Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Pr.1 A I'm I~Rff~ D6L~AII8 ~A YEAR,) YOR TUNE VISSEMINATO UP USEFUL INTELLIGESCE, IVlALINAAY4 YQLpV WE DNESDAY MOICNING-1 APRIL 28,989 N 7 i~e I RALID At 6wberry 0. li., OI. T. A B, GRhKMEE. , PER ANNUM, INOURIRENCY Ot PROVISIONS. 1* 04teurd Itivariably in advance. marrinse Notioes, Funeral Invilatlolp, Obit "a"qq ond fpn~notous titbmervion prlvafi interes are charged a. advertisementa. -SOUTII CAROLINA lU4N A TRUST COMPANY, In i'hAi0 Dol'ars. RSENT LIMIT,-.-.--.-.-$500,000. THEC01 F EF THi8 COMPAVY IS NOW b by*ed an tupon 'te-ni ea Mrs CoPpey is eho a - fral D)epository fhr o . ai o Courtwil rocelvd itexistry. and V, bok's-80 eaaet to *)yCol - 0nd4d, slid as frustee in "talroad BROTO RB: s on &lr n 6s o .of .ib & o eA. r idn . fixt n, 01. OC -e JtA. Jr. ofgg Rlobt Mure & Co. I W. It %tVila.4 of W. It. Williama & Son; EIf. Frn*t, Frwst & Ad. L or "41t& 1G 0. G en er. oi T1046t;, Jerve , a Pir.okiey.ch. J. Kerr, oNE W E rr. Y oaCo, D AIkei D. AEta A fo. John Canmen. o.Campteii & Un A P Cald!v I of. I. 4. A. P. Caldwell; R. i.y: aol ' q *Wilmin D.O'Neil, J. J. Ulegi, e4 U 111Assistannts.6 QK. . 8. CAEn,ROv. President. 1110S. i I WAING, Casder. Tems poruat8 C., of0ch 12 ,189. ing. Wrting andFrtIsnsn NHWHERR11Y FEMAALE~ ACADEN~YS ar EnLUIOUSE-PhG iaNand ~i~.~AN13LZAVXL,, n Gegap . . . Assistant.. "Aimin HiLwuOss, kiz_it_,-1hrm-in lioard Trustees Terms per quarter, of 2 moths, Aityable in advance. F Primnry Deprtrnt. Spelling. Red. in. Writing and First pressing r Ari tn-ti r 2 prglish sGasntoar and in Ggrphys.$5.00 Engliub Grammar, Geography, Arith metic and Himtory,.........$150 Latin, Gro~k. French, LogiceAlietcarle, Phyia,' wental and Morad Soh enes. ..1000 No. Pppi. will he charge at the ame time witWirbre than on.o ltbriac preeding rates. Cvtr seon of five mWonth'H uianandesoip Poeading. with the Principal and others, on reasn itle wernit.t TForongh In4truction affor4ed In all the briinches of R liberal edc'1ation. MAMAh to 10 If. - ~ ~ r For Maaiyi aIng ol Cdtor P an ook Stove, Plain and Bxtension opi ao well finmIall erpronsiton afo hElom i; Ful For Duabity;ein For oothi ns Bakng Bosings iad BroigancgofFnih The "lCtton Plant"e Seegn or .oneo oafhe at in8.C B~ iig ith Boi. n,hit ftVJRfY1GPoT COUf1ONN. thore whootiywatheco Canuing tr.d' priegfree of Fmmissath puree "Cotondy Plnt"rog ole Aont ione half the Ntance of ill noenstapt:ithilte DizeJ* isnMnfc Our Charleston Correspon dence. CUARLESTON, April -, 1869. Dame Natuj i.never introduced Spring-time to our Charleston fai Ily in better humour than she has done this AnnoDomini, 1869. All is sunshine and warmth, and the bursting ofbuda and the careolling of birds make the boart glad. If there boone thing lacking, it is water. Our cisterns are dry, our streets dusty, and our throats dri. est and dustiest of all. Two hours walk on the Bay makes a man feel as if he had a small sand-bar in his stomach, and affords reasonablo oxcuse-fbr patronizing those "mix ologists of tippflars" which are to be found on every corner. One cannot complain however in the tooth of so much good for tuno as has been vouchsafod)to this community during the last six or eight months: On all sides, men's faces t.*ol of an increase of worldir storo. Since the last Fall, stocks, bonds, city property and real ea Late in the vicinity, all responsivo as the needle to the magnet, have been affeoted by the silent under current of prosperity. Northern capital has sought the Southern field of investment, and men Of means continue to arrive here by every si eaner in search of the mystical lamp of A'ladin or some now process wherewith to swell their riches. Money has been plen tiful ; country merchants have paid eash for their purchases ; cot ton has kept ships moving, and fietora busy and every depart mont of trade has received a fresh Ind healthy' impetus. Just noW, thero is a lull. Money is colpara tively tight, and yet enough is do ing to keep the blood from stagna tion, and the commercial coffee pot boiling. But what a contrast there is be tween April 1861, and 1869. How terrible have been the changes of. eight years; equally striking is the difference between 1865 and 1869. Then, more than half the city was like a desert over which presided the genius of dostruction. The shriek of the shell or the clang ofthe fire-bell, where tho only sounds that broke the silence in the region known as "down town." Stores and dwellings were covered with the ragged embroid ries of' Gen. Gilmoro's guns, aid their owners were refuigees from home. The streets woro denuded of pavements that batteries might be built, andl grass grow mn the once bus~y marts of trade. Note the changes wrought in those throe short yours. Aban doned and crumbling wharves are linedI with the finest.ships. Scaree ly a wreck of the past is t olbe seen. TIho hand of improvement still hard at work, has given to uls soni elegant edifies-a city rail way, steam engines, banks, factories and machine shops. The "refugees" wvho onlce used to meet in the coun try groceries stores or ols'owhere, killing time with the dliscussionp on the "situation," are niow live, earnIest business men, whlo make the most of every minuto itn tihe day. Many have not recovered from their lossos by tho war, but othoers by shrewdly -speculatinig in cotton and other commodities have comfortable bank accounts and fewv complaints. You would be surprised at the number of Northern men here arnd there is scarcely a bran ch of' trade in whibh they have not be come interested. Many large plan tations arc either owned or leased by.thaso onterpr'ising personis; and they are testing for themselves the problem of flce labor. There are plenty of negroes, but not much dlspositton to work. The misfourtunes of theolast three years incident. to the eat.orpillar scourge have not do$errod on11 people from another trial still, and the sea Is lands promise to be thoroughly worked. Many plintationa hav& ben sold tit au6tion Qvery wk, but at prices ao low as to indicate hotvy moitgages in the 4aplground. Oonsequent upon' the 'rturn of prosperity, we have had thO usual influx of amusements. Commene. ing with those bare-legged abor. tion)s on thO .ballot known as the "Black Crook" and "White Favn" in which young women with in expressibly thin con tin nations re semble gaudy colored- umbrellas, wO have run the gamut of popular spectaclo~ from the circus to the opera. Brignolia has just gono, &ftor haviig drawn the largest au LDiences that haVe attended any public exhibition in this city. It is a ftir presumption that not less than fifty thousand 4ollars have been taken out of South Carolina by those popular nomads. Paste, posters and printers ink, will draw groen.-backsout of a Carolinian's p)ocket in less time than a mustard poultice can raise a blister. Our citizens are on the qui vive ror the decision of Judge Carpen Ler, in the case of Pillsbury, vs. the present Mayor and Alderman. The claimants, through Corbin, their council, base thoir proceed ings upon the Act of 1869, which legislates Pillsbury and his friends intQ office. The chief. ground on which the claim is opposed is that 0his Act is unconstitutional and void. The caso was argued four :r five days, but Judge Carpenter thus far has not rendered his de 'ision. Several attQmpts have been made to "bull and bear" the money market on the supposed result, but there has not been the [;host of an intimation as to what that result will be. Judge Car onter, however, has established iimself in the confidenco of the Bar of Charleston, as a lawyer who vill not allow himself to be sway >d professionally or judicially by ixore political e o n t i d e r a t i o n s. Among the now enterprises on bot, is the publication of'amonth y magazine to be called "The Nineteenth Century," which it is mid will be one of the most , nique and enterprising magazines 3ver publiehed in the South. Some )f the ablest writers have been 'ngaged to furnish roading matter 'br the million, and the design is .o iike it attractive to overbody; specially plantors, morchants,and rofessional gentlemen. Those ,vho participated in the war will >o glad to loarn that "Personne" ,viil commenco in tho first number 'Reminiscences of the war" dat ng from the first l'ombardmn it >f Fort Sumter in April, 1861. It will doubtless be a faithf'ul histori 3al record, and especially interest *ng to the officers andl privates ofou Darolina regiments. WV. W. ILicks, D). D., the popular p)roacher heo, who is a graphic writer, and no noan poet, is the co-edlitor of Mr. [i. G. Do Fontaine. Th le an 'aouncement of the undertaking has excited a great deal of curios ity. Speaking of Dr. Hicks, you aught hear him preach. St. J ohnI's Lutheran Church, where he <>fliciates, is every Sunday night lilled to overflowing with a con grogation such as- fo~w other men ean gath)er, andi the universal crit icism bestowed on the young di. vine is that lie is one of the bost pulp)it orators ever hoa&rd in Charleston. Perhaps a reason why lie is so popuIlar among the young men, is that ho preaches oma broad religious platform, and is bounnd by no narrow sec. tarian views. He is a Wolshman by birth, but has spent much of his time -in MIaryland, and as a muissionary in the East indies. The latest sensation is the Ye. loeipedes; politely-called the "By. uielo," the recipe for riding, whlich is first "to stvaddle, then paddle and then skedaddlo." Forsotal ox porienco permits me6 to observe that the most oexpeditious mi. of securing a oorrect map of the Oity of Charleston, on t.hat pan. tion of a man's corporocity which is broadly apparent ten inches be. low the orn4nigntl buttons in the small-oftis baok, Is in at tempting 4t rdo on, of these two. wheeled con4etir - You cah see half-a dozen any day on tho Bat tery. Green-pegs 4nd 8trawberries are beginning to fi)4 ', Now York market. We aro living on fish and fruit. Ornges, pine-apples and bananas are obeap and abun -dant. King-street is like a panorama. Spring goods, have been opened, and the display of cOlora in the win dows is kaleidoscopic. The ladies say such an array. Of pretty styles has not been' seot. in Charleston since the war ; and it may be aid dad, sotto.voce, that they make their husbands sheo. green-backs woefully. You remember the drive to Magnolia and around to the four mile H1ouse ? 8nrpo of our citizens are making arrangements to lay a Shell road six miles out in that direction. Our Fire Department is getting ready for the annual celebration on the 27th. Stean4ers and hand Engines are prunticing every night, and the -eveqt promises to attract large numbers of visitors from different portions of the State. Some eight companies are expected fRom various localities in and out of the State. Hotels full. On'a can elbow tourists from the Old World and the New to his h6art's content. Sail-boats and carriages are in un usual demand, and at the rate of which these peripatetics are gath oring relics of the late uncivil war, there wont be left a monumental work in wood or stone to vhich another generation can point. The very dirt seems precious to these curiosity hun ters, and they absorb bits of old iron and chips of grave stones with as much avidity as if they had "struck ile." . -4w. GEbUE D. PRENTrcE.-Hodge son, of the Montgomery Mail, who is on the wing, in a letter from Louisville, thus draws a pon pic ture of what time's wear and tear has left of the once gifted and brilliant George D. Prentice. The writer says: Yostorday I had an interviev with Ar. Prentice. lie is not the man he was ten years ago. Indeed his gonius is gone, and his person is a me wreck. ik family is broken up-wife dead, one son killed on tihe Confederate side, another settled on a farm down the river-and the old man, ver ging on throe score anJ ten, cooks his breakfast and( (dinner 'in his little room on the 'third floor of the Courier building, and lives only in conversation about the past. This man onco wielded an imperial power with his wit and and his music. Now the world has whirled past him, and ho lien one the shore a mere stranded wreck, just as we will all lie if we should r'each three score years through a r-evolution. Such is lifel TlO-dlay an emperor, to-morrow a cy'ph)er. "Goon LOcAI,.-Poffan swearing 1is a,bomui,nblu. 'Vulgar hlanguage Is rlh<gua ting. Lond laughing is imp'olite. In qumiiitiveniess is offen,sive. hTattlIng ls mean. Tellinig lie.4 is contemnptile. Sinderinig is devilish. Ignorance is disg racfrul, and laziness is shiaeful. Avoid all the asbove vice4 andl aium at usfulness. This is the load by whIch to beceothe respectable. Walk ini It.-. Never be ashmamed of honest labor. Pride is a curse--a hateful vIce. Nee act thu hypnerite. Speak the truth at all times. Never be discourauged, but persevere. aind mnouutains twill become mo9Le-hills." DEAlt or A VALIADS, Cunzrs. --Mr. William Dlowna Ilyrd, an, old and prombment, chtizen oftis District, died at hiis resldeno, on the Enmoree River, on Wednes~day morn ing trat, after a brief .illneas. Heo was one of the pareat; upon that ever lived in Lan rena. -lHe leaves a fienilly anid many friends to mourn their lois.-Laurens Herald. The only difh'erenoe betwveen Euagenle and the deposed. Qtmpen of Spain ia that one is~ a ele on a throne, and the. othem' laakalla Qff Remarkable Masonio Inci- I derit. . fi The first Masonic funeral that C over occurred In California took V place it the year 1849, and was performed over the body of a brother found drowned in the bay, t of San Francisco. An account of t the ceremonies states that on the v body of the deceased was found a F silver maric of a Mason, upol which were engraved the initials I of his name. A little ifirther in- t vestigation revealed to the beholder t the most singular exhibition of Ma- 0 sonic emil.lems that was evor drawn ' by the ingenuity of man upon the human skin. There is nothing in the history or traditions of Free- t masonry equal to it. Beautifilly I dotted on his left arm, in red or I blue ink, which tilio could not 11 offace, appeared all the emblems 1 of the entire apprenlticoelip.- 1 There were the Holy Bible, the 3 square and the compass, the twen- 0 ty-four inch guage, and the con mon gavil. There were also the L I Masonic pavement, representing the ground floor of King Solomon's L Temple; the intended tessel which surrounds it, and the blazing star in the contre. On his right arm, and artistically executed in the same indelible liquid were the em- I blems pertaining to the fellow craft I degree, viz: the siluare, the level and the plumb. There were al-o t the five columns representing the five orders of architecture-the tuscan, doric, ionic, corinthian, Composite. In removing the garments from his body, the trowel preseinted it self with all the other tools of Op erative masonry. Over his heart was the pot of incense. On the other parts of his body were the bee hive. the book of constitutions, guarded by the Tyler's sword'; the sword pointing to a naked heart ; the All-seeing eye ; the an chor and ark, the hour glass, the seythe, the forty-seventh problem of Euclid ; the sun, moon, stars and comets; the three steps em blematical of youth, manhood and ago. Admirably executed was the weeping virgin, reclining on a broken column, 111)011 wihich lay the book of const itiutions. In her left hand sho held the pot of in conso, the Masonic emblem of a pulr11O heart, aIId in her uplifted hand a sprig Acacia, the emblemn of the immortality of the soul. Immediately beneatl her stood wingod Time, with his seytl.e by his side, which cut's the brittle th read of l ife, anid tiho hour glass at his fe et, wh iebiisever' rein i ndinhg us that oulives IiV ro11. wVithlerinig away. T1he withered and attenum atedl fingers of the Destroy-er wecre placedl amid the long and gr-aceful ly flowinga ringlets of' the dliscon- 1 solate umournier. 'Thus were the I st-i king comblems of mnoi-tality and i mmortali ty beau tifully blend 'd in 0one pict.orial representation. It wvas a spectace suchl as MasRons never saw before, and, in all pr-oba- ~ bility, such as the fraternity will never wvitness again. T he brotheor's name was never known. It was in the time of .Romnulus I that Tfarpica, the dlaughtecr of the Governor of the .Roman citidol, I agreedl to betay the garrison. Covotous of the lBracelets wVorn I by the Sabino soldiers, she demand- ' edi, as a rewar'd, the ornamenIts I which they- carried upon their left [ arms. She opened the gaLos of the foi'tress, and having gained poses. a sion of it, the Sabinos throw their I shields upon the traitr-oss andc crushed her death. Dowvn thr'ough all the subsequent centuries the crime which has been held in most general destitution among mnon isc tr-eachery. Even those who profit by the deed invariably despise the wretch who perpetrates it. But c as human affairs are conducted, It a is unhappily necessary both for the civil and military authorities< of a nation to reward individuals in certain cases for their desertion of' dnty nr hatrayal atf a trnat, lut such is the cointompt usually Alt for the tritor that he is gen. rally awarded his recomnponse in old, and is seldom elevated to a iorative placeo or honorable office. kenold was otro of the Okdeptions D this rule; but notwithstanding be rank conferred upon him, he ras universally abhorred by the eople to whom he sought to under such invaluable service. lut the radical party in this coun ry, having no nice scruples about he means by which it attains its nd, mako little distinction be ween dirty and honorable work. t confers upon the spy and the raitor the samo kind of reward hat it gives to the gallant soldier. L1 if to encourage others to mulato her infimy. It hasjust ap ointed one Mrs. Van Lov to be ostmistress at Richmond. This mportant position has been be towed upon her in consideration f her betrayal to the peoplo of hat city when Gonoral Urant was ofore it. She was entitled to lood motiey for her base treachery, ut it is indecent and scai alous to tihe last degroo that such person should be olovated o a high and responsible oflice. LiI other considurations apart., tho Mblio interests demand that. the rovernment agents should be elooted for some other reason han their complicity with i treach. ry and fflsehood. The Tarpoia 'ho would betray a city is not bore tampering with the mails. Balt. Gazette. . Vineyard on Every Farm. Some day in the futuro the rt and practice of wino making vill be as familiar and universal mong us as the manufheture of ider is now. And tho juico of T the grape, properly prepured, is 'reatly superior to that of the ap )lo in health and strength giving Alements. It is an easy matter or majority of fParmers to provide llple supplios of wine fbr their iousehold use, at a coml parati vel y rifling cost. A half acre in each iundred ofcultivated land set w ith ines of hardy var'Oties would be mffieient, if well CarOd for, to fm, uish both fruit and wino for the 1umi11ber of peoplo Occu.pyifng, oi ho average, that area. Doubtless hero are limited regions in our ountry wheco grapes would not Mceed : but I lie area is vast w here hey wouild thrivo to a suflicient legree to make the growing of hem fihr fiuity use sat isfieliory; LIth oughi it miighit be fihrm fromi pr1o itable to) raise them for market. U any' neighborhood or lacality v bero a solitairy vine dloes well, ii s certain that enough oth lers wvill birivo to supplyd3 the wants of' thme >opuilat ion. By such universal >laniting only can we hope to see he rural population of our land upplied with fruit and wino; for lhe produlIcts of' the favored grape ogions, where the culturen is car ied on extensively, will ho mostly Lbsorbed by3 cities. Let every armor have his vineyard as well as mis orchard, not, planted with a riOw to selling its productsa, but o consuming them in his own kunily. It is pretty salo to assort hat w here apple tr'oes will flourish, omno variety of grapes will (1e oloraLbly w ell alongside of' themi. Pho mnanufaceturo of' wino for home iso sthoiuld bo conlducted almost irocisely like thait of cidler. Uave ho fruit ip andftl clean ; mash it md( press out the juico with care. et it fe.rment a few days, like good idor. then rack it, andl cleanse the asks and refill them ; bung tight ,nd rack again early in the Spring, ~nd the third time on thle approach C hot weather, have sound, sweet aaks, keep them full, and store in clean, cool cellar, anal your boy rage will excel in grateful flavor nd healthful, exhilartating effecta, vhon the hard labor and hot suns C Summer tempt its trial. It is ~e easy and simple to make good vi'ne as good oldor. The yield of v)ne will prohbly avorare four hundred gallons per acro from well-cultivated vinQyards ofsttrong, hardy varietios, like the Concord, Ives and Clinton.-ahural Ate Yorker. Mamn Mammon. We observe a statonment Iti the Northern papers that $2,000,000 of church funds havo boon loanued for speculativo purposes in Wall street., and that several churches are mortgaged for the samo pur. pose. We accept this statetnent as -truo and merely allude to it for the purpose of showing how near, ly crazy are the Northorn peoplo on the subject of money and spoc. ulation. The operations of Wall stroetj though mado respectable by theiV n1rnitudo, do not differ materi ally from investments in lotteries or gambling with cards. Andyet we find that church funds are con tributed to swell the tide of cUN ruption that has already givois Wall street a reputation that the power of money alone canl Counter. bal0nce. We do not question even the moral right of a church to derive an income from itss uIrplus capital; bmt. to invest it in the intorests of the stock-gamblers of Wall street is certainly a matter of doubtful propriety. It proves conclusively that every interest at the North even the churches-has its vota, rios bowing at the shrine of Mam, non ; and that none of thom am neompt from the corrupting influenceos of, wall street. When we realize that a building consecrated to the worship of the living God is mortgaged for the purpose of raising money to be uSed in speculation (that's what they call it), we can sCO to whats point of degradation our country has sunk in its religion and its morlIs. It. is a comsolation, however, tW kn flow that the fr-eo-love, froo-thi'l-C ing, froo speculation dogmas i6 characteristic ofsome of the North evrn roligioni.stH have not yet raised their hydra form on our Southern chuitches. Let the Nor'thorix (.1h1 ures convert their pullits into h11stings, and their charity funds into a Wall strout stock-jobbing f'uid, if they will. But God grant that Pu' own Southerh" land W(y never lecono the victih of the "iml oieoy-ehanger3." - I'vibilington Star. A PoIT AN.-Colonel Watson, a well-kn iowna politician of Virgina~ in, enjoyed groat personal popu-* laily onl account of his afl'able manmners, andl whenever lie sn a camndidlato for ofiloo ran ahead bt thao tiet. lie generally spoke to everybodIy he met, professing to know them. On one occasion, durinl tg the last Presidenitial cam paiignm, he met a count'rman, whom he shook by the hand, and om, 'Whby, how do you do, thim'f I am very glad to thee you ; a fino dlay, (lhir ; I thee you thill rido your flame old gray, t hir./ 'No, Sir ; this horse is d1ao 1 borrowed this mforning.' -Oh Iaba ! well, thib, how arc the old1 gentleman and himdy f' 'My par'ents have been dead abhot three years, Sir.' 'lint how ich your wife, thir, anid the ehildreon ?' '.1 aim an unnmarri'd man, Sir,' 'Thmuro enough.- Do you thill live in the oldi farin ?' 'No, Sir ; I have just arrIved from Ohio, whoro I was born.' 'Well, th-ir. I guoth I don't know you, afthocr all. Good-morn. ing, thir l'-nA wza,Harper's Mag, Comt ri.uSsT A av. -T wo rival belles mxaet at a balil. 'How well yon look under gas light,t' exclalmed one, with a stress on the gasligh t. 'An'd how charming god are in the dairk 1' answe-redl the other. Give a child'-his will and a wb*1g his flll,'atnd_nether'w$ tghrWi Loud re*~ no M~tr