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DpoLAS9 A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENC.[NAIBYINAV?~E ~L,y, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL ,16.N 4 Acts and Joint Resolutions. The following are such of the acts and resolutions, passed at the last session of the Legislature, as may interest our readers: An Act to incorporate the Wa teree and North Carolina Rail road Company. An Act to incorporate the Homestead, Building, Planting and Loan Association of South Carolina. An Act to prevent and punish duelling. An Act to incorporate the South Carolina Central Railroad Compa ny. An Act to amend an Act enti tIed "An Act to define the juris diction and duties of County Com missioners." An Act to regulate the manner of granting a final dismissal to executors, administrators, trus tees, guardians, or committees. An Act accepting the donation of lands to the State of South Carolina for Agricultural Col leges. An Act to provide for the pay ment of the fees of Sheriff's for dieting persons confined in jail. An Act to make appropriation for the payment of per diem and mileage of the members of the General Assembly, and the sala ries of 'the subordinate officers. and other expenses incident th'e to. An Act to amend an Act enti thd "An Act to provide for the temporary organization of the Educational Department of the State." An Act to alter and amend the criminal law. An Act to amend an Act enti tied "An Act to organize the Cir cuit Courts." An Act to provide for an elec tion to fill certain vacancies in County offices. An Act to repeal an Act enti tled "An Act to prevent persons holding certain 'offices of emolu ment from leaving the State " An Act to amend an Act enti tIed "An Act to regulate the man ner of drawing jurors." An Act to amend an Act enti tled "An Act to define the juris diction and regulate the practice of Probate Courts." An Act to repeal Section 8 of an Act to alter the Act entitled "An Act to amend the criminal law." Joint resolution to authorize the Governor of the State to fill the vacancies in the State Board of Equalization. An Act to regulate the practice f medicine in this State. An Act to regulate the agencies f Insurance Companies not in orporated in the State of South arolina. An Act to prescribe certain rules to be observed in the gov rnment of ferries and bridges privileged to charge toll. An Act to incorporate the Co lumbia Building and Loan Asso iation. An Act to enable the Savannah and Charleston Railroad Company to complete their road. An Act to ratify, confirm and mend the charter of the Charles ton (South Carolina) Mining and Manufacturing Company. An Act to provide for the con solidation of the statute laws of the State of South Carolina. An Act to punish Sheriffs and other officers for violating the Homestead. An Act to establish a State Or phan Asylum. An Act to regulate and provide for the pay of Commissioners and anagers of Election. A joint resolution authorizing the Governor to employ an armed force for the preservation of the peace, An Act to re-enact certain Acts lending the name atid credit of the State to the Greenville and Oolnmia ~Railroad Company to THE KERALD '1EY WEDNUDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., R ES.. *. H. GRENR gggg, 68 PER ANNUM, INCURRENCY OI PROVISIONS. invarablyin advance. itir, Ism e vltias, Oit SOUTH CAROLINA IAN & TRUST COMPANY. -U M -- $W10 n== =-r.---- a,o 0 THiS COXPA Y IS WOW d R. Broad-sret 1Soih-tWestern sm Faw mi*=nd o x tranacto o f S- a General Bank go I , upon terms es 6bedb the Board 7Irectors. b ad a Depository for em-ily reoelve Registry " amet to pay Con sa a Trustee In Railroad 8:OR: Bee Co.; A. S. John crs ACo.:. Robt. Mure, of . .Wihlaus. of W. B. . A om; . Fret,of Frost & Ad V . B A i m . o V . B r e t . 6. A d g er & C o ; H e n ry a .i .a n t Co.; George I,. Beat.eC EBistA ; C. G. Memminger, At>Nga ta,JenG a Plrnckney; f. J. Kerr, dT. . [e Co.; J. D. Aiken, ofJ. D. Alken D Cs; Jobs Caampus. otCaapaete a Co; A. P. of . . A P Cadwl;W. K. Ry ..f . .C = B. O'Neil, J. J. tregg. 'Fyhinersmaatio., addrs GE. CAERON, President. ffOS. R WA RING, Cashier. n..sm - SC., Maeh l,89 Ruseh 3M~ jW RRY FEMALE V. J. B. HILLBOUSE-PauciPAL. * 3~~3 Ls vLL, .10? &.j3 Asaistants. AxVorta .4$.as., , '0 -Professor of Mu-ic t)i. S. Fina-araman Board Trustees. & uarter, of 21 months, payable t, Spelling. Read - I and First Lessons in 8gtla @rammr and arGeographyr, Arith , ft , ".$7.50 Laliad Logic. Rhetore, Pliyska;, ia Moral Set . . . .$1000 .be ebarged at the same time mo& taia h.ne of the preceding rates. nsi *us-5 per session of Cve pj* Ith the Principal and others, iostrseto - afforded in all the ofa 1lberai e4eallton. Mme iG 16tf. .~* WIFH fi. i Edlsim sad test this Stove and yes w*md aflwe ime8enlito be. ....F Economy in Fuel; For Ditability ; 2or Capacity in Baking, Boil iugand Broiling ; S implicity in Manage se-eslinssin Cooking; or4 power of Heat in ngand Boiling, with we every small ConsuInption for Beauty of Design. Y&WSinoothness of Castings anid Elegance of Finish; Zbe "Cotton Plant" 8oe gette ne half theS8tate of S. C. STILES HURD, with the kee Wilson Eanufac ~ wuing Company. BRIDGEPORT, CON N., S tenabied to select the most perfect M niiw achines, and forward them to m~.who may want, at the nianufac .ta,,'s price, free of comamissions to the a -,sbasr. Any orders sent thr-ough Sihin Johnstone & Win. F. Nance, will validate the action of said compa ny thereunder. An Act to amend an Act enti tied "An Act to regulate the man ner of keeping and disbursing funds by certain officers. An Act to establish the lien of Magistrates' executions. An Act to incorporate the Citi zens' Savings Bank of South Car olina. An Act to enforce the provis ions of the Civil Right's Bill of the United States Congress. An Act to incorporate the va rious Boards of the Methodist Episcopal Churches, of South Carolina. An Act to facilitate the settle ment of the affairs of the Bank of the State of South Carolina. An Act to determine the value of contracts made in Confederate States notes or their equivalcut. An Act to authorize the Finan cial Agent of the State, in the city of New York, to pledge the State bonds as collateral security, and other purposes. An Act to amend an Act enti tied '-An Act to fix the salary and regulate the pay of certain offi cers." An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to alter and amend the charter of the King's Mountain Railroad Company," passed December 16, 1851. An Act to enable the banks of the State to renew business or to place them in liquidation. A joint resolution authorizing the State Treasurer to pay the Chairman of Board of Commis sioners of Elections, appointed by the Constitutional Convention, $329. An Act to protect laborers and persons working under contract or shares of crop. An Act to authorize the con solidation of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company and the Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, and to amend the charter of the same. An Act to amend an Act "enti tled "An Act to regulate attach ments." An Act to provide for the enu meration of the inhabitants of the State. An Act to authorize a loan for the relief of the Treasury. An Act to incorporate the Van cluse Man ufacturing Company, in the State of South Carolina. An Act to amend an Act enti tied "An Act to lease the State Road running from the County of Greenville, in this State, across the Saluda Mountain, to the County of Henderson' in North Carolina. Joint resolution authorizing the County Commissioners of Oconee County to sell the interest of the State in the Keowee and Tuck aseegee Turnpike Road. Joint resolution authorizing the State Treasurer to apportion to the several Counties the appropria tion of $25,000, authorized in Gen eral Orders No. 139, of December 3, 1867, Headquarters Second Military District, for the support of free schools, the same to be paid over to the respective Coun ty Treasurers, in order to pay teachers. An Act to provide assistance for the transient sick poor in the various cities and towns of the State. An Act to facilitate the draw ing of jurors in this State. An Act to amend the charter of the Sulphuric Acid and Super phosphate Company. An Act to emp oweor t he Judges of the Circuit Court to grant relief in cases of erroneous judgments obtained during the existence of the Provisional Gov ernment of South Carolina. An Act to organize and govatn the militia of the State of South Carolina. Joint resolution authorizing the ov@,nor to pnechne 2.000 stand of arms of the most approved pat. tern,, with usual complement of ammunitiou. Joint resolution ratifying the fifteenth amendment to the Con stitution of the United States of America. An Act to incorporate the South Carolina Improvement and Trust Company. An Act to provide for the con vertion of State securities. An Act to provide a lien on buildings and lands to parties fur nishing labor and materials there on. Joint resolution authorizing the Governor to cause suit to be in stituted against the Laurens Rail road Company to protect the in terests of the State. An Act to incorporate the Dorn Mining and Manufacturing Com pany, of South Carolina, for min ing and other purposes. - An Act to make appropriations and raise supplies for the year commencing October, 1868. An Act to provide for the ap pointment of a Land Cammission er, and to define his powers and duties. Too Much Married. The Montpelier (Vt.) Journal copies the following from a pri vate letter, dated not a thousand miles from White River Junction: "They have got the funniest snarl across the river that you ever heard of. At a party last week at 's, after exhausting the ordinary games, and wanting something new, mock marriages were proposed. Accordingly names were drawn by lots, and four couples stood up to be married. The ceremony was performed, and they duly pronounced "man and wife, by the laws of the. State and before these witnesses." After ward, they ascertained the man officiating was a justice of the peace and the parties were legally married ! They are in the great est alarm about it thatever was. One of them, Prof. , of T Seminary, expects a lady from be low in about a fortnight to marry him, and nearly every one involv ed is expecting to be married right away--one othergentleman to a la dy below-and they feel like death. They have ransacked all the law books, and- consulted authorities far and near, and everything only proves the knot still tighter. The Justice has been fined $50 for each couple. He says he is from an other county, and cannot do busi ness here, and supposed the mar riages not to be legal. it is cer tainly a funny scrape, and made still funnier l'y the fact that all the parties belong to the "upper ten." The best opinion is that they are legally married, and can only be divorced by the Legislature. A Tanz LADY,-A true lady is easily recognized in public places by the neat and tasteful dress, by her quiet and unostentatious de meanor, and-if there is occasion for her to speak-by her gentle voice and choice language. A loud, harsh voice and "slang phrases" coming from those who in other respects appear to have been well brought up, always jars unplea santly upon the hearer. There is a long list of unauthorized words and phrases, which in common use, and are supposed to give a certain rest to conversation, but which are very far from being elegant. They are coined in various places-in the boarding school, in the college, in the store, and on the street. One by one, they enter the family ircle, and become disagreeably common. A man who continually interlards his conversation with words which the dictionary ig nores, does not thereby, increase >ur regard for him; and when we ear a woman habitually using "slang," we cannot but feel that she is wanting in that delicacy and refinement which are the brightest ornaments she can wear. ndeed, it is very certain that the frequent use of course and vulgar words begets a disagreeable con dition of mind, which may not be realized by the possessor, but which is very apparent to asso The following extract was hand- 7 ed us yesterday by an Ex-Gov ernor, who told us it came to a gentleman of our city under cover v of a beautifully rose-tinted and h cologue-scented envelope, super- n scriped in the exquisite handwrit- t ing of a lady, evidently a refined t and cultivated one, as these, above 11 all others-we have ever met, relish I a good joke, among which "Gob bling" stands pre-eminent.-Daily s Carolina Observer. h WHAT CAME oF BORROWING GEN- e TLEMEN TURKEYS.-In former days N there dwelt in the brave Corn- s cracker State, in close proximity h to each other, ayoung, buxom and si wealthy widow and a bachelor of s$ aearcely more than her own age. li Both had inherited the property n and where comparatively strangers ti to each others. But their planta- a tions joined, and many were the e acts of neighborly kindness that h passed between them. Well, as e somebody sang to the witching b Widow Machree, the time arrived t when the "birds go in pairs," and i. the widow found that although b she had plenty of hen Turkeys, rl she had none of the other persua- i sion, they having mysteriously e disappeared.-But she knew her neighbor had plenty of arare breed, b and so sent Sambo over to borrow . a couple. In due time be came d back with a large gobbler under I either arm, and a board grin on a his face. h "Well?" asked his mistress. t "Massa said," was the answer, "dat he send dem turkeys, and dat if they didn't answer he'd jest a come ober and gobble his own P self." C "Go back and teu him to come," e commanded the widow with cheeks like peonies. U The negro did as he was com- r manded-the horses of the bache- e for was hitched that night until a i late hour at the post in front of u the widow's door-and there was a wedding within three months. .n To Young Housekeepers. - Be satisfied to commence on a small scale. It~ is too common for L young hotisekeepers to begin where their mothers ended. Biy all that is necessary to work skillfully with: adorn your house with all e that will render it comfortable. ~ D)o not look at richer homes, and y covet their costly furniture, if n secret dissatisfatction is ready to b spring up, go a step further, and c visit the home of the suffering dj poor; behold dark, cheerless a apartments, insufficient clothing, a and absence of all the comforts e and refinement of social life, and f~ then return to your own with a joyful spirit. You will then be b prepared to meet your husband a withb a grateful heart, and be ready rj to appreciate the toil of self-denial ft which he has endured in the busi- y ness world to surround you with r< the delights of home; and you will 3 cooperate cheerfully with him in w so arranging your expenses that w his mind will not be constantly I harrassed lest his faimily expendi- c< tures may encroach upon public h; pyments. al Be independent; a young house- 01 keeper never needed greater mo- n ral courage than she does now, to it resist the arrogance of fashion. ti Do not let the A.'s and B.'s decide ta what you shall have ; neither let V them hold the strings of your fc purse. You know best what b< you can and ought to afford. al It matters but little what people a think pr:>vided you are true to si yourself, to right and duty, and st keep your expenses within your y means. p He who waits for dead men's h shoes may go a long time bare- a foot-.t He who peeps through a wholea may see what will vex him. He that will steal a pin will B steal a greater thing. i He who follows his own advice, et maui take the consequtencoes. I 'he Struggle for Life - A Gloomy but True Picture. The Bound Table is painting a ery discouraging picture of the ardships and poverty among the 'asses of the people, arising from le oppressive burthens which the %x collector is directly or indirect- E F laying upon their shoulders. he writers says: "Almost everywhere there are igns of pinch and grin. It is ard work to pay the rent, butch r, the grocer and baker ; hard ork to pay for the children's ebooling and * clothes; cruelly ard work to squeeze out the in talments for the summer jaunt or awing machine; with many, every ttle comfort or luxury once a atter of course is now either en [rely cut off or measured out with n anxious scrutiny, hesitating aution, that turns the pleasure alfinto pain. Friends whisper to ach other that they do not see ow they can pay their way this his year and live. The cher shed scheme of sending the eldest oy to college must be given out. 'he hope of buying the pleasant ttle country home must be for :otten. The piano the patient wife has cen waiting for these many long ears, must be put off to an in efinite future. Meanwhile, to :eep soul and body respectably to ether, most people are working ardcr than they ever worked in heir lives. They are wearing out he physical machine by running t a baleful speed, and keeping up ppearances at the cost of nerves, eace of mind, and at the chance f a healthy old age. This is no xaggerated picture. It is fami iar to almost every eye that rests pon this page. Only the very ich are just now thoroughly at ase-although even their serenity 3 too often inspired by the spec lative mania, that so few having nything to speculate with, escape; rhile nearly every one in the com iunity who has to work for bread -who depends on a salary or, tated wages for stated work-is a chronic alternation or appre ension and despondency." Value of Honesty. An old trader among the North rn Indians, who had sonme years go established imself on the Vissva, tells a good story with a ioral worth recollecting, about is first trials of trading wvi h his red ustomrs-The Indians, who evi ently wan tedl goods, and had both oney (which they called shune b) and furs, flocked about his ore, and examined his goods, but >r some time brought nothing. 'inally, their cheif, with a large ody of his followers, visited him, nd accosting him with "How do homas; show me goods; I take or yard calico, three coonkins for ard, pay you by'm-by-to-mor w ;" received his goods and left. ext day, he returned with his hole band, his blankets stuffed 'ith coon-skins. "American man, pay now;" with this he began >unting out the skins, until he anded him over twelve. Then ter a moment's pause, h e Tered the trader one more, re arking, as he did it: "That's ." "I handed it back," said the ader "telling him he owed me but velve, and would not cheat him. re continued to pass it back and irth,- each one asserting that it alonged to the other. At last he jpeared to be satisfied, gave me scrutinizing look, placed the sin in the folds of his blanket, epped to the door and gave a i ell, and cried with a loud voice: ome, come, and trade with a le face, he no cheat Indian ; his eart big." He then turned to me t ad said: "You take that slhin, I ill Indian no trade with you rive you off like a dog-but niow ou Indian's friend, and We your's" efore sundown I was waist deep furs, and loaded down with Lsh. So I lost nothing by my onety. STRANGE NUPTIALS-AN ANGRY EIUSBAND PARTS WITH HIS WIr" LT THE ALTAR.-Some time since i well known young gentleman' appeared at one of our metropoli :an churches with a very beautie ul young lady, and, invoking the ervices of the minister, was im. nediately united to her in mar, 'iage. The lady appeared deeply igitated, and there was a steru letermination visible on the coun ,enance of the youth-a pale an ry face-evincing anything but oy in the nuptials. As soon as .he ceremony was concluded the' man turned to the lady with the' remark : "I have kept my prom se now-you are married to me;* but I will never look on your face' again." -There was a frantic appeal id ,he girl's action and tears ; she' begged, implored him to recall his words-promised some wild things' better left unprinted-and then sank fainting to the floor. Tbe' man turned on his heel and quit: Led the apartment. What did it mean ? The simple relation of facts look like the coloring of romance, yet are they true in every partk. alar. When it is further stated that the parties are of high social position, have numerous relations,' and that they were utterly unat tended, the mystery will appear more strange.. Their friends have tried vainly to reconcilc the mat ter. An obstinate silence greets every appeal in behalf of the lady, and she, if indeed she can, refuses any explanation. [N. 0. Picayune. THE FRUITS OF LovE.-Belii ful is it to contemplate whatTon does for this world only. How it moves to efforts, spurs to success, kindles the desire or gain, else sordid, and cherishes a tenderness For reputation. It dignifies even the gaudy show of earthly luxury and splendor to remember how far this is the gift of a prompting af. fection; how many of the beautiful adornments are tokens of love; how much that would be folly, if sp)ent on selfish and sensual de.s sires, is sanctified and immortalized by disinterested kindness ; for how much lavish profusion a true senti ment gravely pleads; how it alone keeps the splendor undimmed oir the diamond's point, and the fine gold unchanged in the bracelet's polish, and allows us to keep, wear, >r enjoy what we should be ishamed to procure. Love prompts as to toil, to endure, to forego and Lo sacrifice. Its children are Pa: ience, Devotion and. Heroism. Second only to Religion is its ino ive and inspiration. How it surt ounds the dear cbject with every' :omfort, privilege, and social ad: ~antage;. with all the means of ;olid education and various ao: ~omplishment ! How it builds up ,he spaeious heart with the granito trength of principle, and on the ~ront of sincerity shapes the orna. nen ts of grace ! A curious phenomenon #censied n Bethel, Maine, last sunday ight. A damp sno'w fe&l in the sveing, which was followed by a >owerful wind that rolled it up nto balls frequently as Large as a our gallon keg. Hundredwof them v~ere counted in a single field. Pro. essor Cleveland described a sim. lar phenomenon that occurred ~bout the year 1807 when they vere as large as a barrel. Do not close a letter without eading it, or drink water with. ~ut seeing it. England spent $50,000,000 for he glory she won in Abyssinia, Possesion is eleven points of' he law, and they say there arei >ut twelve. It is too late to contplain when he thing is dqpe. 'Tis better, to be happy than nise,