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THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE, [INvARIABLY IN A9VANCE. VOL. II. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1866. NO.45. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. I., By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEXER, TERMS, $8 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY, OR PROVISIONS. Ptyment required invariably in advance. Marriage notices, Funeral Invitationr, Obitu aries, and Communications subserving private tateresta, are charged as advertisements. THE EDUCATION NEEDED NOW. The following admirable article we find in an exchange, credited to a New Orleans paper. We commend it to the careful consid eration of our readers: The people of our State are in a like predicament with the man who had the house destroyed from ever his heaJ. We have to re build a home for ourselves and families. The old home was a mighty comfortable one. Its low, hipped roof, large airy rooms and extensive pilastered porticoes, gave it a quaint, and yet comfort able appearance, as well as reality. The comforts and luxuries of the past are henceforth only the wealth ofthe imagination. Memo ry may linger with fond retrospec tive glance, and revel in idealities no longer to be realized. But the stern realities of the present arouse us to actual life, and bid us lay aside all "fond imaginings,' and deal with the necessities of the hour. Circumstances have entirely altered our condition. ""Times change"-and we must change with them. The pitst must be buried in the past. The present and the future is all that lices to us. Let us no longer linger round the grave of buried hopes. Hav ing paid the necessary tribute of the heart to the ;loved and lost" let us now turn to the realities of life. For many years to come, at least, luxury, ease and indolence must give way to energy and la bor. Yes, labor, protracted, perse vering labor, must be our lot; and the sooner we get to work in good earnest, the better. We must, ourselves, take hold of the plough, the anvil and the loom. We must! cultivate our long-neglected mus ce, and fmnd in vigorous exercise. 'not only wealth, but heretofore unknown health and happines. But while we, who are now ar rived at the age of manhood, may do much- while we may- rebuild1 curiong enervated systems upon a muscle-developing basis-while we can do much to repair our shat-. tered hopes, and regain our lost wealth and~ influenice, it is to the rising generation that nhe South look for that full dievelopment of~ all her resources, and that complete and full regeneration that shall lead to her economical success, and her ultimate, relative and comn plete independence. This must be the great indus trial power of the South. This is the practical lever by which we shall overturn all obstacles in our path to national greatness. Upon the muscle and mind of the 'youth of our land we must rely for hellp. But here the laws of ne cessity~ follow us as persistently as in any other of nature's domains. Ends must be accomplished by means. In order to accomp)lish successfully these great endls, the preparatory means must be used. The muscle as well as minds of these important workers-out of our destiny must be cultivated. And ther must be cultivated on particular principles in order to attain practical ends. They must be educated-thoroughly, _practi cally educated.' The term education is a very ex-' tensively indefinite one. It rep resents very different states and conditions, as we look at it from different stand-points. In its orig inal aceeptation, it is a very forci ble and perfe ct expression. It is the e, or ex duco, the drateing out, or developing whatever is to be educated. Nothing could be more We need the e-duco-the drawing out or development of the minds and muscles of our young people. Our people seem to have entire ly overlooked that only real and proper school of a nation's hope and success; that only school in which are taught practically, and in a manner never to be forgotton, the great lessons oflife-the school of experience. This is the only successful teacher the world has ever found. In it must be taught the masses-that fundamental ba sis of a nation's hope, power and wealth. We have had enough of the old system. We must now try the, to us. new, though it is the one adopted by the world around us. Our children must be taught not only to -cread" a book, but to read the great book of na ture; to "write," not only elegant epistles, fictions, and all the lacka daisacal nonsense of perverted lit erature, but to write their names high on the scroll of success; not only to write, but to do right ; not only to "cypher" through the pa ges of arithmetics, and the ab struse works of mathematics, but to cipher their way through life. over obstacles, to independence and success. Let the youth of the South, then, be at once put to school under this great and only great teacher. At the plough handle, at the forge, at the bench, in all the various de partments of practical business life ; let them learn in childhood and youth these lessons that will be of priceless value to them through life. Let us have more muscles and less of mind-at least, simple, theoretical edeality, Let the mind and body both be developed in harmony. Let the boy or girl learn in the living. breathing, real, practical world, those lessons of life that will dispel all fidse no tions with which novelists and such instructors of youth poison the mind, corrupt the morals, and completely wreck all just hopes of their parents and country. Edu cate the youth of our State in the realities of pr-ac-tical life, and you will have a people successful, hap pv and free. A WOMAN ANNOUNCES HERSELF A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. We live in a fast age. In many instances rowdlvismf controls elec tions, and small war-d politicians use such an clement to their own personal aggrandizement. against old and quiet citizens. Another influence it appears, is about to be brought to bear on the polities of the countryv. One of the "str-ong mindled women," so-called, publish es the following card in the New York paper's. To thec Editor of thec E/ghth Con gressional D&srict-A lthough, by the Constitution of the State of New York, woman is dEnied thc elective franchise, yet, she is eligi ble to office; therefore. I present myself to you as a candidate for Representative to Congress. Be longing to a disfranchised class, I have no political antecedents to re commend me to your support, but my creed is free speech, free press. free men, and free trade-the car dinal points of dlemocracy. View ing all things from the standpoint of principle rather than expedien cy, there is a fixed uniform law, as et unrec(ognized by either of the leading parties, governing alike the social and political life of men and nations. The Republican party has occasionally a clear vis ion of personal rights, while in its protective policy it seems wholly blind to the rights of property and interests of commerce ; while it reconizes the duty of benevolence between man and man, it teaches the narrowest selfishness in trade between nations. The Democrats, on the contrary, while holding sound and liberal principles in tradle and commerce, have ever in their political affili ations maintained the idea of class andl caste among men-an iea wholly at vreine with the genius of our free institutions. and fatal to a high civilization. One party fails at one point, and one at another. In asking yor suffrages --believing alike in free men and free trade-I could not represent either party as now constituted. Nevertheless, as an independent candidate, I desire an election at this time as a rebuke to the domi nant party for its retrogressive legislation, in so amending the Constitution as to make invidious distinctions on the ground of sex. That instrument recognizes as persons all citizens who obey the laws and support the State, and if . the Constitutions of the several States were brought into harmony with the broad principles of the Federal Constitution, the women of the nation would no longer be taxed without representation, or governed without their consent. One word should not be added to that great charter of rights to the insult or injury of the humblest of our citizens. I would gladly have a voice and vote in the Fortieth Congress to demand universal suffrage, that thus a republican form of government might be se cured to every State in the Union. If the party now in ascendancy makes its demand for "negro suf frage" in good faith, on the ground of natural right, and because the highest good of the State demands that the Republican idea be vindi eated, on no principle of justice or safety can the women of the na tion be ignored. In view of the fact that the freedmen of the South and the mil lions of foreigners now crowding our Western shores, most ofwhoni represent neither property, educa tion or civilization, are all, in the progress of events, to be enfran "hised.. the best interests. of the nation demand that we out-weigh this incoming pauperism, igno rance and degredation, with the wealth, education and refinement of the women of the Republic. On the high ground of safety to the nation and justice to its citizens, I ask y-our support in the coming election. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. WELL DONE, CHESTER :--We are gratified to learn from the Ches ter Standard1, that the best of feel ings prevail in that District among the people, upon the subject of col lecting debts. In one instance, a genitleman declined to accept spe cie in payment of a debt contrac ed before the wvar, declaring he would only receive currency. Sev eral lawers informed the Editor, that even had not the Legislature p)ostponled the Fall Session of the Court of Common Pleas, the dock et would1 hf.ve presented a beggar ly array of suits. The merchants express a willingness to comnpro *misc with their dlebtors upon the most liberal terms. This spirit is commendable, and we commnend it to the imitation of~ our readers. The general rule is, when a mer chant fails in business from error in judgemnt or reckless specula tion. if there be no charge of frau dulent conduct on his part, his brother merchants compound with him immediately, allowing him to retain, not only such property as is exempt under the insolvent laws, but also, enough property to start him in business again. That every e.lass of the communnitv has faiiled to meet their liabilities.is no fault of~ theirs, and why should not the like rule of conduct ob tain amongithe other classes ofs~o ciety, that obtain~ among mer chants ? We could advance many cogent reasons to prove that the interests of the debtor, creditor, and community at large, would be best advanced by the compound ing of debts at once, but we sup pose that they are too obvious to need r epetition. The~re are ea ses where the debtor is amply able to respond, and looking to the na ture of the credit given, the debts may not be compounded upon principles of atnrn1 enuitr."' l without dishonor to the debtor or creditor. Such cases are excep tional-most of debts may be fair ly compounded, and we urge that it be done. We wish, however, that it may be distinctly under stood, that we regard the proposi tion, to repudiate debts, as the sum of all dishonesty. It is not allowable under the Constitution of the United States and the Con stitution of the State, and even if it were, it would be both unwise and unjust. Iepudiation is one thing-the compounding of a debt upon a fair and equitable princi ple by the parties, is another, and a very different thing.-Anderson Intelligencer. REVELATIONS OF AN OLD MONAS. TERY. Until the summer of last year, one of the chief objects of interest to visitors at Funchal, Maderia, was a grand old monastery belong ing to the order of St. Francis. In June, 1864, however, an order was received to have it pulled down, that a court of justice might be erected on its site. The work men had been toiling for some hours, during which the crowd around the Gothic arch had great ly augmented, when a cry was heard within the building such as escapes strong men when their feelings are suddenly and violent ly aroused. Instantly there was an answering voice from the crowd, who. breaking through the slen der barrier presented by a wood en bolt lying across the entrance, rushed frantically through dim corridors and terror-haunted cham bers, awakening as they went multitudinous echoes with their wild and impatient calls and shouts. Guided by the rapid and reverberant strokes of the work men's tools, the crowd quietly reached a room at the extremity of a long slimy hall, and situated between it and the chapel, from whence there was another en trance. It was a lofty room. but of small dimensions, having an iron door at either end. IIigh up in the southern sidle-wall there was a grated window, and at the opposite wall the men who had uttered that cry of fearful import weret working~ with fiurious ener gv, while face to face with them stood the rigid body, of a woman, whose gliassy eyes death hathi fauied to close, and whose fair. sofft flesh decay hal spar'ed throughout the long period of three hundred years. She stood Oin a deep recess in the thick wall, beside a smaill fire-place, whc had1 been sur mounted by a beautiful mantle piece of pur~e white unveined mar ble. In removing this costly slab, a portion of the wal! had sudder.ly fallen. betraying to the masons the appalling secret of a living~ tomb in the vestry of the Church of St. Francis. With the presence of the crowd the horror-stricken workmen regained their fil inug courage, and redoubled their fail ing courage, and redoubled their power'ful efforts to widen the breach ; while each wel-aimed blow of their crowbars increased the general excitement, as more andI more of the gastly form stood revealed. It was richly att ired in lilae silk, still retain ing in its ami ple folds the freshness of its origi nal tint. One small spray of br'il liants gleamed in the abundant black hair, which still hung in heavy braids down the shoulders. though it had lost its softness and its shadowy gloss. Such a grave dress wa s horribly suggestive of a dread burial. The faces of the crowd darkened, their voices deep ened into a pent-up roar, when suddenly the remainder of the wall came tumbling down, exposing to the eyes of the dismayed throng the fleshless skeleton of a man ly ing at the woman's left hand, in a p)iled vet irreg'ular heap, as if it had slid down bone after bone, when the sinews and muscles which had giveni beauty and strength to manhiood had loosened their 1hold THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY. The Richmond Times, in its usual and forcible style, writes as follows : Does any one recollect an in stance furnished in human expe ri.ence of the preservation of a Republican form of Government, after the consummation of such a revolution as that which the radi cals are inaugurating ? All free nations have lost their liberties just as we are doing, through the machinations of bad men and the corruptions flowing from the mis appropriation of the public trea sure. When our revenues were small and expenditures limited, the struggle for the possession of power was not of such a character as to shake the foundations of the Government and to break the peace of the country. But now we have an income which neither Greece nor Rome, in all the pleni tude of power and the magnitude of empire, ever collected from their tributaries. And when 'barbaric gold" had driven virtue and honor from their councils; when their simple republics fell before the sapping vices of con quest and wealth, their Govern ments were as hard to "reconstruct" as ours. They, too, had men like Andrew Johnson-wise and patri otic-who essayed to check the lowifall of truth and virtue. But they battled in vain.' The virtues of Cato, the wisdom of Socrates, the valor of Scipio and the elo quence ofDemosthencs and Cicero, were vain to stop the flood which, when once it sets in, sweeps until the last landmark of freedom dis appears. Descensus Averni facilis est. sed rer;ocare quodom, hic labor, Ii c opus est ! It is not hard to lose liberty; but, when gone, who can rec'all it ? There is no resurrection for the lost institutions of a free people; and if the masses of the North shall follow in the lead of New England and the radical false prophets, they will desert the plat form on which their fore fathers stood, ex en as the Hebrews of old ab)andoned their God, and, like them, they will wander, perhaps, forty years in a wilderness of anarchy, blood and suffering, smit ten by the wrath of Heaven for their wickedness and idolatry. If, through the madness and folly af faction, the liberties of the American people are lost, history furnishes no example to guide us in retrieving them. The lamp of antiquity sheds no light over paths whichl return from the sepulchres of dead republics. When they fall, they fall never to rise again, and an iron despotism rolls to the do or of t heir tomb, a stone which can never be -displaced. New nations may arise, new republics be formed from new peoples and materials, but when once the fires of liberty go out, thycan never be rekindled upon the same altars. This admonition should not be disregard ed, by those whose dear e:st rights are in jeopardy. The voices which come up to us from the depths of the past, should not be unheeded when we contemplate thIiat revolution which threatens with (lestruction the very pillars of our temlel, and with the strength and frenizv of blind Samson would crush us beneath its ruins. It is too late to pause and regret neglected opportunities when they are gone. No physician can save a cholea patient when the col lapse is u1pon him, and there is no remedy for the dleath wounds of the country when a vile faction has been perinitted to give them. Have we no Cassandra, whose winning voice can save our Ilium from the flames ? If we have not, then we fear that there is no "pious Eneas" to carry out Penates safe ly over the stormy sea to found in their p)resence, in foreign lands, a great and glorious empire, where the virtues of the past shall be re newed and the promises of future renown fulfilled. A "Grecian walls, and when struck we hear not only the sound of arms, but the oaths and blasphemy of radi cal traitors. - 0* THE BLUE RIDGE RAIL ROAD. The stockholders ofthat influen tial and wealthy corporation, "the Louisville and Nashville Rail Road," at their annual meeting on 1st October, determined upon the extention of their Lebanon Branch Road from "Crab Orchard," its present terminus, to the Tennessee line, at a point to which the Knox ville and Kentucky Rail Road is now being built. This fact in itself would be an unimportant event, but for its ultimate bearing on the prospect of the Blue Ridge Road. When the great Northwest crosses the Ohio River, on a permanent iron bridge, which is. now being con structed at Louisville and journeys Southward to Knoxville, over an unbroken line of first-class rail roads, it will not be for the purpose of making Knoxville its depot. Far from it-the stream of travel, the gigantic tonnage from the vallies of the Ohio and Mississippi, and from the shores of the great lakes, are seeking an outlet on the South Atlantic coast, and the connect ing link is the Blue Ridge Rail Road. We may crowd it out of sight under the more urgent needs of the present times, some may say "it will never be," but the seeds planted in the "Rabun Gap," mtt grow and will bring us ample returns. Three millions of money in tun nels, in masonry and in actual road, is too important a fact to be overlooked, when the commerce of the great West shall have reached Knoxville. It will not be over looked if our people will but do their duty. Admit that they have no money now for any rail road' enterprises-good will does not cost anything. Let us then never forget the importance of keeping this project always in mind, and if we cannot work ourselves, this year or next year, the year after may bring us a helping hand. Our authority for the statement of the proposed extension to Knox ville, is a letter received here re cently from that able rail road officer, Albert Fink, Esq., Engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Rail Road. A German by birth, he has, by, his great ability and indomitable energy, gathered around him a wide circle of friends in his adopted home, and our own merchants who visit.ed. Louisville in June last, speak with much feeling of his courtesy and his words of good cheer in behalf of our Blue Ridge Rail Road .-Chiarleston Courier. INDECENCY OF THE DRAMA CALLED THE BLAICK CROOK. [From the Louisville Courie, October 18 ] Our eastern, or rather, as they are generally termed, Yankee brethern and sisters are especially on the high moral stilts.. 'Twas among them originated the patent high pressure idea of a new God, a new Bible, and a new religion. 'T was there that women abandoned their legitimate sphere, and took to the forum to instruct men in Imatters of which the fair lecturer's were profoundly ignorant. 'T was there all the new isms that throw aside all the morals and social amenities, that keep the human race above the brute creation, had their birth. 'Tis from there we get all the obscene publicationis and prints that are demoralizing youth. 'Tis there are first intro duced, in their class theatres, the bawdy dramas that arc only enact ed in the very lowest grades of Paris theatres for the delectation of the very lowest scum and filth of Parisian society. Certainly the "dramatizations from the French," with which we have been favor edfrom time to time,were obscene enough to suit the most depraved taste. But it seems not to be so. INew York reqnired something more loose and obscene yet, and New York has now got it in the shape of a play called The Black Crook. This is a dramatization of a very old and very dirty book, written in the days of the Pom padour, and the circulation of which was suppressed by law in later and more decent times, We are sorry to say that we are indebted to Mr. Charles M. Barras, a man whom we would not have suspected of pro. stituting his talents by employing them in such work, for this -drama. But Barras'wrote it, and Manager Wlheatley is playing it at Niblo's, and not only playing it, but multi. tudes are turned away nightly, and Mr. Wheatley pockets $2,50 at each exhibition. The Black Crook depends fonts popularity upon the lascivious pictures formed upon the stage. There are several -"demen" ndx other dances, in which fiftytlree girls, selected for theis beauty*o . feature and perfection ofform, take part in an entirely nude state, except a narrow clout of thingauze that conceals nothing. So. de praved have his audience become, that Manager Wheatley finds 'it a paying dodge to hang out large transparencies before his ,theatre each night, announcing that the "demon dance comes off at 9.30. This dance is particularly luseidus, and cannot fail to inspire auditors with ideas, and rouse emotions of a sublimely moral nature. How long wiI this devil's work be .: lowed ?- Niblo's ought to be burn ed to the ground by the decent part of the community, and Mann. ger Wheatley either hnngordriven - from the country. Forty-thousi additional houses of prostitution in the city of New York couldnot do one tithe the damage- to. the morals ofthe risiiggeneration-that this fellow Wheatley is now doiug. AN INCIDENT.--As a train ofe4s was last week approaching the suspension bridge, near Niagaa, the conductor found a young -an who could not pay his fare." The poor fellow was evidently in the last stage of coneumption, and emaciated to skeleton proportions. He-sat by himself; and his -eyes were red, as though he had been weeping ; but the law of the comn-. pany could not be transgressed, and he must leave the train. Not , a person moved or spoke as. the - conductor lcd him from his seat, all shivering with the cold; but just as he reached the door a beautiful girl arose from her seat and with bright, sparkling eyes, demanded the amount.charged for the poor invalid. The conductor said $8, and The young and noble girl took that sum from her pocket-book, and kindly led the sick youth back to his seat. The action put to shame several men who had witnessed - it, and they offered to "pay half," but the whole-souled woman in dignantly refused the assistanee. When the train arrived in Albany the young protectress gave the invalid money enough -to keep him over night, and send him to his friends the next morning. A Max TREED BY A DEER.--Mr. Newman, of this District, while on his way to Chesterfield -Qqart, found a man up a tree near the road, eagerly watched and guar. ded by a large wild buck, with a formidable head of antlers, and be in g warned before he had attract ed the notice of the animal, rode to a neighboring house, borrowed a gun and killed it. He learned from the prisoner, that the deer had been slightly wounded by a party of huntsmen, and pursued by dogs till it had become quite furious, and having escaped, wa lying down behind a log, when~ be discovered it and stole up with a view to spring on and catch it, But observing its large siae, and the keenness of its horns his cour, age failed him, and he was makinR a retreat, when the enrage animJ perceived him and rushed after' him barely giving hinm time to escape by climbing, He bad been in duress about two hours before Mr. Newman's arrival. [Camden JoQral,