shall estimate her inicnce on private happiness ? Wherever lit- i iture can console sorrow or assuage pain, i en Is exhibited In Its noblest form the 1m- j artnl Influence of Athens." i T IT IS UPON THE EARLY PROGRESS 01' 1 CHRISTIANITY, ' ! at we would especially note the influence of i F? \.*rceK language mm |>n i iu^uiuij , uiviiiv is the language of literature and phlloso- ( y, but It was also the language of the gosls and epistles, and ot the early schools of i llosophy. The conquests of Alexander ] ittered the elements of Greek civilization ] rouehout the East. Antloch and Alcxan- i in were Greek cities, where eloquence and llosophy nourished long after the glory had 11 parted from Athens. They Were the car-1 st home of Christianity and furnished some 11 the ablest champions of the new talth, un-1i Christianity after becoming the religion of j i s schools,assumed the Imperial purple un- i j r Constantlne, aud became the religion of I < s Cmsars. i ['he pre-eminence of the ancients In works 1 Imagination and taste, we suppose to be ln-| iputable, but whilst It may PC a question, w far the existence of slavery fostered the | velopment of the favored few in the depart.Mitsof literature and art, we think that fro can he no doubt, that their Inferiority!, the useful and mechanic arta, and In all the ' partments of the physical sclcncou, wasowg to their UNDUE DEPRECIATION OF THE USEFUL, d their consignment to slaveaof allthearts t ilch minister to physical comfort and en- j anient. Philosophy, according to their t iws, had Higher ends than to minister to ] o wants of the body, and to advance the t yslcal condition of the race. Hence It was | atrren philosophy, a philosophy of vague t eculatlon and endless logomachies, of flow- ( t and leaven and no fruit, producing no ac- i mulution of truth, no heritage of learning, l KD BACON. THE FATItKit OF MODERN 1*111- 1 LOSOPIIY, oposed to himself dlflerent ends, ft philosoy which brought nature to the test of exrlment, forthe purpose of ransacking Its sc ts, and making all Its powers subservient the advancement of the race. It was a llosophy of progress because It addressed elf to the practical, and sought with new il to explore new and untrodden paths, ic fruits of that, philosophy aro seen in all I e wonderful achievements of modern ence, and the triumphs of modern art. In p Renins which inspires, the skill which (lists ami the energy which conquers; in ev f department of 'science nnd every field of] <eovery, In the comincrce which whitens' c sous, and the harvests which glnddnn the ; \lns. in the laboratory of the chemist, nml ; e shop of the artisan, in the rapid rush of r? locomotive, and the lightning flash of ' b telegraph. In Government and legislation. j all which brlehtens our homes nnd gives :urlty to life, liberty and property. These j s owe in a large measure to the spirltor mod-1 I discovery, catching the zeal and adopting | 5 methods of modern philosophy. And, 10 with the past and present before him, i II presume to limit i'-s future or clrcum-j ibe Its domain. n nothing Is therestlcss activity of modern might more apparent than in the TEMPT TO t'ONSTKUCT A SCIENCE OUT OF III8T0UY, 4 formulate all tlie complex details of thought d action and their infinite relalious into a \ system which would cnablo us to anticlpat the march of events with the wmc precltilor that the astronomer predict an eclipse. Bu Lhough acute and profound thinkers, a Compte and Ruckle, have labored asslduou* ly In this field with somo success and huv ichleved much that Is worthy of preservatiot ^ ct from the Inherent difficulty of thesubjec ind the temptation to hasty genernllzailoi from insufficient data, they have been led t much that Is crude In speculation and heret sal in doctrine Whether such a science c history he possible. Its construction Is ccrtalr ly very remote. Tnelaws which govern phyi leal phenomena arc simple and direct, and li this respect they dlflcrfrom the laws whic control the Infinite complications of cans mid effect In the moral and Intellectual rein lions of man, and which make up that aggri' jato of human action which we call hlstorj MK. BUCKLK HAS BELIEVKP 1IIMSKLF FHO) HALF THE DIFFICULTY hy Ignoring certain Important factors In th irama of the world's progress, by distills? ing all considerations of the differences ( race, and denying the Influence of moral fee Ingsand passions in controlling the courser luiman action, and referring all progress t the growth of knowledge and the dcvelof incut of the Intellect ascxhlblted in the hi! lory of the European nations, whore mint lU'Pnrdlnc In tils Ihwirv. line nmwniprpil th internal agents of climate, food, soli, and Ui apparent aspect of nature. A system wlileh I designed to explain the course of human m lion and which falls to comprehend so Impoi lant an element as the Influence of nion itanses. Is self contradictory. Hut Indec there Is no Inconsistency, as held by M Buckle, between a science of history and th nrdcrly progress of events under the Infli ence of inorat causes, or a scheme ot prov dentlal government. Indeed our earliest nr lions of order and regularity areconneete with Divine agency and the Influence of mo r1 causes. Mr. Buckle recognizes the powc of external nature, but what Is this buta croi lion animated and ruled by a creator, accorc Ing to laws eternal and universal. MR. BUCKLE IGNORES THE GREAT MORA DOGMAS, which protect tJie security of life, the nam null ui in??rui|;u ivnu iiiu i?u?>?e*3iun ui erty,?he Ignores the codeof Christian moral upon which modern civilization rests, th oquallty of man, the dignity of humanity, th sanction of marriage, the forgiveness of li Juries, the law ol charity, purity of life, an the claims of the weak ana helpless; he dh curds the great dogma of tho freedom of th will, upon which rests all moral responslbl Hies, and thus removes important agents I the restraint of passion and the regulation < life; lie gives prominence to Intellectual an physical Influences but ignores those mon agencies which mould the form of indi vidua social, and natural life. Surely if there bo science of life, Mr. ltuckle has failed to a] prebend it. MR. HERBERT SPENCER IS MORE MODEST in his pretensions, and does not claim ft .Sociology the dignity of an exact scienci only a moiety of the sciences,according to h view, being exact. A science Is exact whlc determines as wellthe quantity as thequal ty of Its phenomena; and as the phenoinen of Sociology arc more complex than those < all other departments, he concedes that the are incapablc of precise treatment, and ca be given only tinder wide variations of tin anuamouut, but so far as there Is provlslo and Interpretation there Is science. Wlthl such limits there may be a science of Soelol try, and one which by eliminating the ui laws of proKress, from a wide survey of tl facts of Individual, social and national Uf may constitute an Important factor in tl development of modern civilization. In this short sketch of the nature, orlgl and progress of civilization, It will bo see that whilst it has assumed many phases d pendent upon diverse conditions, yet Its e scntial nature has been ever the same. GROWTH ANI> PROGRESS HAVE BEEN Til I,AW OF ITS BEING, and Its highest types have been the dcvclo| incnt of germs planted 111 other ages, and I: other people; growth and decay have bet only chnngcs in its essential and imperlshi blc elements and the apparent extlnctlo of Its life has been contemporan ous with the silent operation of its fruct fylng and vivifying agencies, causes the mo obscure, and ngenclek the most trivial, inn each discharged their appointed work; not! ing has been lost, nothing has been I notice Ive, the achievements of one age have bee he heritage of the next, the spirit of the pa has quickened the zeal of the present an kindled the hopes of the future, until III some noble stream with 110 refluent wave I cheek its swelling Hood, it lias come down 1 lis enriched with the contributions of ever ace and every clime,and sending forth nthoi nnd rills to brighten our homes and giuddc our fields, Westward the slnr of Empire takes its wn The four first nets always past The lift>i shall close the drama with the da Time's noblest offspring Is the last." The U. S. Congress. A DOZEN MEN OF REAL ABILIT DIRECT ITS BUSINESS. The Groat Herd of Ordinary Meinbei Engage in no Higher Work Tlio Voting:, nnd Distributing Seeds an Public Documents. The Average Congressman Whinln Around the Departments for Sma Iavors. {Darlington Xn?.] Tlie National House of Heprcsentatlves <\ voted Itself at the beginning of the present se sion io a reloiuniitlon of lis rules. These ruli In the courseol time hud become so iiuincrou complex and techicul, and had been so Iran formed una mysiiueu ny construction, tin the average Congressman round It Impossibi to comprehend und make himself eon versa i with them, and, as a consequence found bin sell powerlrf* to bring to a hearing, on tl merits, the measures his constituents desire hlni 10 urge. To remedy the evil, an ah committee sat during the recess, and at tl: opening of the present session, presented new b'el. of rules. Afler weeks of discussioi the new code was adopted with but litt change. It was now honed that there woul be less ohslruclion in the business, and moi equality among the members. It was son found, however, that the necessity for tl constitution of the new rules,hHorded all tl material required by the sharp lawyers of tl House, lor obstruction when they desired l obstruct, and that the rules, simple as the looked, Were when attcmptKd to be used b the ordinary Congressman, like edged too that, cut the hands of the unskilful in tl handling. Ho far there has been about i much obstruction as heretofore, and the 1: men tabic condition of the ordinary Congrcs man has not improved?he is as sad a nonei tiiy as ever. lie is really allowed to open 1) mouth, except on occasion when, in the wii of "throwing a tub to the whale," a lew houi are thrown away In permitting him and li wretched companions to read prepare speeches, for home effect, to empty seat Isobody listens to him, and nobody cares f< him except when the tiinecomes to vote, an then his leader directs him how to vGte, am as a general rule, he meekly obeys. His bii which lie announces witli such a flourish 1 ills constituents ure hurled In committees,! if by some rare good luclc one chances I emerge from that tomb of the innocents, it quickly strangled with the rules. The fact a few dozen men of real ability control Coi press In both its Houses, prepare Its legisli lion and manage and direct its buslnes while the great herd of ordinary membersai permitted to cnguge In no higher work tha casting votes under the direction of part leaders, distributing seed and Congressiom documents, among their constituents, an hu:i bly whinlug around the Departments ft Kmnll fiivors. Pprlmns It. Is widl flint Milk so, for considering the nature of the uvcriip Congressman, If his bonds were loosed mid li was permitted to work his will, there Is n telling what an Avalanche of crude leglslr tlon, would be precipitated upon the countr* Therefore the able men of both parties mak use of rules, to him mysterious and past fln< in); out, to snub him Into silence, cull' hli Into quietness and make him know ills plao He may be n Urobdinenag ut home but he bi comes n Lilliputian In Congress. Ills fon constituents may believe him to be ft brigl: and shining light in Washington, but tli fact is that nobody there takes notice tin his little tftpor is nlightand burning. Tli Congress of this mighty nation is the place i L>f all others, from which the ordinary ma should keep away, 11 lie wishes to preserv ills self-respect. It is an assembly to whic should be sent only intellectual giants?me i>f really great ability and uncommon a talnmcnts. The Congressional iJistrlct, tha with ft natural pride and lo secure its intei tsts desires to nave a voice and an influent in the councils ol (he nations, must, to ai :ompllsli its wish, pick out Its ablest mm without r<yference to mere popularity, an Insist on being represented by him. A mere ly clever gentleman, good scholar ?nd popw lar stump speaker will not do. Unless he b i really uble man, he will but add another t 'the dumb driven cattle" of the great Con gress of this great nation. If any one ol our readers will take th trouble to read the Cbnc/rexsionnl Jieaxl for tw tveuks consecutively, he will be compel led t lay that these words arc words of truth an soberness. iiieboutii sutlers from not. pro| ?rly considering the material from whlc done, can be fabricated a Congrcssma worthy tlio mime. TURNING ON THE WATER. Hie Snmmcrville Mills Commcnc Operations. (Chromclc and Sentinel.) New Augusta! A subscription of S50.0C mthorized by ibe legal voters of tbe cltj {uarantees the completion of the August mil Knoxvllle Railroad; the price of ever; lorse-power supplied by our cunal fixed a .he reasonable sum of 85.50 ner annum; th jroposal purchase of a splendid mill-site b, .he Sibley Manufacturing Company; tin arly construction of the.Sibley Factory, wltl M.OOO spindles and the probable annual dls juraement among its operatives of 8175,001 .lie telegraphic Information, received j ester lay, that a sub-committee voted to report ii avor of appropriat ing 5100,000 to our cllyfo i public building?these arc 'v few of th events of the day that should gladden ou icarts and give us courage to g6 forward t .he attainment of all that Is wltlnn the read )f a well directed energy. Upon the heels o :hese facts come the,unnoiincemcnt that an it.liAr potion factory, new and conmloiH. liu jcen iiddwl to tlio list of our industries. A ilevcn o'clock, yesterday morning, wate ahs turned on the wheel? of UicSinninervllli Vnptorv?nn esfHhlishliH'iit nml iidi> ated by Messrs. Jas. A. (iray unci George]1 ;urry. The machinery is new mid Improve ind 1m In place. Night and day will be devo ed to the work ol sharpening the cording tnd, In a short time, the music of too spindle: ,vlll ring through the building unci stripe* ;oods will roll out In yards by the thousand ['lie work and the adjustment* have been ifc sompllslied under the skilful supervision o dr.C. W. Holbroak, who occupies the post o superintendent. As an evidence of the hlgl ippreclatlon In which the enterprise Itself li ield, It Is mentioned Hint the SW.OH) worth o percent, bonds, Issued under authority o aw, by the Sumniervllle Manufacturing .'ompnny, have been disposed of at par, nnc lint, too, without any extraordinary eflor in the part of those ollerlng them. Succesi o the new factory, and may It prove ul if the irood that It promises toils owners nnc o our city. Dkess goods, at Hill & Thomson's. e Georgia Is to have two State Contentions; i, the first June 9th, to elect delegates to Clnt clnnatl: the second July 21st, to nominate .1 SUite officers, '* The Greenville & Columbia Railroad will be e sold by order of Court, on the lath Inst. There [ are various speculations as to who will be the purchaser, n ? ? Atlanta, April 6,?Dr.Soars has decided to ~r move the I'eabody Normal School from Nashvllle, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georglr. I BUY e A LTNEX SUIT mude up In elegant style, i- /\ as cheap as material can be bought for >- anywhere else, at the ' ) Emporium of Fashions, April 7, 1880. LADIES, >(| TF vou want a cheap Aid stylish hat try the H.i New Milliner at the EMPORIUM OF >f i KAKIIIONM, where you will find the largest o: and most attractive stock ever oflered.at very -1 lowest cash prices. < April 7, ItliJO. It iv mnvinm HiiA immii e 1 t'j TN accordance with tho Supply Bill, npprovJ* 1 od February 20th. KSO, the Treasurer's offlee will be open for the collection of Taxes _ from May 1st to June 1st, 1880. |. The rate per centum of taxes is as follows: State purposes, -1% Mills, h County (current), 3 " County, past Indebtedness.... 1J<J " Schools 2 " Is C ' Total \\\i Mills. e i-1 Toll Tax one dollar. d I Tax payers have the privilege of paying In " ; two Installments, the fln>t. Installment in May e I nnd the second from the loth of September 'to | the 31st of October. They can pay all In May n ; If they desire. ^ If the first installment he not paid In May a 4I ponalty of Ave per centum will be added. I, Taxes are payable In the following kinds of a funds and 110 other: P" Gold and silver coin, United States Currency and National Bank notes. All information desired as to taxes freely >r given by mail or otherwise. 51 T T*r TTfc I J. w. rerrm, ia ;; County Treasurer. 10 Treasurer's Office, 1 " April 7, 1880, -It. J ? State of South Carolina, c, County of Abbeville. ? IN TIIE COMMON PLHAS. eSUMMONS ? roil uei.ief. ? [Complaint not Served] IE Win. P. Kennedy, Archibald K. Watson, p- rialntills, n against itiii Elizabeth Baslcln. Mary Hester, Ann Mee Comb, M. 0. Taggurt..)a>>.Taggiirt, .Jane E. i- Tnggurt, Eugene C. Tnggart, Ella M. Tag st furl, .lumen K. Taggart. Win. S. Taggart, ,c Thomas 0. Taggart, John L. Taggart, lieni ry H. Taggart. iturnwcll L. Taggurt, Minnie t- L. Taggart, Defendants. ". To tlie Defendants Elizabeth Raskin, Mary , I Hester, Ann Mct'nmb, M. C. Taggart, Jus. ,? | Taggart, .lane E. Taggart, Eugene C. Tag1 part, Ella M. Taegart, James E. Taggart, r Win. S. Taggart, Tin>inas U. Taggart, John ,v I,. Taggart, Henry K. Taggart, Karuwcli L. ~s Taggart, MinnieS. Taggart. :n V 017 ARK ilKHEHY SUMMONED and reI I quired to answer the complaint In tills action, which is liied In the otticoof tlie Clerk ' of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to .. serve a copy of your answer to the said coni} ' plaint on the subscribers at thelrolllee, Abbej vi lie C. II., H. C., within twenty days after tlie I scrvlce hereof, exclusive <if the day of such service; and If you fall to answer tlie com| plaint within the time aforesaid, the plaln| tills in this action will apply to the Court for I the relief demanded in tlie complaint. Dated April 5th, IKSU, Y BARKER & McHOWAN, I'iulntlff's Attorney. *S To Ann McComb and Eugene C. Taggart, abi sent Defendants, n | TAKE NOTICE?That the summons In tills 4i i case of which above Is a copy with the eomj plaint, lias this day been Hied In the ollicejof :riTi(?i i onri lonimou ricu.s jor nuucviiic County, South Carol Inn. PAItKER & McGOWAN. c April r?, lsst). et "| Sheriff's Sale, J. Hampden P.ronks against \V. R. Mcrri! weather, et al. c-1 Execution. m-j T">Y virtue of nn execution to mo direct ed, In MS' thealiove stated case, i will soli to the s, I highest bidder, at public miction, within the s-| legal hours of sale, at Abbeville Court House, it | on Monday, the third day of May A. 1>. 1SS0, lc the following described property, to wit: it The intererl of W. It. Merrlweather In i- nil that tractor parcel of Land, situate, lyie tug and being in the county of Abbeville, id South Carolina, and known tis the Merrile wenther Place, nnd. containing >c TURKIC HUNJ>RKI) AND EIGHTY-TWO ' acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of J. C. Young, J. W. Kouche, Mrs. E. Clieathani -i and others. 1" Levied on nnd to l>c sold as the property o( n W. R. Merrlweather to satisfy tlie aforesaid ... execution nnd costs. TERMS-CASH. .T. F. P. DrPRE, SherifT Abbeville Countj'. " April 7, 1SS0.. %im, rs | DEALER IN 5 MMMM1S it ls AND I WHISKIES. s; o n a LARGE assortment of HAVANA Cicnrs, y A CORN nml KYE Whiskies from 81.75 (& il SS.OO, per gallon. , SSCOTCH I AND 5 ZIFtlSH I WHISKIES, it * 7 S ALES, PORTERS, BITTERS,, \ APPLE AND r* nr i nm nnniniPA r rtAUH BliANUItS, i IMPORTED : mwm BBAHBY For Medicinal Purposes. ? February 25, 1880. s ' fishing li T INKS AND HOOKS, TUOT LINES. a jlj Edwin Pariier. April 7th 1SS0, 2m ^ . for p ^FIIE Latestnovelties in Dress Goods, White e 1 Goods, I^ees, Trimming Silk, Buttons, Fans, Corsets, Lace Jlitt.s, Gloves, Hosiery, Parusols, &c., be sure to look, befoi e purchasing, at the r" Emporium of Fashions. a April 7, 1880. n L nuw 51 For The Good of Tie Craft 11 I T HAVE CONCLUDED TO GIVE MY ; JL whole attention to my Shop. I shall give !": It GOOD ATTENTION. If any person wish? en to linve his I Watches Repaired t HrliiR thern In. I have nil the tools nnd mnr terinis to *lo it up in the best of style nnd nt c the lowest rates possible. If you want your . | clock repaiTecl bring It in and it will be done >_ right. If you want your JEWELRY MENDED * I M Bring it on. If you Want your II SEWING MACHINE MENDED! J; This Is the place to get. It done In tlic best of J.' order. You cim huvenny piece made new, or ' | the old one repaired. If you want your gun or [ j pistol repaired this is the place to liavo It ' done. All these articles will be repaired In j 1 the best of order at the Lowest Prices. || Give ine a trial and satisfy yourselves?' j'TEHMS CASH. . JOHN L. CLARK. Junuary 22, 1.S71). tf. On Exhibition!' A COMPLETE STOCK m OTT SPRIIG ill SUMMER Ml You have but to look, to see that our stock is ] Large and Well Selected. Prices always guaranteed. Call and get your wants Supplied. W. JOEL SMITH & SON. I March 31, 1880 j iMft sPRiisn mi\ 1UUU Ui LliJ.il VJ JLUUV . ANNOUNCE THE RECEIPT OF A % LARGE ASSORTMENT OF 1 Spring Goods,1 CONSISTING in part of CALICOES, LAWNS, SWISS, t CHECK MUSLIN, PIQUES, CORDS, JSTRIPES and | MARSEILLES, GRASS CLOTH, KNICKERBOCKERS, DE- j jLAINES. CAMBRICS, &c., &c. ; I The latest novelties in Notions and Hosiery, Embroidjery in a vareity of patterns, Tasso Edgings for Linen Suits, Feather Braid, Novelties in Fans. g A. Full Stock of BOOTS and SHOES, HATS in Straw, Wool and Cassimer. 'Scott's Cod Liver Oil Emul- vriTT FIT HAT sion- \kW V I J r CAMMs' OOP LIVER OIL EMULSION. ... \ A J 1.1 1. XJLthjJL I, Pure Coil Liver Oil. Pure Mnlt. I Edwin Parker. Am ; April 7th 1SS0,2m ai j R. W. Cannon, B *INET X- . I ABBEVILLE, S. C., K,0D6Ft J 0I16S. ? I GENT for v <i j sweepstakes SEPARATORS, . General Furniture Dealer. BIGELOW ENGINES, va unr*?t at? ?PinPATm(? C tikes in Wisinut nnd imitation of different I * ij rasiuoiuiiilc woods, and detached pelces. BUCKEYE REAPERS nnd MOWERS, Hardwood bedsteads. *1, mid upward, I'lc .. _ w tures framed to order In Bill or walnut. Fur' And nil kinds of plantation machinery, Belt- nlture rupnlrliiB and upholsterlnc done to nr'! Inc. Aosc, Ac. Terms liberal and jtood dis- dec Rosewood burial cases constantly on caunts for cash. Call or write for circulars. hand. Kineotl chronios. mottoes, card* rln"s I March 31 1880 picture furnishing of nil Jtlnds. All orders I-1- promptly attended to. New house, new I T, . goods, low pricca, LSSSSL**^ EoiertJone., ! ^larch r EDWIN PARKEn- Ninety-Six. i at arc n .J., issu. January 28, 1?80. SPRING BEDS. j -y t*t*b * y ! qMIE "Hfi" prlco from Si to Sfi; the'Tnvltro. ^ ? ?L-J ! i rat or" S3. The price of the shove Reds ; brliiBs them within the reach of all persons; U/\nfn o n rl QVinoo TTov | place them on all your beds for the comfort of. AJUULO CtJJLU. OULUCO) Hdl" youvsclves and your friends, for sale at 1 m i j. d Chalmers. ness and Tanyard. March 10.1. 80, tf TlPXr material used, tine workmen einployD ed, custom work made promptly, and all T fll? Till? OB/ldflW the lowest bottom prices for cash. llldes al-l 1 L'fijJ 1 Uf x XX Hi uJjAuUill wiiya bought at the highest market price for j A1 _ . _ , M . n January 2s, liSSflfly. ONE OAR-LOAD ?v -| KM Ulll OMIiW Just Received by Take Notice. SrECIAL INDUCEMENTS offeredtoCSub*. Cheaper than Isu?t year. Standard Brands i l)i Diillll W Xllilii which have hern largely lined and tested., .. . CSive usa rail before buying elsewhere,itmay | March 31, lttoO. be we can save you money? | Livingston Indelible Tablet. ^ W. J0el Smith & SoXL.j dill I UH J J *."% JOW. fPHE best known combination for marking JL any cloth fabric. _ ?jj_ ])f !>eese. VALERIAS ARCARNUM. I T?01t beautifying and preserving the com- W[lt(]!}]]][) Iff]!1 SUll J(jWfjl(jF J. plexlon. Removes freckles, pimples, tan !! UlUUiUUJVUi UiiU UUIIU1U1, iU'd 'SU,,bUI"' Edwin Parker. AT T1IE ST0RE 0F B. W. Barnwell, iState Of South GfVlOllIltl, \IJILL always have on hand a variety of 7 I W CLOCKS and WATCHES for sale. At nniTntv ft f AhVifTTillp large number of handsome clocks are dallyi VUUULy 01 .auueviiie. expected, Call and sec them. - | ? , . _ . , T .. . . , . i ia)-l'romi>t attention eivfti to rcpairingand | Probate Court Citation for Letters of Admin ; jn f||||n<r orders for all kinds of goods pertain- j istrntion. j ing to the trade. I By J. Fvller Lyon, Esq., Probate Judgk & 11 own I axes, i T T V. X I MIS IlliiUU OUIb to lilt-, fcw I ? grant biin Letters of Administration of j j tho Estate and effects ol'A. A. "Williams, I |_ | late of Abbeville County, deceased. ? II, PEKSONS LIABLE Fon TOWN* I a These are thereforo to* cite and admon- I A Taxes are t chaired to nuike their returns; | I ish all and singular the kind reel and cred- j bVn??x? nuwt 'bo'pam'by the 1st day ot! ' itors ol tho said A. A. \\ illi.ims, do- next May. By order of Town Council, _ Iceaued, that they be and appear, before . n . rr I me, in tho Court of Probate, to bodielri at | , | , (jUJ A fl LL J. p, Abbeville C. 1J., on Saturday the 8 day of! m ? ~ ? _ _ 'tc I May, 1X80, after publication hereof, at J Treasurer Town Council. L, II o'clock in the forenoon, to show causo _M?rch lft, 1SS0. lm. I w j if any they have, why the said Adminis- ! ' uSvmts^rSiytaSn'Sd-??i. ? < i CfflvJiB & Coloili Bailroafl' 30th day of March, in the year of UiUUil * 1I1U a UUlUUiUlH ilUillUUU.,our Lord one thousand eight him- t? j j dred and eighty, and in the KedUCeQ ICateS. one hundred and' fourth year of (\S and after February Ihe COth, tho follow-i - American Independence. I / lug tickets will b? placed on sale at all I . Published on the 31sc day of March ticket -offices on line of this road, viz ; ' 1880, in the /Yc.s-i and Banner and on the IiOrNL> TRIP TK'KLTS from any j Court House door for the time required npr'nuie^ouniinedlsmneobnth ways. Good & I by law. Foil TEX IiaS'S, iiicludlmrdayof sale. The I J. FULLER LYON, I round trfpticket* good for tnreeaaysai mri-ei J udiro of Probate. I cents per mile will ho kept on sale as hereto^*1 Mnroli *11 iRvn fu 'fore. The rate tor children between the ace, ? 1 . ? '? of six and twelve years will be half of the: ram mm c~ Is in II 111 if Bill Bill Jai,kz Jf0KT0N? ^K<> General Ticket Agent, j No. 2 Granite RaDge, THOMAS DUCKETt7| WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER, !fJ DEALER IN NlNETy.sIX, S. C. \% GENERAL MERCHANDISE. SSS^sSS;5promptly attended to. I- eh 11, ISM), tf WE havc 1 n Store ALW ft I* ITI.T* nnd ?yy?y ** *>m ? *? ? -i well assorted stock of goods, to which CHILDREN CARRIAGE^ we invite your attention. We guarantee ? ....... ...... b ** AUI'.T.k TOP TAHI.ES. Marble Tod Tin- ri (l nun i y in uimjus him* priurn. i mi ~"v.~ n . . . - . i | IM roans, and v.hairs ol all kinds for Hale J Giye US 3. Call. i??" J.D.Chalmers. jS April J Merch It), 1880, tf j 1 rhe Cheapest, The Best, and The Largest ^ stock of ; Clothing, at 1 ?. Rosenberg & Co's. March 17, 1880. INTERPRfSE grocery. No. 5, Washington Street, s Where Yob fill M Choice 4 FLOUR, MEAL, GRITS, RICE, ! COFFEE, : UGAR, TOBACCO, CIGABS, J soap, salt, ; bacon. lard. CRACKERS and CANST. i Woll Xalnntorl Sfrvolr Af X If UA1 lUUIVVl'VU. Kjtwa \jl CANNED GOODS ALL of which will be nold low for CASH. rB-Top of Market paid for country produce. Respectfully. A I, R, NORMS, AGENT, i 1. W BllliL Is Jrteceiving . Spring Calicoes A ?? Ale X 1^[UC||9) Bleached Shirtings, Cottonades, ' Yarns, Bouts and Shoes, ' Saddles and Bridles* from and P.anfatioii Sollies. \ LL of nrlilch *011 be sold at thfi LOWEST \ MARKET PmCES Call and oxnmlne. B. W. Barnwell. N March 17.1&S0. tf . . . Faints, ,2 ASII TOOLS, and Whltcwnnh UrnsliM. > EDWIN PARKER. March 17.?w2 BBftT"bu tup lunni n i i DEO I in ins nuntu i m Impure Bi-Carb Sods la of a slightly dirty vrhi(? color. It may appear white, examined by i'ltlf, but a COMPARISOH WITli cnrncH & co.'s "arm ajti> HAMMER" BRAND will ihow ?h? dllTe'CBte. D-- * P.l/lti# fl/Jlt ffl BCD 11IIVI. /Vltf MWMCNB .. white and PTRE, 11 shonld bo ALL SIMILAR SUBSTANCES sued flw Food. Eouiokoeptr* who prefer bread made with oast, will improve its quality, mako it rlao better aaclprovontIt from souring, by addlsff one-huf teaapoonful of Church & Co.'a Eoda or BaJeratns. Bo suro and not lit too much. The use of this- with aopr ntllk in preference to Baking Powder, caves twenty timet Its coat. See oco pound packago for valuable intonn*Won and read car?fully. SHOW THIS TO YOUR 8B0CEB* ZFTjJLQ-Q-'S IMPROVED PATENT LIVER PAD! Mbtvx Giti Hakd i Cak b> Mass a*t Strehoth Dmiiid. Lam Twtcs a* lont C'jtuM Cu?4 vltfegt 8t?|fbf til intab ^ Thoe Ptd? Cart >11 Dltetsea by Abwrptloo- Ha Noxiotu Fill*. 01U, or PqUonotu Mniidnetan ultra into the Stomscb- The Pada are worn over the Pit of the Stomach, oorerinir the Great Nerre Ontirt. aljo the Lirer and Stomach. a jftotle Vegetabto Tonic1 s abtorbed 1 nto th e d rculatlon o f the Blood and Liver, purifying the Blood. rtJmulating the Llrer and Xidaejf to healthy action, and atrowrthc&lfif th? Stomach to dlgeirt food. PBICX OF PAM ?1 AMD tt xach. Sold bt all Dacooirri, or aeat by Matt or Ezpren. Manufactured at 89 ft 41 Nobt* Libxxtt 8r? Baltimobx, Md. Central House, j CHE undersigned will hereafter b? found at [ the CENTRAL HOTEL, and will give hi* crvonal attention and whole time to the In* iroat and comfort of hln guests, and will do I in his power to give satisfaction to those lio may stop with him. J. A. RAMEY, Proprietor. Jnnnnry 14, 1S80, 12m Dr7ilTD7wiLSON, ~ D JE NT1STRY, Lbbeville, C. H., S. C.. Oflleo; Upstairs over tho Post Offic Iun? 25, 1879. tr ACID! ACID! 'HE Guano Companies all report their stock of Acid l'hoxi.hnte VEIl\ SHORT, nl tear they will not be able to supply the mand. I'l' PAYS, YOU KNOW It does, cause you liavo TKJKl) It. Come In and get but you need before you are shared out. W. Joel Smith & Son. January 28, 1880. SPRING BEDS 'IIK "Invliror^tor," S3.H0; the No. "HO" $ S0.00. The above good* are very low In ^ ice?get one and make your bed a eomforti J. 1). ( HALMEttS. Feb 11,1S80, tf