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r I ___ a " ill ii w i I lie Prsss and Barms1 Uj Iluy'i Wilson an! if. T. W.ir?!I'a ; Wednesday, July 0, 1S31 Viintiiirl! itV (<?:ttt'ln:?t In the time* not remote as to he fi p.jtten by '.Mir people, the men of t . South wt'Jo remarkable, and noted win ever seen because of the great respect a: deference which they ever manifested I woman, and no whor2 was this distill Hon more notable tlsati in the citizens Abbeville. In the oUen times onr n?' pentletnen, our leathers and onr preuo vrs, were parajofcs in this particular, ai their daily conduct famished exampl V v -which the young were proud to cmula ' . But since the war we are not Mire that > are ki'epinjrnp that politeness which tb rhararlemiM our people. nvnuv ? ago it was tlio rarest occurrence to lio a r/en!lewtn mention tin n unc of a voir lady without prefix in n that title of :i dress which is ever accorded in p:lite s ciety to unmarried luaies. Hut a ehan neotijs t?> Ij^vc l'fjn brousrl't about, :r wo think u will hardly ho denied that ' too often hear the names of the pun and nest young ladies mentioned simp a- *\Sallie Jones," or "Susan Smith." Is there not a cause for this retrogra in our manners, and our departure Tr< the rules of po'ite society? The pub learns itslette s as weli as its maunei ehicflv from the fireside, the sehontm: ler. liio preacher, and the newspapi ? ;t io if mir noonle :ire not deferential and polite to ladies as fount ?y, that there is fault somewhere. T>o the deficiency occur around tiie tlre-id We think not. Hut we will leave e:t reader to answer this question for hit holf, or herself. Then, in purity of actio jn elevation of thought, and in the oi>sr vance of the amenities that cliarjveteri gentlemen wherever found, areourteac 0 era, our preachers, and onr mwspapc l:e equals of those of twenty years ngi TUn msv also answer that questi< to his ov n liking. We merely wi.-li call at.tcT.tioi) to a fact or two which m somewhat assist the reader in making i his mind on a fact, the existence of whi must be painful to every lover of the p: history of his coimty. The Common? mcnt season in our Colleges has just pa< ed, and we have had some opportuni of making observations in the matte m-hereof we are writing. In some of tl Female Colleges, the President address the young ladies of the school as "gii!.? or "children," and i!) another institulii of learning they were addressed by tl President as "Moliie," "Ella," or "M ry," as the ease might be, without *.i prefix of acknowledged politesaluta'.io ? ?* ?u;.a r? >11 i u cac;-, oi uir.-u isnty anil disrespect was ninnifesti ' io public, before mixed companies. Ai ?' i:i addition to tiiis, we also huurd not loi ago a minister of the gospel speak of rieighbw a-> "Turn Jones," instead of "M ?7onc-t," as Iij w.ksK h-ivj b??n ea'ilc twenty yeirs ago. In ackmwled.rtneri and as a result of the clerical gentleman Chesterfieldian politeness, we should n wonder if Mr. Jones, slum Id !;or after speak of his pastor as "Jim Smith A neglect of common politeness h; r. ver\* doietcrinns elleet on society, at we t.'iink the existence of the enston jtisf referred to goes to prove that our oi landmarks are being removed, and lb we are adopting k standard much lo\v< thnn that which former!y oblair.cJ i:i tii community. In on? of the basi institutions of lean ing in the Slate, we arc informed, th: tho youngest boy in the College is rallc bv his family name, with "Mister"' a ways prelixed t > the same. It is know iv?.. V r Simiih is!i:iu*h 1UOI manly and much more of .1 gentl man, and l>y the fact is restrained froi doing-many boyish tricks that v.-ould d light tho satno person, if he were on! Tom, or Jack, or Jim. For a teacher rail 11 young man b\- his family nam prefixed with "Mister" inspires in t! heart of the young man addressed n only self-respect, but also a higher r t-pect for the teacher;and the teach _ himself is obligeu to foci better fur ha Ing a<ldre*s*d-^student according the us?gc? of polite soci?l& a,,d n?l tho ordinal'}- language of uKJM? l osses ing less culture. If this is true in tho ease of our your men, then how reprehensible is it in o*. teachers to address their l'emaie sehola in an unbecoming manner. Is such ji act not grafting into our society, custon and manners of other sections, whit twenty years ago wou'd not have bet tolerated in a community like on is If a teacher may address a your Jadv to her lace as "J'ltcr," why need 1 ever make any prefix to her name who speaking of her to his associates ? If tl teacher of manners, and morals, and le ters, can thus spnak iicr name on If street, or around the convivial boar .. -vrhy may no*, his associates do the sam< If his associates can ch> this with impun ty, why should anybody be polite to tl " lady ? * We cnll attention to this matter, L cause of tlie existence of a painful fat and in the hope of inducing: our poop V"" ooth to 3'ielci and to expect jiolitvne* Tho tn wh/>m we refbr are mil* gons of moralit}", and we cluin* them; among our best friends, and whose abil tv and proficiency in the ar^^flteachii letters is unsurpa.sse^^J^^H^^& v iev and bahits in antic . are atj^|*|^^MWie\Yel!-establishi society. If we lea: they can loam manne Let them not impart to onr vuur men and maidens that rudeness or lac of eivility whieh comes from a want of knowledge of that courtesy which nu be due to each. The Shooting of the President. In another part of this paper we gr someof the particulars of the shooting the President and his present conditio The matter has been discussul by evei newspaper issued since the event and tl whole county deeply regrets the unfo tunate occurrence. Telegrams of rcgi and sympathy have been pouring in Washington from every State of the ti iou, and our neighboring nations ha done the same thing. The great heart the country seems to have been touc ed. While the not w ill be forever a blot upi our fair fame, wo do not apprehend t danger which is entertained by some our citizens. The continuauce of o L liberties does not depend upon the ex ' tence of any ono man, nor is it with the power of any other man to upset t government of this country, but eve true American will always have catiso blush at the recital of so shameful deed. There is, in our opinion, but lit probability of the President's recove The Abbeville Agricultural Soeie Last year we had no Fair, and wo : eurethat our people were disappoint' In such a county as ours, there is no r< eon why weshonld not make a credita) showing of our products, and exhibit tbe world the great resources that possess. We very much fear that if I Fair is allowed to go by default this ye that it will be the last heard of the Ag cultural Societ3r, and to avert such a fat ity we call on the Hon. D. Wyatt Aik to lend bis invaluable aid, and ackno\ edged skill, in helping us, and make ( Fail-?, what tbey used to be, the source profit, pride, and pleasure both to the; clety and to the County. *4?? GbeeXville Convocation of the D rese of South Carolina holds its semi-! nual meetings this week in Trin Church, Abboville, beginningat lOo'clc this morning. To tho^o of our readi who are not Episcopalians, it may be teresting to state that the Cpnvocati holds tho same relation to the annual D tesan Convention, which the Presbytc holds to the Synod and the Quartei Conference to tbe Annual Couferen We arc pleased to add that the publics t invited to attend tbe mattings ol C'c vocation. Mr. Benet will deliver an t - , dress before the Convocation on the Inti > ' -* esting subject of Hymnology or the I* . : *nd Hiatorj of Hyxiit. iv y * T " ~ " " > i Pap West , 1 "A l.nnw th.it car roartors will ti;nnK I 11? 1 ir f ::!'!i^!ii'i r tiie very O-vellent fin- j J imvrs iry ;id lross r>f \V. C. UeJiot, Esq., \ ile'ifvreti last week hefovo ti:o Litcr.irv! j S n-L-tios f.r !Ir.;kiiio Collo^o. It was i ~ ; well ivrt'iveil l?y tho public \vlir? lu'ard it, j j tud he eonim inded an attentive hearing. ; H- Mr. lionet i-the youngest man who has; ht 'ver been invited to deliver an anniver- i >r- -;irv address at Due West, and no one has j ud >\or won a more unanimous well-done"ot from hi.s hearers. ' | I 'v- The iiacealr.ureate add res?, of Dr. Gricr, I President of Urskine Cuilejre should be j read by every one. h- President Kennedy, of the Female Col- j :!- !i?^e, made a good impression in the do; livery of iiH tirst Baccalaureate address, le. which contains many wholesome truths Vl and kindly admonitions. It, like the en speeches of Mr. Jlenet and Dr. CJrSei, will "'s be found anions the proceedings of the Commencements, and is well worjhy to '' Ji be read. d- We h:ivc endeavored to give some in;o :ores:iti? particulars of the Due West S<'; Commencements, and wo think all that' nd t wo present is of a highly interesting w>*e] character, but the account of Commence- j St 1 .11 Ante o i-n Moi'j^ciril r iinnnpf(V?t - '!>' T-? (1(? tin? wliole exercises <>f that week j anything like jiisifce would fill two or de three issues of our papor. I'uder the cir!"> < cumstances, we must ask our friends to I'1' j accept the will, and wh/.t little we have j done, as evidence of our good intentions. ,s-! The attendance was large, and the ex-J [M'* j creises being very interesting were idl :IS; that themost fastidious orthe most ardent j Jr" l friend of either of tho Colleges could lCS! wish, e? i The prospects of Erskine College ('l' i were never more flattering, and we have n*: no doubt that President Kennedy, and his ,!1i assistants, of the Female College, will -r" j keep t^'iat institution fully up to the high | ze j standard attained by its distinguished j !*1 founder, Dr. JJonnor, whose absence 'rs at the last Commencement was noted by! ' 'jail. The institution, which Jias done' 11! so much for the culture ami refinement j of our ladies, and consequently furihct civilization of tho ruder sex, st:'i lives, !1P | though its author sleeps the sleep that ; knows no waking. No man ever ereetlst ed a more worthy monument to hismem: ory, or left a putcr record than did John iS* Irwin lJonne". '-y\ In Kr.sk!ae College the Primary and I rs the degiate departments have been sep-1 'l0 .".rated, This move has long been desired | :'u by t!ie Faculty, and we are glad that the j ' ' Hoard of Trustees have a.-ted on their r Jli! suggestion. The advantages <>f the change ',0 ! ?re two-fold. The course of instruction ll* for boys can be made much more tlior-i tu II?I i'#^Miii'; n* need a knowledge of the rudiments. They cannot spoil. They write a rniscra- { ' ^ l>!e liaml. Geography and grammar arc j to them mysteries. Heretofore the l'ae- j, r~ nlry could not correct these defects or 1: il cure this ignorance. According to thej, ' presentarrangement they can make the'1 >l* department llcxitile and adapt the in-;. ' stniclion lo ihc^needsof the pupil. The!; '^.discipline of ihe College proper Is not > i t:* suited to hoys in the preparatory depart- j1 L menu x nose appeals ana nioues ot rebuke which arc suited to young men the t ls College authorities believe to be almost1 > wholly inoperative with boys. By the', !S present plan the discipline will be modil<* lied to suit the age of the pupil, 'it 1 | Prof. Young's resignation as Professor <, of Mathematics, has been accepted and: li?. J.is connection with the College has been j severed. Mr. Young was one of theorig-i l~ inal founders orthe institution, and had] u given the best uart of his life to its ser-'1 (' vice. 1 lis withdrawal from the institu-ji tion severs present associations, while it'. 11 does nothing to detract from pleasant!' memories* ]< c"! If wo wore to take i:i the weather, the j4 111 crowd, the compliments which the Col-jt lvgcs and the sneakers deserved, the e.\-| - eellent beuaviorof the audience, the beau- i ty and attrac iveness of the ladies, thcij (*' gallantry of the gentlemen, the hospital- j !e ity of the good people of Due West, the j I (,t high esteem in which the citizens of the | { ' " place are held by the public, this notice < erj would extend to the size of Jeff. l>avis' j book, and then we couldn't publish it. _t() Everything pjissed oil" superbly, with not \ a discord to mar a week's pleasant exer- J j ciscs. ^ | Abbeville and Due West now arc unit- < !1^1 in heart, and no doubt before a great 1 ir wiii 1 rThTn'SI 1 s the land between the two places when? j} 111 as now?two hearts will beat as one. President Crier, of Erskine College, is j one of me first me.i of the .State, and no t n man is doing more than ho to graft in !! '' our voting men the highest standards of 1 citizenship. With a spotless character, (l 1C liberal natural endowments, a cultivated 1 n I intellect, a high conception of true man- i ie hood, and a heart endowed with Chris- ! . I rtian love and charity of thought for his < fe!h?w-mant his presence is a powerful J ' influence for good. t :? t Major A. S. Todd, of the Anderno;t JC Journal, was at Commencement. We , think he is heart hungry, and was look- f c, ir>g for some lady "toshine in other hearts ,l and homes'* than the parental roof. We 1 wish him better luck than we have had *t in this line. 1 >S. ! t U J We hail tlie pleasure of meeting Dr. s ^! James lioyce and his g-jod wife. They j liave lived a long life in the beauty of ho-1 11 in ess, and it 5s pleasaut to moot those], ..J around whom a consecrated life ever ! k s I I rs i sheds a halo of sweetness and purity. i -J : Among old friends whom we met was 1 n ! Major S. Watson Reid, who was the friend 1 rs of our boyhood, and a truer or better i i ,ir man never lived. JJe married the daugh- j k ter of liev. James P. Pressly, D. D., and !< a hi* daughter was among tho hand-j,v i some graduates of last week. Major P j Iteid's home since he left Due West has h | boeu at .Steele Creek, North Carolina. : To his ell'orts, whilo a member of the j North Carolina Legislature, are we in-ji ^e'debted tor the inauguration of the "no i ] oi ! fence system in Mccklenherg county, j I u.; North Carolina. Its beneficial influence 1 i'.V waii soon seen by York, and Anderson,!, ^ and Chester counties, and subsequently j I r*: various counties of South Carolina havoj, et: been progressive c-nough to adopt thoji to law. Although it has been eight or ten 1 n* years since tho inauguration of the plan, v(\ it is a fact that a large portion of this of State still blindly sticks to the old law, ! h-1 when the benefits of the new system are : 1 apparent to all progressive citizens. 311 The fallowing seven 3'oung ladies are ^e| said to have divided the tirst honor at j Due West Female College but from tho : l5r | programme it will not be so understood : j 'f* J Miss Johnnie Abney, Miss Nannie Edl,n | wards, Miss Maggie Hood, Miss Mattiej k?j Phillips, Miss Ellio Keid, Miss Mary 'y Johnston, Miss Mary Moffctfc. to| Erskiue College has no more energetic , tl and wide-awake friend than Professor! Wm. Hood, who always fills every posi- j >r^ j tioti, which he may occupy, with honor | ; to himself and satisfaction to those who | jy have trusted him. All visitors who go to { ; Due West have to meet him, to reeeive a! ire i cordial grasp of the hand of hioa whose ' Bd* heart is warm and true. oat)!o . to "Wholly ?xt to Beading matter. we We are constantly in rcceipt of propo-' "c:sitions to publish ugly advertisments of! a1'' patent medicines,at ruinous rates, 'whol'ri"! ly next to reading matter."' The rates! a*" offered aro not half the usual price char-; en I ged local advertisers, and yet notwith-j ,v'" j standing these facts, we see the same ad-' >ur j vertlsments published in some of our ' ol: best newspapers, and in order to give all 3?" I of the medical advertisments precedence ! in position over local advertisments; tho general make-up of some the papers have io- been altered. If religious newspapers in-J which mako a practice of publishing ity | rates in their columns, setting forth the ic-k most brazen falsehoods for tho purpose' nrs'Of swindling their confiding readers,! in-1 were to do this thing, we should not be on ;surprised, but when some of our high-] io-; toned secular newspapers to act so, we xy confess to some astonishment. Wo fear rlv | the religious press, aro having a very dc. ee. moralizing effect upon tho press of the ire! country in this particular, While there >n- are a few honorable exceptions, it seems id-1 that the religious press, to put it mildly, 3r-| set us very bad examples in publishing ai- 'advertisments of a doubtful character, or ! oi kacrwn swindlers, I 2 .* V \ * i / Compliments for Ersklne College. j The xv<?ok before hist after hia return ! from D;io West, where lie had as a niein- ! 1 t her of tiio examining committee ex- 1 aiiiininij tiie students of Krskine College, ; Nfr. I>oi:et was 3d theollk-eof the Press' and Huwh'i', mikI wo put him throughthoL catechism, asking him how he had liked IIh* work, in what condition he had found the College, and what hr thought of Krskine generally. To all of our queries he cheerfully and frankly responded and his answers pleased us so much that wo have given them below, krowing they will bs gratifying to nil the friends of j Erskine, who *.v:li be giad to .see.so high 1 an opinion expressed concerning the College by one who is so worthy to judge. ; Mr. lionet said: "I was delighted with Krskine College i and with all the work which I saw done! in the class-rooms. The (acuity is com-' posed of earnest men whose heart is evi- i dently in their work ; and I must say fori the students that 1 h ive not often seen so ink'!linent-l.joking a body of young men. j It was impossible fur me to !>o with the: examining; eoinmiUee duringall the time ', they spent at the work, but the classes ex- ! amlned while I was there de>ervc my tin- j qualified piaise. I was at the examina-H turns conducted in several of the classes a??d t"nk a deep and close interest in them ali. The students stood severe te.sts sue-' > eessfully. N"t for invidioustiess, hut fori the sake of illustration, let me tell you i what I saw in t'rof. I'at ton's (ireek class- j room. The students were subjected lo ai very right examination m (Jreek prose competition. English sentences, which j j they had no expectation of living: ashen to turn ini<* {frock, wore written on slates, i and each student picking tip a slate at,' random, went to the hlaok-hoard and i' wrote it out in excellent Greek. No! small achievement, that t?nor was that!.' all. The stnnciU would carefully and col -1? rcctly write the proper accent in the prop- ! J or place; and when asked to give the!; rules that irovern the variation in plftcCofji the Greek accent, he would answer with j' astonishing promptness and accuracy, j j When asked to do so, the student would , exhibit on the hoard :i complete pnradinil'! j, of a Greek subslantive? showing the shift- ] ing of the accent Iroin syllable tosylla-:-' hie, and siivin^r the reasons lor it. Now, j any one familiar with (ireek or who ever tried t'> bo familiar witIi Greek knows') how diligent both professor and students ! must have been in their work to produce su'\': a result. It really was a rare picas-1 lire and an uneomimuj exhibition. Il'j any other College has as gi?ud_ji mode of j teaching Greek, ami can show 7issatisfactory icsults, it is a good College to go to."j One can cram for a translation of a Greek 1 author into Kngli<h, l>ut he cannot easily j cram for translation of English into] Greek. And besides this, the students | showed n philological knowledge of the. language which shows that their work is ; not gone through in ordinary school boy fashion. "In the other class-rooms the same particularity and thoroughness were observable. On the whole, it is plain that any ! vouth desirous of being classically and j iibi rallv educated, can have his desires ' fulfilled at I'rsUine and he will liud it hard to fail if he goes there." I Interesting Time nt Ninclv-Six. !> I-a.?t Moii'l.iv .IinUo M<M?owan, ('apt. M. I.. Iloniiaiii, r.:i<l ilie M>nii?r editor of the /vrs* mid Jtoimrr accepted polit;- Invitations to In* I luvsent at Hut closing exercises of the High I School st Ninety-Six, of which .Mr. tieoryc r. Hodges is rrincipal. and to at I end a mass meeting on Tuesday nioiiilnj; to l>o held in | the int? rests of the pro} o-cd ended school at : :halplice. Jtoth meetings took place in th ;r?'veadjoining the lerian chun-h. On j Monday evening the Ulerary Club Joined in j with the exercises and contributed much to: Ilie great success of the musical and literary [east. The fallowing was the I'KOSKAJIMB. Musie? Voice of Spring." Recitation by school?"IUaper and the liow?rs." Music?"I.et ilie dead and the beautiful est." t 1!. < !in inn ?"Tlip MnnijiVs Pmvr>r." Miss I \ M. L.. Lip-scoiiih. 1 Music?liuariettc?"The Mermaid's Songv" f lit ailing?"The Hand,"' Miss Anna Bvzenan. Ketulinc?M. L, Bonhani, Jr. Masic?Duett?"c;ypsy Countess." Headini.'?Miss M. 1*. Calhoun. Heading?Judge Motiowan. 1 s-Oiir?"lirU'ting with the lido." | Kecitation by school?"live before Water-: oo." Music?"Come where my love lies dfcam-1 'i iie miulcnnd recitations were rendered to jcifection, and excited the ailntliation of all j ivho were present. I'.acli piece deserved spc- j -jjil mention, but on niu-.ie and ri cautions j hi r stock of adject Ives a re not equal to the occasion. We cu:i give no just idea of the ex- , MiieiK'C, sweetness, and penection of the ex-1 . reisis, I On Tuesday Mowing ; lie citizens of the town and a number of in-1 biieil finest* again assembled in the grove icar toe I'resbyterian church. 1?IC. .1. W. CAMIOrN joins chairman of the meting made some ap- j noprjate remarks in which he said that lie loped tliat this nie-. ting would prove the date j >1 the beginning of a new era in the effort to -stablish a graded school in Ninety-Six. The: Doctor then introduced President J. II. Car-i ir>!e of \Vot!brd College. ! I'KKSIDENT CAItl.ISLE ! ia!d that he thought that In the great rush for' ducation, too lit;!c attention was sometime. ;ivcn to the making of niouey; that money i vas actual, real: that it fnt'iiishcd uswilii orid and raiment; that it enabled 113 to be! lonest; thal.it lifted us above the stronger . nirrentsof temptation ; that every man oiignt' ji l>e making money, it not more profitably) ii : Uiat there was much in the worOfi; make a fiViTTgT^'-Hwt- -every man .s'rffhld n.akea living." The speaker was afraid that n some of our colleges the art of making, noney was looked upon as vulgar and eon-i emptibie. W hile he would deprecate tiiej velghing of a man's character on Fairbanks'; cales. yet it must not bo forgotten thai if a nan breaks down on I lie money side of his s, hniacter, that he Is aituost sure to break 1 lown every where else; thatall our asplra-1 ..1 1.1 I. I I.I I a.i'Miiu uu m^u, nuimi, tiuu nanly, on the solid estimateof money?the jn rianite bed upon which rests ilit- nobler man- : c mod. While speaking on the money ijues-!'1 ion, he said that to make money was the sole ; " >hjpet,!tnd instead of the aid to the aecom- ; ili.-hmcist of a nobler citizenship, was as j * nueh to be regretted as a proper estimate of' v he value of money. A mete inljier was as I'1 ur as possible fiom the ideal man. > CONG KIDMAN D. W. AJKXS j *n bought too much education, without well. |! pounded principles in tne individual, was'" iaugerous to tlie public welfare, and urged : ~ uir young men lo aim high, to be honorable' v tnd to be industrious, while preserving their i 0 riiaraeteis free from taint. l!y doing this " hey would be enabled to secure all the liter-;1 iiy education they needed, lie feated tliat i ?)o many young men were educated in the;? ibstraet, without acquiring the art of apply-!*1 ng lheir knowledgeof bnoks to advantage In j I1 tie every day business of life. | ^ JUDGE MCGOWAK ,vas introduced and said that the education j n md development of the mind was to he com- i l nendedin the highest degree, but that theed-ja lcatlon of tiie impulses was of more imparl - j ti into and of more value, we should cultivate i 1 .he desirable qualities and subdue those iin-! t >nl?es would degiade or injure the usefulness ; i >r happiness of man. A cheerful disposition ; t ivas worth more than all else. i Ii PltUSIDENK IULKY, ; )f Ad^er College, was ?lrawn thither by the urivut of persons he found coming this way ( -was alad 11 be among the people of Ninety- t Six, but had prepared no speech. He said he. t. was in heart felt sympathy wllh any move it looking to the advancement of education, and a isked to be excused from speaking. j Jilt. J. C. MAXWKI.L, (I irader.n excellent address in the Interests of ,e jd neat ion. which was delivered in a manner lhat held tiie attention of iiis audience from " first to last, lie, like those who had preceded J * iiiin, was highly In favor ol tiie most liberal i , L'nergetic efibrLs in behalf of education. j' CAI'T. M. I?. BOXUAM js in a few chaste and feeling remarks.expressed ! t his niuh appreciation of tiie good people of f Xinetv-Six. nmom; wiioin he had lived. He r was wllh them in bciut In all their efforts, i i>ut niter so many excellent speeches liail I lieen mmlc on the subject of schools he would not attempt to speak. IN CONCLUSION. It was now half-past one o'clock. t)f. Cnl-! houn announced the meeting: closed, and said i thai basket dinners had been brought on the' (rrouiul, and that refreshments would now be i in order. An hour Inter, atul we were at the' depot waiting for the departure of the train ! The pariy of gentlemen from Abbeville' wert: delighted at the cordiality of the reeep- > (lot) with which they were grccled and were : greatly pleaded at the princely hospitality ofj those into whose hands they fell. Is a Split Probable? A nderson Intellijcnccr. We do not Rg; ee with our esteemed contemporary. i tlu> Abbeville I'rcss and Banner, that there In any danger of a split or bolt in the m-xt Democratic State1 (^invention, In consequ-nce of any bitterness of feelhis: between what It terms the Hampton and u'ltlHampton wins of th-- party. There Is no doubt that the Democratic counties of the upper portion of the 1 State feel that they have been allowed to do much of the voting ai-d campaign work In the pant, while other counties have kindly furnished the office-holders; and there can be no doubt that there Is a general feeling ' that, this is the resultol a combination on the part of a few men, and that a chance must be efTec'ed In the next election, btlll we fail to detect aav tendency to ! split the party over these questions. We do not beItevo there Is any anti Hampton party In South Carolina, unlrBS it te anti-Hampton to think ami act for one's self, and if that be anti-Hampton then we believe tin-re is such a party, and ibat it numbers a very law and Increasing portion of nrp-oplc There Inve been manv politicians who hare bnllt ! themselves np on Gov. Hampton's name and favor-! Hsm, and Ills influence h-s b- en controlling in the: Stale up to this time. H?W long it wij continue U a matter of uncertdaty, but we have no idea that th s 1 i.-soeis to spilt the paity. It it could do sn, tbe last campaign would have pre?en'eii a f.iV"rat>!e opportunity for the break. because the netlun ol the cotivent on in making such an early nomination was so clearly the work of i? clique and so c-ititr.crv to the wishes of a large tn -Jorlty of the people of the State, that a resistance to it could have been mad* platMhlu at least. Tlie party is t?? compact for snch on eff-ri. It I-. however, strong enough now to feel that the peop'e have the light to control lis a'-tions, ?nd in ttiiure wo apprehend that more rec.ir-l nil bi> psld to the wish- ; es o> the Democrat c voter* >-f the State, and less to j the arrangement* "hut may bema-e bv a parly of gentlemen who may wish to perpetnate theuis-lves in of- j flee. For in--ance. ni't a single State officer has been Selected fioin any county lying a ong the Niluda Ulver. which Is th strongest 1>- nn'crattc beltof 'he Slate ?we m'gbt have said no otlb-er was selected lr- tn any county lying ah ve Columbia, except York?an.! that these neglected counties trave three fouiths of the j Dettinciatic majorities In 1878. This hall of the State is not the only part that has been neglected. Charles- j ton which pavft so much of the taxes of the State and posst sses so much of Its ability, has also been left out, and other parts ol tbe Mate have been ignored. The feeling of dissatisfaction exists all over the State, and,; alth'iuic" the action of the ket convention was stttitnitted to without a murmur, it is not to he wondeu-d j that an expiess'ou of resistance should now be hcaid hi or-ter to prevent a recurrence of this arrangement another ye >r. It may be a distasteful fcict, but, never-1 theiess. It looks now like the pe-ple Inteird to noini-j nate to next State ticket, and not to split the Detno- ] cratlc party either. It will not be done as all anti-] Hampton movement, as our contemporary suggests, i butsimply in that spirit of Democracy which teach* a | th>- voters lo b' l ev**.they have the n"n;ht to nominate [ the men for whom th-y are to vote. In the next! nomination we apprehend that the Interests of al; parts \ of the State will be represented and that the ticket i -aoied wiil bo composed "f m?-a seloiusl "by the con j TD2ticu is tift choice af the party ex.fi -c; it a clique.; hsL '. . '. &S&3&T u ; ?;.V. vx . .w ' -* - " Our Colleges. jj 8| THE PRIDE OF ABBEVILLE, AND A w i) CREDIT TO THE STATE. JJ \V h The Grcnlrsl Sncrrss nilil Still Iiijrher 11 Aspirations. ?i ftv ftrior. r?onrt. Kwiiiftdv. I .v Liut Wednesday morning, Juno 20, lite ' Commencement exorcises cf Krsklnc College ^ took placo In Li nil say Hull, in the pre?cnee <?: ^' an Immense throng of the best and moat in- ^ telllgent people of this county, together with large delegations froru a distance. After prayer by Rev. John It. Pl'.ey, of Adger College the following or.stions were delivered by members of the graduating class : of PISOORAMME. , j, T!ir> T>>vrr>r of Wenl 111. Iiv W*. .1. Fleinl 11 tr. of s' Laurens, S. i Tin* Confederate Private, by Mr. II. f. Pal- IM Ion,of Due West, S. C. Itr>uoii??rj?:Inn of Mexico, Social. Political iind Keli-.'inus, by Mr.T. 0. Perrjn, of Abbe- ')< vllle, s. C, it" Heyond the Alps lies Italy, by Mr. J. L. Perrin, of Abb'-ville, S. ('. ! ' IJicndiiiu Lliihts by Mr. W. A. M. Plaxco, of i'ork ville. s ('. H(' Tiie Time-1, by Mr. J. W. Thomson, of Abbeville. K C. \Vhen shall we Meet Again? by Mr. 1). E. J,!l Walker, of Chester, S. c. ill! Tlic Baccalfiurcnte Address. J After the yonnc gentlemen had spoken as! indicated above. President W. M. Grlerro'cj :o Ills feet, and from the rostrum, addressed! he members of the graduating class, as folo\v<: Y<?tnp (icnllcmm At your time of life and ' it this /narked epoch in your history you are nc ioubtiess t-ii iiiint; a plan f??r 11w future. Tills; C|( s natural and Important. No good rcsul'.K; mi be :ici-(iiiii>lIs)!< <I wltrmut a plan, nxcui"" m<) ?2clin;lc niiil uniformly con trolling. No.j ve . ixlowiiKiiiis snul no attainmcnls irul no I"- ?11 k'ors of fortune can compensate for t!?c? sil?-' . wi!co ol this. J need not my tiint many of il,< hi' most signal ami deplorable failures which 1 wl nark tlie history of all tin; professions :uul| .orations arc trneoublo to this very defect, j Erratic and ai niles* oli'ort however energetic; tnd even hrilli-inl must always prove barren cii >f lasiing rvsults. Itnt iinportant and esscn- px ;ial as a plan of life is to decision, eai nestiies* ; fu iml mora! power, clearly announce I and dr oiidiy proclaimed as this f.ict is In the lilsto- [ ti< y of our race, in the inuiti.'orm relations and ' \\i oinplcx urrangcintnts of nature, It is still ! pr nore Important to bnvea plan fundamental- j do y right?a plan 111 harmony at 11 h t!'.'.' truth'j-n ind the ost;ildishe?l laws of Him who Is the; 1 'realor and JmUc of the world. I'eaco, com-! 1 i-.' oi^'iud usefulness are seen re J iilono in thojsei ^Vtant recognition and cheerful nek now I- j die rdjiment of certain great principles Vrhirh are i up written upon every paire of human history I he ind which lind exemplification In the lite of' lo ?vory individunl whether high or low, wftctl;-1 tu r learned or unlearned. These principles, I ! sa ;now, have I* en challenged, they have been i \v< gnon-d. they have beent i am pled in the dust j th jut they still a>sert themselves and that tnoiarj ivltli undliiiinislied force and indeed with in-] lie rensed emphasis us the years roll on, in theith iiiLnfv tm.l fuln ttf rliiic.t u'tin! rlt iespise them, and in the calm repose, the lei ofty heroism, and the unweui led benevolence I rh >( those who honor thcin. | t!i l'irst.?Lay out no plan r>f life which does'an iot comprehend with a distinct aeknowiedR-, foi nentyour relation and obligation to your "V cilow men. I mean not simpl.v your family, sp >our special acquaintances and friends, hut I It i four leilow men as such, "This is no gutter-! nii ng generality barren and imprncth a ale." J on mow as men have heen to learn the lesson,' mi erriliie as lias heen tiie tuition of experience, I an n its tilood a d tears, lis tire and sword, lis tri iVidowhood and orphanage the truth is lu-gin- as] line to iodae itself in the heart of Hie world,; tie n the legislation and governments of men j us hat no longer are lauds intersected by a nar-! Mi ow frith to abhor each other, that no longer I lei i;e mountains inter] osed to make enemies of j th jations, Those barriers which social pride, roi lati'ina1 alienations and religious Intoler- soi moe liavn built up arc belnj; broken down, mi ind siowly, nut noticeably, Hie hifili and L 'J i road principles of the unity of the ra-e asjsti MUvilit by Christianity is truiiiipliliit; overalot larroiv exelu-ivene::sand trad.tional nntag'o- a> ilsins. I know that soli'-interest litis been sic? ( yo ively co-operative In :i!l this, Trade niul, lia 'oiniiWTce nave made peace. they have set-; ro< leil disputes anil terminated hostdities where ' IIv cusoii, justicc and religion have all faileil. I toll ;now that scltishnt-ss may ilo much and has j lesi lone much for the perfection of society. "It | ml vill do good to otheis, that others may dojyo ;<>o I toil. It wilt lend to ullur", hoping to to eeeiveas much again." l>ut the labor <>f j mc ihitantliropy, with it< hospitals, lis alms! clr louses and Its asylums, villi its swift-wins-j est d charity tu famine stricken Ireland or In- of lia, and a hove nil in its missionary spirit tin hat Is thrilling the church with new life anil ah ha:len.'in!i the admiration of the world, j Kr hese Hiinsjs indicate that, the day is breaking ; i-el l day in whieli distinctions will not be lost, j an tut they will cease as a middle wall ot parti- ; b:si ion. 1 am anxious tor yon to catch this splr- tin t 1 <im anxi< us tor you to share in Itiis, pti eelin^ of world-citizenship and human (to irothcrhond. It is the very spirit of Him a I vho said, "lie that doeth my will, the same j AI s my mother and brother and sister"' Hilt, lot' hat it may he so, and that this feeling may; let e purged of selfishness, that your activity ; eoi nhetialfof others and your recognition of; tin heir light and their claim upon your help \il ml sympathy, may not proceed from eon* j nil Uleralions ot mere interest, that it may rest job ipon the enduring Uasli of genuine pbiluuuropy, you must. i Second?In the next p'ace, adopt no plan of! / lie which does not incMide, as a distinct fea- ! tlo acre, faith in a personal (tod, a supieme, in-1 re* i-lligent, omniscient and righteous moral (of iovernor. Il is only in the exeielse of tills | tlx iiiiici|>lc, a principle that is luiidiimental to'soi iiytliing likeeomple enessof churacter, tlmt I tm uu can ever conic to a profound knowledge ! Hoi f the wants of your leiiow men, and it sin-! \ ere sympathy with them. We hold that ev- j th< :y form of scepticism, whether it do aimc-iiim ??t" that tij.mj?k-R upon all religious belief or . pit 'antMeiein iliat denies I lie divine personality |c.hi nd make* tiod everything and everything j Ini iod, that those ex Ironies in ail Iholr phases I hoi nd intermediate crudes are uuconueniul to! civ ur natiirc and must develop a manhood, In i j>r( Us inosal characteristics without, -torni or j yii oineliness. 'J he_ htubcStTTtntfesof w hicii | an Uf U.'ria'i-e iVcapable, the grainiest enter-'lie rir.es tiiat have ever glorified human hi.?:ory : the iiterpri7.es upon which its highe.?t welfare wi< nisi ultimately turn, these have been horn ! wii nd iiouri>he i of that piinciplc which en j pei urts an "Kteing him who Is invisible." This, do I is which has given to the world its noblest! S'oi lartyrs, its truest tie rocs and us most sell- hei >?ciilieiii? inis<iorm. ies. You know how I hei erct-ly tiic batHe Is racing even now around J det his very tnineiple. Alow all evidence of dc-i'hei Ign and adaptation in the material universe, for nd all the marvelous elements in man's own I ori onstitution with his intelh ct and conscience I ohl io.w ail these ?r? ascribed to the relun of law,! noi ,'lthoiit Uio excrete of inlinlte wisdom or in-j thi nite power. Such views, are not only essen- j Ira tally erroneous, however ^real the names by t i< t rhieh a steady, undcvlatittg uiilforiuliy is' rcf nude to crowd out an intelligent woveieijiiity. | les 'lie very order, stability ami harmony oliwli lod's works becomes an argument for his j hioil-existence, but their Inevitable tendency the < to degrade character by robbing men of t he rid Jshestaud most powerful prineijdeof action de< -a principle which has "subdued kingdoms, Sol wrought righteousness, quenched the violence dai f lire ami put to llight the armies of the sh< Hons." "It is the victory tbut overcometh do' he world." ey< The wisest philosopher that America linslpa! ver produced?a philosopher whose special J inn ield of investigation lay in the domuiii of 'tor hysiei'l science,a department irulttul in ma-1 vol rriullsm, declared the truth of science. not > of i:*s than of Revelation, when he says, "Law* I ser n the will of (iod," No definition could be j uio nore exact or exhaustive. To this deciara-j hei ion lie added, "After all our speculations and j we ii attempt to grapple with the problem of the, ohl iniverse, the simplest conception which ex-; wli lalns and connects the phenomena is that of * du he existence of one spiritual licing Inlinlte I tor 11 wisdom, in power and all divine per fee-1 * ions who exists always and everywhere, who' of ias created us with intellectual laeulties suf-l hei 1.......i t..I.nr.,I Ills olKM-llllnlls lis llieV ! UUi .re developed in nature liy wlmt Is cadcd j In science." Would that philosophy in all her i le! caciicrs atul science iit her schools were bap-1 old izcd with the reverent spirit of the lament-! in d Joseph Ilenry of the Smithsonian Insti-J bu ute. >iy young friends, it Is this principle!0111 lone which solves mysteries. It alone offers j eoi solid ground of hope and comfort. It aione! sin Utilities life In its humbles! detail and mean-! tin istollircs. Without it existence is an Insol-1 in: ible riddleaud men irrope in pitilessoiphaii-1 sin 20. With It heaven and earth become a tin :reat temple, radiant in all their wide extent! do vltli the Miccinah, and we aie children, chil-Igit Iren <if a parent too wise to err. too s;ood and | gi\ loly to do wrong, too poweriul and Just toifut iiller its triumph. Would you stand with I va: hose who to-day are lighting those battles! tin or that which must decide the destiny of the : Wl ace. would you link yourself in brotherly tut lonimunion and feliowshlj) with those mighty S cot :hatnplous who luive fought Iheirgood light K-s ind have passed from earth, but who still as | art 'sceplereci sovereigns rule our spirits froniiwi heir urns," would you ally yourself witujpu' hose forces which are to overturn and over-1 mt urn till their Imperial but peaceful sway dn iliall 0 loss a 11 lands, then adopt no plan of j ife which shall not be dictated and con t:oil-1 d by I lie acknowledgment of the existence ] m<i providence of un infinitely wise aud ighteous .Sovereign. j I Third?Agfti). Adopt no plan of life which : Kn loisioteonielinplate lis termination. It may ji,n iccm Ill-timed and ungiacioiis to thrust ilio n" ihadow of 80 solemn ail event as death into P" .he brightness and Joy ol iliis day. "llut that i8lr ivhich hath been shall be," and it is the part )f wlwlorn to anticipate un issue so ceiiain j,lc md momentous. Not a few of those who lave sat where you now sit, who liavo been llled with i he same hopes and who have reoiced in the same prospects have no more >lace among the living. iSome were cut down n the midst of their days, with all lilc'scares ind duties crowding upon them and claiming Jvl mention, others followed them with the dew J,e >f Uieir youth still upon them. Tnclr sun j "Y ivent down before it was noon. The nccrolog- Jv' cut record of the past year of the Alumni 'rc ins been unusually large is solemnly sugges- ?a ive. And now as it has been with others so ao [twill be with you. Disease and accident en ivlll soon thin your ranks. Even now the|??' jow tuny be drawn and the insatiate archer:^' may be steadying his aim at his youthiul vie- j 861 Lltu. "Oli, if we could but know whose eye ^ ivoUld first grow dim," if we could but know J" who would Urst pass through the dark val* Jec ley. '5', But this wo do know, "thou art mortal," 1 *nd yon should lay no plan which does noti*;r jlstliiuly recognize this fact. It should mod-1 j-'1 Brute d'sire, adJtiM difllcuitles, reconcile en- '!' inlties, eubuge our charity and quicken our j!" seal. "Do with thy might whatsoever thine j hand flndi-th lodo," And whctln r this event, spl rome to you alter long delay, ns an angel of n,j mercy whispering of ic-t and bidding you lie I rc' clown to pleasant dreams, or whether it coin" I ( r loyou msu sudden stihitnons amidst the din j J'.s nf conflict and the heat of battle may you be ll} nble to say thou hast fi>und mo watching." Hut it is not all of death to die, lbolll:li i-omc profess to believe that it is, and muliitud-s iR' who do not l.e li ve It act us If it w ere. Against "ll this "heathenism of science" and this folly ol . \ Indifferent ism let tin* say, finally, adopt no ' ulan of life bore whlcb dots not recognize one l': hereafter, one too which is the certain and n: legitimate r< suit of the present. It Is this el- i ?' ement of a future life which gives to the presE-nt Its highest dignity. In its llirtit. the most ;y trilling events and the humblest duties are touched with theglory of etei nlty. Twoniltes htcomen klngiiom and a cup of cold water. becomes u stream that flows on and on nor , .'eases, till it pours Itself into (he river of life. [ tn the power of this life to come, much a? ome may deride 1 , wi^h its fu:ure adjustmc-Ms. rest the order, stability and security . if society. Those powers of the world to f time hold in check the leviathan of human | ,. ivlckedne>s with Its passion, greed and lu*t of j* tower. Tosompthey may be but as green i. . vithes to Sampson, but to the vast mass (nanlcind tbe.v are an ever present and lndls-1 lensalile restraint. This Is then a certain jYjj ,ruth which you are not only to accept anil . ivhose Influence you are to feel -constantly n)1 ifid In every scheme, purpose and act, but It sp ? a truth which you are to maintain and de- v'0 end as cardlral. In many quarters It Is lercely assailed. Materialism fights It relent- ||r| es?ly. Agnostic-Ism envelops ir. in chilling rei lonbt. In all cases the wish is father to the ^() housht. Give no heed, toy deat young yisuds, to these seducing doctrines, doctrines ' 7" ' ' / hlch'would shroud the whole Jr.nral world 1 the awltil desolation of ?n nrctlc nl?ht?h. Ight without a morn. h winter v^lthout Its Hold fnst that truth which vonr nnttire, 1 tislieotniil, moi-:il nnd fi-lrltun! declares, nnd liieh Is revealed with wonderful clearness i y II!ni who brought life and Immortality to] ght In the Go-pel. Let It so possess vonr carts and so live In cmseiouvncsU that you ill over he forget tine t Ho things that are l>e-| ind and hiyintr hoi I of those solcnui realtes which Ilioiiuli unseen are eternal. R trows. President Grier .it the conclusion of h!s!. iccch announced that. It was now twelve! eloclc. After an intermission of two hours,! ud upon the re-assenihlinjr of this audience, ' ie Anniversary Address by \V. (I. Benet., s?j., 01" Abbeville, will he delivered. Thank-! ig you for your patient and respectful auenon during the exercises of ".he morning, I j inounce a rectus until two o'clock. AFTER RECESS. j Atn quarter yn?t two o'clock nt the pound ] t tic gavel. there was a ces^ailon of the chat- , i? Wliicli had been going on, and a perfect!] illness pervaded the hall, and !KS1 PENT GJHF.lt IN'TROUt'CKS Mil. 1JKNKT. j Mi/ frlcr.tU:~Tlie name which ihis Institn-! 11 bears declares tne love and veneration if ; thunders for the literature, the history and j e theology of Scotland. It will he youri elwjre this nfieni'>on to listen to one who is I the manor horn, a countryman of Waiter! ott,.Iohn Kilci:? and lite Krskines. Hut he is not nil Scotchman, lie 1ms prar-j il the Thislleon tin* Palmetto, and you will ' ivc this afternoon the trails of a somewhat: hospitable dime ripened and mellowed un- j r the genial sun of South Carolina. It i.s my pleasure to present to you Mr. I'e-1 it. of Abbeville. I i r. Ilencl's Addrtsst ?n which nrcjj Lmscukscu tnc utilisations 01 jt^anctitcd Southerner!). Mr. Denct thanked Dr. (!rler for the klndss of the Introduction, nnrl the literary so lies of Erskinc for the honour they had nft rred on liltn hy electing him their annlrsary orator. Ho ro;rcttcd that the time lowed him for preparation was not propormate to his sense of the high responsibility ileh attached to thchonourof making aj ibilc addiess to the young men of thcSoUth, i responsibility grave at any time but espeilly so at present. In view of the terrible I stTlhe mi-xious present, and the doubtful I t lire of these Soul tiern states, he would ail-1 ess the studentsof Krskinc on tht'oh'.lsjains of educate I men,nn.I would consider j th them some of the more weighty and j cssitig obligations which test on theshotil-j rs hi jtu? fiii?-n>ed men of the South,?the minutes of Southern Colleges. ; le (irst discussed somewhat tiriefly thelrohation to bo the friends, guardians and pre- [ rvers of libvral education ill the South. Iti I not need that he should spend much time i ion this branch of the j-unji-cl. "It. would, ."said hc'likecarryingecctls to Newcastlej tiring amumcius in favour of llhcinl cui-' re to Due West on this the .fortieth anr.ivcr-j ry of Krskine < o'le^e. The work I saw last >elc when in herelass-ro'ims as a member of e examining commttL-c is a more t-Io<)ii< nt "iilitiMil Hi:.n linvlliini' I i < ill I, I >nv " tin; urged the students to enlist themselves in |' e cause, to uphold the time-honoured cur-1. tiluin, iiiul to cH-ive Irom Southern seals of] J iniinjjt, schools. and academics, (lie ulilita- ' in doctrine which advocated thesuhstitu- < iti of I he modern fur the dead languages, . d exact knowledge and technical science . -the studies included In thccla-slcal course. , I'ith this doctrine of utility," said the . Cftker, "we have no controversy so long as ? concerns itseif with tlic pnysical wants of ;in's life: hut when It knocks at the door of r seals of learning ami speaks of time and . nicy being wasied oil tlic d-'iui languages <t okl philosophies, it becomes the very doc- , lie of.I uda.s Iscariot when lie Ignoraiitly Iced, 'To what purpose is this waste?'" Kdatlon was not Intended primarily to help "to get on" in IIki world, io make money * aney was a coo l thing, and every man, ; irned or unlearned, should at lea?t pay for . e loaf he rats, the coat lie wears,and the j if which shelters him. Jiut there was j meHiing higher and uohlcr In life than . iking a f.iriune. I he next obligation was to continue their , mcm-mo niier icftvjng i. ouc2t\?in dp im i:r> i . hooks and seckets alter knowledge as long 1 ili' lasted. Mr. lionet wild "In vain have', u ciinn: to tin* halls or Krskinc; in v:?inr vo you lolled for years within her elasst- . mis; In vain have you .-corned doliahtMiiud . ed laborious days, amljiihiiu the mi'lnljiht- . iu yoar soIl.Miry eliumber, if when you . ive those well-known rooms an 1 these fa- . liar groves you turn your buck al-o upon { ur books and your niudies. It is creditab c ? you lo have i-nlned your decree; the purcu , nt ol' your (linloiiia sliouut l>c more prems in your sivht tiian the title deeds of an , ate; and to be worn with pride Is the "star" , tiie i'hilouialln an and the "diamond ' of 2 Kujdiemian. hut unworthy is he ol his . tin inutcr and deserving to he disowned by sUine fo.lesf'j who-e strongest claim to iolai>hip is >et foitii in his college diploma, x d \v!'0?t> meal est Uvist is hut to wear the , ilif his co lege society." .Afterassuring i students that ilio love of study and the | suit, of literature need not lie a hi mini nee ? Hie bread wiuiihm business ol Ufe, he paid N iiJ' tribute to Hie la it* Judge Thomson oi ? ibeville, who, he s iid, rellevi d Ihetediuni jj the law by ttiiir the pleasures of beiles- V ires, and whose classical library was as , nplete as his library of law-Looku lie i . u referred to the traditions oi the Sou III,; ( lieh he said weioall on the side of liberal I lure; and be proceeded todlscuss thts third I ligation as fiiLows: > j T!i? LESSONS OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. il ind tills bring* us to consider the obliga- ! a which Is, perhaps, of ail the obligations j ting oil the shoulders of the educated men ^ the South the gravest and most urgent- '( 'ir obligation to be the conservators of ? Lit her n history and the perpetuates oi nil j s it Is gcod, high and noble In the past of the \, Lit i). Vlien you yotincmen were In your cradles, t > volcanic shock of war rent in twain the v ! of thoSouth, sundeied her past from !* r v sent, and fixed between them a great ? ism of Mood, deep, dark and apparently a passable. Jluring ten yeais of your l.oy- v i)d ihe land had no rest: soeial revolutions. | il commotions, the offspring of alien op- . sslon and triumphing tyranny, threatened [ Hi niiiin:"i- I'T" 'i'"1 heaving* of a can in] tin it u id overturn uiiu m*: 1:1-1,, that the war luul lcfl, standi n;.', to makeL ( ruin Irrolriovablc, to rend deeper and L ler the bloody chasm and fill It. doeperMtil v Lh blood. Small wonder is It. if during ihitl rs |od of chaos, confusion, and gloom, win 11 ^ nds and darkens encompassed her, the!i< ilti licit ier looked al licr | ast nor regarded i ^ Inline, small wonder Is It lf.stuiin<-iUitnd j ivildcrcf* in Iter match lest; woe and driven 1 ipcrale by u:ici|iial)ed disasters, wlicii the irts of liersons were failing lliein, anil nope a season bade the Sou tli farewell, tbemArhes of the past were obscured and welt-nlai Iterated, and she shut her eyes to the omK us future. Jt is when MiC future Is hopvless'. it Hit* past Is burled, and the present Is > unlit with dancer and peril. The wondei hat the South, crazed with cruelty and bilol' Reason by her calamities,did not, lived* s of the future and oblivious of the | u-t, lelin this land In a >ca of blood and add lo . tory a redder page than that which record* 1 j horrors of st. 11a; tholoincw, and more lu- ^ than the one which tells the demoniac ' :ilsof the Krcn-'h Revolution. Happily the c itli has etneged from the darkness and J1 igor; slii? lias p.isscd from out the clouds; { . now looks before and after: hope broods 1 ire-like on her brightening future; an I Iter : Instinctively glances buck to her heroic it. Slic biavily endeavors to remove the irks of desolation ami to rebuild the shut- n cd fabric of her national life. And h-r t Ice is to her educated sons to the Graduates n l)er colleges, upon whom she calls to pre- a ve for all her childicu the history of her ci irioiis past, the records of her trill m phsand n r trials, the story of the great things that n re done for her by her favored sons of the t len time, the examples ol the noble livelieh crowned her head with honour and n- * I'd her arm with slrengih and made her hisy memorable and illustrious. a ouie there are amomj.-t us, degenerate sons the South, who would have us believe that t r history has no lessons for us. no lights to fl ide nor beacons to warn us, no voice for us i heed nor examples for us to follow. They li 1 usa new South has ari.-en with which the a I South had nothing to do and ha-< nothing t common; that leaving the dead past to t ry its dead, we must turn our l>aeks upon r r* country's history and our laces to our t uitry's future. Shortsighted men and c all of soul, great only In esteem of self, r >y do not know whereof they speak. They i iy ??s well so tell the mariner to leave Die c nc without chart or cotnpass and sail rough unknown seas. What can the (mure for lis? To us it. is a dark, mysterious re-j r in, hiding iu it gladness ai.d sorrow, but 1 ing us naught of nuidanee or help. To the ; v lire we stre;cli out our hands in vain, in ' M In we call to it for aid: we see nothing In a darkness, we hear nothing in tlio silence, i liat can the present do for us? lis innu- c rahlo voices to us are Inarticulate; its.' uitless purposes are untried, and Its count- c s projects without form and substance; we d : stunned by its Uubel-like clamour and be- il Idereil by its confusion and unrest. To the I -t we must look for help; to the past we ist call to guide us: and is it deaf und 11 nib? t Ah no! tlie voices or the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall = Ami answer. r t Is the voice of the generations that are <lie which alone lias foi us articulate utter- \ ce. The voice of the past alone gives forth i uncertain sound. And woe he to the peo- t j who turn ? deaf ear to that voice. The Mi ength <if Rome was sapped and lior ruin me swiftand sure when her forum was trod-' 1 11 by men who had forgotten the story ot 11 dr ancestors, and who read not and lecked j t t of those mighty men of yore, the Consuls, < ibunes. and Imppralors, whose valour and 11 sdom clotlied Rome with power and majes- j 6 nud exalted her to lie the mistress of the I nld. And when France, In one mad whirl- a nd or revolutionary passion, demolished U r social and political fabric, and obliterated 11 i records of her past, ilke a rudderless ship j ileh howling winds drive devious, always t im post, withheld, always distressed, she be- j i n a career ot experiments and theories, ofjs ubtful successes and repeated failures, the i d of which is not yet. For a while she * uld turn for refuge In her distresses to the' J ipoleonic dynasty as to a national repre- v itatlve, though not ancient still a land- c jrk, and the only landmark left: and even 1 that she wus bereft when the young Napo- 1 in fell in fur away South Africa and piti.ul- v was done to death by the assegai of a Zulu, a <ow look from France across tho silvert a eal: of sea and contrast hnr with England. I e.it a? Fngland's history Is, the greatest tact 11 her history Is her faithfulness to In r t:acti- j ft ins and teachings of her history. Strong as : L lulaiui Is, her strength lies in her w ise con- i c -vallsm which enahies her to undergo mo- i :*ntous changes with safety and accomplish i ? dilutions without bloodshed. Her riniug ! \ Inciple is''the Immemorial custom of Enu- f hmen this is tiie sourcc of royal preroua- i 1 e, of parliamentary privilege, and of tliatll Idein tho commons which makes the poor 11 m's house Ins castle; this is her supreme i iV, for England's common law is only the ] s story of England. it \?d sh.ill these southern States sever them- t Ives from their memorable p ist, and send | Din selves adrift on a shorclos sea. at the; S eicyof ciij rlclnus w inds, the plaything of 11 mpests, and tio piey of the engulnng 1 :ms? Perish the thought, <uidshame on t e hearts that think It. Recognizing their, i1 ligation to preserve the records of the past I d perpetuate its examples, the educated ns or the South wiil sit at the fc et H their! nernbte mother.and listen with gratitude ' the lessons she teaches. And it is high time t learn these lessons. It is time to look bo- \ md the bloody chasm riven by the war: It is ! ne to lift the crimson cloud which hangs er it, like a curtain dividing the present t >in the past. The noise of the ill-starred r uggle lias subsided, the sulphurous smoke ii buttle lias vanished; and now It is your , t gh duly, in tins first calm of peace, In this iw-birth of your country, to go back into c ur historic past and save all that Is precious f ere. t' k'oung men of tho Southern .States, you ne I _'n ol South Caroline, yours Is a giav* ie- J onsiblllty. more grave and solemn than v ung shoulders are wont to hear. Roru s iid the thunders of civil war,your sad child- a od's playfellows were hardship and lie- r iveinent; poverty and anxiety were your r yhood's fanilliars, and now in your young v 2-uhood you are summoned to dt-rform high' s a dangerous work, the proper' rori of eld* i * ' or heads and riper years. Your fathers vrhere arcihey? Thousands fell on the field of hatilo who should have been-to-day your lenders of inou^luuiul exiimp'.ea of nction, the thrupiuiis oi high positions of honourund trust, hadly reduced In numbers by tbe war, the i <.'11111(1111 mm i I'IIIUI iii-u 1.1 him Kin ins Their places have to ho It 11 oil by you young men. At an earlier age than usual yo? art called tt? he the successors of it long line of illustrious men In nil tin* higher walks of lite, All through these Southern States we see the niuntii* of public otlice placed on young men't sliouldbrs: young men are lead era In our leg' (statures: [Hurt*, Indicating by a wave of tin hand where Hon. J. J. Hemphill fat, Mr IJenet lidded, "And If they were all likemj Tiiend, the honourable member from Chester the South would In; miI'c in their hand.-."?r parenthesis which was loudly applauded, they sit in the seat of the senator and aspire to occupy tin; Judicial bench; ami they crowd the ranks of ttie legal profession When you recall I he names of Hie great met: of former times who tilled these places, the II lustrious statesmen, the eloquent orators, tin learned Judges and brilliant barristers, art you not constrained in humility to ask, ' Who is sufficient for Ibesc Ihiims?" If you would be their worthy successors, enter the picture gallery of the past and gaze reverently upon their life-like portraits, lirlng tliest portraits forth before the colours grow dim und the lines tilde a way; hold ihein up to the suliiiirnlion and veneration of the young men of the South. Copy their example and adont itiid preserve their standards of lilcand action. Tell the young muu of politics of thai great pasi when the ml capt'imhnn arts of tin demagogue were unknown and unpractised in the South, when Southern men in public ife concerned themselves more with their .1 hi lily to serve than their ability to please lie people. 1'oint the young lawyer to the ?r?ulit.ornamentsof the bar In theoldeu time ,'itios, who scorned the nicks of the pettifogger mid commanded proipsslonal success only jy open and honourable dealing. An<>show :o the young stuitcni the record of those 1.Insurious men who. born in si log-cabin, were touched In some humble oM-lield school us Willi a live coal from oft' tlie altar of lentning, whose youthful hands alternate held ilic plough and thumbed the Imrdgray book, who | aid li>r a liherttl eilucalioti out of the scanty i ardeirneil savings ol' school-teaching, or mayhap, by pulling the college hell, who toils;ime anil mow climbed step by step Uie ladder r.-f a |)iir? and lofty ambition till ilieir brows were laurelled with honors, and they went to their graves followed by the lamentations of a Loinmoiiweal 1 11. These and such as those arc the sweet uses r?f the study 01 your history. These and such is those arc I he duties to be performed by tl;c iuvUuates of Sout hern Colleges. Tneu, too, a faithful s'udy of your history wiil enable >011 lo (iii-serve and perpetuate ail those high lumiuus which uistin,;ui-iieu uie iiiun-uiiium Southerner.?that- manly sense of honour which. made the South the last asylum til . hlvalry; (hat delicate gallantry and rever:nc<! fur woman, I hat revcrenee lor law, and ;liat revercneo lor (joil. A study of your history will also help you :o preserve all that was distinctively South;"ii In tlie life of the past: all those ties of yinpatiiy which coiniuon alms and ctnmion hmgers bound around ihe Soul hern States ind lornickl tlietii into aSouiln-rn unity?an jnion which the furnace of a four yc.tr>' war intl the hummer of an adverse fate only we:d?n the closer and firmer. A- mistaken sentlinent would call this solidarity sectionalism: .ho wise would call It patriotism. Patriotism ike charity begins at home, and shadowy, atenuatcd and Insubstantial Indeed is the pat lotlsin of the man who talks of a transcendental love for "'1 he Union," but whoso heart loes not within him burn at I lie thought of ,!ie vlliage, the county, the State Hint gave ilm birth. Long (,'ane To the Savannah runs ind the Savannah to the sen : and the patriot<m of a son of Abbeville has its pure founair-he.id In love of home among these Abbe >-il:c hills, putlicrs strength ami volume in ovc of South Carolina and thus only pics lo iwcll the love of this great common wealth vhieh is Its pride, protection and bulwark, rite Mason and l>l.\on Hue may he,ike the Jiqu:itor, nu imaginary line; hit', Ike I he Equator, It verily divides the North Yotn the .South. There U an o' g mlc com utity of thought, leeling and life In these Southern state*,of which communities ami Males less homogeneous have no understandtig. I.ct them call it sectionalism and deride .he "Solid South;" it is the part of true South rueis to nourish it and chcrish it as they vottld their very life's Mood, it will tie a sad lay for the South and a sad day for the Union .vlien lhe-e Southern states shall he ItidiM:n:iiishni>!y merged in the United states, when his l'.cpublic.Will la: monotonous a* a Wot'in praitie and the men of this lii-puhlic will resent the sameness of clothespins in a row. [ do not understand that a Scotchman must brget the history ami traditions of Ills n it ive aiut to become a loyal subject of 1{u(h-ii Vic,orla; and 1 am sure you w ill serve Hit* I'niied state-" best by reiiiaintng iullliful and true to lie States of j our blith. 'Cherish, then, the history of t'lePouth. It <: a goodty heritage; and her educated sons nust not Miller it to he sold lor a mess of pot.nye. A people without a history is like n Him without 11 memory unci lie is not fur renoved from the brute. <.i d who gave man neinory mude it the duty of nations nnd peoves to preserve llu-ir history If they would jrcservo their lite. It Is only ilie demagogue iiid ilii' pettifogger, the(|!inch und ihe ciiuimi.?n who ?'i! notiiinj; to admire in tlie rccorils >i the past. The Swutherner wlio is worthy oi lie name looks with profound veneration upin the hl.-toryof hi-Slate. Willi reverent 'yes lie gazes down the loiiii drawn visits ol lie past, i!lid what a paii'Tanm meets hiseye -there courtly cavaliers lauding on the shore Ltid finding brave employment in encounters vit.h the red man and in a ceaseless struggle .villi nature, transplanting to these Western and* the leuJallMn of y!d l-.iigiandhi re muds of sturdy I'r fdjyterhins trom Scotland in.I the No: th of Ireland,slowly eutilm; Hum vay southward along the sIo;:e.-> of theAlie;::anlts, aimed with axe and ride, with Uihle lid Shorter t.'atechism, singing the psalms ol javld In the hearing of the w iId Indians to lines which had ix-en li.urd on the hcldol >ritmplogornn the hiealc hliisidesof Antrim, nlngiugup their children in the nurture and dinonttlou of tnc Lord, building an attar to soil wherever they erected a fort, and planing a school wherever they planted a crop: or .gain those Huguenot exiles from thef'ii nnd of France brineing with them their sim?iu piety and hereditary frugality, and planing their vineyards on the lihMites of the in vanr.aii; then eome the stirring scenes of he Revolutionary war. the shout ol hatHe .ml the clash of arms, the Ioiik struck-. the ttil dofeut, Lite long-deterred victory, me final iiicl complete tilumohmeanwhile cities ri-e and towns multiply; and now begins i:at long and wonderlui career of peace and irosperlty which wu? unchecked until the i-i! r oi I lie C<;n federsicy:?w 11 hnl, a xreal age, an ge ni noble lives anil noble deiiths.'ol pure uibllion niul unselfish patriotism; nil age ol k'liich a southerner should he proud for durng that age the rulers of this American reiiioiii: were Soulherner.-:, and It Wan during he Southern ascendancy that America was dvmiccd to the front rank among (he nations i tiiC earth. Youn^ men of the South, con hat history carefully, lovingly learn the lesons it has for you ; so will you encourage in ouiseivrs a pure patriotism u lofty .self-repect, and a conscious piide in lielng aide to ay. "I am a Southerner." And though detruction has swept the lovely plains of the outli and di ath and destitution havedarkned al;nost every Southern dwelling, the lal-heurtcd Southerner can say, 'Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That Units me to thy tugged strand? SII1I as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now and what hath been, Seems as lo me, of all berelt, \ Sole fi lends thy woodsand streams arc left. And thns 1 love tlicni better still Even in extremity of ill. The experience of mankind can suggest nit letter mode lor developing and encouraging intrintic pride and loyalty ttian the torinalon ol' it literature: and this It-ads us to the on"><leialioti <>t anotherobligation ol' the cdicatcd men cf theSouih, touid In thecultlvaIon and crcation of a distinctively Southern Iteruture. THE N'EKD OF A SOUTHERN MTrttATCRE. I h;'.s been matter Tor surprise to strangers nd sourccof re-iiet to Southerners that while here is gradually giowing upon thiscontiicnt an American literature which has tralnr nd characteristics that prove its eis-Atlanllc nigin, yet these traits and characteristics are norc suggestive of New England than of any ither part of thccountry and hardly suggest lie Southern States at alt. When the literary oreiyner asks to sea the contributions the ioutli Ins made to American literalurp, the ioutheriier confesses they are small indeed nd unworthy of the genius of his country. Uul yet the stranger meets everywhere hioughout Southern rudely with men of reined cultnreand women of ex'iuislte lllerary aste, meets them, perhaps, in larger numbers tere than elsewhere In this country,?men nd women whose range of reading had male hem tamiilur not only with Kngllsh literati ie, vast in extent though it is, hut has carled tlvein Into uther fields of mod'.-rn literati re. and not seldom has led them inio anient classic ilelds; men wno>o clo'iuent talk Moves that the art of conversation?a lost art o the country of Samuel Johnson, and Maaulav, Sidney Smith, and Christopher North -is still cultivated to perfection tit tlieSnnth; -and women whose polished speech and pitity of taste, brilliant imagination and spa iking wit?not to speak of that graceful beau'y yhlch is their dower and that voice oft lie iouthern woinan which is ever solt, gentle ,nd low,?are seldom surpassed in the liistori! drawing-rooms of London, or the gay salons if l'aris. Strange contradiction, and yet not Incxpilable; lor the admiration of letters is a very lillerent thing fiom the pursuit of letters,?as Itil'erent is the reaping of the harvest-lime nun the oiou-fhim; and sow!lit: of the spring. lout hern society is characterized hy a love of etters us si rung as is found in the society of ithcrXcw England or Old England, but it is t love which leaps \\ here it hits'not sowed and a hers where it lias not strawed. True. I lie South has not been altogether baren of literary work. I do not forget the wonirons genius of I'oc, whose verse pnsteiity till perhaps chcri>h as the lirst fair tlouor of Vinerican poetry in ttie nineteenth century; lor do I forget Ti 111 rod in whose frail body Iwelt a soul of true poetic tire, fitful in its Manifestations anil needlessly lighting its miip at tlie Maine of 'lViinyson, tint some lines gl.iwing with native Southern heat; iien there are the pathetic lyrics of Uyanami it Kandatl which mingled with Ihc blood of he Mouth during the war and were said and ting round many a camp-tiro and in many a onely bivouac in Virginia: and there is an id (I volume or two of Southern wit and liu nour, not unworthy of tiieSoutii and perhnps tie most genuinely Southern books yet prolueed: and I would remember the tine or.i10 us ami fervid eloquence of Southern statesmn, for the Muutn lias been tlie mooern cliool of oratory; and we read in tiie old Southern Ucviviu urticles of high literary merit vhlch the critical Jetlrey would not have reeeteil: then, too, there are novels not a few in vhlch. however, Is little that is .Southern, exept tiie ilutitor; and 1 would speak with grattude?wore I a .southerner 1 would speak with iride?of the writings of Commodore Maury, fhoso Geography of the Sea reads more like ; romance than like tiie record of seleutitlc nd painstaking research. ? Uiu after all this and more is said, we come tack t<> what was confessed before?that the )<iii!li lias not done work worthy of her, nor aken a place worthy ol her, in liu- literature >f liei lime and language, tier highest geniis, her gnate-t et.otls have tended more to ictieit and public iiie than ti> literature. Vliai worlcs >he hus produced me In the main ugiiive, holiday-work, bc'tring marks of ia>le instead < f signs of sev? re pen-labour, ond of I'tadiiig though she is alio loving to aste the sweets of bcilt s-leiires, she is tor the nost part contented to no Willi I.(culture as he does with coi n?to consume much more ban she | reduces, and lo pay otheis to proluce it lor her. And ,\ ei w I,at a field for literary culture tiie sou111 |-resents? a tain rand more fertile tit !d ie\er tempted Ihefancy r.n<5 the pen of man. lore thehistnriaii may find tempting woik rom the heroic age ot the early se;ilements, lowi to the sudden rise ami sad c-clij seoi (he .onfedesucy?that sh(<rt lived nation which rose so pure anil fair And lei I so iree of crimes. Ierethe biographer may occupy his pen In lepicting the lives of illustrious Southerners, vhose names I need not mention, fur you lave them in your memories bi igiit as b>-;{ds if devv upon a gossamer I bread. And here he philosopher and the political economist nay busy themselves whli problems of liio, mil government more ditllcult of solution ban were ever before ottered to man. The life and manners of the South from the inriy colonial times to the war? vvheie can luer subjects be touml for the writers of roil.nice and tietiou? The thrilling story of he early settlements has not been told; and ft within a tew miles of this spot tilings tere done and scenes were enacted in the truggle oftlie pale-face with the red niaf:--fight .tut massacre, blood and tire?as worthy to be eeounted as the horrors of Uleiieoe. The omanceof ilie Revolution has uol yet been vritten; and yet one talc well toid of love md war !n the brave days of old would do note to keep alive the patriot fire and pre . ' ' :r ,-y : v.- - : *; a i 11 serve the fume of your forefathers than a cen j tury of Cowpens Centennial*. i: And Hint ante-bellum southern Jlfe.so brau ' tiful. >o pttiiiiiicliai, vl:h lis siihvled Ptnl?li.j nospnu Mntpllcliy; who Is 10 p eatrve lor | you tlx Vendor j.raeeol a day that Is dead? ?to paint for you the fine old Southern j;eiillctnuii, 'one of the olden tim'<;?With his courtesy and urhanlly, living a MCo of simple cleKatire and warm hospitality, !ti his home among the woods and eorn-fleids of the ii|>connliy, or in Ills haronlnl hnllR omld the liviwMiks of the eoa?t: and by his Hide his wife?the sweet-lipped Southern irerttlcwoI m:in s'iilp' v iind 1 >< :Ii 11 ifi11 Jilld emeiotlH. tllC mother of lovely daughters, and prdint of her gallant sons, notable in housekeeping imtl . beloved by her humble servants. What pic* i mre.sijtii* and varied accessories are presented , for Ihe story of those days-tho camp-meet. burs, and barbecues, nnd musters of militia : i the cornsli licking* and merry-makings ot . the light-hearted neurocs?scenes worthy o' i the pen of Scott and the pencil of Hogarth. Not yet Ims the (ale of Ihe Confederate wa; ; been written; ami It is well; for the time i> ! not yet. We are too near those tragic scenes i , for literary perspectire; the event3 are loo! i recent mid real to bo softened and suhdued by ; s the glamoar of romance or even to be fnitli- j ! fully reC irded by the pen of ihe historian. :; The generation who were the actors therein ' | must first p*'ss away before the writer of his- j ;; tory can calmly Judge of those moinentous | i j events, or the writer of tlution can reproduce , , i with success the heroes and heroines of those | suit days: . I Thus tar I have recorded the writers of! s! prose, hut what themes are here for the po-l ;! etle muse ! Not for l ick of subjects is It that j ! there is no Southern drama, no Southern I I i epic, that there is a dearth of Southern son:! net and song: for this is not ! An age and clime ! | Barren of every glorious theme. ' j And full as Southern life is of matter fur ;s<>ng and story, Southern soeiiery fuml-he* ! a lit.lug background and a worthy setting, 'j What a land is this, with ail Its various eti; i eh'intineuis of mountain and river, hlil and 1! dale, Held and forest, rushing brook and bab1, b'lng fountain, storm-sinit peak and sea-bent Ii shore!?a land worthy us stern and wild Chic* 1 (Inula to be called "meet nurse for the poetic Jeuild." Are these groves, now vocal with ' j song of mocking-bird and the red-bird's siI* " VPris note, never to be sung in tuneful rutin* her.'. * Are t tin<e tii I Is anil lietris never t.n he 'heard of In touching song and simple story ? 1 Are the sounds of rural labour In this Sourli cm land unworthy to be heard In ver.-c,?the piouguboy's whistle ami the milkmaid's song, tho lusty negro's long-drawn touea a* lie hoes the cot ton or the cane, or tolls among Hie | rice-Held*? Doesnobody kls-i somebody when I coming through the cotton-Held and cnJ<>V fa' votirssecret,swcctund pri-ciousand ns worthy to bo sung as the delights ol' Com In' thr.>' the Uye? Is there here no try.-tuig-troe, no "talking oak," whose sap tingles In ail Iiir veins to see the Southern maiden listening to the old. old story ? J have looked upon your mountains,beautiful as Hen Lcdiuud sublime as those beheld in tin! valley of Chamounl; I have hea:d the . v< arof your water-falls, mlgli.'ier far than that which conies down at Lodore. I have thrid my way through your mountain 1'asincsses grander in their rugged beauiyof guidy eillls anil hlgh-poiscd toppling rocks than that In which l-'ltz .James's g itlant grey la> down and died. 1 have followed the meandeilngs of [your mountain streams, beuutliul and c.ear as thai "Which, daughter of three mighty lakes To Vennuehar in silver breaks, With uncovered head I have stood in your groves of moss-draped live-oaks, majtslic In their beauty and beauteous in their giant sticiiKth as the immemorial elms of Eug dnd, solemn in their grandeur as a cathedial, and awiul In their slleiitness as any sacred grove of the Druids. but in all those scents there ? in jv?i?iv111111^ BI#JJICIIIIII? ? mi:n I ilic human heart sought and lound not: some! thing wlurii (:iv?'8 to the mnery of Scotland I anil awitzcruinil, die banks 01 the Rhine and I the banks of theTiber, a beauty and interest not their own. Natine has done as much for j.-southerii scenery as for the scenery of Ku* I rope; but it remains for thegfiiius ot man to j do for the south what lias been done lor Ru: rope, to breathe int'i its natural scenery some lot tils own lite,?to touch it with the tire01 I his imagination, t) hallow it with human and inspiring associations, to Latne 11 in ' The lixht wliich never was on land or sen, The consecration ur.d tiie poet's urcam." What is there about the yellow river that (lows by the wails of Home to draw to its hanks pilgrims trom ail lands? Are "the' haiiitsand brs.es of boniiic Doon*' so lovely in | theiinelves that men wilt ciossthe Atlantic loscetncin? Why is l?ot> Hoy's ease, a little I hole on tiie side of iien Lomond, an oh|ect 011 deeper interest to Americans than their MUpetitions Mammoth Cave? Arc not the Missississippl and Aiisstnirl, rivcru of Amerlcji. better than all the waters of Europe? And yet </iie Hoy brook in the South of Scotland, the clear winding Yarrow, which the sh- pperd-boy, If he di.es not watte through, clears at a bound, tiausui nds in human interest even inc raiuei *>i nnu rs, ? uru>numi invt wiitten three e.'uiulsltc puems on that little stream, and to tuei.i I reicr you, for the poet h:is therein explained Litis my* e;'y. Uut surely me lime lsfominswlienthc.se I scenes W"ll have their story, too, ami a voie thill shall s|)<:ik t > Hie heart of man; when a Southern Ku.ns shall arise anil give an immortality ot song to the woods and streams, the birds and nowt-rs. the ho?> 8t men and bonnic lasses of the South. It lias been well -aid that Sir V.'iiitvr scott discovered Seotiaiul; Miy rather lie created a new Scotland. The wizard oi' the Morth, lie waved his lnauic j v?ami. and to! a lie\v Scotland nrusc. And i smely I he time is coining when the wizard o: :hetM>:ii.li shall appear and easting his spells over this fair land snail create anew South, another, yet the same. Surely the lime is eoniing win n a sou of KrsUlne will sing iter praise as sweetly as i-iray sang of Kton: when a Southern maid shall lake the plate of l>onn'.e Annie Laurie, and men wi.l dnd thiough :iii this South-tin land tongues in her trees, oCMiionsin her sieines, books In l.er rnnnln^ brooks and unod In eve rything that Is hers _ Vou v. Ill hasten tho coming of that dt*' hy engaging earnestly in the cultivation of Southern literature. The coining of the nuni? of genius is unheralded, unforeseen, and unexpected as the coming of .he comet whseh hashed lint night in our .Northern h<a\ens, but as suiely as a comet appears ainonu the stars, so suie'y does the man of genius ai l.-e anion*; a pe< pie whoiiave prepared themselves 10 receive him and made themselves worthy of him by an untirim: devolion to learning and a iong-rontlnued cultivation of literature. At t!iis point there was sorno little noise near the doors of the large hall, and Dr. Grier arose and requested those who wero talking to bo quiet, remarking that Mr. fienet was quite-able to cope in voice with any one man in the audience; he would go further and say -Mr. I'.enet was able to cope with any one woinan ; but that twenty on a side was not fair play against one. Mr. l'enet thanked Dr. Grier for his kindness, which was the more ifratc-ful to him because he had a sore throat and his voice was not as strong us usual; ami lie tlici) humorously improvised!he following parody. Utile drops of water, Little grains ol' sand, Make the mighty ocean And the beauteous land: And the little whispers, Gentle though they be, Make the tni^lity murmur That distui'bcli me. Th is happy Impromptu was received with ' "cheers and laughter, after which thespcuker continued his address. Engage then, in this great work, not for llie purpose of making money by writing books, but from a pure love of letters aiiU 11 strong love of country. Money you may g?ln by It but that Is u secondary &msiderallou. I Iio money value of a biok lias no relation lo lis intrinsic value: else would Helen's Babies" be greater than ' Paradise Lost." and the ephemeral "Kndymioii" of Disraeli more valuable than the "Endytnion" of Keats, which is a thins of beauty and a joy forever. 'Cultivate a native literature as a labour oi . love. Like Fletcher of haltoun, be more ambitious to mnkc tho soi>1.'.*of your peoplethan lo frame their laws. Thus will you lay up f >r your country the only treasures upon earth wlilch neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and which no time c,in steal. And thus Mill you confer on your country greater honourund glory than it is 111 the power of varrlors <>r statesmen to Le-tow. b or the literature of a country is its only immortal pnrt. Cities limy perish anil kingdoms pass away, uui a fO'idbook livesforever. Gre;*ee nnd Uome lie burled beneath the ruins of centuries: hut I on tlieir lOiui'H huru brightly tlic twin lamps lot' their literature, ami their lklit is seen in lands which Alexander never reached, and their genial mtlucnce felt where Homes eagres never tlew. Mr. Eenet then addressed a few well-timed words to the young ladies of Due West Female College, concluding tills part of his ud! dress with a touching tribute to the late Rev. [ I Dr. Homier, his friend and their revered preI ccptor; after which he concluded as follows: Coj.-ci.usroN*. Gentlemen of the Philomnthean nnd Euphemi\auHocfntica:?l have tried to-<lny to stand with j yiiu upon the mountain tops of youth wheie your l'eet now stand; I have endeavored to 'survey witti you the landscape which lies| 1 widespread before you, and to point out some of the work tliatwill be expected of you when you descend into the p.ain. Standing oil this ! exalted eminence and looking around you. j you behold wondrous changes ^oing on with a rapidity which taliesaway one's breath and ! makes It impossible to Joretcll their ultimate ] ellect. As Americans you see the treat repub; lie-outstripping ail other nations in the race for l material wealth; yearafieryeargrowingmore powerful; adding every dccadeteu millions to ! its population : and hardly taking tune toask I what thtise momentous questions are which i disturb the mind of Ktiropewhile from over) tiie Atiantie comes like a moaning wind the j i murmuring s. uud of communism and social- ; ! i?m mill ih.? niufi li v iiiiiiici?h1 comulaints. ofi I 11iv vast in 11.y 01 tl.e di.?cont? nted: nu n who ; f. ur not kiu^s neither regard presidents, while' | ever and anon, tlcoing to America us to a new j I cave of Adullani, come those men in lliouj sit: ds to Millie in this land. As southerners, you behold your country 1 I mosl suiely entering upon ucarecr of prosper- J ! iiy which promises to make licr rich and powjcrl'ul and move the inuiiuraclurin^ centres : froih New England to the Month. We wish ) her godspeed and pray Heaven lo grant ! that after tier long years of evil fortune she 1 Inlay bear her piospcrity with equanimity: j j 1 that having been suckleu by the woil' Adver- j I slty, she like liomulus, will find she has only 1 I grown stronger and better on that bitter I1 [milk. P As students of Erskiuc, as College grad-1 I uaies, you are officers by brevet in the army1 ! ol intelligence, and active service is beiorej' I you ou lile's battlefield. Hard and danger-!' j ous work awaits you. Mauy problems uilil-1J cult of solution will come up and demand i I your answer. Hut be of good cheer. If you i, have answered with sinceilty and Christian'] ! faith llic question ol questions once put on , i the shores of liuliilee. "tvhul think )e of f II jirisl'.'the qiiiilotii Chustu.i tl.at Mar l, d , ' j nil when rea.lliiK Tacitus,?you may go lorth i u iih boldness. if you have not a sincere i.e- < liel in the truths ol ( hristianify then wiil , yourGrcek and Latin be as sou luiing brass and e your fcit nce and philosophy as a tinkling, j cymbal. ; li. a few years you will see the dawn of the 1 j j twentieth century. What is to he the char- , aeifcr of lliat^entury w c cannot pi edict; but i j With the moulding of that cltaiacier) oil will i have something to do. '1 he sciiohushlp of j iMiulund and of Germany has dominated the i thought oi the nineteenth century: it may' he in.it the scholarship of America will have 1 I lie predominance in the twcntieih. iliiih \ and not.le work it is in your l ower to do. and | like worthy sons ol Ersktne you should do 1:; . but do nut- be discouraged if in your short ilife.vou^ce not the woik of your hands es-.l 1 ti.tillshed nor your whole desire mltliled.: 1 ! The best work Is the hardest work and solid work is slow. It may not be lor the sons of i this century to build the tieautiful temple of :i knowledge and letteis which is yet lo rise in . the Southern States, (.'oiieerni'ig the lem- ( pie at .lerusnlem, it was said to l>avi.:. "Thou shall not buiid a house for my name, because n thou hast been a loan of war and ha.-t shed blood." Hut it was perm it ted to him to give 1 to solum, ii, his son, ' the pattern" ami to 1 g.lhi-r materials for the structure. It may be that this generation likewise is forbidden 'J to build a house tor knowledge and the muses. Hut it Is pes inItted to us, too. tojilve 2 our sons tne pattern. It is in our power, it is our duty, it is ot'.r hl?h privilege to lay diep. i bri ad, and enduring .he ?ure foundation, and to coiicciuiid preparo the stones for buhdlng J tlie temple which In latter duys shall rise In this land and with its grandeur and beauty, J and thespicudorof Itsgiory draw the won- f daring eyes of the grateful naticni 15 the I 6ui2cy 6tate? of thsSontii. [' AT NIGHT. Anniversary Address by J. N. Miller* iiisq. ? Contest in Declamation ? Award of Medals?Interesting Evetiincr. Al half-pan eight o'clock the Alumni Association of Erskine College, together with anlonumcmble throng ol Indies ami gentlemen, not connected with the Association, met In the hall. Joseph N. Miller, Erq., ol Camden, Alabama, then delivered the anniversary address before the Association, at the oiiclusion of which fonr Of the young gentlemen from the Philomathean Literary Society entered into ttie declamation contest, In he following order: j "The Kinck Horse and his Rider," O. Y. [ iionner. Due West. S. C. "Stars and Stripes," P. E, BrlcC, Wlnnsboro', s. C. "Mahone nntl the Republican Partyj" W. L. McDonald, Wtnnsboro, S. C. "Deinosthencac Denounced," C. D. Waller, Helma, Ala. The exercises Indicated ab^'c were of qnltt an Interesting nature, and were truly creditable to the participants. When these exercises were concluded, It was announced that Majors. Watson Held of Steele Creek, North l uiuniiH, woum oenverio me suecessuu competitors the medals which had heon awarded to them by the Hoard of Trustees. The announcement of the award of medals usually excites among the students an mvv.-h, if not more Interest, than any other part of the Commencement exorcises, and this year was no exception to the rule. We cannot give Major Keld's speech in full, but we present! only a few words, as follows : Young Gentlemen n/ JSrtklnc C'nUeije, Ixtdi^ and Gentlemen: The duty of delivering the mcduis to night has been imposed upon me, and 1 regret that tlie duly hud not devolved upon some more competent. I stand to-night where I stood neaiiy thirty years a;o. What a change thirty years has made in this Institution ! Of the l'rolessors who were here then not one of them ore connected with the College to-day. 'Jhouji the College Is still presided over by a Grier, "a worthy son of a noble sire," yet Robert C. Grier. L). D., who steered the helm of this Institution, as well ar. llev. W. It. Hemphill, who did more than any other man to raise money to build up the College, and ltev. James P. Pressly, D. l>., who was 1'io essor of Greek In this Instiiu tton for nearly lorty years, have passed away ! from earth, and ure receiving tlKlr merited rewards. After some other remarks, which we are uniibloto roproduce, Major Held pritcecded to deliver the medals, and announced the names of those of whom "honorable mention'' hadI been made: IN THE SENIOR CLASS. The names In this and the following Instances, of which "honorable mention" is made, are given alphabetically, and not according to relative stand. The award of these medals Is based on the best scholarship in the department named, without reference to attainments in any other department. In Astronomy?Modal: Mr. W. J. Fleming. Honorable mention: Messrs. II. C. ration, D. K. Walker.In French?Medal ; Mr. J. "V. Thomson. Honorable mention: Messrs. J. G. Balrd, W. J. Fleming. H. U Pat.ton. In Me t-IaiKl Moral Science?Medal: Mr. II. C. I'atton. Honorable mention: Messrs. C. H. Brlee, W. J. Fleming, I). E. Walker. In Chemistry and Geology?Medal: Mr. D. E. Walker. Honorable mention : Messrs. C. II. l'rice, W. J. Fleming, II. C. Fattnn. In German?Medal: Mr. J. G. Balrd. Honorable mention: Messrs. \V. J. Fleming, II. P..l?An T T W l.' ttf-n.? J ukivu, w. m.J. i, ci i iii( ij. i-4, wuiKtrr. In the following classes, two mediils nrc given for ea<;h, one for tlw? be^t scholarship, and one for the second best. The test Is made by combining and averaging the scholarship attained In all (he rooms during the entire year. IF TIIE JUNIOR CLASS. Medals: Messrs. J. S. Moflatt, 11.11. Orlor. Honorable mention.' Messrs. W. C. Brown, J. C. Cork, J. L. Gaston. IN THE SOniOMOUE CLASS, Medals: Mr. H. B. Biakely, R. Y. Mills. Honorable mention: Messrs. J. S. Brlce, R. A. Harris. IN TIIE FRESIIMAN CLASS. Medals: Messrs. M. L. Copeland, J. H. Breoks. Honorable mention : Messrs. F. O. Bell, D. B. Stewart. Thursday. NOW LOOK tPOS THIS SCENE. A. Croat Array of Beauty and Manhood. Miss Hood's Saliilatory ? President Kennedy's Baccalaureate ? Charming 31 us if. On Tnursday- morning, June SO, the vast concourse In attendance on the previous day assembled In the Hall at half-past nlnco'clock. The programme was as follows: Trayer by the Rev. H. T. Sloan I>. D. Anthem.?"Hark, ten thousand voices cry." \(U?U inir,?X nun/, ? v?fi tuiu iu ocui i j umi*.'* JUissss Uuilinl, Johnston, Le Gal and McCaughrin. Salutatory by I>Ii.?s Maggie E. Hood, ot Due West. Dkak Fkiekks:?Another twelve months hn?e rolled roam! since lust wc met in tills hall on a similar oceasiou; and now, on this bright J line morn i it x it lutsbeeR made my very ii-.ice il>le task and high pilvilcge to bid you welcome. .Sometimes, durlns the last weeks and months of labor and toll ovhi' te.\t-bjoks, and constant atlendance oil the rail of the bell, ur spirits have almost fainted, and tired nature culled fir a respite. When the sweet spring time caioe, ori-timos would we have cast our bcoksaside, and chased thegay wingel sport,* of childhood. Us In the days of yore, sought the wild llouef In the shady dell, or tried, In vain, to draw from its cool home In the brook the quiverliiy perch. Vain longing". llclcnilcss duty cuilcd and we had to obey. And now at theclose of our year, well d > we know what means all this throng and bustle upon our rsually quiet streets. Fqtiipa.cs of every description. drawn by asgre/H a variety o: steads; fiout theblooded prnncer to the staid ltosinanter. easier laces all turned I In the same direction, point to the scene ol | ciiteriainm&ntand mirths As we stand face to fa(C with the multitude b fore us. we rci.oicc to s- e that the husband-! man has Ivft ills plow; theme chant his Counter. ?!?d theliwjvr lil.s briefs. Ti.e slfVi ty haired are June; the niiddk-aged, the young man und maiden gay, the youthful anil the iuattl<-r. How shall we find words to express oar appreciation of this kindness and complimenl. Never before have wo so sensibly iclt t'Urown insignithance and inability to entertain so great a throng of such varied Intellect and talent; but whl;cour hearts throb with joy and gratitude for your pre-enee. a sadness Kteals ?>vci' us that never has been felt in this hall before. Why arc these w ills (traced in mourning? why this empty chair upon the rostrum? Ah! the nns:cl of death lias been among us, and neither tears nor prayers could stay iiis hand. vlt. Is said. "Death loves a shining mark," imd truly he aimed hijjh, and this band was left without a l<*ader. f-or years he has annually stood upon this platform,and with suiting face and beaming eye given you a kindly welcome. Although on thestageat our last assemblage, he was unable to bid farewell'to his graduating class and give his last, worjls of affectionate counsel and latherly advleq, and bid them "God speed ' in the Journey-of life just opening to them. Long will his incmorv live in our uearts, and long may we pioflt by his example and Instruction. Long w ill he be missed in our midst,and long will it be before his place can be lliled. The sp->t where Ills ashes rep >se Is hallowed giound. and tender hearts with loving hands will keep It fresh, gree i an J fragrant with llowt-is, while the soul rises uI>ove i lie dust of earth to greet him in those i clesiial dimes of immortal glory, where, "Death Is swallowed up In victory." It Is nut when the path of life is planted with tlowers; and when nioss"s and gias.-es make soft each step, that man's faith, endurance, and desires are tried; but it is when these have been removed, when thorns, thistles,and sharp stones obstruct his way. Neither is life measured by t lie length of days, but rather by the work that is done "We live in dec.is, not years, and lie lives most who thinks most, feels the noblesi, and acts the best." When Hod created man, lie had some noble: end in view for him, and until this end is accomplished he is unfit to die, unprepared to meet his Master. lie has failed- failed In the first, duty which which Ins "being requires, t hat of giving back his heart a free-will oll'eringtohlin who made it. Such a life may be peaceable and quiet, without gr?u outward wickedness and vice, but its talents are uast-i ed. i's privileges abused, and wreck and ruin are the re?ult. A life wasted! Hut perhaps this being is endowed with a mighty Intel-j Icct, and genius sli* cnthioni d upon his brow, | ? ..* !.? nf hiu hour: ho hl:iK- i UllL 111 lllC uiiiuvuv v. ....... phenios his God, ami makes sport of sacred ihinsrs for tlie auiu-ement and gratification ot others. Oil what a wasted Hie! Belter for such an one, a"d the woi Id had he never been ! born. "For no man llveth to himself and no man dieth to himself;" yet many die by his example. " 'Tis not the whole of life t?> live j nor all of dentil to die. ' God's word Is the only rule lo direct us. By its precepts must we shape onr lives and govern our wills. When we arc gone, our luces forgotten, and even our j names faded from memory, our Influence] may still be fell, and that in the most distant lands. We noed to work. The lime is short, and so much to be done; i t Da-ses our comprehension ! Let us meet-; illnd fulfill our duties as laborers lo the vine , yard of our Master, so that, when he calls us ! iiome be it In youth, or in the prime of life, I is was our beloved friend and teacher, or when old nge makes the cares of life a burden,! we may receive our reward, and theapproba- i lion,"well done good and faithful servant, en- j ter Into thy rest.'' , 'Desire not to live long, hut welt, How long we live, not words, but actions tell." 11 Dear Friends, we fear our greeting has been I sad, but we could not make it otherwise. W'e |1 iiniw that evi ry heart here oeats in unison j' ivith our own, and sympathizes with our sor-! ow, Notwithstanding our bereavement the,' tsual feast of good things lias been prepared.; A'e sincerely hope you will ail enjoy it, and | :.\ercisea kindly sympathy and p-itn-nce with !. .ne entertainers ol tne day. W.th music and j tons we hope you will be partially repaid lor; jonoring us wi'h your presence. We agi.in assure you that such encourage- j nent more lhan repays us lor all that we can j 10. besides the real advant ges we have do-j, tved from the work now opening before us. m In the name of teachers and itipils we ex- i and a most hearty welcome to all. ; | Quartette.?Voeal.?"Come where the Lilies j ilouin." .Misses Munneriyn, McDavid, Kd ; vr.rds and sea-?-. t.ssay: "Act Lily."?Miss J. Irene Bradley, I >f Mltiway. s. i'. Soloanu Duett,?I'iano.?"Marclie DosTnm-j tours.-" Misses Munuerlyn, Johnston and i -.d wards. j SSoio and Chorus.?"Beautiful Days Long! Vg'?." Mis>es Stewart, Williams, Kd wards,; mil Sea sc. l-.ssay ; "God In all Tilings."--Miss Joslc G. I .'lilies, of Millway, S. C. J " I'iano.?"Duo De Norma." Misses McBavid md McCaughrin. Lalin oinposjilon : "Dulceet Dccorum est j 'ro 1'atrla Mori.' ?Miss Johnnie P. Abney.of', ulgctleld S. l". , ] J-olo.?Vocal.?'"When tiie Leaves Login to| rurn." Miss Nita Munneriyn. Quartette.?Piano.?"Grand Walt*." Misses | iliillni t, (iricr, 1'hi. ..|is and siewart. Essay: "he What you seem."?Miss Mary i V. Johnston. ('icvehiud, Tenn. IJ solo.?Vocal.?'"W hen the Tide Conies in." < JissMary McCuughrih. Quartette.?Piano?"11 Trovutore Fantasia." 1, liases Munneriyn, Johusotn, l a.ton and Lip-1 ord, Essay: 'Rise and Fall of Empires,"?Miss >1. Eunc Johnston, of Calhoun, lenn. % 1 ! 8nIOi--VoeA).?"SeftreatCompanlciiK." Ml < Mollle McDi.vid. Esuay : ' Dum on Onr ainwfes."?Miss Mary K. McCnughrln, ?f Newberry. S. C, Sola?Voca'.?"Only a Lej/ of Sweet Ulo1 . yer." Miss Nannie Edward#.' KflsBy: "Music."?Miss A.Nlia Munnerlyn, of Ueorgetownr8. C. Solo.?ChoruH ?"Mnolo Is Falllnp." MlsscA McCnuglirtn. MpDbyW, Stewnrt unit Sense. Solo.?Piano.?"The tsUl Sin lie." Miss MoW lie McDavid Essay : "The Pa?t?A Poem."?Miss Nannie J. Edwards, of Due West, S. C; Cliorus.?'"My (jondola Awalti Tlieo." AFTER RECESS. rho'nq?"ni? nnn' I. vnn Tforr1or?f?/?t? ? Essay : "He also Serves who onty Stands and Walts." Mlts* M. Elli2 Rel-i, of Steel Creek, X C. Quartette. ? Piano. ? "Olivette." Mlues William*. Ballni, Callison and Abney. Quartette,?Vodnl.?"Medley." Misses Man' nerlyn, Mcunvld, Edwards und fiease. Essay: "Life la What we make It."?Mlrt Carrie V. Seaxe, of Proa per ity, 8. C." Trio.?Vocal.?'"Lire has no power."- Misses Munnerlyn. Me David, and McCaaghrln. Quartette.?Piano.?"Garotte." Misses Edwards, Johnston, Ltpford and Stevenson. En say : "L' Hcroisme de Charlotte Corday. ?Miss Mary E. Mortal t. of Warnock, Ohio. Duet.?Vocal.?"The Lily and the Rose." Misses Munnerlyn and Edwards. Essay : "Men who Never Die."?Mis* Popld B. Strotlier, ot Edgefield, S. 0. Quartette.?Piano. ? "The Pirate* of Penzance-" Misses Cowan, Barr, Iladdon and fe.HU. Valedictory.?Miss Mattle A; Phillips, of Louisville, Ga. Chortis.?"We wl'l Meet by thfe Beautifal Gate.' Senior Class. Baccalaureate Address by President Kennedy; Young Isidira Of the Graduating Clou;?The Board of Trustees of the Due west Femalo Collate, have made it my duty to present to you these Testimonials of Iter appreciation und coutldcne*. I now proceed to the discharge Of that duty .. The hand thatshtniM have ptesentW these I Diplomas.Ik fofever still, the volce.thst(sbouM have addressed yon on tills interesting occa s-iiii is luruver uuwneu. lie DUtl ft gient Worlt to do snch as few men are fitted to accomplish hut. it Is finished and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian and the Due West Female Coif lege stands to day, as tlieproud monuments df his energy and executive ability. For IbenH he lived and labored, and In thtlr service bo died. Success so brilliant and marked,nchlev e.l under circumstances by no meanft favorshie, has fallen to the lot of the few. What h<> found to do he did with all bin might. But all wearied and scarred, with the bai ties of lift he has Iniu down to ic*l, while yet It whij ccarctflv eventide of the . day. The polished shaft shall rise above his dust to perpetrate his ' memory ; but his most enduring monuments Khfllbe that enshrined within your heart?, and in the hearts of hundreds or others like you, to whom his memory muni bo forever precious. The tcaN will come nnblddcn to your eyes to day, and I know y.m sorrow ; most of nil for the saying, "ye shall see bU ! face no more." Brlns IlIUc*, gather porple flowers, bind d|1 fresh garlands ol nil beuuttful. jxnd fragrant blossoms, and moisten them witli your tears; and, with lo\ lnghands scitter them over tho sleeping dust. Cut you may not linger always at the tomb. You mutt be going. With I you It Is early dawn, soon It will be noontide and then comes still evening on." You have your worn to do. Thus far you have been laying the fonnda' tlon, the graceful suncrwtmcture is yet to be reared with "glistering spires and pinnacles adorned." It Would he strange indeed, if after our associations in relations so Iptlmato and so long, and which your uniform reaped and kindness have rendered so pleasant to mo I should feel no conccru foryour future; If my heart ?hould not be drawn toward yob in tendor earnest longings for vour success and hap* pin ess. Httiieito, as one of your own number uas well expressed it, you have been led by tlintcn vrlin IiUVP h(lH ntni-o avnA-UU.* *l? ? -? v va|<vi iviico luatu yourselves and who have warned you of thd ' danger thai l>e?ct i-he wuy. 'Their work Is now accomplished, whether well or 111, tlrao the great revenler must disclose. What the future, now m> bright and full of promise, may have in store lor for you the wisest can not foretell, or one thing you raajr rest assured, the cup will not he tin mixed. In every cup of Joy, you will Jlnd some drops of soirow. Heuvengrant there may be fewi Whether your path shuil lie much or smooth* I whether it snail bo strew n with flowers or 1 thickly set with thorns; whether the sky | overhead sha|l be bright Willi smiles, or black 1 with frow ns: whether you shall go tlirougll life weeping KuchelKior singing Miriams gladdening the hearts of all around you d&* pends largely on yourselves. Ordinarily men give the touch that tlxe.s the colo.ln^ 01 their lives. It was not necessary that the Prophet should sirlke his hand over the placc, or that the .Syrian Capiatn should do somo great thing to be In ak-d of his leprosy, but only to wash in the waters of the Jordon* Poitfsla life, to ensure usefulness and ha^pines^ it is not necessary to achieve 6ome (treat tiling. To be u patriot It Is not necessary that you shall be a Charlotte Corday: to be a inls* slooary, It Is not niK-essury that you shall iiic cum, wKcuuvr mo ueui? Ing leaves to th- perish I rt* you may not b? called to ocupy that saere<i desk or to plead for' Justice at the bar, your Inmate modesty shrinks from Mils, innii and nature and Heov en all forbid it. But oh ! can you not' peak a word In kindness to the discouraged nud the broken hearted, can you not weep with those thai weep, fan you not give a cup of cold wa* ter to ibethlrxty *plrit, can you not smooth the pillow of I be living and'point to br^hter w orlds on high? All this yon can do, and the Ansrtlsof Ood have- no nobler tusk. And now In humble confidence we bid you go. May that all-seeing eye that never slumber*, never .-leeps watch over yon. nud may the good Shepherd lead you Into green pictures and by the still wat?r*and bilng y?iu every onent last into his loving bosom, to that peacefulabode which he has gone to prepare for all them that love him. Farewell. ...y w. > New mm store ' ? % Lawson & Wardlaw ABBEVILLE, S. C. HAVE opened si new*tock of FUHNITURR over the store of A. .Mi Hill & Hon, and will he pi onset! t > irecivo a ?*all from Uielr fi lends. 1 Lu-lr stoi-k consists of every variety of FUKNITIJIIK ii.-linlly kept In n nret-olart store. All of uhlea Is uiTeml at prices to suit tlir times. Feb. 21.1S81. tf PATTPftAn WHTTM? UAJUJUVnU AWUVUl OUBSCRIBERS to the capital stock of the Atlantic and French broad Valley,Railroad an; hereby noiitled that the first lnntoU incut is now called for. Prompt payment is required, as the work la to be begun at once and will be pushed vigorously. By order of W. K. Bradley, President A.and F. B. V. R. R. J. \Y. PEItUIN, Treasurer. Treasurer's Office, Abbeville. Mi'jr 10,1381, T. L. CALH0UN7M. D. Surgeon and Physician, ABBEVILLE, S. <J. Office?In rear of O. T. Calhoun's law office* March 23,1S1I, 12in State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. IN THE PROBATE COURT. In the matter of the F.state of A. A. Noble/ deceased. * Petition for Final Discharge. NOTICE is hereby clven that J<bn F. Calhoun, Executor of A. A. Noble^deceased, has madt application to this Court lor a dls* charge from his trust. Ordered, that Friday, the 8th of July, 1881. be appointed as the day for the settlement oz the estate, and discharge of the Executor* All persons Interested will take due uotlce. J. FULLER LYON. June8,1831, 5t Judgc of Probate. CIGARS? 'pilE following poptilur bruuds of 5-CENj ? i3?.u.'i*u3, Solon Shingle* Out Firm* Live Oak, Eureka, AND THE CELEBRATED Calhoun Chewing Tobacco, and Little Jckcr Smoking TobaccOj -ATCunningham & Tcmpleton's< April 20, J680, tr The filliaitra Female Collets Respectfvlly offers Its son-Iocs to those parent* who desire to sccnre for their dansbters the thorough mid symmetrical cultivation of their physical, intellectual. and moral pow ers. It 1* conducted on what is called the "SNE-STWY" TU?f. with a Semi-A^^uaIi Coi'K-seoj' Study ; and, by a system of Tuttlonal Premiums, its Low Rates anj made still lower for ALL who average 85 per cent, No Public Exercises. No "Receptions. Gnidmitlon, which Is always private, may oo eur ei-,ht times u year. I-'or full iiiforiuation, write for an Illustnw led Catalogue. Address, REV. S. LANDER, President, Oct27.SO.ly Wllllamston, 8. C. Notice. ALL persons having demands Against thd ^ estate of the lale J. \V. ROBERTSON ivill present them duly attested, and all those ndebtcd to the lime will make immediate ayment to DENJ. S. BARNWELL, my duly luthorized agent. AGNES B. ROBERTSON, Administratrix, March If?, 1881, tf drIedbeef; At 10 2-3 Cents a Ponnd, Cs Cheaper than Fresh Beef at Half the Money. FOR lunch or forteaithas no superior. It is always ready for one. It needs no* rooking thoiigli'when shaved and stewed with xitHUws or scrambled with eggs it makes ao rk'gunt breakfast disli. A. W. JONES. June 22.1831, tf