Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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If vou wish a sofr, ptrasant light to read by, get a Blue Gi--s Lamp G3hi:cnncy, or a Combinationi C him: ey and Shade from POPE & WARDLAW. DDW SS SUN DRIES. *We havre just received ai s:cn,id ?sFort ment of HAIR and TOO:T B USIIES, TOILET SOAPS, from 5c. a cake upwards, and an entire new sufppiy of DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES and FANCY GOODS in gcne ral, to which we invite the attention of all, more especially the ladies. Our stock of DRUGS, PATENT ~i1EDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, GLASS, SEGARS, TOBACCOS, PIPES, CADBrandies, Wines and Whiskeys Fwe Medicinal purposes, Is full and all recently purchased, which we will sell as LOW AS THE LOWEST,I and upon reasonable terms. Pn-RSITIn NSrl O MP4ND EDt? I'atces, C7ocI., Jewetry Watchmaking and Jewelry EDWARD SCIIOLT2 (AT A. M. WICKEIZ's OLD STAND.) Respectfinly informs the public of New berry and vicInity, that he has purchase Mr. John 0. Peoples' stock of jewelry, t< which he will ADD A NEW STOCK OF WATCHES, CL. CKS, JEWELBY AND FANCY ARTICLES. A specialty made in !EPAIRING ALL ARTICLES IN THIE LINE. Thankful for the patronage conferred or him in the past, he respectfully solicits continuance, with the assurance that every etTort will be made to give satisfaction. Sep. 2(,, 39-tf. Commission "Werchants. O. F. I TR 'tVflIOLIEbli ALE GRCER AND COMMISSION xER CHANT. Nos, 110, 112 and 181 EAST BAY STo '0R1REEST0N, S0, 01.S Oc. 3, 40-3m. HENRY BAYER, FOR~ THE SALE OF COUN4TRY PRODUJCE, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Frail AND 21.5 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. gg Sales at best market prices. DIMEDIATE CAS~I RETURNS. By carefully following the above rules, am enabled to sell to the entire satisfactior of shippers. Oct. 3, 40-3m. F. V. BARDIN. J W. T. PIlT. N I P. T. PITTMAN ARDIN, ITTIMAN & CO1 FACTORS -AND 0011180 iERRH TS NAVAL STORES, Accommodation Wharf, CIIARLESTON, S. 0. Special attention given to the sale of 0o1 ton. Consignments solicited. ESTABLISHED 1874. GEO. B. EDWARDS COTTON~ and GjENERAL tOMISSION MIERtIHIT CHARLESTON, S. C. Prompvt attention given to sale of Cottor Grn, Peas, Rice and Produce of all kinda Merchandise bought free of comisi~ or Agent at Charleston for State Line Ocea Steamshios between; New York, Glas;:on Liverpoof, Lo'tdon and. all parts of EuromC Rm:erE:-:s--Dank of Charleston, Ja: Ager & Co., C. T. Lowndes & Go., Charles ton, S. C. HAIMPTON HOUSE 1111N STREET, SPA RTANBU RG, So. Ca. (Formerly of Palmetto Uouse.) Iouse wel' ventilated---rooms new.y fu: 01- the ntr tt $nti ernt -wniast o all trains. Terms 32.00 per daa "Ay, write it down in black and white The date, the age, the name; For home has never seemed so dear As since our baby can'e. No ch ild before was half so sweet, And never babe so wise; And John, the neighbors say, indeed, It has its father's eyes." 'Nay, wife, I'm sure they're like your own; The rogue's his mother's boy. How strange that such a tiny form Can cause such boundless joy! And you will have him named for me? Come, think it o'er again; For 'John' is but a homely name-" "Nay, do not drop your pen, "For 'John' shall be his name, my dear, It is his father's own; And though a hundred more were given, I'll call him that alone. His father's eyes, his father's face, His father's form, I'm sure; God grant he have his father's heart, Life's hardships to endure!" "Well, there, 'tis written down at last; The record is complete, Henceforth we'll lay our loving hearts Beneath our baby's feet. Ah, wife our home's a bumble place We're humble folks-that's true; But I'm a king with boundless wealth In that young rogue and you. "So baby, wink and blink, my boy, Your mother's eyes"- "Nay, John, They are his father's eyes indeed; That I insist upon!" "Well, be that as it may, his mouth Is waiting for a kiss. He's like you there, at least, my dear. Say, do I judge amiss?" THE YOUG WIFE'S I CONgFUSION,. You are one woman of a thous an.d Nell-you are, by Jove ! and I'm proud of yon. Come whern 1 may I find the house as neat as a bandbox and my little wife as fresh as a rose. I like that, Nell. I've always thought that if any thing could put me out of temper with the woman I loved it would be to come home and find the house topsy-turvy and my wife in a soiled wrapper and with a rough head. Little woman, you're a treasure, and I'm proud of you !" 1 And Ed ward Hastings kissed his pretty bride unil her cheeksi gliowed: like the red June roses out' in the sunshinec. She was very happy, very much pleased and flattered at her bus-i band's praise. They had been married just six< months and Nell was a pattern for all housewives. made their nest in the great apple tree, and did her housework in the early morning hours. Come when he mighbt her hus band always found bis little home in order, the cupboard stored] with something good to eat, and his wife dresscd in a fresh wrap-1 per, with a flower in her hair and a smile of welcome on her fairi face. "If there's one thing more likelyI to provoke a fellow than another," he went on, lingering a moment in the sunny portico, his arm around her waist, "'tis to bring a friend home to dinner or lunch eon and find everything out of sorts. Nowv there's Gravesly i wife's a fine wonman when you see her out--a showy woman, always well dressed. Well, Gravesly in vited me to lunch that day we went out together. I went, but I was sorry enough for it. Such a house as we found--all heels-over head, and I caught sight of the mistress disappearing up stairs in curl-papers and slippers. She was indisposed and could not see us, the girl said. We lunched on -bread and cheese, and Giavesly, poor fellow, though he said no thing, looked exceedingly annoy ed. I should have been angry. I think a wife should make it her duty to keep her house and her person in presentable order, so that her husband, come when he may, may find her ready to wel come him." S"So do I," said Nell, smiling up into his face. "You need never b afraid to invite a friend home with - you, Ne. N o matter it I don't know, I shall be ready to receive ~'vou." .ed gave her a rmngmg Riss. "Very wvell, littie woman ; I shall try you one of these days and now I must run. G ood-by." SShe watched him out of sight, with happy eyes andi then went bk to her prctty sittiing-room and her work tabke. A month later the summer was on the wane and the fruits were weli ripened. "Jane," said Mrs. lIasting'.s one b right morning, returning from the garden-gate where she had parted with her husband, "I have iist iocked at the c:urants. andi hev. are quite ripe. We mu - r:ak . ui*je a nm. Now Mr. tastings won't be home till late to-day. I want to spend the day with mother to-morrow and I shouId vert much like to get the jo f y ilj hands to-day. What do von say? "I can soon pick the currants, ma am." "All right ; suppose you begin. We won't clean un now. Let the house stand, though it is dread fully out of order. Perhaps we may find time to straighten up when we get the fruit cooking. Hurry now, and pick as fast as yOu can, and i'll step over to Brown's and order some sugar and jars." Jane obeyed, leaving the break fast room unswept and the front steps unwashed. It was high noon before the first kettle of juice was got in cooking >rder. Making currant jelly was rather more of an undertaking than Mrs. [astings imagined. She had seen it made at home ander her mother's supervision, nd making it herself she fancied i would be quite as easy. "Dear me, how the time flies! Do hurry, Jane! What a lot there s vet to strain ! But we must get ]oe. I dare say it won't take Alhe juice long to thicken. Mamma ased to make it in no time. What tre we to do about dinner, I won i r? We can't cook the ham, Lhere's no room on the fire. We must have a make-up dinner when wre have finished. Mr. Hastings will excuse us, I'm sure." And. arrayed in her holland zpron, with her pretty braids all pushed packed and her sleeves ucked above her elbows, Nell woked away with all her might, picking, boiling:, straining until cr cheeks were flushed and her iead ached. "Why, Jane, this juice won't eliy, and it has boiled so long. What can be the matter?" "There's something you put in :o T!ake it jelly, I thic k, ma'am." "Oh, dear, no. Mother never lid I'm sure. I'll add more sugar ind let it boil another hour. Dear ne ! I thought we should hve lad our last kettle on by this time. We shall be so late, and I'm tired .o death now. I wish I had done .s mother said. She advised me to ;end the currants over there and et Hlannah make the jelly, but I vas sure I could do it myself." The steaming kettle boiled ano her hour. The summrer sun hung above he g:reen sum'mit of the poplars. "Su rely, it will be jelly now, lane." said the weary honsewife, >ouring some of the h~ot, red liquid nto cold water. But juice it remained for all the ~ooking and stewing it had under "Oh, what shall I do ? Surely, he stuff must be bewitched. I've .great mind to pour it all away," iedi poor Nell, ready to cry with. ~exation. "I tell you ma'am, you put omething ~in to make it jelly," ~ersisted Jane. "Oh, Jane, hush ! You know othing about it. I tell you ru don't put anything. What rust I do ? Cook it moro? It is ~urning to the kettle now, and l'e wasted ever so much sugar! ano, run over to mother's and tsk Hannah to step over, will ou ? She'll know in a minute ~vhat to do. Do p)ray be quick, it s dreadfully late." Jane departed. "If cooking will do, i'll make oily of it before Hannah gets ere," she said. But instead of boiling to jelly, he currant juice boiled over in ;reat foamy, red waves. The fire hissed, and a dense moke and a pungent scent of burmng sweets filled the kitchen. Spattered from head to foot with the hot liquid, one hand scalded, her pretty face besmeared, Nell retreated to th.e d'or in utter de "Oh, I wish I had never" The sentence was never finish She stood dumb with horror, for -oming leisurely along the sunny ardn-path she saw her husband 2nd his~p)articular friend, Mr. War burton. "le has invited him home to dinr!che ga.sped, dartingbc into the smnoky kitchen. "Oh, what hall I do ?" T wo or three harrowing mm-f utcs f suspen-se, and her husband entered. ">2ll. arce you here ? And what is the matter? Is the kitchen on fire ? The whole placecis in a fog." Nell camie forward, looking more like a tattooed indian than te pretty woman she was. "I am making c urraXit jelly and I thought you wouldn't be home till late; Ned." "Does it rcquire such a mess as this to make currant jelly ? And what a frig'ht you are, Neil ! i've brouht Warburton home to dine." "There's not a mouthful of din ner. Ned.'' "W hat ? D)idn 't I send a barn unda airo of elicnkens ?" "I've had no time to cook ; I've been making jelly all day." "Confound the jelly! Come, SlI, you must get up some show of dinner." "I can't, Ned ! I'm tired to death and my hand is burned. You shouldn't have invited Mr. WV arburton without letting me know." "Now just hear that," cried the provoked husband, "after telling me so often to bring a friend whenever I liked! I'm surprised at you, Nell !" Nell sank into a seat, and cov ering her face with her sticky apron, burst into tears, while the jelly began to stream over again. Her husband, half beside him self with the hissing noise and his own vexation, made a dive at the kettle, and in his efforts to get it Dff the stove, upset it, deluging the floor. "I'm glad of it ! You've no business attempting to make the :onfounded stuff when you don't know how," he cried, flouncing ,ut of the kitchen and leaving his wife to have her cry out. "I'll go nd send Warburton away." Poor Nellie sobbed convulsively, inmindful of the meandering red river at her feet, until Hannah lntered. "Why, dearie, what trouble ou're in, to be sure! and all your oily wasted! But never mind L e'll have the next kettle all rig ht." Nell sprang up and threw her ;elf into the old woman's arms. "Oh, Hannah ! and Ned's gone Fo send Mr. Warburton away ithout his dinner, and he'll never rorgive me," she sobbed. "Yes, he will, dearie ; yes, he will-don't you fret ! I've sent Lhem over to your mother's for a unch. And now let me tell you what to do. Put all thi. jelly making by till to-morrow-we'll begin bright and early in the morning, and" "But, Hannah, it won't come to ielly." "Oh, yes, it will, when we add a Little gelatine." "Didn't I tell you, ma'am ?" muttered Jane, mopping up the red river. "Never mind the jelly now," yontinued Hannah ; "you and Jane et to work and get u) anice little supper, and take down your curls ud put on y'our prettiest gown, mnd I'll hurry over and send the iaster and his guest back about sunset ; that'll make everything Nell dlemurred a little. "Ned was cruel to get into a >assion ; he knew I couldn't help t," she sobbed. Old llannah gave her a look. "Hlush, my dearie; put that fool sh pride in your pocket; you ~an't afford to spoil your happi ess. Mind what Old Hannah says." And Nell obeyed. She and Jane worked as they ever did before in all their lives. Sunset found the kitchen as ~lean as a new pin-the unfortu ate jelly banished and the dain iest of supper tables set. And as the sun went down Nell erself walked down the garden ath to meet her husband, robed n crisp, white muslin, a scarlet 'ibbon zoning her waist, a rose in er hair. "1 am glad to see you, Mr. War aurton," shbe said smilingly. "You bave found mc in great tribulation o-day. I1 attempted to do what I lid not understand, and got into roube. Ned, dear, forgive me, nd bring your friend in to sup. per." "Oh, Nell, what a brute I was !" whispered her hiusband, detaining bier a minute at the kitchen door. Can you forgive me ? And your poor hand burned, too ! I'll dig p every currant-bush in the gar. :len to-morrows !" "No, Ned," she replied. "I shall learn to make currant jelly to morrow. Let them alone." SHE ToorK WooD.-Wh~en a mid dIe-aged housewife halted at a De roit grocery, to ask the price of currants, she was told that they sold for a dollar a peck. "Four dollars a bushe-e-e-l I" she almost shrieked. "Yes'm." "And do you think I'll buy 'em at that rate ?" "Yes'm." "Well, I won't! It's a shame, sir, a burning shame, and I for one won't stand it! Why, sir, the idea of currants being four dollars per bushel when wood is only five dol lars per co.rdi Ill buy wood, sir i' "You don't have to saw and split and pile currants," remarked the grocer. "Can't hellp it, can't help it," she replied as she moved on. "I like currant jelly as well as anybody els', but von can't cord it up in the ahov andi go out and look at it, and have forty men asking for a job, and warm tour feet by it, and wh. I won't talk another minute, sir. Bub, where is there a wood a around hero?" FOR THE IERALD. ROA!DERUPS - NEW YORK L~ETTER ~. No. 37. Life Insurance as a Pine Art--Its Secrets and Sneces3es--New Amusements for the People--The Weather and For eign Exportations-The British Team-Roast Beef and Plum-Pudding. A certain eccentric. and notorious preacher whose pulpit peculiarities bave at different times received, as they deserved, the most unmerciful castigation at the hands of the reli gious press, a short time since deliv ered a sermon on life insurance, which was one of the marked sensations of the time. It was published as a sort of campaign document and referred to with pride as standard ecclesiasti cal authority. The sermon at least had the merit of originality, and if the historical research displayed was only of questionable value to the delver in the records of the past, it was with no small degree of satisfac tion that we learned from such able authority that Moses when he led the Israelites into the Wilderness of Sin always carried a life insurance policy in his breeches pocket, and that both David and Solomon were unquestion ably in favor of those accidental in vestments now in such high favor on steamboats, railroad cars and powder mills. The questionable taste of turn ing the pulpit into an advertising me dium for quack medicines and bank rupt associations, we will not pause to consider. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the "livery of the court of heaven has been stolen to serve the devil in," and if the clergy man in qucstion received for his ser vices a good, fat, paid-up policy we only hope that the company that gave it may go up in a balloon, and that no heir of his may ever be benefited by the wages cr such a base and shameful prostitution. I have been wandering about for the last few weeks looking at the dif ferent grand buildings occupied by our various great life insirauce com panies. and as I do not propose to make these letters an advertising me dium for any, I shall only speak in general te-rms of things that I know and have seen. It is the boast of manny rich and venal corporations that they can muzzle the press with their patronage ; that a big advertisement thonlike a bone to a hungry dog will stop that bark that might prove iicouvenient if not dangerous. Good gentlemeu, that day has gone by gone by, I trust, forever. The old time prophet is now represented by the newspaper press, and the Vox Populi is regarded by millions as lit tle less than the Oracles of God. For many years past a business has been pursued in our midst, which, if measured by its visible success, has apparently laid the people of this land under a deep and lasting obligation; under its charitable cloak vast for tunes have been accumulated, rare and costly buildings have been erect ed, an army of stipeudiaries have been kept in fee, living in luxury and riot, and ready for any desperate act which their passions or their necessities forced upon them. When I look at these costly buildings, resplendent in gilding, magnificent in marble, gorge eus in furniture, luxurious in every appointment, I cannot but ask my self, "Whose money contributed to their erection and garniture ? and if the very mortar which holds their granite~and marble walls together may not possibly be cemented with wiows' 'and orphans' tears." Al most opposite Trinity Church is a magnificent granite pile overtopping all the petty marts of trade, looking down on the banks of Wall Street and 'Change with their hundreds of millions of capital. The figure of a protecting angel sheltering a helpless child advertises to the passer-by that within is an ark of safety to the poor, a refuge and a shield against distress. Let the poor man who ponders on this emblazoned lie, pass on; within is ro place for him; if he falter in his payments, if he~ fail of his premiums, away in an instant go the savings of a life; for the highway robber is far mere merci ful than they. The income of the President from vario,us sources cannot be far from one hundred thousand dllars a year; while the pay of a Sccetary, Treasurer, or Vice-Presi dent in every twelve months, amounts to a respectail fortune. The build ing put up with other people's money never has paid two and a half pcr cent. en the investment. and never will ; but costly marbles line the walls, Irare frescoes adorn the ceilings. gold, bright and shining, is around you eveywhere, carpets fro:u the looms of MIoquet and Wilton cover the floors, and furniture, the most costly and luxurious that money could buy, swell the pomp and the pride of these guardians of the ducats of the poor. Somec of these economical genitiemen sport ocean yachts and race-horses; al of them have fine country houses, and town houses, and expensive reti nues of servants. A few :-. -o the Praident of one of the largest insurance compa- I nies in the Union seized the editor of a city paper, and cast him into prison for libel, for he feared an exposure which might hurl him to hopeless rui ; Len or a dozen suits were com cn uced against him at the same time, and the accumulated bail amounted to over a hundred thousand dollars. Months rolled on and the editor lay in prison, until at last came the day of retribution ; frightened at an ex posure which could no longer be avoided, all the threatened suits were abandoned-not less than a hundred thousand dollars rewarded the editor for his suffering; he is now accepted as one of the Elect, and lives in a magnificent style that Heliogabalus might have envied, but could never have expected to surpass. In 1872 there was quite a time in in surance matters at Albany. The Black Horse Cavalry, filled with virtuous indignation that there should be a race of more successful robbers than themselves, resolved to swoop down on the insurance companies, and ei ther make them dance or pay the fid dlcr. Two members from the western portion of the State had made them selves particularly obnoxious, and the Vice-President of one of our heaviest insurance companies resolved if pos sible to destroy them. An eminent detective was sent for, and a plan was laid to lure them to New York City. A gentleman entirely disconnected with the detective business was sent into the country to induce them to visit the metropolis on a certain day, when the plans were all laid to in veigle them into some disreputable house, and while there the police were to make a descent on the estab lishment; the men were to be seized, taken to the Tombs, -nd after their disgrace this offense was to be held over them like a whip till they did the bidding of the insurance ring. The gentleman selected by the detec ti;e succeeded in gptting the mem bers to visit New York City, and then for the first time he learned the shameful plot in which he had been induced to take part ; filled with hor ror, he went to the parties and told them that if they dared to take one step further he would have them all arrested for conspiracy. The country members were allowed to return to their homes, never dreaming how narrowly they escaped ruin; but the tread of exposure hangs over the guilty parties even now like the sword of Damoees, and the thread may snap at any nmomnent, bringing down in its fall names among the proudest in the land. Who has not seen the picture of the stout old revolutionary soldier who, with musket in hand, seemed nerpetually desirous of giving some one a prod in the region of the coat tail ? That picture had more to do with the success of that swindling concern-the Continental Life Insur ance Co.--than'all of its other adver tising put together. Lie after lie, and perjury after perjury, were used to bolster up their fraudulent ac counts, and now the widow's and the orphan's cry goes up to heaven for venucance on the villains who have robbed them of their little all. The Mutual of New Jersey and the Char ter Oak of Hartford, arc later exam ples of this same system of robbery, a system fostered in reckless extrava gance, built up on j obbery and pecu lation during the most corrupt and extravagant era of our national life. It is well that the poor man should make provision for his little ones when he can no longer shelter them, but when he casts his anchor let him be sure that it will hold when the storm comes down upon the ship, otherwise he had better have thrown his little savings away in the bottom of the sea. We draw our breath freely once more ; our British cousins go back to Hold Hingland, you know, you know! but the Centennial trophy remains on this side of the ocean, at least for a year to come. They gave us a splen did specimen of British markmanship on Friday last, which completely wiped out the remembrance of their defeat. A Japanese tourist jotting down our little national peculiarities at the present time, would undoubtedly state that a favorite amusement among the Americans is throwing their wives out of third story windows. I am not prepared to state that it has yet arrived at the dignity of a national pastime, like base-ball or sculling. but the frequent recurrence of this species of sport raises the question whether it 'is finally to be incorporated in the list of our national games. It is not na tive to our soil, having been but re en tly imported. and looked at simply as an amusement, I cannot say that I admire it. The names of the latest champions of this delectable practice are Terrence Shea, Michael Muldoon and Timothy Flaherty. On Sunday last two pleasure parties in row boats were run down by excursion steamers -five people were drowned and one maimed for life. New York has just received a great boon in the way of rapid transit, the Court of Appeals having dissolved all the injunctions, and now a.double track is to be laid at once from the Battery the entire length of Manhattan Islan;d. Only two slight obstacles remain, and they will probably be removed next week. Pouvert & Co., the great sugar mer cha~ lve aika fer 300.009 dey !Advreal laceec lalo A1.OO per rq ars (ova tea) tt t"a6raQ and 7 oeats ft eaa4so4i tbs.tytu Double column adverWAenis tft PCcee~ on above. INotice9 ofmeig,oia "tr r of respect, same rates per sqn &a ordina~f advertisements. Speelal Notices in Local eolum~ I* etd per line. Advertisemei to not m.rked with tbe num ber of inserrior.s wili he kept in till forbid, and charged .tccordiag y. Spccirl eonnac's niada with Iarge adver tisers, 1i itti liberal dcdncdious on above rate3. -40 D)ONE WITH \EATKES3 AND DtSPATCI7. TERMS CASH. have been in business since 1829, and own immense plantations in Cuba. The temperance crusade bas not as yet assumed the character of a Pente costal shower ; the converts come in slowly, and the rum shops are fearfully in the ascendant. We are-'waiting anxiously for our share of the, cyclone, but are afraid that the thing' will pe ter out in passing over Jersey, and feel like exclaiming with the fellow that Noah left out of the ark, "Go on with your durned old boat ; I don't believe that it's going to be much of a shower after all." We slaughtered 5,000 head of cattle this week to send to our British cousins, representing 20,000 quarters-the largest shipment ever made in a single week; and if this 'ere thing goes on, you know, the roast beef of Hold Hingland will et to be a myth, you know. And not only that, but an exportation of 8,000 cans of Yankee plum-pudding promises to make another frightful inroad into their standard national dishes. There is nothing particular to commend at the theatres. "Pink Dominoes"--an offshoot of the Jardin Mabille--has been banished our virtuous city, and now finds refuge in Boston. Trade is still brisk. We are somewhat alarmed at the present time from an invasion