Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MOM. 7a Doaa A Yw R,] FOR THE DISSENINATION F USEFUL INTELLIGENEIIVRAL xAVYE TNOi10. . Q.WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 0 89 X'ERY WEDNESDAY MOIRNING, At Newberry 0. H., Eypno. r.A R. H. mnna mjil i$ Pli ANNU., I1q CURRENCY OR* 6 PSOVISI45 I. .1 on Pnovss6ois. zpiadsblin advanee. [Taeri?ivititions, Obit 1mI , sad dama.ats suabuervl.g priate SOmething Nice. Sit4.ba'. removed to the Kingstnore Gal '5ilover Mayes & Martin's Store) which has undegoae thorough repairs. I have plenty of room. with an excellent sky. Nght. Come one-come all, and see how " .ith:s commodious gallery. b6dT lot ofalbums at extreme ylow prie&. All kinds of work done in the line of r @Wreu & Wheeler's Nega t'ere taken at this plare. We charge nothing for looking, and not much for a picture. I siet fulfy. - t'. W. HI. W ISEMAN. WYrtOUA CTOTH ING Columbia, of i . f. TFFEL, A4M5APEST, TH r' MADE, AND .kby4DuablCthing nt Life Insurace S iteworld, Fortthe V LP b heid ere it e S8 t lavariabipi al m llwd ytheterm - he I L S t rnAred inis Cox h -a e ite fa 6.. ,~ Pt3., foDowing per DL.N.ewig-I0; Rev. H. T. J.W. Mer,.t I: W. J;B. P,'.ee-2G: 9r. ~W3.?h~u-a a0O;Dr. Birtsda' -Ese Ec Ib2!b ieb86 . Ta President-J . Edad,D. Vic-Prsidnt-Win.B. Itia - .Jdge Y. J. Pope, Agent, 'Kewberry, ba e h c theAut-ls o bWlk of d as 3IM3 e8'h,- 4tbIy. Its. * posesUse amte tre~ of isrth.' * R ra n sfuastiotnit ied by say 8thly Mundi re alline et of its .barter 1 i dr liens - een~ grAY3, at HAL.? 1ts uueucumibered .4*.ythe merits of other Com-. - ats aWw ask Is a comparIson. .'o extRa! shrg esh risks D. 8. CHILTON, Gen'l Agent, Ac. PARKER'S BREECM-LOADIN~G .~-3&LAEIIEL ED *i . la t ia ebespen amdeour - ammuunition. Prices, complete, $70 to Railroads. t The Daily News in a recent edi- 1 torial thus happily characterizes s the different Railroads of this t State: "The railroad undertakings of t .this,State-the devious Greenville n Railroad, staggering and faint ; t the cautious Northeastern. weary t and worn, but making a gallant r fight with small means; the mam moth South Carolina, much abus- ) ed and more worthy, creeping to the top of dividtnd hill; the 'in choate Savannah and Charleston, which has swallowed many mil- g lions and will not swallow more; d the litigant Augusta, whose mot- v to is never despair; the small fry a of Laurens, and King'a Mountain, and Coalfields, and Anderson, and t the like, of whom least said is v best ;-all these undertakings, by t their-wealth, their success, and their mighty future-always to be a the future-tempt the ring at Col- 3 umbia to new adventures, and en courage them to spend more mn- h ey-not their own." The soundest in condition, and n the. best managed road in the it State, does not appear in this list -we mean the Charlotte & S. C. S Railroad. Under the able and G energetic management of Colonel b; Wm. Johnson, this road has ap- a parently recovered from the dis- G asters of the war, and is moving e slowly, but surely "to the top of dividend hill." The price of its p stock has advanced from thirty is dollars per share to ffty-two; and ec is eagerly sougft by capitalists at .(l that price. From having recent- n ly passed over nearly -all the roads itki~ tstte, w can unbesrtat ej ingly say, that there is no road q that compares with it. for the b smoothness of its track and the bl comfort of its coaches. The con- si ductors are attentive and gentle- d manly, and study the comfort 6f m their passengers. Considerable spleen has been P ventilated against the President PI and Directors of'this road, for the line of policy they have pursued j in the management of the road. " When summed sp, it all - amounts t to this, that thoroad has not been "W run exelusively.in the interest of h: Charleston. The President and h; Directors have had some regard tc for the interest o the section of r( through whieh the road runs, and be have shaped their policy in accor. s dance with that interest. This ith is, and nothingmore. Among the el "small fry" are enamerated the e( Anderson an4Laufrens Roads. The n former of these is a part of the fl greit:Blue .Ridge scheme, -whieb uI udjbtedly haafried a good deal tr of ftrout of SonthW Carolina, and bi if the editor will try t'be tiaurens am Road, on an August afternoon, he r will come to the.con,clasion before be,reaches his destination, that he ti has struck a large and long "fry." ol 44~to tho "litigant Angusta," the hi records of the Courtsa. show that it has been much more. "sinned w against than sinning. "-Bati,ling at f6i:the right to exist, against the unrelenting hostity of a rapa cious corporation, it has only been B "litig;ant"~when dragged by every pi speies of vexations litigation be- s, fore the Courts of the State. Its t12 ree<,rd in this whole matter is y clear. The effort to squelch it in jst its!incipiency began at Columbia, til and as soon as its,. enemies were g batffled and routeid there, they la rushed round and took up posi- b1 tion at Graniteville, there to make a a death struggle for its destruc- r tion. Fortunately for the good of the country-the up-coun try espe uially-defeat has again fallen to the lot of its adver'saries ; and it a is to be hoped that the childish Ihe and puerile policy now pursned by c Lhe South Carolina Railroad in re- th ference to taking up and letting st< off passengers at Graniteville-or, rather as to the not taking them up-and letting them off-will be ,in hat Colonel Johnson is now mak ng arrangements to leave Char Ate earlier, so as to put his pas engers down at Graniteville in ime for the day way train on the oath Carolina Railroad. When his arrangement is effected, there eed be no delay at that point to ravelers going West-unless that rain on the South Carolina Rail oad should also take wings and y past as the others do.-Chester Ieporter. Affairs in Washington. WASHINGTON, March 3.-In the [ouse, Colfax delivered his vale ictory. Pomeroy, of New York, ras elected Speaker for the bal nee of the session. The militia bill was passed by he Senate last night. It pro ides that so much of the Act en tied "An Act amending appro riations for the support of the rmy, for the year ending June ). 1868, and for other purposes," p->roved March 2, 1867, as pro IUitS the organization and arm ig or calling into service of the iilitia forces in the States lately rebellion, be repealed. A committe, headed by A. T. tewart, of New York, visited rant and Sherman to-day. They anded ~Grant a cheek for $55,000, nd handed Sherman a deed for rant's house and furniture, and a acck for the balance of $100,000. The closing paragraph of the resident's address to the people as follows :. 1 feel that having >nscicntiously endeavored to dis arge my whole duty, .I have thing to regret. Events have 'oved the correetess o_of tTq 'set Tortl i my first and subs~e ient messages. The woes which tve forced the rejection of for :arance, magnanimity and ton itutional rule, are known and plored by the nation. It is a atter of pride and gratification, retiring from the most exalted )sition in the gift of a free peo e, to feel and know that in a ng, arduous and eventful public ~e, my actions have never been fluenced by desire for gain, and ~at I can, in all sincerity; inquire horn have I defrauded, whom wve,l oppressed, or at whose inds have I received any bribe ,blind my eyes~ therewith ? No sponsibility for wars that have ~en waged, or blood that has been ied, rests upon me. My thoughts wve been those of peace, and my Forts have ever been to allay >ntentions amon~g may country en. -Iet us now return to the st principles of government, and furling the banner of our coun y, inscribe upon it, in ineffacea e characters', "the Constitution id the Union,-one and .insepa able." -Mr. Johnson has published a ro column address to the people 'the United States in defence of s course as President. Grant's Cabinet nominations ill go to the Senate on Friday; noon. SAD DEAT.-The Hon. Walter 'ooks of Mississippi, who occu ed a seat in the United States nateoin 1852-3. made vacant by e resignation of Hon. H. S. >ote, died on Saturday last by rangulation caused by the induc yn of an oyster into his wind pe. Mr. Brooks was an able wyer, and was highly .esteemed his friends and associates on count of his noble nature and re social qualities. He was a tive of Maryland. The New York Express thinks 'very old hat" as good thing to ve. It relieves its owner from re, as at balls, and the- theatre ere is no danger of its being Mrs'. Matton advertises herself an Iowa paper, as an "attorney '--lf..Iw" The Maniac Child Murderer. The maniac hunter of Hannibal, Missouri, who murdered his little daughter a few days ago, and cut out her heart, has made the fol lowing renarkable "confession." The poor maniac, after drinking the blood of the child, said that be would never again want food or nourishment, that the blood had given him life everlasting. He had not, when'last heard from, partaken of a mouthful of food since the murder. The case is a remarkable one, and the state ment he has made is one of the most singular production we have ever read : "I, son of God, formerly Sebas tian Hunter, wish to say a few words to the world. I believe I was the father of five children ; one of them died, another was strangled by its mother. She was crazy ; that was the cause of the death of both children. God, our Father, willed it- thus-his will was done, and she is free. She has procured a divorce from me. I believe this to be the cause of the death of the third child. I killed it, it is true, but I was not the cause of her death, and therefore do not feel myself guilty of the crime. 1 believed to have seen the devil in her (the child). I had made a convenat with God, the Father, to catch the devil if I should have an opportanity. I now -believe her mother is dead, and I have seen hei mother's devil in her. After she was di vorced from me, she wanted to marry me again. I Lad sworn by God, our Fatber; sever to live to.chan'ge my good spirit for a bad one, and, therefore, did not wish to break my word. I still have two children ; they belong to the male sex, and, therefore, sons of God. The three that are dead were of the female sex, and were daughters of their mother. It came into my mind, God, the Father, gave it to me, -that He was once married, and his wife secured a divorce from him be cause He did not obey her. His wife's name was Devil. Man says Adam and Eve, were in the para dise, and I swear that he who follows me will get there. Man says there was a certain apple tree in paradise, to eat of the fruit thereof God, the Father, had forbidden his children. God, the Father, died of grief and sorrow. He was an industrious man and a good gardener. His divorced wife left him and went to. another land, and left Adam and Eve with him. After the Father died the Devil returned to paradise and de sired her children to obey her. She took an applo from the for bidden tree, and gave it to Eve to eat. She took it and ate it; then 8he gave one to Adam, but .Adam would not eat, he would not obey the devil, and therefore, he be came odious to all persons-that is, to the devil and the woman, and so am I. Man does not be lieve in Christ because he is not as firm as I. Hie did not complete his work. He was a coward, and was not the man that I am, to follow up what he had promised his Father, to wit ; to catch the Devil. He was not firm, the devils have caught him and he had to die. If you do not believe me do not let me die, but have me be headed, and if my head rises, then I have told the truth ; .hut if~ it falls I have been a liar. The par adise or death is open to me. There are but two ways-life and death. Hell is the earth-heaven the paradise. When you have beheaded me bury my body in the middle of my garden, with my feet toward the east." H:an PRI'E FOR Mues.-The Macon Ga.) Telegraph says: "WYe learned the ther day of a private sale of thirty-eight mules in Macon to one man at an aver ge of $31 1 apiece. Thiey were remark Unsexing Woman. The National Intelligencer baP an eloquent article on the detestable agitation of the day about giving the ballot to women: "They can be considered nothing but invaders of domestic peace, in citers to social disorder. vio lence and discord, who seek to draw woman from her appointed and supremely exalted sphere of home, as the guardian angel of the world's inner life, and plunge her with herimmeasurably fine and feminine sensibilities, in the coarse and jarring throng of masculine public life. The times on which we have fallen are all unhinged. The same fanaticism which has overthrown, or is overthrowing, the order and good government of the State, in its restlessness under the wholesome restraints of everything conservative and set tled, is striving also to overthrow the order and good government of the fireside ; and as in the former case the largerliberty ofman is plea ded as the propelling motive, and in justification, so in the latter ease the larger liberty of woman is pleaded, linked with a thousand unamed yet fancied benefits that would accrue to her, and through her to mankind. Any man with a properly organized mind,and who is capable ofcalm and philosophical reflection on the nature and pro vince of the two sexes, and how they stand at the antipodes one of' strength and the other of tender ness, cannot but condemn the ten dency,. as here indicated, of fan atical and unbalanced natures ; and every woman, endowed as Ileaven meant she should be, in whose being beats a !!ense of al most superhuman elevation, and who feels, as she ought, that it is her high and paramount prero gative to create the social realm, and rule it by the power and the purity of the- heart, must shrink, with instinctive and womanly dread, at the bare thought of so unsexing herself, and casting aside all that makes her better than men, as to enter the low public and political arena of men, and par ticipate in its wrangles, its low ambitions, its corruptions, and its debasing influences. She could not but feel herself profaned. Once there, she would feel herself an (duteast, and look~ back upon the sweet dominion wvhich she had left, where she sat unsullied, lift ed up and pure, as our first par ents did when exiled from the Garden of Eden for yielding to the tempter, and never restored to that peaceful Eden again." How MUCH Manr. - We clip the following from an exchange. We advise nightly visitors of dry goods clerks to beware "A clerk in a dry goods store retired one night, .having for his bed-fellow, an acquaintance dating back to school days. Our infor mant slept in the next room ad joining, the door of which was partly open. In the middle of the night he says be was awakened from sleep by hearing the clerk, in a loud voice exclain, "How many yards did you say you wanted, marnm ?- Three enough?" and the next thing heatrd a tearing noise,- and the bed-fellow of the clerk shouted out, "What are you doing ?-you have torn my shirt from top to bottom," The poor dreamer immagined himself' in his store waiting on a lady custom mer, wbo wanted three yards of ealico. The shout of merriment which the event created can well be imagined." Why does the Legi%lature remain in sessio)n so 'nne? It consts the tax p-,y ers of the State, about fourteen hundred rollars per day, anid as the fumds in the Freasury are searce, anca there is no hu siness that really requires another week's, mession, we suggest that the General As sembly of North Carolina, dissolve forth with. The people cannot affo,d to keep 170 men in Raleigh at seven dol ars per day, &c., for such a lorng time. [s there no way to stop the useless ex Fashionable Religion. Fanny Fern makes the follow. ing sharp thrust at fashionable re ligion. Our Catholic brethren have set us, at least, one good example ; their churches are not silent as the tomb on week-days. Their worshippers do not do up all their religion on Sunday. It may be only for a few moments they stop in through that open church door, on a week-day, to kneel and lay down burdens too heavy else to be borne. I like the custom. Should rather say the reminder, and the opportunity thus afforded them, and I heartily wish that our pro testant churches could thus be opened. If rich Christians object to the promiscuous use of their velvet cushions and gilded prayer ks, b, at least let the aisles and the altar be free to those who need God on the week-day; for the poor, the tried, the tempted for those who shrink, in their shabby habiliments, from the Sun day exhibition of fine toilettes, and superfine Christianity. Were I a minister, and obliged to preach to paniers and diamonds and satins, on Sunday, I think I should have to ease my heart in some such way as this to make my pastoral liFe endurable, else my office would seem to me the most hollow of all mockeries. "The rich and the poor meet toggther, and the Lord is the maker of them all," should be inscribed outside my church door, had I one. I could not preach to those-paniers and their owners. My tongue would be paralyzed at the sight of those kneeling distortions of woman i6od, bearing suebA resemblance to o1 gan-grinders' monkeys: I am not sure that I should not grow hysterical over it, and laugh and cry at the same breath, in stead of preaching. I can never tell what vent my disgust would take; but I am sure it must have some escape-valve. You may say that such worshippers (Heaven save the mark!) need preaching to. .1 tell you that women given over to othe devil and his works" are past praying for-"havi ng eyes, they see not, having ears, they hear not." They are ossified-im pervious; they are dead sea ap ples, full of ashes. Harper's Bazar gives the follow ing sensible reply to a correspon dent: "Your husband's salary of $1,000 a,year, upon which he, you and two children are obliged to live, seems a small sum, from a rich man's point of view, but -a very considerable amnount in the eyes of the- poor, who are the great majority of mankind. Most fami lies in the United States live com fortably upon less, and more might do so were it 4rot for the undue proportion of their income spent to 'keep up appearances.' We are generally too anxious to pass for being richer than~ we arc, and therefore sacrifice much of our substane to show. Whecn con seious that we are laboring truly to get our own living, and to do .our duty in that State of life in which it hath pleased God to call us, however small may be the re suIt according to this world's comn putation in dollars and cen@E we have no reason to be ashamed of it. There is. however, a false shame, which often induces an ex penditure for worthless tinsel in order to give a specious glitter to a moderate competence, which thus becomes scanty, while, more judiciously used, it might prove abundant. Continue your cour ageous struggle with life, but do not waste your resources upon any falso bravery of conduct or appa rel." VEaY NATITa.-A gentleman asked a little g.rl, an only child, how many staters she had and aas told "three or four." Her mother as'ked Mary, wheni they were alone, what had induced her to toll such ain un truch, "Why, mamma, cried Mary, el didn't want him to thiink yout were so poor that you had'nt but one child. Woulidr't. Lovers' Quarrels. One who seems to have had much experience in the matter, discourses of "Lovers' Quarrels" as follows: "A regular lovers' quarrel fol lows, as a matter of course, whieh runs through all the natural and orthox phases. Simon is pretty sure to get the worst of it ; for man generally fights at a disad vantage in such matters. He can not, or at least he will not "tell his mamma," nor any masculine friend, but the girl always tells some feminine confidant, 'and so has a sympathising friend and shrewd ally to assist her in the silent battle of affected indifferenee, which is the line on which Such consests are usually fought oat. In fact, a girl sometimes rallies all the young ladies of her acquain tance to fight and the poor lover (who dared not make a confidant of any of his chums for fear he might prove treacherous and seize the opportunity afforded by the estrangement to carry of the girl himself),iscompelled to 'go it alone' against the field and, like a crow beset by a flock of robins, is con pelled to ignominious flight; whence, unlike the crow, hesse times returns, surrenders to fate ahd his sweetheart, counting on future chances for revenge; or else he breaks of the engagement altogether, and seek 'f*es-h fields of pastures new.' And this is a fair sample of the orgin and end of lovers' quarrels. "The forms and eauses offenl ousy .and estrangement are legion. A look, a word, or the omission of a look or word; asmile vouchsafed to an aeqnaintancei the;cas*ei change efsalutations withafriead; the - accidental walk home fot church with a rival ; the fotgetting of an appointment ; the failure to send an instantaneous answer to a letter; the disapproval of a sweetheart's new bonnetr and my. riad other trifles and nonen. sicalities lie in wait for lovers, and have the power to bring them to corroding grief." Well might Moore, the poe&of of self loving Iovers, exclaim: "Oh, how slight a cause can mova Dissentions betwixt hearts that,love," THE IMiIGRKANTs OoMtNG. -Newef has certainly earned the right to 64 re garded as the banner County of our State, in respect to prompt, vigoi-ous and succe..'fni action in the matter of securing immigration. Only a few days ago ge had occasion to.chronicle she substagtl results which have already crownd-the exertions of the Immigration- Society. From the last Issne of the Newberg7 Herald we now learn that twentym.n grants more have *,rrived In thaV town and gone to *nth . on farms Iif the neighborhood, and that tnany mos,r expected in the course of the pres~ent week. In the face of such accoiunte as these, the other counties' of the e must bestir themselves and fOIIQ ie in path which Newherry has struck ort, unless they would be left far behiad ina the race for prosperity and weak6h. [Charleston News -General Baron d'Azemar of the Fh army, sayts that "in all the wara of the first Empire only two actions were fouight in which the troops actually iet at the baronet's point ; one was in 1815 'at Amstetten, when Gudinot'agrenadiera attacked the grenadiers -of the Ran rear guard, and the bayonet engigemrst lasted several minutes. The second in stance was given at Lutzen ini l18"$ the twenty-fifth regiment of 'the flite, whic~h, pigned thafthde Emperor seemed to doubt its penwess, fo-ight the whole day with the bayonet without burn.fig a cartridge. Richelieu didn't want his youing Seie retary to have anything to do with "fail." Told him there was no such word fairly in the dictionary. If every body only believed it, and acted secord ingly, there would be no sneh thing-or rarely. It in true Richelieo never kept. dry goods store or a grocery, notr Ta dniily newspaper, hu~t the principle of the thing he pr'eached is sound and good. No young man should fadi, espe cily when he wants to get the hear and band of some young woman. SoME Hoes.-The Marion Crescent says Mr. Charles fIaselden of that county, last week killed two of his hogs, which when dressed and hung qp, weighed one thou sand and twenty-live pounds. One of them weighed si; hqndred and one potnds. A wornan sitat end killed a man named Devine at Alton, Illinois, on Mona night, while he was stuempting to at emj her norman