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THREE DOLLARS A YEAR] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLGENCE. INVARIABLY JN ADVANCE - VOL. II. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1866. NO.449 THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEXEB, TERMS, 3 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY, OR PROVISIONS. P"ayntrequired Invariably in advance. notiWes, Faneral invitations, Obitu 0r4s, Cadmmuminations sabeerving privaet Ib, are charged as advertisemena. COME A11N. Sabbath afternoon, St. James' M. E. Sunday School was attended by a very large assemblage of people-old and young-all of whom seemed deeply interested in the singing which precedes the exercises. At three o'clock, the School was opened by the reading of the Scriptures by the Super intendent (Mr. Win. C. Derry). and prayer by a stranger, whom Mr. D. had singled out from the congregation, and invited to the altar, as being a minister-Rev. Mr. Chambliss. The prayer having been conclud .ed, the Superintendent, in his usual kindly manner, introduced the visiting clergyman, who, he said, was Pastor of a Baptist Church in Macon. The reverend gentleman told the children he had oftimes heard of their School, and that he was rejoiced to be with them for the melody of their voices had made him happy. He had been reared in Sabbath School, and to its in tluences, under the blessings of God, owed all that he is, or shall be. His love for the young knew no bounds-he felt an interest in each and all of them. He had asked the woithv Super intendent of St. James' School. to what he attributed its numbers and success? Mr. Derry had, in all humility, answered: "To the prayers and exertions of the t ehers, and the singing of the children, the latter under the leadership of Mr. Broome." The speaker was fully persua,led, in his own heart, that these were the essential means to success in this particular vineyard. Said he: There was once a captain of a vessel, who had em ployed a new hand, named Jim. One evening the captain queried the latter as follows : "Jim, do you know how to box a compass ?" "No, sir; I saw a compass at home some time ago. but the chil dren had broken the point off the needle." "Do you know how to guide a vessel ?" "No, sir." "Well, Jim, you see that bright star yonder, do you not ?" "Yes, sir." "That is the North Star. Now. take the helm, and keep the vessel hegded toward it all the time, and wes h all be safe." gim did as directed, and the captain retired to his berth. He had not been sleeping a great while, when Jim came and woke! him. The captain asked, what he wished ? "I want another star to go by ; donle passed that other one long ago," responded the helmsman. 'he captain went ou deck, and, sure enough, there was the star: in thec rear of the vessel, which, under the guidance of the un tutored hcimsmnan, had turned from her true course; andl was rapidly darting in an opposite direction. The moral of this little anecdote teaches us. said the speaker, to keep our eyes steadfastly fixed upon the star of our destiny-the grand object had in view. The object of Sabbath Schools, is the salvation of immortal souls, the advancement of the common in terests of the Church. We should never pass this by. in search of some (supposed) mlore rmnn object ; for in so dingfS we shall lose our way, anid the Sabhath School will be certaini o .go b;k, ward and down. This should be remembered. Mr. Chtinbliss then made an eloquent appeal to the children, to give God their hearts-to get religion. that they might have their names enrolled amongst the chosen of the Almighty. "On a certain battle-field, during the late war, a friend was bending, in tender solicitude, over the wounded form of a beloved com panion, who, though not fully conscious, kept exclaiming, in a subdued tone, 'here, here, here !' "What's the matter? Why do you say, 'here, here, here?' " inquir ed that friend. "Why," said the wounded man, "they are calling the ROLL in hEAVEN, and I am answering to my name. It is there." "Then, after a time, he com menced repeating the exclamation, 'here, here, here!' and the soldier's spirit went away, went away." -Learn to love Jesus, my dear children and hearers; then you, too, may answer, ere, here, here,' when the roll is called in Heaven." We believe. aye, we know that every person connected with St. James' Sabbath School-particu larly the bright eyed, intelligent girls and boys-Will be glad to have Mr. Chambliss visit their schooi, every time he chances to be in the City; therefore. in behalf of the little ones, whom our heart loves, we invite him to come again. (Augc:usta Press. AN EXTRAORDINARY Son. The Parksburg, West Virginia, Times, publishes a very singular statement from a man named Robert 5. 5teimwav, who has been arrested as the murderer of one A. C. Temple, a New Yorker, who mysteriously disappeared a few weeks ago in the vicinity of Burn ing Springs. The missing man had been, it is stated, in the com pany of the accused. travelling through the old regions of Ohio and West Virginia, and was last seen on Sundar, October 28. Stein way's letter, which is very minute and circumstantial, is to the ef fect that the two discovered a re markable cave near the bend of the Kanawha, entered through a narro)w cleft inl the rocks. which they proe-oeded to explore. Mr. Temple had a geologist's hiammier and sack for specimens, which lhe filled as he went through the cav ern. An er slow progr'ess through several subterranean apartments, the pair camne upon a lake, sixty feet long by twenty wide. whi&h to their astonishment and unboun ded dlelight, they fou'nd coutained not water but petroleum ! Temn ple attemp)ted to nessure the depth of it with his hammer, when the lose stones on which he stoodt gave way and he fell into the liquid, and, weighed downi with the specimens. never rose again. Steinway, in spite of his hor'ror, was able to find his w ay, out and back to his hotel ; and then, being resolived to secure the benefits of his disoovery, said no thing about the fate of his friend until he could get a lease of the property containing the wonder ful p)etroleum cave. To this lease made in favor of the heirs of the missin g man, he points to substan tiate his story and prove his inino cence, and signs himself "a friend less and grief-stricken man." The Columbia Carolinian, of the 22d inst.. announces the arri rival at that phice, on their way home, of Messrs. Kecys, Stowers, and Byrum, who have suffered a long imprisonment, first in Char leston and then at Dry Tortugas. They wcere well and in good spir its. A man by the name of Byer was shot and killed at Bbtekville, on the 20th ult.. by a Mr. Saun (ers, of Charleston. Cause the Seduci(tion, by the former. of a near relative of the latter. San derPs. after the deed dleliveredl him THE -AT:RAL HISTORY OF BRIDES. We have been favored with nat ural histories of man, of birds and beasts, of the world. but no one has vet essave(d the history of that indispensable creature, the bride. We propose in this article to at tempt to show how the vacuum caused by the shortcomings of au thors may be supplied by some en terprising Bohemia-n. A bride is the culmination of a mother's anxiety and the com mencement of a husband's serious reflections. A mother looks upon her daughter, arrayed as a bride, as an arrow shot from her house hold quiver at the butt of female archery, man ; and, if the arrow has made a fair hit, is prone to chuckle over the shot as showing forth her superior matronly skill. If, on the contrary, the success is doubtful, then the mother like a bad archer, blames the arrow, the uck, anything, indeed, but her own bad management. Brides are divided into numer ous classes. For example; senti mental brides. who marry for love; speculative brides, who marry for money ; anxious brides, who marry for the sake of being married ; ac commodating brides, who marry because their lovers asked them to marry; unresisting brides, who marry because their friends desire them to marry; inquisitive brides, who marry for curiosity ; and in valid brides. who marry to restore their health. Sentimental brides are the most numerous, but not the most happy of the orange-wreathed tribe. They are generally young erea tures, who revel in poeUeal dreams :onnected with the wearer of the love of a mustache, or the possess :r of a handsome nose, or express ive eve, or an animated doll, who an make pretty little speeches, raceful bows, or sing a pretty little song. She takes great pride unto herself because she married Charlie for his own dear self, and niot for his surroundings-unaware that a man's position in society, [is friends, and even his wealth or poverty is as much a part of him -elf total as the curl of his hair, the song he sings, the strut he af ets, or even his edluention. She generally finds, when the song is less brilliantly sung. the moustache requires Crhistador'a. the head a w~ig, and the poetical speechs are turned into matters of fact impera tives, i.hat the varnish is rul 2ed >ff. t be~ glass removed, and (lhar ie is- not the man he used to be. The money bride has madec her self an article of merch andize, andl is to be valued according to the prizes sh :>btains for herself. She belongs to every condition of so eiety. from her who marries for social position, horses and car riages, dliamiondsi, houses and bank account, to the work-girl who marries a one-room home, and the privilege of only half-st arving on her husband's petty weekly pit tance. She gecnerally reaches the conclusion that she has sold herself too cheap. The health-seeking bride looks on the marriage service as a medi al- prescription, the parson as a doctor, and the husband as the %lu-s admnisteredl for her ills-a blue pill that must be swallowed, however nauseous. She knows that she is travelling on the road to death, yet, yet clinging to life., endeavors to throw her burden on her lord ! Flying from the em baces of the worm, she is com pelled to accept those of the bride clroom. She merely prefers an earthly to an unearthly dwelling, the marriage bed to the narrow house appointed for all living. The honeymoon shines through apothecary bottles, and the epith alamium is coughed in wheezy periods. The purchasing bride is gene rally an old maid or widow, who. desairing of being cour'ted for her own sake. seeks a husband t hrowh ~ 1 th ] meiumi ) ~ of hr neu niary charms. She generally lets every one know, after marriage, that she keeps the purse strings in her own hand, and the young man-for this class generally sue coed in obtaining young men whom she had succeeded in entrap ping is highly and everlastingly indebted to her. The experience of such is usually the conclusion that they have paid too dearly for their whistle. The husband-desiring bride is, perhaps the most composed of all brides, the least enthusiastic, and the most likely to be happy. She marries because it is instinct with her, not because she is particularly in love. So she is not apt to be troubled with the pangs of jeal ousy or to suffer from disappoint ment when she discovers that the bride-groom is not much better than the average of men after all. She goes through the (lays of courtship as a matter of course; wonders at the whims and capri ces of sentimental girls, receives and accepts the offer of marriage as a matter of course; dons the bridal attire, and goes through the whole formula of wedding ceremo nies or unceremonies as a matter of course ; performs all the duties and submits to all the little vexa tions of married life as a matter of course ; lives a serene, orderly, and quiet life, and dies respected and and regretted by all who knew her, as a matter of course. [Aul;jita Press. .HoW TO BE ProsPEuous.-The Richmond Enquirer, in an article on-the changes that have been ef <- +M -and the necs sity that exists for greater econo my, remarks "All these thingsmust be chang ed now. A pump at the door-a dairy in the yard-a kitchen un the same roof-a cooking stove instead of a fire place, built to hold a half cord-seasoned fuel, sawed and split and placed under con venient shelter-a washing ma chine instead of a washing tub these and other convieniences sup plied to our farmer's wives would enable them to manage their do mestic affairs with one-fourth the former number of servants and with more ease andl comfort. As servants are not to he had in past supply, these economical expedi ents become ab)soutely necessary: and every husband worthy the name will take care to supplly them withlout waitin)g until the ladies are worn down in the attempt to conduct their household operations after t he for mer manner with the few domes ties now at command. Garters with diamond buckles are worn with new hoops of Par The new hoops are quite pr'e valent in this city, but we ob)serve no buckles. Most of the garters are of red tape, andl tied ab)ove the knees.-Jcemphtis Bulletin. We have seen but few of them. those we have noticed are of dif ferent styles. Some of them look like stripes, of calico fastened with a belt buckle. Some of the stock ings are striped, and ornamented at the top with a fringe of lace about two inches deep, which falls gracefully over the knee. We shall give fuller reports as our investigations procee.d.-Paducah Jouarnal. We have never seen any of thc above namedl articles. Will some of our cotemploraries inform us what these Editors are talking about ?-Brunsiik Co urier. We really can't see. Perhaps it's all about those military deco rationsthcy have in the Old World; thus in England, they have the Order of the Garter," etc. But we shall refer it to our bachelor editor for investigation, and if he cannot find out what it is all about, perhaps some of our Lmi-islators may b)e able to enlighten us on the subject. Until then, it is knucdless to say anything more about it. [ if. h j0; f !ys ABOUT LIBERIA.-The Editor of the Liberia (Africa) Herald says "For the information of those who are incorrectly asserting in America that 'Liberians.have not anything else to eat but roots and wild animals,' we have thought proper to give a list of such ani mals, fruits, and edibles as are in general use with us in their ap propriate season. Animals-Domesticated-Cows, bullocks, swine, sheep, goats, ducks, fowls, pigeons, turkeys. Wild-Deer in abundance,partrid ges, pigeons, goats, cows, doves, red squirrels, summer ducks, rice birds, ground doves, etc. Fruit-Water melon, musk melon, mango, plums, orange. rose apples, sour sop, guava, tam arind, plantain, bananas, gramma dilla, limes, lemons. Fish-Mullet, whiting, perch, bream, pike, baraccuta, mackerel, curvilli, herring, doum, catfish, grippers, oysters, crabs, carp, sun. Edibles-Sweet potatoes, arrow root,turnips, carrots, shilote, cym blain, chiota, pawpaw, lima beans. ochra, peas, radishes, beets, cab bages, snaps, cucumbers; greens, salads, cassavas, yams, corn. Besides the foregoing, there are many others, which we have nei ther time nor room to arrange here. A coffee tree once planted and reared (which takes four years) will yield its increase, year after year, bringing its reward with it -a hundred. a thousand, and tens of thousands, will do the very same and certainly the scions, or the seed are to be bought in suffi cient quan;U10s inLrueria. Arw root, ginger, pinders, and pepper, grow with almost half trouble, yielding in fuU abundance if half planted. Indigo grows luxuriant ly beyond all possible expecta tion : and, as for fruits, the orange, lime, lemon, sou,r sop, guava, man go, &c., &c., we place Liberia against any country in the world, and with a fraction of labor, com pared with the benefits they yield Vegetables-the yam potatoes, cassada, plaintains, Indian corn, beans, peas, &c., &c., time would fail us to tell. Put them in the earth, andl they are as sure to pro (duce as the God of nature is to bring about the seasons. Still the idle will not have them. The lazy man has no part in this lot of good things. The word labor frightens the lazy mnan, and he will not curse us with his pres ence atnd example. The industri ous love that word, or the thing it means, will come dletermined to do, and comning will conquer and be rewarded." EsSENTIAL PRLELIINARIES TO PROFITABLE FARMING.-A thor ough knowledge of your business, practical andl theoretical. Ability to buy in the cheapest andl sell in the decarest market. To sAlect the most able work men of honest and industrious habits.. To apportion rightly your land and capital. To maintain in economical effi ciency the motive power, whether horse or steam. Deep, frequent, and clean culti vation. Drainage of land not naturally filtrative. Shelter for stock. Efficient machinerygnd farm imp)lemen)ts. Rigidly correct farm accounts, posted daily from the cash book and journal. Estimates of the cost and re turn of each crop in detail. TIIE MO0BILE GAZETE.-The proprietors of this paper announce in its issue of the 13th its suspension. Want of patronage is assigned as the cause. Its prin eip)al editor, Admiral Semms has sceptedl the Professorship of3Mor ali Philosophy and English Litera izv ii the Sitt Seminarr at Al-i SoUP OR NOTHIING.-At a very excellant- hotel, not a hundred miles from our parts, they were one day short of a waiter, when a newly-arrivled Hibernian was has tily made to supply the place&of a more expert hand. "Now, Barney," said mine host, "mind you serve every man with soup the first thing-serve soup first." "Bedad, I'll do that same," said the alert Barney. Soup came on, and Barney, af' ter helping all but one guest. came up to the last one. "Soup, sir ?" said Barney. "No soup for me," said the man. "But you must have it-it is the rules of the house." ""D-n the rules of the house !" exclaimed the guest, "When I don't want soup, I won't eat it." "Well," said Barney, with all due sRlemnity, "all I can say is this : ts the regulations of the house, and d-n the drop else will ye get till ye's has finished the soup !" The traveller gave in and the soup was gobbled. No USE FOR TROwsERs.-On the morn ing of the meteoric shower, in 1833, old Peyton Roberts, who intended making an early start to his work, got up in the midst of the display. On going to his door he saw with amazement the sky lit up by the falling meteors,and he concla ded at once that the world wason fire, and that the day of judgement had come. He stood for a moment gazing in speechless terror at the scene, and then with a yell of horror sprang out of the door right in the midst of the falling stars, and there he commenced a series of ground tumbling that would have done honor to Dan Castcllo's ring. His wife being awakened in the mean time, seeing Peyton jumping and skip ping about the yard, bawled out to him to know "What in the name of common sense he was doin' out thar dancin' round, without his clothes on." But Peyton heard not. The judgement and long back accounts he would have to settle made him heedless of all terrestial things ; and his wife, by this time, be coming alarmed at his behavior, sprang out of the bed, and running to the door, shriekcd out at the top of her voice : "Peyton, I say Peyton, what do you mean jumpin' about thar ? Come and put your breeches on." ".Breeches ! what the devil's the use of breeches when the worid is on fire ?" [Augusta Constitutionalist. CIRCUATrNG THE V,RONG PAPER.-At a recent temperence meeting an amusing incident took place. A strong exhorta tion had been delivered by a speaker present, and the President requested the Secretary to pass around the pledge for signatures, and taking from his pe-ket what he supposed was the document, he, without looking at it, gave it to the Secretary for that purpose. A large number of names were enrolled of both ladies and genitlemen presenit, and the document returned. It was observed by the Secretary, while passing around the paper, that considerable tittering was to be observed among the ladies, who took the precaution to Tead the contents of the paper, while those who did not read it, and desired to sign, did so. Af ter going through the congregation, the Secretary on his way back, looked at the paper to see what was the cause of the amusement, when it was revealed to him that, instead of the~ temperance pledge, he had pa,ssed aroDDd and recei ved signatures to a document setting forth the pedigree of a celebrated stall ion. General D. H. Hill, in a late number of The Land We Love, says : We had two particular friends in the old United States army ; the one born north of the Susquehannah, the other south of it. Both adhered to the United States Government. The Northern man took the field and fought us obstinately ; the Southern man kept out of harm's way, but secured a good paying position as teacher. After the war we wrote to the latter a brief business letter, which he refused to answer. The former, learn ing that we had fallen into the hands of the "B!essed Bureau" and other benevo lent institutions, sent us a kind invita tion to bring the wife and little rebs to spend the summer months with him. It is easy in this case to answer the ques tion, "which now of these two thinkest thou is neighbor unto him which fell among thieves ?" When is the best time to read thc boo0k of natuire ? When autumn turns A GEoRGIA JOKE.-A Southern. papg relates the following : A certain Georgia countryman, no having been splendidly educated, and who was very successful as a "mene maker," determined to send his son= for refinement and culture, to the good "Old North State." When the ydegg man arrived at the destined poiot. the President of the institution wane$: know what line of studies he would pi + sue and failing to elicit the inAfraIsqe from the boy, interrogated the -old by letter, as follows ; "My Dear Sir : Your son has arch& &c., What branch shall I put him u l Respectfully, = This was a poser, and bothered thy "old-gent" mightily.' In his. "'' he could arrive at nothing satitfctwr-, was suddenly reminded of his son's ju pending danger and the necessity o'do ing something speedily to save bim- A ter "rummaging" a while for a pes, Jnf and paper, he produced the foloi demoralized effusion : Sir: If the boy most go into"abrano select one yourself; but, for his mobna: sake, don't put him in Tar River." LEASIG LANDsM-Amidst the-"ntai ling alliances" of political annoyanc is well to turn aside and consider l.. :aterests which directly involve the fare of our District. The best xeta - in regard to the lands, as suggeat j the Richmond Times, is without de to lease all surplus parts., Land owers in some parts of this District hIave : ti : . bers of acres they cannot use.. If t surplus land were laid off in small far and leased, say for five, ten, 8fteeNe= twenty years, it would evehtually, : benefit to the owner himself,. We.ed4 a planter a few days ago say .that pe>* year he was determined to make s-ti* sand pounds of cotton to the acri .. plan will be to-cultivate less 'land heretofore and to manure that ii$W If lands were leased it would give . who- leaaehe - largely into intelligent farming. Let pQ. tics alone and look to the permannt material prosperity of the District [Darlington Southeer. LOOK SHARP I-If yoU do ""a - such papers as are required by .the _a ternal Revenue Laws, and do i.too, by the first of January next, you wi t -t scme trouble and expense. We -ha" already published in the Spartan, h ii - and when certain papers-such as D)eeds Mortgages, Notes, Receipts, &c., arI be stamped. Instruments of iit - dated before October 1, 1862, do not re quire a stamp. All such papers dated since that time, require to be stamped, or you will have to pay fifty dollars. We think a safe plan would be, to bring your papers here, and some kind gente man will tell you all about' it,-and p*t your stamps on. We have again eallt the attention of our friends to this sub. ject, so that all may be -benehtted by heeding our advice at once. It is treby a severe Tax on our people at this timne but there is no help for it.-Spartan. WIAT'S IN A NAME ?-It seemansthe members of the Reformed Dutch Chas*eir find that there is so much prejiadie against the Dutch part of thieir titTe ?hei. they propose to drop it. Many peo do not understand -what the term Dsteb implies, and hence'such questioas Uf these are asked : "Can all your minis' ters preach in English ?" "Why ~m-. you in the Dutch Church when yousn not preach in the Dutch langoager' "We are not Dutchmen, and why should it be necessary to unite with your churck equally as good without a foreign name?" Dr. Cuyler was introduced to a lady s-a Reformed Dutch minister, and after eos versing with bim awhieexpsed prise that he spoke English so well, TEE MERITS oF BRAZI.-TE editor of' the Louisville Courier was recently in Brazil and became a naturalized citizen of that coun try ; but he has returned home again. He says, "The South, poor, ruined and desolate as she is, is worth a hundred Brazils yet." Between two of the shmning lights of an "up town church" in Louisville a gentleman of seventy and a lady of fifty four, hymen ial fires were lately kindledb but the "old man" cruelly extinguished the flames, and the heart-broken matrozn sues for breach of promise. Nicholas Foresinger, a Pennsylvania Dutchman, drank ten rglasses of lager beer in ten minutes, to win a pitiful wa ger, and in a few hours he was reposing on his bier. A mechanical horse will be exhibited nt the gruat exhibition, which trots, gallops, walks, and prances after thb mout approved stylec.