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VOL II. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1866. NO. 30. THE HER,ALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOIZNING, At Newberry C. H1., By THOS. F. & R. E. GRENEXER, TERMS, S3 PER ANNUm IN CURRENCY, OR PROVISIONS. Payment required invariably in advance. Advertisements inserted at $1 per square. for first insertion, and 75 cts. each subsequent inser tio,. Marriage notices, Funeral invitations, Obituaries, and Communications of a personal character are4charged as advertisements. MISCELLANEOUS. I Good Pluck. A correspondent, writing all the way from Texas, tells of the devotion of a young Southern wife,who accompanied her hus band on foot from South Carolina to the Lone StarState, and thought nothing of it. There are not in this section many dames or damsels who would undertake such a journey, even though they were sure of finding the goal of hy,menial happiness at the end of it. "Some months after -the close of the war a gentleman overtook a well-dressed -Confederate soldier, with a knapsack on his back, accompanied by a pretty, neat looking girl, of apparently about eighteen years of age, with a bundle in her hand. The soldier stopped to ask some direc tions about the road. The gentleman found that he was a Confederate soldier returning home with his wife, and invi ted them home with him to dinner, as lie lived near. The soldier a fine-looking 'exar, told his story. His home was on the Neuces. He had entered the army at the first of the war, leaving a widowed mother and little sister at home. le be longed to Johnson's army, and had gone through all the varied fortunes of a sol dier, been once wounded and twice a pris oner at Camp Chase. In one of his va rious wanderings, he had met and fallen in love with the daughter of a widow in the Northern part cf South Carolina, whose husband had faallen at the battle of Manassas. The widow, from compe te ice, found herself reduced afnost to i want. When the war closed, our soldier went to the house tf his inLended moth er-in-law and for a na_ith worked with all his might, mendirg fences and put ting the farm in the best ,rder he could. ' Then thinking it time to see about his old n'other in Southern Texas of whom he had not heard one word for over two Aears, he prepared to return home, but It was hard to leave his sweetheart, not knowing when he could make money .enough to conme for her. But she settled the matter by saying she was going ge with him. So one morning they were married, and started for Texas on foot, with their knapsacks on their backs and without a single cent of money. "But," 1 said the bride, "we found people very lind, we made friends all along the road ; we were never turned off at night, we al ways got plenty to eat, and people would eften make us little presents of money. We would frequently overtake a wagon er, who would give us a ride as far as he was going our way. When I get to nay husband's home, I shall have travelled two thousand and five hundred miles most of it on foot. I would not take any thing in the world for my trip. I have found everybody so kind and good. The young husband looked intLo her bright young face and smiled as though he thought he saw there the reason ev ery one was so kind. "But we;e you not afraid to come so far with a wildl Texan ?" some one asked. Oh no," was the smiling reply ; I al ways liked the Trexans, they are such brave good soldiers." "You have indeed proved that you liked one of them." Atter dinner the gentleman had his carriage brought round and carried them a day's journey homeward. As I shook hands with the bride I wished her a tleasan t journey. "Oh, niever fear for that," she an swered, "I am almost home-a hundred miles or two isn't much ; I am as happy as a queen," and they drove off, the hap piest couple I ever saw. May Heaven bless them. Now isn't she a heroine, and do you think there are many more like her? I will close my letter by saying, three cheers for the Texan soldier and his South Carolina bride. The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer, of a recent date, says :As a crowd were on the banks of the Cuyahoga, watching the floating masses swept down by the tur bulent waters, an object was seen a short distance from the spot occupied by the spectators, which excited not a little cu riosity. It turned out to be a cradle, and when at the instance of a lady it was drawn to the shore, it was found to con tain a beautiful child, fast asleep, and happily unconscious of the perils of this rongh commencement of its voyage of life. Where it came from and who its parents are, are fact.s unknown." It has been asked when rain falls, does it ever get up again ? Of course it does, in dew timea The Education of Freedmen--Interest ing( etir The Judges of the Inferior Court of Richmond county, met in the Gourt Room yesterday morning, for .he- pur pose of consulting with a committee or delegation of colored people, assembled there by invitation of the Court, for the purpose of consulting upon the subject of educating the colored children. There was quite a large number of col ored men pr(s.nt, principally delegates from the various colored churches in this City, and after the Court, though Judge Bothwell, had submitted its proposition, they gave their ideas freely and fully upon it. The Gourt proposed to establish a i couple of schools for this class, in our city, one in the upper porticn and one in the lower, to be supplied with coin petent Southern teachers, and subject to the same rules .and regulatiod% as the white schools. The reason why this was not done before, was because of the want of funds; the Court hoped to be enabled to go to work in earnest at an early day; and wished to know whether the colored people would sustain the Court, or whether they preferred to have Northern teachers as heretofore. Judge Gaidiner also addressed a few remarks to those present, assuring them of the good will of the white people to ward them, fnd hoped that all would work togethcr for harmony and peace. Several of the colored men present gave their views, in which it was announced by most, if not all of them, that the Northern teachers have not only won th.eir respect and gratitude, but have promised to win them four and five years longer, by teaching their children during that time without money and without pri-ce. In doirg this these teachers assured them that somne 10,000 per annum would be circulated in this city, which would not otherwise -be brought here; that Fourteen teachers would be sent out in the Fall; and a large school house be erected, all under the auspices of. some Northern Association, Under these pro mises, the colored people have, asa gen ral thint- pledged their support to these peope and feel in honor bound to eep their words. Some of the speakers -xpressed pleasure at the present evi euce of kind feeling toward them on the art of the white people, and regretted hat the offer did not come' earlier One fuggested that the work was a very ex ensive one, and tihe Inferior Gourt might ~stablish its schools, so that those who >referred to go with the Southern eaebers could do so, and those who felt >ound to go with the Northern teach)ers ould fuitill their pron:ises. 'The field vas a large one, and he could welcome he Southern' people into it: nay, he be ieved that the time would come when here would be none but Southern echers; that every unkind feeling be ~ween the races would pass away, and here o:.ly the little finger was extended, re long the whole hand would be given n a friendly grasp. Another thought ~hat the colored people would be unable o0 pay taxes necessary to support such chools, and that it would not he adivisa.ble o do so, when they could get theirm chili en educated gratis, by the Northern eace:s. Another thought it biest to ~onsider the subject a little longer ; and, Iter some further discussio:n the Court djourned to give the Committee further ime to consult with those whom they epresent, and to report at a subsequent neeting. It is to be hoped that such steps will be taken as will secure tile establishment f schools for these people, of suc&i :haracter as will secure them confidence ad support, and induce them to leave Lhoe of the enemies of their section of the Union.-Augusta Press. SINGULAR AND REMAREABLE CASE.-A returned soldier, who was suffering from a wound through the fleshy part of his right arm, was married about nine months since; and shortly afterwards the wound became so bad that the at tending physician conte[mplated amputa ion. '.Ihis worked seriously on the mind of his young wife, whose sole attention was absorbed in the thought of a one armed husband. Under her kind and affectionate care, however, the arm was saved. Now for the sequel. The other day she gave birth to a child who had one well developed arm, but the other was a stump, similar to the one which the poor wife's mind was impressed with at the time the surgeons were talking of taking off her husband's. Amputation could not have produced a more beautiful stump, and what is more, the scar of,the bullet hole, so visible on the father's arm, was as visible on the child's aim, at the base of the stump, as il realy,. inflicted by a ball. This is the most remarkable case of "child-mark" ever known. The child is'a healthy and beautiful one, per fect in ev'ery respect, save the absence[ of the arm referred to.-Albaniy, N. Y., SINGULAR. DREAM.-A gospel minister, of the evangelical principles, whose name, from the circumstances occurred, it will be necessary to conceal, being much fatigued at the Con1c1uSion of th,e afternoon service, retired to his apartment in order to take a little rest. IIe ha4 not long reclined upon his cOIch before he fell asleep and began to dream. He dreamed that on walking into his garden, he entered a bower that had been erected in it, whee he sat to read and meditate. While thus employed he thought that he heard some person enter the gar den, andt leaving his.bowcr he immediatelv hastened toward the spot, whence the sound see :.cd to conic in order to discover who it was that had entered. ie had not proceed ed far before-he disc-rned a particular friend of his, a gosp61 minister of conidorable tal ent, who had rendered himself very popu lar hy his zealous and unwearied exertions in the cause of Christ. On approaching his friend, he was stir prised to find his coun-ten:mee with a gloom, which it had ngt been accustomed to bear, aiid that it strong'V indicated a violent agi tation of mind, apparently arising from con scious remorse. After the salutations had. passed, his friend asked the relator the time of day, to which he replied, "twenty-five minutes after four," licarin. this the stranger said : "It is only one hour since I died, and now"-(here his countenance spoke unutterable horror.) "Why so troubled ?" inquiircd the dreaming minister. "It is not," said he, "because I havenot preached the gospel ; neither is it because I have not beei rendered useful ; for I have now many sCals to my ministry that can bear testino ny to the truth as it is in Jesus, which they have received from in' lips ; but. it is be cause I have been accumulating to myself the applause of men, iore4han the honor which cometh from above; and verily I have my reward."' Having uttered these ex pressions he hastily disappeared, and was seen no more. The minster waking shortly afterward with the contents of this dre im deeply en graved on his memory, proceeded, over whelmed with serious reflections, toward the cbapel, in order to condnlet the evening service On his way thither lie was accost ed by a friend, who inquired whether lie had ieard the severe Joss the church had sustained in the deaih of that able minister - * * and he replied, "No," but being much affected at this singular intelligence, he inquired o hjini the day an the time of the dawheii hir departure too - place. To this his friend reglied, "This afternoon, at twenty-five minutes after four."-Herald of Truth. ENGLAND's DECLINE.-From facts which have recently come, to light, there is reason to believe that the virility of the aglish race at home is rapidly becoming exhausted. The anniounced& determin ation of the iSz itish go'vernment not to go to war, no matter what the provoca tion, is a~conspicuous sign of the grow ing weakness of John Bull's backbond, while population-statistics prove incon testibly that his prolific powers are stead ily deser ting him. In "di,cussing the women's rights question recently, the Pall Mall Gazette makes the following revelations: But it isg rowing daily more difficult to become a wife, and, if wve may believe Dr. Farr, to become a mother also. With regard to the first point, it is dlemor stra bly imp'ossible for all our women, nay fU- more thamn two-thirds, or eveni less, to marry, b)ecause there are many more women than umenl, and t'ere are n.any men who cannoot and many' who will not marry ; and, as to the second position, Dr. Farr has anrnonced that there are im England and~ Wales alone more than one niilion of chi ldless finnilies, while other authorities afhirm tha:t our race is so far less prohill than in former times that in our large towns two children to each marricd couple ha s come to be the average number. The fact that there are nearly a million more women than men in England is in itself a proof of the waning virility of the Anglo Saxon race. -In all effete races, such as those which occupy Mexico, for instance, there is an excess of female births. The small families and chidless unions, alluded to so often by the .medi cal press of England, tell the same story of the physical decay which has over taken that once prolific and spirited race. In view of this state of facts, Americans should deal tenderly with such specimens of this worn-out-race as live among us. The stock was once good, and we should honor it for wvhat it has been ; but to insure the vigor of our own blood there should be no more intermarriages per mitted between the young people of the two countries. THE MASoNs.-The NeW York Grand Lodge of Free Masons, represen ting 60,000 active Masons in that State, have a pro ject on hand for rearing in the city of New York an Asylum for the aged, the indigent and the orphans of the members of that order. The building is to cost $300,000, and to be located in a central poition. This plan originated with a pCoor laboring Macon who had laid up a little mnoney. to devote it to the cause of widows andl orphans-one silver'dollar. That smuall somn has increased to $150,000. A grand Masonic fair is to be inaugurated in September. A generous rivalry seems to per;-ade the Order. HoRSE RADIMs.-The cultivation, use and value of this plant is not -generally uaderstood nor appreciated by the South ern people. In the Northern States and in Europe, it is one of the indispensa bles. We frequently see in our country gardens a few plants that stand unmo lested until they die and rot with old age. When once it is introduced among table vegetables it is rarcly dispensed with" being universally leld in the high. est estimation by all who know its use. It is a valuable medicine, used in cases of dropsy; when applied to the face as a poultice, will often abate that trouble somne pest neuralgia. We have never seen any. city market supplied with it equal to the demand. The Jews arecon sumers of it ; they use it grated as a -on dinient for steaks and green meats gen erally. They also prepare it by grating, with a little loaf sugar, salt and vinegar, and cat it like gourmands. But its most common use is as a condiment in place of ground mustard. It is superior in every respect for the table. The cultivation of thd Horse Radish is easy and simple when understood. We propose to show the readers of the Southern Cultivator the proper course to pursue. A deep rich' soil is indis pensable, when fine, large, smooth roots are desired. A piece of moist loamy bottom land, well drained, is prefer able-not boggy and wet, as most people imagine to be the thing, for its cultivation. Good garden soil dug 1 to 2 feet deep, will produce very fine roots. The planting may be done at any time; if done in the fall of the year, the roots will be in perfection the year following; in fact the roots ought always to be used after the first year's growth, as a longer period make themn too woody and fibrous. In planting, the crown of the old plants should n-ot be used, for they do not make large, clean, smooth roots, bu& are almost sure to sprangle into many laterals. TtIke small roots, the size of a common pipe stein or smaller, and cut up into lengths of 2 to 3 inches, and plant 117 to 214eet each way, carefully setting every cutting in an upright, perpen<icular position. Every piece of roct, however small, thus planted, will grow. Keep clear of weeds, and stir the surface occasinally is all that is necessary.-Southern Cultivator. The New Orleans Picayune tells the following "excessive case of fatigue": "A few days ago an incident occurred in one of the cars upon the Da Ihine and Rampart street line, which, ini spite of he brusqueness of the repartee jt called forth, was so refreshingly amusing, that no one could refrain from indulging in the sentimecn.t which it occasioned. With duplex elliptiecdlikirts, the dresses of 7 ladies spread out itfeir ample folds in lively pat terns u'pon either side, and, al though quite a number of gentlemen en tered the car below Esplanade-street, niot a movement was made to contract by bar ege, organdie or lawn, the fourteen ladies very quietly appropriating the en tire seats, while the gentlemen' stood up andl held on as well as circumstances would allows Just before reaching Ca nal-street, one of the ladies, tapping one of the gentlemen upon the arm with her ivory handled parasol, reque'sted him to pull the bell for the next corner. Hold ing on to the strap with bo.th hands, and affecting the very quintessence of lan guor, the .person addressed replied: 'You must excuse me, madame, for I am really two excessively fatigued with standing to make the effort.' There was a sudden mroveet on the part of one of the liveliest patterns of bareges, and a tiny hand went up like lightning to the bell rope, and with a flounce and a toss of her beautiful head, while the faces of all were wreathed in an expressible smile, the little lady stepped briskly out of the car, and disappeared around the corner." At the Derby banquet says the Court Journal, a reporter was sitting directly behind Mr, Disraeli, "taking bim down" and in a sporting scene. The reporter missed an important sentence, and some what audibly expressed annoyance. Mr. Disraeli, on this, in true parhimentary Istyle, and 'very quickly repeated the dropped sentence. No one but the grate ful reporter knew why he did so.~ This week another reporter sent a hurried note to the Chancellor of the Exche quer, asking for some information as to his banquet speech. On the Thursday afternoon the foremost man in England walked into the reporter's "den," and politely gave the astonished "gentlemen of the press" what he required. Similar anecdotes might he. told of Lord Stanley, and they are merely mentioned as a hint to local "great men" who think it a part of their role to snub the reporter, so fre quently their superior in the sense in which a man is judged to be or not to be a gentleman. ______ Aie youg:grl nmed Julia Maker, mar rie a ellw amed Jemmy Dney Buflfalo, the ohrday, after a courtship of fivio minutes. She is only fifteen, and didn't know her husbands name previous HUMOROUS. CHARGING BREASTWORKs.-The corres, ponderit of the London Times furnished that paper with the following good one: When the Confederate army was passing through Chambersburg,. many ladies-gathered about the doors and windows, around the gates, and upon the verandahs, most of whom were decorated with Union flags about their per sons. One young lady who stood near the street had a tremendous one stretched across her bosom. One of Hood's Texans saw ir, stopped, and leaning his chin upon the muzz!e of his gut, eyed it for a few mo ments,'and then said: "Miss, I advise you to take down that flag." "Why, sir?" "Because these are Hood's men here, and they are terrible fellows to charge Yankee breastworks, especially when they are sur mounted by a U. S. flag." The youug lady vanished. TiE TRAY FOR Low.-Some boys were playing cards recently, in a hay mow, in the country, during a terrible storm of wind, lain and tliitler. When the war of the ele ments was at its height. a tree, near the old barn, was struck by lightning, and, at the same moment, a severe blast of wind upset the upper story of the barn, and tumbled the card-players to the ground, amid a perfect wreck ot boards, beims and rafters. The first thing that was heard al>ove the din of tempest was the voice of one of the boys, as he crawled out of the debris, holding fast to the cards, "Remember, boys, I playel the tray for low." That chap will be a Lieuteu ant-General, if we ever have another war. [Richmond (Ind.) Telegram. A TRUE SToRY.-It Is seldom we meet with a true story in the newspapers, and, when we do, we seize upon it eagerly. The following, which carries conviction of its truth to the heart of the reader, we paesent to the public: A late Wis consin paper tells of a farmer who, in the recent freshet, had eighty rods of line fence, running east and west, swung around by the water, carried a quarter of a mile from its original position, and left in an exact line north and south, and on the identical spot where he pro posed building a fence, and all this with out displacing arail frem its original po sition. A good story is told of Wigfall, who, at the collapse of the rebellion, fell into the vicinity of a party of Union soldiers in Tex as. Being well disguised; he entered free% ly into conversation, with the soldiers of the guard, and, in the course, of the conversa tion, asked what they would do with old Wigfall if they were to catch him. 'Oh we would hang him certain,' was the reply. 'And you would serve him right,' replied Wigfall, 'If I should be with you' I have no doubt I should be pullings at. the epil of the rope myself?' The double extendre was not suspected, aud its wit was there fore lost, but it is worth publishing now. A party of NewOrleans youths, just burst ing into manhood,went up town a few nights ago to compliment a lady friend of one of the young gentlemen by a serenade. They had barely time to execute one plaintive air, when a window opened and a mascu line voice good naturedly inquired 'How many of you are there?' 'Four,' returned the serenaders, thinking the inquiry had probable reference to refreshments. 'Divide that among you then,' returned the individ,. ual at the window,. as he emptied the fluid contents of a water pail over the heads just then massed together. A little, keen, bright-eyed girl of four years, on a visit one evening, was being helped to the knee of a genitlemnan friend, and on being told by her mother that she was too large a baby to bold, retorted almost immediately, accompanying her words with an emphatic gesture, "Why girls pineteen years old sit on laps, and you wouldn't call themi babies, would you?" An old man by the name of' Hopkins, living in Adrian, Michigan, has just been made the happy father of "triplets," all irls. A young lady commenting on the wonderful prosperity of this family, says she knows many young married men who are not one third as smart as old Mr. Hopkins. QUEsTION FOR BACHELORS.-"Can you tell," asked a blooming lass of a suitor once, "what ship carries more passengers than the Great Eastern ?" "Well, miss, really I don't think I can. "Why, it is court-ship," replied the maiden with a conscious blush. Lord Norbury having been asked to contribute a shilling to help bury an at torney who had died poor, exclaimed. "Only a shilling to bury an attorney ! Here's a guinea; go and bury twenty of them !" At Adrian, Mich., a lady saw an en gine house with a steeple, and innocently asked a gentleman attendant, "What church is that ?" the gentleman after reading the sign "Deluge No. 8," replied: I ~guess it must be the third Baptist." The defence of a man in Pennsylvania, sued for $25,000 for breach of promise, is that the young lady weighs 288 pounds and it is coming warm weather. A boy at Anoka, Minn., recently filled a musket with sand and gunpowder and fired 'it over his head. He wvill never do it again; his he ad was blown off. Ifea girl is unfortunately stoneblind let hrgtmarried-if that doesn't open her eyes nothing will. In the beginning woman consisted of a single rib. Now she is all ribs from her belt to the rim of her petticoats. Young men who idolize young women always love to be "joined to their idols."