Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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!,IS r " I 1_ emto .. .J. _w..-rAw . . .r .._. _ .... . . . N __. .._ . ...+. . r . _ . _ J _ - J .-Wf." + rru .w _ _ Vol. VI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1870. is rUBRi1s>ED EVERY WEDNESDAY MUR ING, At Newberry C. II., By 'Thos, F. & R. H. Gronokep, Editors and Propriotors. " Iuvariably in Advance. 1' Tbhu pori ato ped at the ekpiratton of S --.bo "i; mark douotes espiration of sub The Moral Danger of the State. Loss of property and a losson 1 tl g o f personal security, a 1 though amoig the most grievous conscquonceos of an .impuro and jn capable government,. are not by any moans the most enduring roa sons why it is the duty of every good -citizn to take an active part in, the movement for obtaining a fitithful and worthy administra tion of the affairs of the State. Oppressive taxation and 'a grow, ing public debt prevent the ac cunmulation of' private wealth, and gradually cat away the most con riderablo fortuno. The argument which touches the pocket has a voneroto force difficult to be inoa :sured by words. This cogent power dlrivos the people into the camp of Reform, and should make the now party, as a matter of 1)01' sonal interest, decisively success ful. But unless it is desired to have only a temporary rt'orm, a momentary light to be followed by pitchy darkness, the public must govern their actions by a higher motive than dollars and cents. The- must work for Puri ty and for honesty as indispeusa ble to the moral and intellectual, as well as tho material, healthful ness of all this peoplo. Unless the body politic be purged and cleansed, the popular mind cannot be strong and vigorous, fro to labor for its own advancementand for the high est rood of the State. Th3o history of South Carolina before the war between-the States is grandly simple ; it is the histo ry of a people who valued wealth, but did not makp it their God, who loved art and letters, who honored virtue and revered their chaste wonen-the mothers and - the daughters and the wives of the idolized .'almetto State. There was no restless progress, no fever ish activity of hand or brain. The stream of li;e flowed evenly along -broad enough and deep Cnogh to beat the hopes and the happi iness of a people, its borders all aglow with the tropic lies of the flowers of am bition and fhme. To matke hiast.e slowly was the watch word of' the Conservative states meni of .the time. This thing was not scornmed because it was old, * nor was thait thinhg adored because it was new. '.lh whole tone of society wvas cal ml1y conservative, guacoliduly st rong-the black sniake whtich lay beneath the rosos was unseon or forgotten. And -the war was a rude awak -eingii~ fronm dro'amiy reverie andl in llont sell-conitent. Smnooth-faiced boys and bearded meni, th oir Soutthiern boaelrts all aflame, an - swiored their mother's call--pour ing out thieiri precious blood oin ,the sanuds of the coast and in the valloys of the Wecst, cnshrining thieir marty r-bonos in the mighty reliquary of the Sou thi--thiat grand 01(d State, V Ia1u0N IA. Thle -war brought wvithi it no0 easily -pereep tible wveakening of the moral fibre. .'here were men, the first bloom .of' w hose honor was brushed-away in ruide buiYIe tinIig withI the world; there were fair girls who forgot that there is ai faultiness of' thought as well as of' act. Blut only a handful loll. The wva'r "'demoral ized"' little more than wouldl have boon,tarniishied and simirchied had not the dogs of Mars hecon loosedi upon01 the lan d. Anid in 18435, though riches wore swept away and homes made dlesolato, t his people was muanly3 and true--pu ri Iliod, not dlestroyod, by the fires of' afli'tion. F"or thio fir st year' or two the 11one of' South Carolina was un changed. It is true that tho wvhiitos were shiocked at the though t that ignmorando and iniexper'ienco mnight b o sot up in anuthori ty overi intelligence anid wvealth. But this was niot their wvork, and they wvaited paitientIly and quietly for that sett lig (down wvhich natural Jy follows a cycle of tumult andl sitrifei. The body chosen to friamo a new constitution mot and did its wvork. Still ther'e was no poCrCOp tiblo change in the comnmon ht.an dlardsl oh' right and wrong. Gov. cr-nor Scott was elected andl the recon struction Genoral Assembly bogan its sossion. This was the turning~ point. After two years of Pairty logislation, the 1peopl1 ha\lt atnd hesitate. Whewther thecy go0 witht the truth 0or join hands with fialschood, depends upon the victory or defeat of It. K. ,Scott and his fling, in the coming general elec t ions. - A ltoady .the evil leaven is work ing. The General Assembly could b)o b.oulght, anid peop)lo began to tink that the conclusive ar'gu mnit of mneuy was more conven ion t than the reasoning founded on equity and right. Theli State oflojals wvoro sellinig their influ. oncoe, and men of' ourt -owni poeople woroe found r'eady atnd eager . to buiy. (Irood(y p oliticians grow rich hy. ilching and by venal specula tioni, andl Sonuth Carolinians were roadly t.o join the Ring and take c hoeir share. They used( the (do. eeitiful p)lea that these things 00ould . n'j he jnoevntcd ai whee muon cy was going begging, they, as T well as strangers, had a right to a part of the spoils. This feeling is growing in strength, and during ci the last few months, public men, c whoso hands before woro clban, are declared to have sold thorn- in selves for a big fee or an -interest tl in a lucrative speculation. They have given themselves up, body et and soul, to a band of thieves and ,fr robbers for a part of the common C< booty. Men begin now to judge wv by the standard of profit and not p by tho standard of right. Exam- e plo has its influence, and we firm- A ly beliove that another two years e of shameless thieving and public al impurity will so sap the founda tions of the moral fabric, that all South Carolina will secretly be p0 governed by the identical influon cs which make Scott and his free h companions a hissing and a by- I word throughout the U nion. It is not all of life to grow sleek al and righ. How dare men make be mondy by trickery and bribery, W and then hope that their own sons , will be upright and puro ? The canker of immorality eats into the very heart of society. Good citi- t zens now calmly do things which c it would have destroyed them to think of in the times before the war. The bolts aid pins are loos cued which held together the no blo fame of' South Carolina integ rity. Two years more of' strain- P ing and heaving will sunder tit.- cl ber from timber, and send the C1 whole mass into the vortex of' pub- ti lic and private corruption. And o upon the citizens of this State, for it themselves and their children, ri rests the burden of responsibility. r( They may restrain the advancing a tide. They may burn out the ti festering sores. They may drive e away the thieves and money- t changers, *ho desecrate the capi- tc tol. 'hey may show the world b what a noble sight it is to sco a A whole people struggling as one o maul, not for gold or lands, but for t an honest government, which may st protect rich and poor alike, and v' will, in all its departments, be I able, -impartial and pure. In this t way they may save the old State e from ruin, they may save their own names from dishonor, they , may encourage their childeen to live like the men who made the y name of South Carolina, in olden h days, synonymous with rectitude n and truth. i [Chcarl'ston Daily .Ncws. a HAWIouN AND DICKEN.-AI. tr most every authentic anecdoto and overy valuabio criticism by his compeers, relating to Charles Dickens, (says the Philadelphia v Public Record,) will now be eager- t ly caught up and read with inter- ft est, so universal is the foolin)g (is played for the lamentel novelist. Our attention falls upon a briet, allusion to Dikens in a recent volume of iawthorne's "Note Books." He says: "Speaking ofCI Dickens last evening, Mir. mentioned his lomestic taste; how lie preferredl home enjoy ments to all others, and did not willingly go much into societ.y. Mrs. -- , too, the 0 ote daiy t told ius of htis taking on hi mselfI all h possible trouble as regards his do mestic affairs." And elsewhere liet recor'ds this brief' but livel*y and pleasant image of' the famous nov- i clist in his jour'nal : October 2.-At a dinnter parity at Mr'. Hlolland's last~ evening, ar gentleman, inm i nstance of' C harles D ickens' uinwearibili ty, said t hat duitring somen theatrical per'form- b ance in Liverpool he aotcd in play and1( farce, spont the r'est of the night making speeches, feasting h and d'rinking at tab)le, andl onedml(l at, seven o'clock in the mornting b)y junmping leap-fr'og over the backs of the whole company. Take away honor and imagina tiont andl poetry froum wiu-, and it. becomes car'nage. Dloubtless. And take away public spirit aind invisi ble principles from reosistanco to a tax, and 11ampJden becomines a noisy CI demagogue. Carnage is tcririble. IDeath, and insults to woman wvorseoh than dleathi--and1 human features ob- E4 literatedl uinder the hoof' of the wvar- i hors-and reeking hospitals, andl ruined commer'ce, an d violatedR homes, and broken hearts-they are all awful, Bunt there is some- e thing wvorse than dheath. (Cowvard- 0 ice is worse. And it is worse than o death, aye, worse thanm a hundred d thousand (eaths, wvhen a people li has gravitated dowvn into the cred( at that the "wealth of nitions" con sists not in generous hearts--{ "Fire in each breast, anid freedom oeach broewc in national vir'tues, and primitive li( simplicity, and heroic endurance, at indl profor'eneo of dlut.y to life; In rnot ini MIEN, but in silk, and cotton, Jo ind something they call "capital." h( Peaco is blessed. Peace, arising ?1 ut of charity. But popco spring- in ng out of the calculations of' sel- tI ishtnoss is not blessed. If the st prico to be paid foi' peace is this, 14 Lhat wealth accumulIate and men locay, better far' that every street n every town of our Once nioble gaintry should run blood.--.Rob- vi rtson. a he Privilege of Proposing. The London Spectator t h u a oss a roview of Epos Sargent's Toman Who Dared"-tho wo an who dared to "propose" to o man she loved : It is strange that this domand ins from the' United States om the very place whore the urtoous deference to women, 1 ith which it is obviously incom Itible, is practiced to an oven :cossivo degree. Or do t h o merican ladies think that they n retain the old privileges, and I so secure the new ? Will they, r instance, still be able to tndi Ute to a man, by a touch of the I rasol, that he must vacate some i at they may fancy, while they I tve every power and right for 1 hich these concessions of cour sy aro really meant as an equiv cut? Why, the parasol would ,cone the awful instrument with hich they would order off the I iresisting man to the church, or I herever else t h e i r advanced isdom might choose the ceremo- 1 r, if indeed they still cared for a iremony, to take plac'e. It is ailto clear, indeed, that the whole der of our social arrangements I uat be remodelled beforo the f rivilego of "proposing" at her < easure can be accorded to wo en. At present, the woman who i iooses to do such a th.ing uses an iormous and most unfair advan- F igo which our customs give her, the implie.d understanding that should not be so employed. The F iles of courtesy which make hor I ,quests law must be altogether )rogated in view of this new con ngency. There must be no pr deico, no leforence, nothing but to courtesy accorded by equals 1 > equals. And there must also the equal purso on both sides. F man proposes because ho can Tor an establishment and a main manco; a woman who can do the utne is allowed to do something ery like proposing. But that omen should propose to share tat which they do not help to rn, is a thing which, if men ould endure it, they could hardly anturc. Such a state of things ay come to pass.. IIlppy, ' he ho can congratulate himself that is mantrimonial arrangements are ado already, and who will find the possibility of such an event new motive for hoping that they ay be permanent. Our Language. I Dictionary English is something cry different, not only from com- 1 on colloquial English, but even I om that ordinary written con osition. Instead of abet 40,000 ords, there is probably no single ithor in the language fr6m whose orks, however voluminous, so any as 10,000 words could be )llected. - Of the 40,000 words, lore are cortainly many more man one-half that are only cm [oyed, if~ they are ever employedi all, on the rarest occasions. e should any of us be suirprised(l find, if wve countedl them, with ow small a number of wvords we anage to eoxpress all that we have say, either with our lips or 4 ren with the p0on. Our common terary English priobably hardly <tonmds to 10,000 words, onr comn-I onI spoken English hardly to 000. And the proportion of na- I Ve, or hlomegrown words, is un-< mbtedly very much higher in >th thme 5,000 and 10,000 than it in the 40,000. Perhaps of 30, )0 words, or thereabouts, stand- I g in the dlictionaries, that are 'ry rarely or never used, oven ini riting, betwooen 20,000 and 25,-t )0 may be of French or Latin etraction. If we assume 22,500 be so, that will leave 2,000 Ten- I nic words ini commflonl use ; andl I our litcrary English, taken at ),000 words, those that are noni oman will thus amount to about i-half. Of that hallf 4,000 words aiy be current in our spoken nguage, wvhich will therefore be muine English for four-fifths of t in entire extent. It will consist about 4,000 Gothic and 2,000 oman words. SLXmENO R Ls-lady travel-I ',(disgusted with sleeping cars as >w~ arranged, writes : It may ber bristian and civilized, and all at, for peop1e to lodge together,i it I think it is not convenient, 1 id I think one gorgeous car cx- j mdold into two plain onies, for e separ'ato accomnmodlation of t e sexes at i hgt would be a pub blessing. oni wvill stalk up Fd (down the cars in a n ligo-e bit, but, women will not. 'Ihoy t in the curtains together, undo a ~ o0k-and-eye, uinfasten alaco,tako ~ t a hair-pin, and after they are e bed drawv off' their gaiters. Fur or they (dare not vontuire, for if no wvalls have ears, tapestry li rhe General Synod of the Evangelical thoranm Synod of North Amerien, lich Closedl its session at Winchester,. .a few days ago, has decided to locate l(d From the Now York Commorolul Advertiser. Society In New York. AN UNPLEASANT 11cTURE. "Macaulay," who writes from his city to the .Ioclestor Demo ,rat, draws the followV'ing not ox rggorated picture of the condition >f things in what is called the )>st society in this city. Accord ng to Macauly, train up a child, mld away lho goes: "Among our 'first families,' the auniiy relation is very peculiar. [Iero is a husband who loves his vife so tenderly that he keeps away 'rom her as much as possible. lie s a business man, and gets home it midnight, or later, being do :ained down toi n by office duties. Vhat a blessed excuse that word business' is, and how like charity t does cover a multitude of sins !' Where are thoso business' mon 'rum ten o'clock P. M. until the ittle hours of the morning set in ? What stlange stories might be old.of that 'business' they are o often pleading as an excuse or absence. Those . men have bhildren, but how much do they now of them ? When (10 they :eo them ? A glimpse, perhaps,. >n Sunda'. The wife, on the >ther hand, has her house, with ts fine furniture, its pictures, its :1,000 piano, its equipago, etc., werything but domestic felicity. i'ho children grow up. They lave no homo. That splendid lwelling as no domestic attach nents. They wander oft' to the lub House, to Delmonico's and .o similar resorts, to find that sheor denied them under their pa rents' roof. What relation do ,hese children bear to their pa 'euts ? They are simply nuisan ;es. If daughters, they are early nstructed in the mysteries of fash on and create an endless drain on Ahe purse, while if boys, they are packed away to boarding schools, where tihe lessons in mischief find pt sclolars. It is wonderful to ee how 'full of the devil' these fellows get before they are four Leon. What is the idea they en tertain of a aother ? - A woman that dressesv li une clothes and 5it3 chatting in the parlor, while hoy are p)laying with the sor ants. What is their idea of a ft ,her? It is that of a strange man )f whom they stand in foar, who lppears once a week or so in the amily. He is the 'governor,' or .ho 'old man.' Ito has money, tnd that gives him importance, mud the great question is how to ap his purse--money must be ,1ad. It may be coaxed out of the nother, but 'the governor' is not .easily managed. From him it nust be obtained another way, md in that way it, is obtained. What a paternal condition is this? ! man of the world has a brace )r more wild sons who are going o ruin as fast as possible. 'They roc his masters now, and money boy03 willI have. I knew one of ~heo follows to write to his father hmus : 'L want you to send me one undro.d dlollars, and never ask no any questions.' What a bliss 'ul relation did these 1hold toward achi otehor ? The0 son ran through ill mairner of dissipation, was a ambler, rake and drun tkard, and y enlistinig wvhilo ini a state oflin .oxication, dhiedl in the service. I ately asked one of these youths -oncrmninmg his br'ot her. ~'DLon't now wheroc dick is,' was the re >iy.' 'lHe had a blow up with the ~overnor and cleared out.' lie md(I not, however, gone off empty undedlO(, as the 'governor's di mun shed stock of 'govern men ts' can estity. One of these 'governors' econtly attemp)ted to stop) his ~on's late hours by turning the toy upon him, lie never did this mlt once. The ingenious youth hid not need a key. IHo pitched paving stone through the plato ~lass windlow of' the second story, 'he next night he was not locked mt. ~Most ot' these youths bring ho 'gover-nor' into a treaty of' ou tr-ality with a regular subsidy. My son,' quothi one of these 'gov 'rnor-s' to another, 'will h ave $2,000 year. It's too much, I know, mit wvhat can you do about it ? 'lhe boy is ruined, andl you can't nake him any more so.' When tho boy' has got his allowance it s all right. Th'lo governor sees im b)ut seldom, and never inte ores with his schemes of pleasure. l'ho boy' is on the go all the mo-r-aces, theatres and( gaming rove more fasciating than dull1 ecooptionis and ovonming pam-ties. everal grandI balls were given, hm p)ast winter, among thme demi monde, and the chief were found mong our 'first young men.' Oc asionally, one of these follows 'eta killedl or commits suicide, and hen there is a sensation in high fe, but it is quickly forgotten. V'o do not expect anything difYor A Chicago woman now wvants a ivorco because her husband is a uiight edito." A Tribute to the Memory of Dickens, by the Rev. Wm. R. Alger. On the Sunday following the death of Charles i)ickeons, tho Rev. Mr. Dunn of the Beach street PresbyterianCliurch,Boston, preached a sermon entitled "Van ity of Vanities," in which ho at telpted to show that the lifo of the great genius has boon a la mentable failuro. In the course of his sermon, he said : "Mr.Dick ens may have written many noble things, in which we rejoico, but he has written -and read many a line which is deadly poison." Whotber the sormon was duo to a pardonable ignorance or an un pardonablqvish for a sensation, or a mixture of both, nobody knows and nobody cares, for Mr. Dunn is a man of no mark. Tho true sentiments of Boston towards )ickens, were well presented yes-1 terdiy, by the Rev. William R. Algor, in the Music Hall, his sub ject being "The Sword and the Pen, with a tribute to the memo ry of Charles Dickens." In allu ding to the power of novelists, and secular writers, ho said ihat in the pages O( the theologiuns the name of' Christ is constantly used, but it stood for a -character of' hideous cruelty. Thero was more of real Christianity and self sac: ificing - love in 1)ickens' do scription of the child in the Lon dol Hospital, than in all the pon de-ous tenets written by John Calvin. A high pl.ace among those who havo distinguished them selves as the best instructors of' mukind must be assigned to Charles Dickens. His moral vir tue and tendern'ess was extraordi nary, and ho excelled as a teacher of piety and virtue; a proof.of pi oty was manifest in every allusion he made to God, or the unknown aid infinite. The happy spirit in-which ho contemplated all ob jects, was a central consideration in his whole literary life. His kindly pen photographed all with a touch of beauty. Io never dipped his pen 'iu gall, but in tears anxd hin heart's blood. The vast ntmbor of-eharactcrs with which he peopled an enchanted world of li are reujarkablo for their truth lnROno or ret)resentation and mor ality of effect. Such a man puts tho human raco in his debt. Ito omancipates and enriches by the sublime touches of his gonius. What sunshine ho shod into the homes of mon ; what a flood of' happiness he dispensed to the four corners of the globe l Standing beside the dead Dickens he would say: Tread not on him. Peace I The man is noble, and his fame folds in the orb of' the earth. If ho did not believe the orthodox croods.of the Church, ho had ron .lored groat sorvice to Christianity by unveiling' the fallacies of the Church. Ie had novor written one word of attack upon morality or roligion, and he should not be subjected to the miserableostandlard of the sectarian con vectie. Dick ens did wirito for (lie aipplauso of' the wvorld ; ho sacrificed for truth. In his wvritings lhe directly copied the example of' Christ, who took litt,le children in his iarms.Evr touch from tho genius of ickens in r'eference to a child was ex tremely beaut i ful, and hadii borne fruit, in softoniung the hearts of' his reader's. D1ickenis is dead, but hiis works will live. These pao of' tondeirness, w hich no one could r'oad wvi thou t tear's, will al ways reOceivO love andl( honor. We can scar'ccly express strong-a lyr enough oiu' owni 'e conenrii rence in ov'ery word of' thie above, uttered in fav'or of D)ickens. [Charle.slon (Courier. The Remarks of the EdgofloldI Advertiser-The SpirIt. of the Da y- General Butlor Progressive. The .Phamvix in' publishing thie remarks of tho Adreriser Oin the spirit of' tho Rcfoi'm movemont, justly says: They aroe, we think, based up on a duom appreciation of tho Spirit of' the times hero and in Europe. They rocogn izo in filences thatt pro'v.ail. As for our dluty in these times, we think that General Bunt her showed that ho understood it, wvhen he said, "1 pr'~oos to step to the fr-ont andl gra ,>lo with things as they ar'e." A or is it less evident that Gen. Butler' is in accoi'd wvith the progressive spirit of the times, wvhen lie says, wvith force : "Look where we may, th-e ten dency of' the time is towards (lie onlar'gent of' p)opular 'ighits. The G~erm an Confedcirat.ion has sprung into greatness under (hli magic poweir of the illuistirious Bis marck. The French doemand re form, and the Emperor' concedes it through the medium of the pie biscitum. The people of Great Britain demand reform, and it is granted by that strong Gover'n mont. Spain is emancipating hoir slaves, and Russia her serfs. All the c-ivilized countries of th ar.h arO engaged in the same progres sivo movement, and why should we of America lag behind in the race? Sir, it is in the pursutance of theso great demands of the hour, that we concedo what has been embodied in this platform. If' we had no other- reason, the motive of progrooss alone would be a sufliciont excuse for the position we take. The diflorenco between the governments of the Old World and of the Now is, that when ro foi'm is demanded there, states. men are sagacious and yield to the pressure, at the samo time that, they preserve the dignity, and integrity of the Government. in America, however, we tear things up by the roots. We on dangor and imperil the exising state of thiligs, and turn the bot tom up, leaving the roots to ox piro in t ho sun. Now sir, all the reform wo urgo is in the manage. mont of the aff'airs of the State. It is not. a question of politics, not ia question of power, but of truth, lonor and virtue." 1 Vc16:vi i l-' ru . 1ttni.i.:.--Tho art rangementts made by the Conunit too of the Convocatiou of Canter bury for the revision of' tho an 1.h rized version of the Scriptures seem to be exceedingly wise. There aro to be two compnies; onlo for the revision of' the Old Testament, which is to begin work onl tie Pentateuch ; and one for the revision of the New Tea tanent, whiclt is to begin work oin the three Synoptie Gospels. The Old Testament Company, Consisting of' the Bishops of' St.. David's Llandatlf, Ely, Lincoln, Bath and Wells, with four schiol a's from the Lower House, is to invito a nunber of' seiola's of' all opinions, churclhes and sects ranging fromt It'. Pusey to Dr. Davidson-to- join it. The Now Testament Company, Consisting of' the ' Bishops of' Winchester, Gloucostor and Bristol, and Salis bury, with the Deans of' Canter bury and Westminster and Canon Blakosly, invites a similar acces sion to its nimbers from all their logical schloolti---from11Romn Catth olics (for Dr. Newton is invited) to Unita'ians, who aire reproson. ted by a learned biblical scholar, tho Rev. G. Vanco Smith. The object to be aimed at is to make no alteration that is not really of import, and oven then to make it as much as possible in the style of our authorizo vorsion, .and to mako none on the authority of any MS. reading for which there is not a decidedly preponderating evidence. The New Testament Company is already at work---the Bishop of' Giloucestet' and Bristol, who is the soul of it, having the work really at heart. Companies constit.uted s is proposcd, if they can only really agroo, should coim mand the confideuco of aIukst all Englicshuon for their alterations ; so that we may at loast get rid of all manif'ust errors, admitted to be error's by all scholars, w.ith.out. un dloriinlLg the popiular 'reorence foi' the .Bible.--ondon T'imes, ~ll onaInt a -r .-.f w d y ago, a youniig ladl passi ng hurr'iiodl ly acrtoss West Broadway, New Yorkl att an inlopportunot moment, wtas kniocid dlowvn by the horsos of a city ralilroadi( cari, andll his body1 thrown in) such fan attitudo as to bin g his hleadl at the~ wheel. Oni went, tihe car' anid hIoforet it could( be sItoppedC tihe terriible crushiiig noiso0 whllich lItarItled thle palssenIl gor'4, andl thle Ifrigh tfl s3croeCch wvnhih almost turnode( b)1ood to fr'igiditIy told a toribhle tile. Thol haad's head was comnpletoly severed, and1 I his brin'is seaittre ClClover tho track anud the w heels. .11oi'ror seizedI ever'y body in the car and it, was a long timo beforo they ro.. ('overe'd. Theli ac'cidlent was pu rely the fault of' thle lad. '[Th great b)otanlisi., Linmen1s11, thoughlt of' constrt'infg ai floral clock by a spec~ial arrIanlgementof' dif'eron t kind of' flowors. It wtouild not be so diffloult a matteo' as might be suppoAcd. Tihe morn ing-glor'y opens at dawn, tho star of' Bethlehem at toni o'clock, the ico-p)lant att nioon, thle four' o'clock at that hour11 in thle afltrnoon, the evening primrose at sunset, andI tihe nighit-flowerinig ~corous attot' dar'k. The beautiful whito water lily ciosos its petals at sunset and sinks bonoathl the sur'f'ace of tile lake or river' f'or tile night. A t dawn tile petals expand and the flowver emerges again from its wa tery bed. A y'oun g man ini Inianafllf wor'ked all last suminmer' to clear' an eighty ace tract of' land belonginig to a younig woman whio hadl prIoisfed to marry hlim. When, jusft as the weather' began togotcoldl, lie wont to Climi his r'ewar'd, Silo married another fellow wh'lo had looked on wvhile the victim wvas working. An Indina divorcee is engaged as chamrber'mafid to hter remarried huIsband, at $8 per month, and finds It more( p.rofitable and agreeable than her former aitationn. Slanders Against The News. Therm is, in this city, a filthy ovening paper, published in thu in torest of the Scott Ring, and supported from weok to week by money robbed, with or without the forms of law, from the State Treas. ury. Few respectablo peoplu are aware oven of its oxistonQo, its cir culation being confined, almost ox elusively, to the State ofilco-holders of high and low degree, among wvhom it is pofuotly well under. stood that tho tenure of their places involves uncomp lai ning sub mission ,o the petty black mail of a "subscription" to this wretched Drgan of the Ring. Each day the uditorial columns of the shoot in questiol teem with grovelling apologies for the flagrant atroci ties of the gang of thieves and scoun drels who are in possession of our Stato (overnment, varied only by impoten it abus of, and lying in ntnendoes against, The Charleston News. Coiscions of tho systo Imatie venality which rules its own uLtererncos, it has had the unblush ing etl'rontory to Insiinate, not once, but repeatedly, that the po litical course of 'the News has been influenced by Corruption. To these insinuation~s, colting from t. notoriously iifiumous source, and inspired by a desporato and shame. less thirst. for notoriety, we have c'hoson, hitherto, to pay no hoed. Eiboldened, perhaps, b>y -our si lence, the mouth-piece of the Hing ventures to become moro explicit in its slanders. In its issuo of Saturitday we find t.hoso words: " cu cbargo tlhat. ''he ('harleston News, which makes such a show inl ita advocacy of honesty, re ecived at bribe to cono its denun. cintions of the [Phosphate] bill." In South Carolina, where the relative standing, integrity and veracity of' The Charleston News id its accuser are known, any nlotice of this charge at our hands might be neodless. But lost the alshlood should find its way un contradicted beyond the linits of the State, to the discredit of the Union tReform causo in the Ovos of the country, we doem it best to mootit at once and squarely. Wo therefore brand tho state mont we have quoted as utterly and maliciously false. If oven at shadow of foundation exists for the chargo., the proof must be easy. Thue 1roprietors of Tho Nows horo distinctly invite and defy the Ring and all its satellites to adduce such proof. Until the proof' bo forthcotuing, the editors of the Ring organ must stand be fore the public not only as politi cal knaves, but as unscrupulous and solfconvieted liars and do fuatrs.-Uharleston News. A SU MI MMiEI i)a1 K.-Some years ago I found the following re coipt in the Telegraph for mak ing a good summer drink. I have used it every season since, and as I murh approved. it, I think it is wor'th r'epulblishing: l 'roparoe a five-gallon keg (a ton gallon if' you prof'er,) in propoertion to the sizo of' the fumiily-.draw a picco of coarso bobinoet, or very c~oars'o- book-muslin over' the~ nDd of' then fautcot that its insorCtedl illto the keg, to provenlt its choking, a good tight, bunog, amnd near to t hat; a gimnlet htolo, with a pog to fit, tight. l''or five gallons take 01no qIuart of' soun D corn, put in to the kceg, with halfI a gallIon of' molas-5 se's ; then fill with csld water with ini two iDn'hce of'the hung. Shake well, andti ini two or throe dlays it will be fit for use. Ung tight. If' yon want sprucoe flavor, add one teaspoo0(fuli of osAeonco of .sprtuce lomown, if' lomon is proforrd-ginf goDr, or any flavor yonl profer. TIhe corn will last to make live or six brewings ; w'hen it is ex'hausted, renmew it. When the beer, passes fr'om the vinous to the aecCtonsH f'ermn 1tationi it ('an ho corrected by adding a little more molasses T h1 is i si mple, cheap beverage. After the beeru becomos ripe, it ought to ho kcopt. Ini a cool pilaec, to provent it friomi becoming sourt beoforo it is exhaustod.-Ger. TeI'lc g'raph. FF.EL.s Li KE A MoUJsTAcHl E.-Seov oral young girls were atmning themselves a short time ago with anD cloetii battery. Miss Em ma pr'oposed taking one of the po010s and1( her' fiondi( Annie theo other. andl inDstead( of' joining hands, kiss each other. A sor'eam from Annie caulsed tho.lady wvho was turning the wheel to stop suddenly, wvhen 10mmai oxlie that it "1'olt like aI monistahie."' 'lhoe poinit its, how, didl the young lady know ho0w a moustacho If you want to cure a scolding wife, never fail to laugh at her with all your might unrtil 8h0 conse--thon kiss her. Sure cnre and no quack medicine. WVAsNnwToN, June 25.--'.Tbe South and West will have an in eroase of ban kl'ng facilities to the uxtinnt of Sldi.OO6 ann ADVE.tISIN0 l .Advertlseonnts inrted t tl r4f$LO*., or square--"l'e inch-=-foef tIAer*, 1 fbr each subsequent ' IlUDo ,' column advertisenonts tortpercb1toupl0fQ; Notices of mectilngs, obltuarliq AndZflb 4tf'. of relspect, same rates per squ(tta as d ary. advertensents. S octal notices in -local colutu 00 her of in ents not tnarked withtto nut and charged w I b.o kept ti t l forbid Specint contracts iY t1sors, with liberal dedu ith largo'dd -. abovY0rt1te8 Jrus Paz.N'z' Dono with Nostness and Disprtchl Terms Cash. Writing by Sourid. A progressionist who has boon looking (luito deeply into tho rrmil stone offuturity, thus prophosies "Tlho timo may como, though i may sceon prematurO to expoot it, wLen a man's words will be madu to writo teniselves down autdiaat ically as fhist as thoy como froni his lips-when a speech will yield a sound picture, or i Sologran, thalt wo may13 gazo upJon1 as5 WO now do upon a light picture, and trani lato as we do the notes of a pioco of music. Nonsense, you, say ? It is no nonsenso, no (1reamn. ' Go ask a physicist if' he oan conceivo its possibility, and, unless he bo- It very narrow sightod niomboe of his comm nnity, e will ieply that, he can. You who now say "non sonc'' would have said the samo fifty years ago, if any one had told you thaltt som1o day the imago of your coun0tenanlco would paint itself pholtlgraph ically. But beforo you repeat your derision think of this : Light is a wave-mot.ion, and1( the chemit, has foun1d at Sub. stance whIIich th[o waves, as they dash agiilnst it, can transform or triismiuto; and So we havo got. photography. Sound is it wave mlotioln ; its waves r hreakers, lights are ats ripples ; th1o former largo and 1slow, the latteI' small and rapid. Now, since wo havo got the substanco that is impres. sible by the littlo veak wavo, why should we despair of finding a sub. 5tanCe t.hat, will alter tunder th. inI lnnce of' t he great, strong oneFs? W1'o can altke it lamp-glass ring with the voice pitcliol to ia cortain note ; soonl WO ma11y Caulse tho sam1111 sound to vibrato ia body that will makO a mark On paper as It swings, and( then we enn make another working body vibrate to another" 4ounl, anid so On 1p the gamut. Thus, wo shall get an apparatus which will muark the notes of a melody, each as it is sung ; and after this it is not dillcult to con ceiro ia serieu of vibrators eachi at- . uned to 0113 of' the separato and distinct sounds that the hum an v'oico enn) utter'. .1iOe will be ani anialogno to t he phlotogr'apheir's camera'i) ; placed before a sp)eaker', 81ue.hl ani apparaI'ltus w'ill toniographi aill lie has to) say. Somo1 whiosmilo at this will live to seo the thling dono. . "SoMiir:ruu.--Thle following is1 one of Mr. Prentice's waifsi, miany o.f whlichl appieared in t ho Loluis.. ville .Journial mn itsa palmniest dIaya: "Sometimo--it is a swect, sweet song, warblLed to andI fro amon11g the topmnost boughs of the boart, anud filling the whole air with such joy and1( gladness as the songs of birds whon01 the summer101 morn1in)g comes out, of dar'kness, and day' is born on the nlount?iius. WVo hiavo all our possession ini thu futuro, which wo en111'sometime.' lBeaultiful tilowers and sin~gint. birds are there, only our hands seldom1) g rasp thoi one0, Or our ear's hear the oth.10. -But oh, reader, be of good cheer, for all the good there is at goldent 'someti me';' when tho h1d1Is aml vatlloys of tim are311' all pa1ssed(; w hen thle wvear' and1 fevecr, the dis apipointmentW1 and11( tile sorrowV ol lif'e :'re over, thon thlero is the phice aund the res t apointed of Godl.-Oh()l, homes('tead1(, over, w hoso roo1f fal nio shad(o ws, or' over' w hio th reshiol thle voice of sorri";v is ne ver' blarid; bu1It upon01 thle et ersnalI hlills, and1( stanidinug.withI thy spires anid1dpinniacles of' elestial begauty amIlonIg thle 1palmIi trees of tile city3 on hiigh, these whlo love G~od shallI r'est, un der thy3 8shadi ows, whero01 there0 is Jl nolmor sorrowV l nor ~ pai, nior the souind of weeping." A SMAT-1P0x RnIhnny).-A cor.. iresponidet IOf the Stock ton, CJal i.. iorin i, IIeradld wr1i tes as follows: I hierewit ai ippeiid at recipt w hieb as been't used( to miy knowl..11 edge in hunitdireds of' eauses. .1t will prievenit or cure l' .h111 sm all -pox Sihouigh the Pit Linrgs arc filling. Whenic Jlenner' discove'rcd the cow.. iox inl En~Igland t lie world of1 seiOn1co l hul an av'alanchoe ot' famo upon his head, but, when tho most scientifIc school .of medicino in the wvorldl--that of' Paris-pub1 , lishaed this recipo as'a paneca for smanll-po.'!, it passe'd unheeded(l0(. it. is as8 untfailing as fato, antd con1queralt in overy instance. It is harim less wheni taken by a well person). . will also eure scar'il. fever. ]Iero is the recip)o as8 1 havo used it, and)4 cured my children of' scarlet fceer; bere it is as8 1. havo used( it to eurio thea smnall-pox-when01 learn ed phy'sicians said t he pationL inmst dieo it cured: -Sulpha111to o1f zinle one gr'aini, f'oxgIovoe (digitalis) ono0 grinil, half' a teasp)oonful of' sugar; mix with two~ tabllespoon.. fule of' water. Whein mlixedI add fomur oncei oif' water'. Take a table spoonful (lvery hour. Either dis-' caso will disappear in twelve hours. For' a child smaillor dloses according to ago. .If counltica would compol thoir physicians to use this there would bo.no nood of' posthouses. If yon value adviedi and experience, usg this for that terrible diseoase. A smart thiner....a mutarda te,.