Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TVr. DoLRS A YAS,J FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTEL17,186 NIO;AL 7N MRIGFE -. THIHERALD a PQUSU3D EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Iewberry C. I., ITMU. 1. s I. K. 0swr, - NRIs 48 Pe i Amud, IN CURmvxCY OR PROVISIONS. ramNtgireqabd invariably in advance. *aeiag- Notioes, Faneral Invitations, Obit swims, sad C amunncatons mabeerving private Messae eharged as advertisments. Skating Tried. One of the editors of the Mil waakee News thus gives his expe rience of this much-talked-of a musement: Right beneath one of our win dows, from morn till midnight, we see youngsters and oldsters twisting their legs into all con oeiable shapes. We cannot pick up a paper but an article on 'ska ting' meets the eye. Everybody says it's fun, and that's all 'every body' knows about it, for we have tried it. Last night, about gas light, after reading a glowing de iption of life on skates, we pre aiyd for our first attempt, and Hiidorth to join the merry 'b ra.E We had on a pair of sto SE.noots trowser-legs tucked in . ,i a Robert-tailed coat, and white bat. We went down on -theie, and gave a boy a fifty east 'shinplaster' for the use of uis i1ements. We have confi Dome as great as Peter's 6e; We,with the as&istance of *sa.$_zed on the skates and ecest as a barber's pole. L rtimuraged at the.sight of some oa the. bridge looking at we struck out. A a tiie right with the right slaat to the left with the If-ot, and just then we saw iiething on the ice, and stooped l'to pick it up. On our feet . p-4Wo slants to the right to the left, ac ceompanied with a loss of confi .me,. Another stride with the sIght hot, and we seat down with "ar rapidity, with very little, tay elegance I What a set iopaIt was--for we made a dent ajI iee not unlike a Connecti e6bster bowl! Just then one %bladies remarked, 'Oh, look, ai that feller with the white in't got his skates on the dgh& piace 1' Ditto, thought we. est then a ra~g little imp'sang .t.as be passed us, 'Hello, old 'ber4egs!l' And we rose sud Aem~ and put after him. Three - ~~eto te right two to the left, - idway went our legs-ne to 1 ~east, and the other to the V sn,ainig another picture of a h=at.r-tray in the cold ice ! Just ag friend came along, and of. tored his coat-tail as a 'steadier.' .Meaccepted the continuation of hi-garment, and up the river we -Neut ab6ut ten rods, when a shy Moraight by the leader caused us, - BUebeel-horse, to sho off on a seg.teels up! But the ice is s.W~w~I4this season. eAWied it again. A glide one RIUe and ahalf the other, -aawhabk' came our bump of *~jtonitiveness. on the ice, sai me saw a million of stars dan nround our eyes like a troupe .eb~allet girls at the Bowery The Hks.fow that shock went Jagbour system, and up and 46% our-spinal column ! Light 'ing eQRld't have corkscrewed it down a greased sapling with *reater speed or more exhilarating effeet. Boarding-house butter nor . uwwraranty deed could not have . stronger than we did-and - goq. ladies looking at us. a1o we got urp, and made an cher- ti-iul, with better success. * ~l.pa we had skated, in our ~,~Clia?style, fifteen feet, when a h adeing chap came up behind, a s4,emt'down, with our tired liq~u4ed in his lap; and he - w9re at its, when it was all his own fault. '#ow cold the ice was ther too Eery spot.where we ma4e a debut on the ice-oh, how, cold it was ! We tried again, for the papers all say it's fun, and down came our Roman -Grecian nose on the cold julep material, and the little drops ran down our shirt bosom, and on the cold ice. Once more we tried skating, made for the shore, sat down and coun ted damages. Fifty cents out. Seven lateral and one 'fronternal' bumps on the ice ; one rupture in the knee, ex tending to the bone ; four buttons from our vest ; a 'fragmented' watch crystal, and the back-ache big enough to divide among the children of Israel. If you catch us on the smooth, glassy, chilly freezing, treacherous, deceitful, slippery, slip-uppery ice again, you'll know it. If any one hears of our skating again, they will please draw on us at sight for the bi-valves and accompanying docu ments. We have got through skating. It's a humbug. It's a vexation of spirit, of business, of flesh, and tearer of trowsers. It's a head-bumping, back-aching, leg wearing, dangerous institution; and we warn people against ska ting. We have tried it, and shan't be able to walk for a month. Skating clubs are a humbug; and all the rascally youngsters wish to get the ladies at it, that they may may see if they, too, don't say 'the ice is very cold!' It's no thing to us ; but the ladies will do well to let skates alone, unless they are younger and more elastic than we are. Oh, how cold the ice is! We can feel it yet! A WELL MERITED COMPLIMENT. TO A CHARLESTON MECHANIc.-The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, pays the following deserved tribute to Charleston mechanical skill: We saw yesterday a sample of Moina Cotton, ginned upon Hen erey's improved McCarthy Gin, whieb, in.length and silkiness of fibre, appeared almost equal to the fine Sea Islands of the coast. We learned from Mr. Echols, who has just returned from Charleston, that he has procured for his own use, one of these gins, and that from experiments conducted under his own eye while there, he is satis fied that with the use of this gin, his cotton will be increased in value from twenty-five to fifty per cent. With the power of two horses, the gin will elean from four hun. dred and fifty, to five hundred pounds of lint a day, and costs in Charleston, one hundred and ten dollars. We had submitted to our inspec tion also a package of the seed as they came from the gin and we found them moderately well freed frorp the lint. With some slight improvements suggested by Mr. E., he thinks that the seed can be as thoroughly cleaned of lint by this gin, as the common saw gin now in use. Those farmers who have raised the Moina Cotton this year, will best consult their interests by giving this improved roller gin a trial. The gin referred to, is from the foundry of our fellow-citizen, Hon. William S. Henerey, and has of late come into very wide and ex tensive use.-Chprle8ton Courier. The general.reader will be glad to learn that a protective against insects has been discovered by Jager. He says that a tincture prepared by maeerating one part of Pyrethrum rosin in four parts ofdiluted alcohol, and then thin ned with ten par!ts of water and applied to the skin, will protect one at least twelve hours from Eies, mosquitoes, ants and other i-sects.-Chaarleston ews8. A female paraded the streets of Lafayete, th~e other day, exhibi ting above a pair of stout ancdes, a skirt upon which the indelible brand of the miller was still visible, "ninety-six pounds, extra super Affairs in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-An ap plication was made in the Supreme Court for writs of habeas corpus, for the Tortugas prisoners. The Court took no action. At 1 o'clock the Senators, arm in-arm, came to the House. Wade took the Chair, and Colfax was seated near him. Senator Conk ling and Representatives Wilson, of Iowa, and Prim, acting as tel lers. Prim read the Democratic votes; Conkling and Wilson alter nated, reading the Republican vote. All went smoothly until Louisiana was reached, when Will iams, of Tennessee, objected-de claring no valid election was held. The joint session separated, and the House voted 126 to 67 to count Louisiana. The Senate, after a severe struggle to draw in extrane ous matters, voted to count Louisi ana. Both Houses again met and proceeded with the count till Georgia was reached, when Butler objected, because the Georgia Col lege had not voted on the proper day, and for other reasons. Much confusion ensued, which Wade ended by ordering the Senate to its own chamber. The House then voted 150 to 40 for Georgia, not to be counted. The Senate after a most perplexing and laugh able struggle, declared that in the face of the concurrent resolution, concerning Georgia, the objection in the joint session was out of or. der. Both Houses again met, when Wade ordered Georgia to be read as directed by the concur rent. resolution. Butler objected. Wade would hear .no objectom Butler appealed from Wade's de cision, but Wade would allow no appeal and ordered the count to precced. Butler then moved that the Senate have permission to re tire, and insisted that they should control their own hall ; ruled out of order. Amid the most intense excitement Wade ordered the count to proceed. Conkling commenced reading'the resu;t but his voice was drowned by cries of order. At this time the noise became deafening, when Speaker Colfax sprang to the desk proclaiming that the Vice-President must be obeyed in joint session, and or dered the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest the disorderly persons. Colfax was ordering and appeal ing probably two minutes, during which time the Sergeant-at-Arms had distributed his men all thorugh the House before, partial order ould be restored. The reading of the result and the proclamation followed, when both Houses sepa rated. The Senate immediately adjourned. QuUY AND ANswER.-A writer in the Philadelphia North Ameri can, relates the following : The late Charles Fleason, who was a judge formerly in the Court of Common Pleas, and afterward a judge of the Supreme Court, was presiding at a trial of an eject menit, and John B-- was one of the jury. This gentleman had been a justic'e of the pea.e, aind also gave advice, as a sort of a busy lawyer-, and thereby contri bted largely to the litigation of the county. He, it seems, had been engaged by the defendant, and had told him that there was no doubt but that the result, would be favorable. The judge, owever, in charging the jury, laid down the law entirely in fa or of the plaintiff, whereupon ohn B.--, in the pride of opin on, jumping up, exolaimed: "But udge, quere as to the law," "Si ence, sir." said the Judge, "you re a fool, and of that, at best, here is no quere." This double udicial decision ended forever ohn's influence in the county is occupation was gone." Seventeen Mississippi towns are reparing to build cotton facto- 1 The Funeral of Governor Pickens. The funeral of this distinguish ed citizen and statesman-so pe culiarly honored and beloved in this, his home-took place on Wednesday last. During the Tuesday preceding, the body, ar rayed in the splendid uniform which he wore as Chief Magis trate of Carolina, in her day of hope and pride, lay in state at Edgewood, whose walls were rich ly and appropriately draped in mourning ; and friend after friend, and citizen after citizen, went to look, for the last time, upon the noble and revered dead. On Wednesday, our town and District poured forth their inhab. itants to do honor to the sad oc casion. So much so, that not only wa}s the Churoh crowded to its utmost capa;ity, but even the church-yard and area in front were thronged with sorrowful friends and fellow-citizens, all anxious to show their deep appre ciation of the departed patriot Carolina's t r i e, incorruptible, faithful son. The male citizens, with the .teachers and pupils of the several 'schools, formed in pro cession, and received, uncovered, the funeral cortege upon the pub lie square. Moving from thence to Trinity Church, the procession was met by Rev. E. T. Walker, officiating clergyman ; and as he read the introductory sentences of the sublime burial service of the Episcopal Church, the grand, solemn strains of Beethoven's funeral marQh, Sulla morte d'un eros, res ia4 through the..sa cred edifice, mingling its moans with the bitter plaint of 'human woe. So muoh of the service as is ap pointed for the Churcn being over, the vast congregation sang, with one accord and deep feeling, that hymn of comfort and assurance, "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord ;" after which, the pall-bearers, numbering sixteen of our most promising citizens, passed down the aisle,' bearing to the grave the illustrious d.ead, while the organ sobbed out its low Mi eere, and the mourning concourse slowly followed. After the con clusion of the ser vices of the Church, the coffin, covered with evergreens and flow ers, was lowered, and our unhappy Stat'e received into her bosom all that remained of the great, the t~rue, the loyal heart, that had loved and served her with a devo tion even beyond the sacred pur ity of Roman patriotism. [Edgefteld Advertiser. GOOD RULE OF CONDUCT.-The rule of conduct followed by Lord Irskine-a inan of sterling inde pendence of principle and scrupu os adherence to truth-is wor hy of being engraved on every oung man's heart. "It was the first command and counsel of my sarliest youth," he said, "always o do what my conscience told e to be a duty, and to leave the onsequence to God, I shall carry ith me the mnemory, and I trust, he practice, of this parental les on to the grave. . I have hitherto ollowed it, and I have no reason o complain that my obedience to t has been a temporal sacrifice. have found it on the contrary, bhe road to prosperity and wealth, nd I shall point out the path to ny children for their pursuit." And here can be no doubt, after all, .hat the only safe rule of conduct s to follovi implicity the guidance fan enlightened conscience. No ~hing is safer than right-doing, bnd whoever violates his con science, and parts with his hon' ~sty ai purity at any price, will d that he has raade a wretched argain, no raatter how savory is "mess of pottage" has been, or ow large the wages of unright anness which he has rani,end. Ritualistic Troubles in Eng- I ' land. li On Christmas Eve a midnight c celebration was held at St. James', Brighton, England. The church was partly filled by a respectable auditory., the building itself pro- $ fusely decorated with laurels, a holly and flowers, many large t crosses being formed by the same. The altar was decorated with flowers, and on a side-table was the usual light burning, but on this occasion surmounted by a o carved.figure of the Infant Saviour. r The usual display of embroidered tl dresses, &c., was exhibited by the officiating priests and choristers, The proceedings commenced with the imposing procession, during t which and throughout the entire service incense was freely scat, tered about. In fact, notwith standing the recent decision of the privy council, lights, incense bowings, &c., were upon the usual excessive scale. Many slightly suppressed sounds of discontent were heard throughout- the ser vice, -both within and without the building, but at the commence ment of the offertory sentences a a man at last cried out ; "It is per fect bosh ; I say perfect rubbish." c Immediately some of the vergers, with their oaken staves, rushed n to the pew in which he was sit- d ting; the priests looked agast, n and the choristers and the congre gation seemed terror-stricken as P the gentleman proeeded to say, t when efforts were made to expel 1 him, "I expected this; I am not t afraid to repeat my words ; it is C perfect rubbish ; leave me alone ; a I will go away without help." g The vergers again attempted to d take hold of him, when he again c said, "It is perfect rubbish; I S came here to worship God accor- K ding to the tenets of the Church ti of England, not of the Church of a Rome ! This is all mockery and e rubbish, Mr. Purchas." The last p words he uttered while crossing & the church and nearing the altar. a On reaching the first (inner) doors ti of the building, two or three over- E earnest vergers rather pushed him into the outer lobby and si thence into the street. The ser- p vice was then resumed, though I the voice of the officiator was very tremulous, and sidelong glances were taken by those in F the choir at every murmuring C sound from without. Many per- r4 Aons immediately left the build- 1 ing ; some ten or a dozen only re- C maining to partake of the Holy ' Communion, in the celebration of e' which excessive bowings, light- ] ings and incensings were most C freely indulged in. The congre gation separated about one o'clock, u' but owing to a detachment of po-t ic~e that were statioued without, the erowd offered no personal vio lence to them as they dispersed. 0 How TO RETAIN YoUTH.-It is a a matter of no little concern t among men-and women, too-to ti preserve the bloom and freshness h4 of their youth. Cosmeties, plum.- al pers, and the whole offspring of artifice and deception are resorted i to, in the effort to stay the fur- tu rowing ploughshare of time. Ex ternal appliances cannot reach or B rejuvenatethe decaying spirits of di the man or woman who wilfully ia and maliciously perpetrates a glar ing wrong upon a fellow creature. u~ Something must be done to quick- h en the vitality ofthe "inner man," e if you would preserve the ruddy in glow of heg1th and rotund form of vi youth. An easy conscieice is the aL all potent remedy for thiat elasti- ad city of [spirit whiph~ gives color ti( and beauty to the humau face, and activity and energy to the physi cal body.. Hear an old man sing: cei Pe They tell me I am handsome yet de And all the ladies say faa "Do look at him! the dear old ma alh Grows younger every day." . arr Asid when each friend asks, "At yo'g ag ma How came you free from ills?" I alwaase:" nm oul 'e Punishment of Silence. Mr. James Greenwood has pub shed in London a frightful ac nunt of the silent system, which in operation at the Holloway [odel Prison in London. It is an offence for a prisoner to peak one word, and he is never ddressed except in whispers, so bat he may be in the prison for wo years without hearing the atural sound of a human voice. 'he effect of this is so terrible on 3e mind that prisoners will speak at in desperation, and at the isk of any punishment, rather an endure that horrible silence. The prisoners never see one nother, but remain in perpetual )litude. One poor wretch, driven desperation by nine months' )litude and silcnce, recklessly roke out in Mr. Greenwood's pres nee, in these words : Tor God's ike, Governor, put me in another all ! Put me somewhere else ! I ave counted the bricks in the .il I am in till my eyes ache!' The request of the tortured 'retch was refused. There is a fine hole in each cell, ad as the wardens wear shoes of ndia rubber soles, the prisoner in never be sure he is is alone. Those condemned to tie tread ill have to ascend twelve hun red steps every alternate twenty inutes for six hours. And this i a place so hot and close that risoners often lose in perspiration Lree stone in as many months. ivery day the prisoners are taken ) a chapel so arranged that they in see no one save the chaplain, ad him only through an iron rating. And this is the order of evotion observed. 'Wardens are )nstantly on the watch, lest for a ngle instaut they through the hole of the service, depart from e rigid rule, 'eyes right.' They iust look steadfastly at the preach ; must raise and lower their rayerbook with their elbows inared and all at once, like s.ldiers t drill. They may not scrape heir feet with out haviug after ,ard to explain the movement. 'hey may scarcely wing an eye, or gn, without danger of rebuke or nishment. God help the poor retches. TEsTIMONIAL TOA R A IL R OAD RESIDENT.-We learn from the harleston Courier, that at the igular quarterly meeting of the oard of Directors of the South arolina Railroad Company, held Sthe City of Charleston, on the rening of the 20th instant, L. . eSaussure, Esq., pre.iiding as hairman pro tern., the following reamble and Resolutions were sanimously adopted, and ordered be engrossed as a part of the innutes of the meeting: WHEREAS, At the termination the late war, the property of e Company was in a ruinous ndition-its Treasury was empty, d its finances disordered ; and WHEREAS, The Board of Diree rs will now have the satisfac >n of submitting to the Stock >lders at the approaching Annu Convention, an accourit of tireir operty, highly satisfactory as its present condition, and equal promising in respect of its fu re psospects, Resolved, unanimously, That the ard regard this improvement as ie chiefly to the able administra n of the President,-Mr. Will r J. Magrath. Resolved, That they take pleas e in expressing their sense 6f zelous 4evotion to the inter t of this Company during the g period of twenty-three years, which he has been in its ser e, and of the eminent ability d success with which he has ministered its affairs since he ts elevated to the honorable posi n of President. A GoQO 0O.D AGE.-The oldest person tainly in Florida Or in the South,died in nsacola, Fla., on the 29th ult. Tb. eaed was a colored Baptist Preacher uiliarly known as "Uncle Jacob" and rough his age cannot be accurately ived at, old citizens of the place by king calculations have agreed that his I Scould bp but little short of one dred Ramd twenty years.--Courier. r VICKsBURG AND CHARLESTON. Just think of it (say the Vicks. burg, Miss., Times of the 28th ul timo), the one mighty city situa ted away East, washed by the silt waters of the great Atlantic, and the other historic, brave little Vies. burg-resting on the banks of; (as Mr. Calhoun called it), "that great inland sea," connected with one another, linked together by one long line of railroad, over wbich the iron horse speeds his way on an unbroken road, and in almost as many hours as it formerly would have taken- weeks. Yesterday we had the pleasure of meeting in the most completely arranged, elegant and sumptuous car that we ever saw, H. T. Peake, Esq., General Superintendent of the South Carolina Railroad, the Eastern terminus of the Palmetto line, Captain "Jim" Meredith (and a merry "Jim" he is), train diF. pttcher at Augusta; Thomas Rig by, Vice-Presiderit, and Colonel E. F. Raworth, General Superin tendent, and Capt. tko. D. Law rence, Master of Transportation Vicksburg and Merid'an Railroad, who met, together with our friends of the Iterald; to break a bottle oier the subeess of this important and lengthy line. he completion of this line of railroads is well deserving of re joicing. It puts us within less than seven days freight connec. tion with New York, and places us at hand-shaking distance with all the large markets of the East. it gives us transportation for our cotton direct with all Eastern and foreign markets. - Vicksburg aspires to a- rivalsbip with the Cresent City, and to her railroad communieations she must look for the means to build her up, and we view the completioll of the great Palmetto line as a long stride in the work. DEEP PLOUGHING.-We bive al luded to the propriety of Oti far mers trying the experimet of deep ploughing and deep 5eeding of wheat. Many of our fMimera have controverted this thdi, a serting that wheat did fndt'ftqGife it. We are led to sl1udd to tse subject again by a repolt of ond experiment made the present s6d on by a farmer in Coln County, who is a practical man. Last Fall he broke a piee 61 ground and harrowed in his wheat; he thea turned in another pieee of wheat with a sinvgle huiFse plough, and the third pie' he gki66ghed thq seed in with two horises, just as deep as he could put it in... On the first field there is no wheat now to be seen ; on the second there is about orie third of stand ; and on the last, the wheat thoroughly matted, and without any accident will make an excllent crop. It is proper tosay that the grasshop pers injured the first field, but it is the opinion of the owner that it ws' fiS cold weather that de sti oyed it. It is also proper for us to further add that the last piece of wiheat named above, has a full Northern exposure, and if any should have been burt by the cold weather, it should have been this. ,His theory is, that deop pl&ogeing and deep seeding ny the best preventives, both agaia$ insects and freezing weathe, arrd it is our opinion too.-, Dtilas Herald. FA AND DISGHACEEUIL OCCUmBNC A GRANIrBVn,.E.-Near Granktergie, mn Saturday night, ten days ago, while n assembled corppany were -enjoyji hemselVss, at a ball, certali-1ma le ~he room and, for causes unk,oiw-n, 1e ~an firing promiscuously into the comps y. B3efore the affray ended, Mr. Ed. )inkinw was shot through the bowehag it is thought be will die) and Mr.. John rescot, through the shoulder. The ~erpetrators of this unheard of atrocity re still at large having defied all: et empts at capture. [Edgefield Advertiuen LIEUTENANT BRAINE NOT PARDONED. he Washington correspondent of the le w York World says: "The paragraph ~oing the rounds that Captain J. C. raine, ex-Confederate Navy Captain, as been pardoned is untrue. He is till in prison. The President has dggg athijn= with the ae.a"