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THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [IYvAnLr Is ADnrcz. VOL.V. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1869. NO. 38. THE HERALD is sULD EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry . I., H. 1311EEE1 &eProprIetors. eE89S, e PER AMMUN, IN CURRENCY OR PROVISIONS. Paymentrequired invariably in advance. Marriage Notioes, Funeral Invitations, Obit naries, and Communications subserving private interete, are apared !s ad.erusements. Is it not sweet to think, hereafter, When the Spirit leaves this sphere, Love, with deathless wing, shall waft her To those se a-long bath moura'd for here? Hearts,from_whiob't wqs death to sever, E i'this wor,eft'e'er restore, There;as warn, as. brightas ever, '-sha meet as sndbe lost ~a iore. *hen wearily we wander, asking Of earth and heav'ta where are they, Beneath whose smile we once lay basking, Blest, and thinking bliss would stay ? Hope still lifts her radiant finger , Pointing to th' eternal Home, *tatPh 1t.t they finger, -er es to cor9. -Ala., alas-doth hope deceive us? f--sal all ihosbtie bind 4"dmeaes and then leave us, Be found af where aothing dies? Oh, if no other boon'were given, To keep oAr hearts from wrong and stain, Who would not try to win a Heaven Wbere all we leve sh.i live a:ain? [Thomas Moore. I was standing in the broad, Tero.wded str*t of a large city. It -was a cold wintEr's day. There :1ad b~u 44 (rh La'b. the the 'i hu t from the are'*j. honse ,,ant the whteels a ~dig as'they passed ev6r ui zed' ground. There'wasa clear, brigbt look, and a cold, bra e n &thei' a&akeen north-. - re qtiekened ever = 46 alit Child C;db7clothes were scanltd ;l: hat n clo aand Sshaw1gand her little bare feet ed and fsfering:. She o db have been more that. eight ears o d he carried a bandle in her ndte Poor, little, shivering child?! I, even I, who qold4drnothing else,- piiied hers upon the ice,-and she- fell, with a ery of paie; but she held the bun di% tigh1 iq..bew -hajid, and juinping- alho'ugh 'she limped sadlyraunu before.2 soft, sweetveiei:.and&-a beautiful -woman, pe1%gdIitfailarge shawl, and with furs,#1 around her, came out of a jewelle s store elose by. * .yuhurt?'T s down on tliis ste. .,tell me.?"-owfI loved her and howlieautiful ehe looked i *.i nei)t," *i-he e*.id, ~jqr~ Ihave'been to the .stpoe-. ~ ad mother must fluish this work to-night or she will3 never get any more work to .Wroman-"to niht" 'Yes, sai a 6d-for the strang a kind manner had made her bofor the great bal to-ih, thiese satin slippers . The beautifu woman took the - tiidle fr6in the eilld's band; and -atolled it. You -do not know lw6hvher- face flushed, and then -;red e;%t I, -yes I looked int6 he bandle, anid on the inside of th'e -sipr :I' saw a name-a - ady's neae-wrtten bat-I sha.l1 not tell it. "And where does your mother - ive, little gr-" So'd the child told her where, and then she told that her father was ~ead; aid that h4r little4 b-by brother wassick-, End her mother *boawa,d shoes,:tbat they -might have bread, but .that 'edietinies they ere very liungty, hd sometimes the4&y were very uold ;aud that her Smother sometimes cried. bepause e~~' Wad g# m9ney to' buy milk for her little sick brother. And then I saw that 6 lady's eyes were fuill of tears ; and she rolled u the - bundle quickly, and gave - Sto the little girl-buat shba ye he nothing else; noni n -which she had jut eenwo As. .aphe went away, I saw the ghtter of a diamond-pin. resenutly she came back, and stepping into a handsome carriage, rolled off. The little girl looked after her, for a moment, and then, with her little bare feet colder than they were before, ran quickly away. I went with the little girl and I saw her go to a narrow, damp street, and into a small dark room; and I saw her mother-her sad, faded mother ; but with a face so sweet, so patient, hushing and soothing a sick baby. And the babe slept; and the mother laid it on. her own lap, and the bundle was unrolled; and a dim candle helped; her with her work, for though it was not night, her room was very dark. Then, after a while, she kissed her little girl, and bade her warm her poor little frozen feet over the scanty fire- in the ,grate, and gave her a. little piece of bread, for she had no more; and then she heard her say her evening prayer, and folding her tenderly to her bosom, b'essed her, and told her that the angels would take care of her. And the little hild slbpt, and dreamed-O such pleasant dreams !-of warm stock. ings and new shoes; but the mo ther sewed on alone. And as the bright spangles glittered on the 3atin slippers, came there no re ituing into her heart? When she hought of her little child's bare, sold feet, and of the scant morsel >)f,dry bread, which had not satis hd 'her hunger, -came. there no visions of a bright room, and gor ;eous clothing,'and a table loaded vith all that was good and nice, mne little portion of which, spared :o her, would send warmth and :omfort to her humble dwelling? [f such thoughts came and others -of a pleasant cottage, and of one who had dearly loved her, and whose stronv arm had kept w ant Lnd trouble &om her and the babes, at who could never come back f these thoughts did come, repin :gly, -there came also anotber; mnd the widow's hands were clasp d, and her head bowtd low in loep.contrition, asI heard her say: Father, forgive me; for thoui-do st all things well, and I will yet rust thee." Just then the door >pened softly, and sone one en ered. Was it an angel? Her frees was of spotless white, and he-moved with a noiseless step. she went to the bed where the leeping, child lay, and covered it with soft, warm blankets. Then )resently a fire sparkled and blazed here, such as the little old grate and never known before. Then Shuge loaf was upo'n the table. md fresh iik for the sick babe. Lhen she passed gently before the noher, and drawing the unfin shed slipper'from her hand, placed ;here a purse _of gold, and said in voice like 'msie, "bless.thy God, wh is the god of the fathertess and ie widow"-and she was gone ; nly, as sIye went.out, fiieard her may: "Better than diamondsl bet eifthan diamonds I" What could. ibe tean ? I loo,ked at 'he mno her. . With clasped hands .and' reaaing -eyes -she. blessed her *od ho had sent an angel to ionforf, her. SolIwent away too; ad I 'went 'to a bright roomn, rhere there were music and lights ,nd sweet flowers ; -and I saw' oung, happy faces, and beautiful omen, ridhly dreessed, and spark ig with jewss; but none that I gew'; until one 'passed me whose ress was of simple white, with S"her bosom, and mnly a rosebuo - whose voice was like .the sweet .und of asilver lute. No snan ied slipper . glittered upon ner ot; but she moved as one that readeth upon the air, and the di tie beaty of holiness had 'so glo -ifiwa her lace, that I felt, as. I razed upon her, that she was in ?eed as an angel of God. in reply to a paper which called Generat Sherman "the 'coming man," a Georgia journal says it "hopes he is not coming that way again." A New York paper says of a fa mods singer: "She sings a few airs and puts on a great many," It is stated that Mrs. H. B. Stowe maie~ 36,000 a year editing Eart ede, aad D)onald G. Jiei$ jeives $5,000 a year for his serviees on the:same paper. The Methodist Church returns, o far-se- heard -from,~ show one bu4ed and fifty thousand in favor -of, and -seventy-five thou slid i4gainst lay representation. -se work- of tun'neling..the Blue J ~ Mountain will be commen d imni0dietoiY; Mark Twain's Editorial Salu tatory. "oark T wain" has become one of the proprietors of the Buffalo Express, and publishes his "salu tatory" in the issue of that paper of Saturday last. We quote : Being a stranger, it would be immodest and unbecoming in me to suddenly and violently assume the associate editorship of the Buffalo Express, without a single explanatory word of comfort or encouragement to the unoffending patrons of the paper who are about to be exposed to constant attacks of my wisdom and learn ing. But this explanatory word shali be as brief as possible. I only wish to assure parties having a friendly interest in the prosper ity of the journal that I am not -going to hurt the paper deliber ately and intentionally at any time. I am not going to intro duce any startling reforms, or in any way attempt to make trouble. I am simply going to do my plain, unpretending duty, when I cannot get out of it; I shall work dili gently and honestly and faithful ly at all times and upon all ocea sions, when privation' and want shall compel me to do it; in writ in; I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience; I shall witheringly rebuke all forms of crime and misconduct, except when committed by the party inhabiting my own vest ; I shall not make use of slang or vul garity upon any occasion or under any circumstances, and never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not even use it then, for it is unchris tian, inelegant and degrading though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are go ing to be discussed worth a cent without it. I shJl ,0t Qften med dle with politics, ber-ause we have a political editor who is already excellent, and only needs to serve a term in the penitentiary in or der to be perfeet. I shall not write any poetry, unless I con coive a spite against the subscri bers. Such is my platform. I do not see any earthly use in it ; but cus tom is law, and custom must be obeyed, no matter bow much vio lence it may do to one's feelings. And this cntom which I am sla vishly following now is surely one of the least necessary that ever came into vogue. In private life a man does not go and trumpet his crime before he commits it, but your new. editor is ~such an important personage that he feels called upon to write a "salutatory" at once, and he puts into it all that he knows, and all that he don't know, and some things he thinka be knows.but isn't certain of. And he parades his list of wonders which he is going to per form; of reforms which he isg ing to introduce, and public evils whicfr he is oing to exterminate; and. public be~smgs which he is going to create ; and public nui sauces which te is going to abate. He spreads this all out with op. preserve solemmity over a column. and a half of large print, and feels that the country is saved. His satisfaction over it is enor mous, Ue then settles'down to his miracles and iniite profound platitudes and impenetrable wis dom upon a helpless public as long as they can stand it, aiid then they can send him off Consul to some savage island in the Pacific in the vague hope the .,annibals will like him well enough to eat him, And with an inhumanity which is but a fitting climax to his career of persecution, instead of packinghis trunk at onee, he lingers to indfie& upon his benefastors a "valedicto ry." If there is anything more uncalled for tban a "salutatory," itis one of those tearful, blubber ing, long-winded "valedictories" wherein a man who has been an uoying the public for ten years cannot take leave of them with out sitting down to cry a column and a half. Still, it is the custom to write valedictories, and custom shoQld be respected. I n m y heart I admire my predecessor for dclinin g to print a valedictory, though in public I say and shall continue to say sternly, it is cus tom, and he ought to IAave prmnted one. People never read themn any more than they do the "salutato ries," but~ niveilerss he ought' to haye hon'oresi the old fossil he ought to have printed a .vale. ditory. I saal as much to' hure, and he repIidd:: "I have reigned(imy placebI hwa denarted this life-I Am journalistically dead, at present, ain't I?" "Yes." "Well wouldn't you consider it disgraceful in a corpse to sit up and comment on the funeral?" I record it here, and preserve it from oblivion, as the briefest and best "valedictory" that has yet come under my notice. The Infamous Stowe. If ever publishers of a jour nal blushed at the prostitution of their pages, Messrs. Fields, Os good and Company should crim son with shame at the appearance of Mrs. Harriet Bee cher Stowe's bestial paper on Lord Byron in the last Atlantic Monthly. What the nature of that paper is, and what is the charge it contains, we need not explain: the matter has been canvassed by every journal in the country. We are glad to note that the shameless woman who makes the charge has placed herself in a di lemma of infamv from which there is no escape. For. supposing her statement to be true, Lady Byron consulted her, in stri.'test confidence, on the questimn w het her it was or was not her duty to make this dis closure public; and Mrs. Stowe. after long deliberatioon. replied that Lady Byron was justified in with holding it, at all events, during her life. The seal of that confidence was never removed. By Mrs. Stowe's owi admission-she wait ed for years after Lady Byron's death, she says, expecting that some one would come forward with authority to give the secret to the world-by her own admis sion The was not authorized, and no one was authorized to make the disclosure. Lady Byron could never have intimated that she had an idea of giving Mrs. Stowe this aqnthrit3, or thewLtter woull not have failed to trumpet abroad the fact. Therefire Mrs. Stowe has either shamelessly violated a most solemn confidence, or she has been guilty of the most monstrous and atrocious calumny of modern times. We of the South, who know h )w to rate Mrs. Stowe's veracity very accurately at its true worth, will not hesitate for an instant between these probabilities; and perhaps some of her English friends may now get an insight into the real character of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Some of the papers allege that this publication is a desperate ef fort to revive the failing circula tion of the Atlantie. WVe know not how this may be; but we are proud to know that there is no Bouthern magazi-ne that would not rather cease publication t han -de file its pages with such revolting abomina.:ions; and we are equally proud to believe that any South ern magazine$hat should be guilhy of so doing, would be spared .the expense of publishing a second number.-Oct. Now Eclectic. Inlstrumenlts Requiring Stamps. The following are the Instrui ments to be stamped4 and the tamps to be used in oirdinary bu sinee transactisms. -Cut this out and pireserve it for reference : All notes and evidenCes of'debt, ive centeon each $100; if under 5100, five cents ; if over $100, five anE) Qfn each additional $100, or part thereof. All receipts for any amount without limit, over $20, two cents; $20, or under, nothing. All deeds and deeds of trust, fifty ents on each $500 in value of the property conveyed, or the amounts secured; when a deed of trust is dty stamped, the note secured must not be; but they should be endorsed to show the reason why. All appraisements of estates or of estrays, five cents on each sheet or piece of paper., Affidavits of every description are exempt from stamplj duty. Acknowledgment of deeds, &c., are also exempt. Contracts and agreements, 5 ents, except for rent, when for rent 50 centa for $300 of rents, or less; if over $300. 50 cents for each $100 or less, over $300. Any person interested can affix andcancel stamps "A-las I am. no more I" as Miss Sisan~ Moore rerparked, after be cong Mrs. Jones. 3(any a sweet fashioned touth has: ben -disflgured and: raade hideous bydhe fiery tongue with in it. What our Soil Needs. A correspondent of the Farm and Garden thus discourses on the intemperate use of Guano: Ma. EDITOR: I feel constrained to caution you and your readers against guano. Used as the ma jority of our farmers use it, it is a humbug-worse than that, it is a crying evil. We do not wish any longer to farm after the old sys tem of farming what land we own to death, and then throwing it aside as old field, for the purpose of clearing up a now-ground or' moving West. Our lands are sus ceptible of high improvement, and hereafter we must look to these as bound to last us our lifetiine, and still be fit for our great-grand children to cultivate. Now, sir, the way our farmers use guano is after the miserable, old, exploded system of land-mur der. Put on without any other manure, guano is a positive injury to land, and will wear it out in one-half the time that no manure at all would. It is a stimnlus, and nothing more. It adds noth ing to the permanent ingredients of the soil ; it forces the whole I strength of the soil into action, which activity will be followed by years of barrenness. The soil certaii.ly needs two things beside elbow-grease-pos sibly three. It needs food and rest-possibly stimulus. To use a parable: We have hired a laborer, and set him to work at early dawn. He works till late at night without any intermission, without even food. The moon comes out, and we say to him, "Work away, my lad ; work away ; the night is beautiful ana time is precious." All night he toils on, with neither sleep nor food, and in the morning the poor fellow is completely bro ken down. But we come out af ter our own comfortable rest, and sv, "Here, sivallow this drink of whiskey, and work on, my boy." He drinks, becomes excited, and works finely, till the influence of the liquor leaves him, when he finds that he is completely worn out. So we treat our land. We give no appropriate food of lime, plaster, bone, &c. We give no needea rest, and then, when the strength of our land is almost gone, we make it throw out its little remainifig force, under the stimulating influence of guano. , admit that guano is an excel lent thing to use when the land is in a very hig.hly manured condi tion ; but then, and only then.. I have tried guano, and have made eteellent turn-outs, but it al ways leaves the groun d (comparatively exhausted of its hormus. It is niot however, against g ui a rn o, b u t against tbe int--mperate use of it, that I complain. W hiiskey is niot rood, neither is guano manure there is somnething else needed be side the stimulus. Guano may be used with great profit on resited land by itself, but nowihere else, uniless composted with manures I give above the result of mny experience. It differs. I know, from the ideas of some of your readers, but I am right, and 1 know it The Citltivation of Barley. A travelling correspondent of' the Greenville (8. C.) Enterprise speaking of crops above and round Newberry, says: Fr. Moses C. Taggart, of White Hall, is a great advocate for barley ulture. He says he made 150 bushels on three acres of lan-1. It is of' great value-equal to corn or better to feed stock, soaked or ground; and the barley in. the winter and 'early spring, growing on rich land, makes a fine pasture, or may be cut and fed green. The arley on well prepared lands is the most certain of all otner crops. It is never injured by cold or wet or dry, nor by rust or mildew, like other grain. It makes itself ear lier than any other crop, being t he first to come to the relief of the farmer who likes plenty. Every body ought to cultivate barley in this eountry as a part of their crop; but it is no use to do so without enriching the land first, then it will surely pay. Mr. Tag gart sells his this year for $3.50 a bushel to a brewer 'in Columbhia It is to be converted into lager beer. Dr. Taggart uses the turn ing and -subsoil plough freely in the preparation of his lands' for various crops, especially for wheat and barley, and ofecourse manures freely with home.made and also the e~ommercial, and finds it pro fitable to do so. He is not peculiar' in these respects- Abbeville has pnany ofthbe same sort of enlighl Eie ad itrrei'e1lanlters. Keeping Sweet Potatoes. E. A. Baker, of Booneville, Indiana, publishes in the Country Gentleman the following directions for keeping sweet potatoes: Two or three plans are practiced in this community. One is to build a small cellar, say twelve or fifteen feet square, under the fam ily room of the house, only entered by a trap door through the floor -the cellar wall fitirig up to the floor of the room snug, so that no air can get through. The potatoes are dug and allowed to dry, when they are let down into the cellar without bruising. Through the winter the cellar is ventilated once or twice a week by opening the trap door for half an hour, during which time the outside doors of the room above should be kept closed. I have kept sweet potatoes in this way till the mid dle of April. Another, and I think the best plan, is to build a "house within a house," filling the space between the walls with clay. Two doors are huno-one to the inner and one to tte outer wall. The space above the joints is filled with clay or saw dust. The potatoes are dug and hauled to the house. The floor, or rather the ground, is covered with dry chaff. A layer of potatoes is carefullalaid on, and another layer of cha , and the process continued until the pile is about three feet high. A thick layer of chaff is then spread over the top, and the process is com pleted. A box, two by six inches, is placed in the wall, opposite the door, for ventilation. This is kept closed in cold weather, and only opened in the middle of the day, on warm days. Will it pay? . One of my neigh bors, whose name I might give if necessary, planted two acres of sweet potatoes last year.. and did all the work of cultivation himself, and he is sixty years old. He has two potato hon s, built after the plan given a ove. In the Springhe sold out of the-two houses and off of the two acres five hundred bush els, at three dollars per bushel. Other'eultivators in this country are doing as well, or perhaps bet ter; but I give this man's crop as as an example, because I know the facts. It is not the least remark able fact in the history. of the times that Geneal Rawlins died poor. Radicalism will tell you it ways his own fault. Honest men will tell you it was one of his greate'st virthes. "He occupied a position," says the Chicago Times, "from 1861 to his death, in 1869. at -every portion of which he ould have made his services and in8uence of pecuniary value. No ther man has been situated so as to have made more money with less trouble or liability of exposure. otton buyers stood always ready to give him thonsands for a strip f paper. He was exposed to temptations such as rarely fall to the lot of any man. That heonobly resisted themn; his poverty de onstrates. He was the owner f no houses and tote, no acres of and, no carriages and-horses pre reted him by admiring 'friends.' et those~ who want to thoroughly appreciate the nobility of his char aeter, his, devotion to duty, and his wonderful ahnegation, not omit to notice that, with an opportunity to accumulate millions, he died poor."~ Commodore Vanderbilt ought to be the happiest man on earth. He as a young and beautiful wife and a fortune of $70,000,000, and to render his felicity complete, an im mense work of art has been erect ed in his honor on the Western wali of the Hudson River Railroad in the c.ity of Ne w York. It con ists of an immense bronze sttue of. the Commodore placed in the een tre of a colossal basrelief, which is contrived to illustrate the career and achievements of the Commo dore, to represent the great in ventions of this century, and to portray allegorically the growth of the Republic. It covers an arena of 3,125 square feet. measures 150 feet in a straight line, and 31 feet. in extremne height ; weighs nearly 100,000.poq.nds, and cost over half a million of dollars. Bat beautiful wives, million of money. .and .col ossal bronze statues are not always happiness. To the bachelor who earns his daily bread by the-sweat of his bi-o 'this miay seen in credible ; but we are told~ it is true, ievertheless. Prenties fears the oChinese will me nnp all the biird'se*t. Will it Pay to Feed Bofl Corn to Stock? A Western farmer-gives his em perience on this point as followsei Having fed boiled corn to a few cattle last winter, I became eon. vinced that it was profitable and. decided to try it thoroughly this year. I am now feeding onlr two bushels of corn per day, tot seventeen head of oxen and heavy steers, and never saw cattle fattea better in my life. In addition to this they have * liberal supply of corn fbdder and if any farmer can name a cheaper way to make beef, I should lik' to hear from him. Perhaps the reader may aupr pose that the process of ook is tedious and expensive, bat it - not so. I have a boiler live feet longg two and a half wide, and one and a half deep ; the sides of white are made of poplar plank, and the bottom of sheet copper (iron in much cheaper and just as gO which will hold sir bushels corn. This is set on a stone fari nace and when fall of corn is filled about two-thirds full of ws: ter, and covered to confine the steam. After beating the water to a boiling point, it is allowed to cook about twenty minutes, when it is taken out and thrown' into the tubs which have holes in the bottom to drain the water back into the boiler. By taking the corn out at one' end, there is soon room enough to' roll the grain which is on the too down into the hot water, whi in addition to the stearning it has already received cooks it au ficiently. In cold weather the corn must be put into a bin in the cellar, which is the hardest: part of th labor. A handful of salt should be thrown in every time ti boiler is filled. One man will took twenty-five bushels in haliaa day, and one cord of wood wil boil a hundred bushels. - The cob of corn, in its dry state, is about as digestible as white oak chip, and the grain b1 just begun to soften after soakiAg wix hours in cold water ; but fer boiling, the cob is easily chewed and the grain erushes into cook"d meal under the teeth, so that: he process of digestion commences at Dnce. I am convinced that cattle' will thrive better upon two busb els of boiled corn, than upon three buhels in .its natural state. THE NOBLE QUEEN.--Once ina time of famine, a beggar womn, went through a village asking alms. From some bouses she wassati away with rough words ; at othera she received a very small glia'; only one poor gardner, as she *Es very cold, invited her into liis warm rooms, and liis wife, wbat ist baked cakes, gave her a nie large piece. The next day, all the peopIea* whose door the beggar wom.ewhad maled, were invited to sup'iere Quen's palace. When the e~~ nto the dinning-room they b~d i small table laden with the rieh - sat food, and also a large table with many plates, on which ther'e, was here and there a piece of ouldy bread, a few artieboke, >r a handful of bran; but for the' most part, the plates were en irely empty. The Queen said-"I was myself hat beggar woman in diagnse, ishing, in this time of distress. hen the poor are in such great need, o prove the charity ofimy peole, Phese two poor gardners took me in' ad entertained me as best thiey' sould; hence they will now eat with me, and I will fir a pension' Er life on themfl. The rest ofyon will entertain yourselves with the same fare which you gave he and which you wi find on these lates. With this re,member tat n the future world you will 1'l6 one day be served as yon~ se Ve ohers." SHocKIG AND FATAL A ccmss mens IY'E..-A most dlstressing nage ident occurred at Long Brah Askets Lement about seven miles *tmBlck. ille, on Wednesday ertgang 'Imst.s Mr. William Ogden, a highly e.msdnitl sen of that locality, desiring to have his well cleaned out, employed a -mqro.for' that pur pos,~ who, after a eritical asam. ination,decined to descend into thi wel, which was one of considerable ..dptlh. Nr. Ogden thereupon determined *i ded th work hims'elf, and- had. presueded but a short distance when thdaps broke, precipitating- him.to he.'o"@ of the well, and breaking his and bck. Mr. Shiver ofClombia is 0ithtiUt