Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, June 13, 1857, Image 1
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' To tliine oun self li? true, mtd it must follow, nn (lie niftlit ll?? iluy, lltoii fituM not tlicn be fnl*e to nny man."
BY ROR'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JUNL IU, 1857. VOL. VIII. NO. 48.
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^jlleoye? mtmr;
Tho Old Church Bells.
King out merrily,
Lhudly, eheerily,
IMithe old holla from tins stfceplo lower,
Hopeftdly. fearfully,
.Joyfully, tearfully,
Movclli tin? bride from Uor maiden IxiTver.
Cloud thero is none in the fair summer oky ;
Sunshine flings behison down from on higli>
Children sing loud fts tlio trni|\ mdVog nlontf,
" Happy tlio bride that the sun thihetli on."
Knell out drearily,
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Sad old bells from tlin ?teei>le t'rny.
i'ricoU chanting lowly;
Solemnly, sjpwly
"Passcth tho corpso from fJio portal to day,
Drops from tlie leafh-n clouds heavily fall
Drippingly oVer tlio plume mid tlio pull;
Murmur, old folk, as the J rain moves along, /
" Happy tho dead that the rain raineth on."
Toll at tjift hour of pi into,
M,ittin, ?ud vesper chime,
Loved old (Am froh\ the steeply Ingh?
(tolling like holy waves,
Over the lowly graves,
Floating up, prayer-fraught, into the rUv.
Solemn tlio losson your lightest notes tench;
Stern is the preflobiny your-iron topjtuca preach;
Ringing in life from tnu hud to tlio bloom,
Ringing the de!?l to their rcSt in thn-tnmh, j
Peal out ovormore? i j
Peal a? yc pealed of ^oro.
Bravo olil bells, on c*n?h Hnlibnth di?y,
In sunshine and glutinous,
Tliro' clouds pud thru1 Badness,' I
Bridal and burial havo passed, away.
Veil us life's plfianures with tlc'atb are still rife ;
Tell us that DfcAth evitf tend6th lb litre.
is our labor, nnd Dentil if otir rest. *
I If happy the Living, tlio <lc?ul nro the blest.
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A Leaf from Memory.
TIIB 01.D nOAD.
Friciul, if it be n pleasure to voti to recall
old and fjunilinr scones, then read this
sketoh of on oiu road flnd its companions.
"Wo copy from tho Cliicngo Daily Journal:
In almost every old neighborhood, there
is an old road, disused and half forgotten
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and we liko to ffot away from the traveled
thoroughfare, and wander, in n summer's
day, along ils deserted whjS Otir grandfathers
had a apcoien of imlomilnble directness,
in making roads and making h>vo
truly edifying. Thoy did not believe in the
line of beauty ; there was nothing curvilinear
about them, either in word or deed,
i ney went oy square nno eompnF*, ami rno
and religion wore laid out liko Solombn's
temple.
And bo, straight ovortho hill, and right
jl ~u .i-~ ?
I iuiuii^i mw uijf iimner, hihi plump into
the ?wj(mp, and hounco over Ilio w cordu- j
1 roy," wont tho old road. It's Ioiij* bridges
s are broken nnd mowy now, nnd.the brown
birds in white wnisconts build rtoata beneath
them, undisturbed by the rumble of wheels
over head. Nobody-goes that way, not
oven tho boys cn route to school j for evor
bo many years ncco, in a "November day,
they lmvo heard, a stranger went down by
the old mill?you can sec tho riti) of its
old wheel from hore^and was nover soon
again, Years nfterf among the hemlocks
human bones were-"found, and to this day,
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.... omul - flgUlB| ^rUNIID CUIDU Olll OI me
gulf, and tho troubled ghost is thought to
be walking still. Over yonder, is a broad
di?l ed Sunflower nnd n heap of stone. The
hitter was onoo a hearth, for a house stood
therer nnd after the stranger disappeared,
the tenar-; ^reVr suddenly rich a* thft trstsaa
went, and showed gold with unknown
words upon it that none of tho neighbor*
could make out, and pretty , soon, ho took
all that ho had .and went west; as some
ftaid, to tho "Genesee Country," arid others,
to " tho Ohio," which was yet more
like a dream than I lie Genesee. After that
nobody would live in the house, and it grew
ruinous and was Imitated, and people saw
a light there in dark nights, or thought
they did, nnd the children shuhfedd it, onj
cept in the brightest of mornings, when tho
sun wns shining and the birds were tinging,
and tho cows went lowing, Indian file,to
the pftsture; and after a whiLo, tho old
houqe tumbled down and crumbled awayv
Such stories thrive along old roads, even
*{ - as tho May Weed, and tho thistle*, thafr.no-''
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uuujr ?s?wr winn uvwii, hihi on wnose fnnK
!tops,, the yellow birds rocfc up nnd down,
|iko lit'.lo boat* at ft^Chor, til) the fall wind#
whistlft awriy tlio goldetf birds and the
^Mto down.
- Even the brooks that used to tinkitJ Across
IUbe track undor tbo little bridges, have
eowebow run dry. or gorto another way;
and you wslt gets an old trough, dusty and
bletiched, by the roadtido, tho strips of bark
that brought the wato^ from fho rolls, broken
amd scattered, *nd the earth worn bard
pod smooth with tho trembling of many
foet. Very long " ago, a tlnenp URed to
I^iang there, tethefed with a airing, for th#
fcntra nf Wfl like to ?tarid
by the deeerted watering plaeo, where only
k broken thread of 1 oft-cold water tiidkloa
Un why down to tho road aide, and fal?oy
how eagerly* In the long ftumnier day*, the
horse* panting through tho heavy Rand and
up the rocky hiller, threat their nose# deep
into the-overflowing trough of otfyttul coolnew,
while, ?ver nnd anoiv tho caution*
driver* puH vl up their headn with a jerk,
until the long-drawn hreath of infcpiioulate
content?. W ' ; s->l h.-.-.i , uVi*V
IV. I'.1.A i*. ildi.t t ....
I w iiiiiih <i|irw iiiu m?|?|Mrry ou|?
rW#J borne to bMAhtffftpe< f tit Ht- v?*ro'eloquent
nnd trq* of obV, and lip*, perohnnco
of be*??tyv tb?%t are dmiiyj hc?*? frrnn
th? shimmering ffokli, oiyne btigllng.lhlth#rf
hu<] ort-pi, >rHb djiiiii^- icoly along the
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trough's damp edge; how birds eat there <
and drank, and rendered their little thank1),
and rode away upon tho billowy nir; how,
now and then, a squirrel, rod aud sleek,
with showy throat, Hashed chattering along
the devious rails thereto, nod (lashed away
again ; or a gray rabbit, with littlo noiselogs
leaps and listening ears, took hurried
draughts and squat tod among tho alders
till tho panting dog had lapped the ncctar
of tho wnysido spring, .
There, where tlio maple wears its crown,
a laay gate is swinging in tho vVind, solo rel- <
i 10 or a luncc mat strangled round a home, (
of which llio w^?<ly, tangled hollow alrtnc |
givcB proof. It may havo boon, aoino Ra- I
oli?l dwelt therein, who mot a ?econd. .la- <
oob at the Rpring, and Fancy liMeuu for tho >
words thoy.fluid, not found in " Ovid's art I
of love"?the maid a matron, and tho ma-, t
Iron dead. .
And then strolling thoughtfully,-along, i
wjtoro tho track growt? dim, and lossoa it->. i
ielf in tlie grass, wo come to tho beoolics, f
whoroto, we liko to think, glad children f
onoo made pilgrimage. That chafed and i
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oi.lwj Hiui',ju?ii .*ner?, lias uorne a wojglit
more precious than its leaves. U.p<n tlial
stout, old arm,swayed to and fro, like Ca- i
italics in a ring, swung clusters of laughing ; e
I girls juid boys ; and in long [ows and hand | 1
In hand, in Ado bowjj and "courteMos" to . f
' tlio passing tttiVelor, while tattered hats of f
straw and wool tossed.here and there, pro- ?
claimed the coming stage. Ah, ihcrowc.ro. f
days when ovor the old road, ran the yol- i
low, mud-stained conr.b ; laboring up . >la *
hills, and pitching along its log ways, and ?
lurching in i*a deep worn tracks, and rat- 1
tling down its steeps, and splashing through i
l its brooks. And tbore, even thcro, in that I
roofless dwelling, whoso clapboards ratllo i
in tho wind, behold "tha atago house" of
tho older time. Day after day, from the i
neighboring bill, tlio drivel's born blown t
sharp and ,sln ill, proclaimed bis coming ; c
gallantly he brought to, before that low- v
browed stoop, through whoso broken floor t
Weeds are pro wing. What a Kittling of t
uoiis ana axios, and jingling of chains there )'
wero, as lie drew up, and with whaL a pro- v
fcssional air, he gathordd thu ribbons in 0110 a
hand qnd tho Aloxandr 3 lash slipped t
noiselessly through his .fingers, and explo- c
ded like a witch's laugh bolftften tho two
ears of the off leader. Very grand people t
nsod to get out of that stage, sonietimos, li
and quite as grand were the dinners that d
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Then it was, that tho blacksmith, in his dusty,
shop across tho road, was wont t0 'ean
upon his hanimor, apd discuss the merits .
of whocl-boric and loader; you can see, '
even to this day, tho bnrned and blackened (
ring ot tlio green ft.wnvil, wltere he used to I 1
" set the tire.'* Of the smithy and tho man 1 R
no Other trace remains.
,Children sometimes wander out to the 1
old.road, and wonder whoro it leads, and
whether to the end of the world ; and wq I
delight to join them in conjecture; to think c
what stalwart men they weie, that, nxe in 1
hand, so bravely out tueir way through ike H
dim resounding woods, and rolled tbqij; f{
cnbius.Up; to iliiuk what " beauty" and .
what " beast" iu olden \iinea did pas;* along
this road ; what laugliter echoed and what 1
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juaio ttviiii,.ruuiiui now-cjiijvn,"?-oovereu wains
in many a camp were scattered towards the. f
west, and, red fires twinkled Uu'ouffli the *
leafy tentnj bow soldiers in some old campaign,
and pQndcroiift ennnon went tli/U 11
v.r.y to war, find rc^r.syd at last, but fewer f.
tlia.n lbey wont. ^
This was the route of lli<;m, perliaps.who *j
founded cities, in the Vrave, yopng we*t; its 1
future sinews Anil its coming men; of new- 1
ly wedded pairs bound for the later Canaan: 1
of murderer* hastening from tlie hue and
cry. Across its beaten U'aek, I lie Oeerliave x
dftshed, tlio r?n(mn notseles* stolo. the {yr- 1
1 St shsuluw:, ('alien at hi<rh noon. Westward
il Won t, to some great Inkp, I hoy said, c
where field.-) nil ready for the .plough grew '<
green to Alio, water's* edge'; where Springs s
cainc early r.iul guidon Autumns fyigoiod 1
late. Romance passed that \yny, And hand
in hand with humblest Hope, and J,oyo bo- |
guiled the hours, &nwk-eyed Speeiilation
HDuried his jad/M steeds nnd young Afubition
followed hard behindAlong
lhat way, trnmejed bcnenlh the
driver's fiwl liiu mnii.rmiv. wont. ?r><! ?oii>i> "
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and now and then, a letter from tlio West \ '
a great, brown fjlmet, ana trAoed with awk- '
ward pen and faded ink, yot how like ri '
l .-'liid tlie juw^ejv missno ran ; of green I
iiehla, ^0(1 February flowers j of NTa- 1
luru'h lpWt>WS Wftitfrtj for the. scythe ; of ?
clustering grapes iiiAt mnnMcd ft|I U^o
wcods;-of nearest neighbors.but two
apart ; of droams of plenty and of penotf.? ^
Hlendvd therewith. were potroriee of home 1
and words of lovo seof, back, and a link 1
sigh half brnrtthed, f<>r faces tliay yaver J
should eca moro, Wliat tidings >ent, J
sometimes, off fortunes won. andfame, by
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?rru?u.*pjj?; 01 gms, wnose grave* wcio
made 'whore llio minboRips r<?*. "wjien Uiay '
promise a glorious morrow/' Thuo slowly', 1
to ftiid f?n; crepttho bwcoI sy llables of fovo, "
ttfe uittr?n*phmied Ooftpel of the human 4
henrt; flnd though long; on (ho way, they
nevergrew chilly o* old. ,
Hutover on (ha new route, they bore 1
I run j^tiio Telegraph, where the rise of Hour |
A ml (hi &1L ?r?J iliisi ara teajsjmiKsiir Km (Iii>
Anino flash, nnd iho prlea of barley and n f
prioolcs* l>h;Rsing go flickering alon^ io ,
uomjfttny.. The houses 'on tho old roadr-"- |
wtont fwv? there iirfc left?alHhd wilh their 1
bnel? to tho frnlfway and the telegraph; and j
tho World, no ft gore* tfi(mtf?r?ug by, foot"
eSkance ttpon the back-kUobetjA, mop bau- ]
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11 o.s anil pigpens of the oWl time.
But the houses on the now road, nro very
now, nod smell of pnfnt ; tlio blinds are
rery green, and llid people very grand.?
I'lio East and the West have kisnod each
jthcr, across the continent, and every body
uid thing between are bri*k as a tlen, and
breathless as a king's trumpeter. Even conmunition
has whinned utS its hal?> tinmn In
i gallop, and dashed into the stocplo olmso
>f tho Age.
And year aftor^year, the old road grows
limmer, and the grass gats green across
ho track, and it is re-christened "the long
lasture," and is surrendered to the lowing
liards nnd the singing birds. In the midst
a region humming with life, it alono is
silent, and almost awakens human sympa
by, so wandering and lost it seems. Soniciines,
as you dash along tho " MeAdam,"
^ou can see it as it comes into sight round
i clump of tangled trees, and "makes" as
fit would venture into the new thorough'arc
and <?o somcwherr lmi it ?nv..r X,,..
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or speedily stealing unck Into the hollow,
t is lost nmorig tho willows.
Like very old memory, in tho heart, is it,
ind nil forget it hut tho year. Spring reMembers
if, and ohrder* it witU green and
prinkles it with the gold coin of the dandeion,
And liie little stars of the. May weed.
Slimmer sends thy bee thither to bugle
itnong tho thistle blows, and tho ground
pnrrows to build in its margins, and the
ndud ribbon of yellow sand grows bright
n its glowlny our*. Tb? winds waft tho
)ieath of the morning ovnr its desolato way
ind the rains beat out tho old foot prints ii
ins borne. Autumn sighs as it follows it
hrough I lie ravine and among tho hemoclrt,
and the diifts that Winter heaps are
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inuruKfi) ana stainless.
No bolder foet, old ltond, ever left their
mpress on the oilier path ; no truer hearts
lian hastened on thy nigged Way, haveev-l
r panted for " the bettor land." If there
i-ore ever those \\1ioro laugh was mnsio, ;
hen thy woods have heard it; the daugh- j
ers of the West are pushing fair, but those I
our.g browa of old, whoso while hashed
rliilo again from thy once singing streams
nd eyes glanced back to eves?no brigher
and no"puror were fever bont above a
laseiq wave. .
Like thee, those brows are furrowed and
hose eyes are dim. Like tliee, Ambition's
ine fades from the eytj of time, and like the |
usty "runaways1' of thy biooks,soft pulses i
How Do You Do ?
National forms of salutation are true in- '
licos of nation*! character. The wh'olr
lislory of a race may bo found in tho dieiunary
of its language. Words nnd pin ties
aro the oft'spring of previously existing
ihjiicts, thoughts and oiicnmstanccs, ami
heir paternity is really traced.
Thus, among all savage and warlike peo>le,
the common salutation conveys a wish
ir a prayer, that the person Baluted may
Hjotf peace, the greatest good of individu
Is and of nations, and tho boon most fre|uently
withheld in that phase of life.?
Throughout the bible this is the invariable
dessing?shulum ! and the wandering Helouins
of ih'e desert have, to this day, the
time form of salutation. A nother phrase
if theirs, "if God will thou nrf. woll" ho. 1
rays the fatalism of Islam.
"Peace be unto thee," says the fluent j
ind facile Persian : " I m?ke prnyera for thy j
rreatness ; may thy shadow never be less !"
i'his last form smacks of summer and Ihe
South. Such a salutation would make a
tforthmhn shiver. It shows, too, a great,
espcct for fat?Tor a dignified, alderrtjr.n.ic i
otundity. " |
The Greeks, a joyful people, full of the
igor of a life of action, expressed their sulfation
in a single word?"rejoice." i
Tho commercial and enterprising Genoese
if (lin i/\ ^
%.,v i.muuiu ciubof iiqi-u iu ottyf AJU7i('C(fl(f (
jftfdk guo?" H<&illh and gitin,,r?than
vhich n0 phrnfcc could be more characterfsic.
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In n similar, spirit, tho "swaggering Hoihnder"
salutes you with liqt vara?a <jcJ
' How fare you ?"
The easy, phlegmasia German spjs(,?e
ten fie wohl!?"Live thou well J"
The French man's CirrHmchi v6us 'jtor'ix
km s flow do you carry youVself?"?
'aveAls the *ery soul of the French charac*
,<jrri How is the formulary, and, not what.
And llliM) till! in.rttx V0U3, how wnil |l ex
jresuc3 the eager restlessness and vivneious
nanners of that nation. ' Homnieiit ca vciit't
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it is oi u?r khi)iC luile wimi diameter.
John "Bull nnd Brother Jctaiithhrt, inn
iehHy> but bti6ine$R-likc t?n<\ greet you
mrith " IIow do you do ?" What could be
viore jchimiclerislic of ihe great nnd poienint
Anplo;S?xon rnce. To 69, pf course?
it thU ihoro Is no question ; ii in the ftli of
[fo ; but bow do y^;: do?" "How nre you V}
Yhii embrrtooB ft)l-'-hcnJ(|>; wfcnlth, power,
(nowledgo. What more cottrid or.e any ?
ind here it is all In three words?"IIow
irft ycu ? ' w IToW do you do?" Again
he nnswor in, '' Well' '?*-1 do well. ( Iloud)l?
O J-| AUf /) A I'AII
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A flUMOROL'S old ^nn fell fn with on ififlornnt
and ritilior } , ..rtinonl young m?ni?
( ?*; who-jfrodeoded (o' fnforfn tno gerttlefnAn
ft very ftosU?v? terma, (hat ?? -'ttpftM ncr^f
iftrtch lu'avcQvtinlMfc'he W0H hornngnln, rthrl
fidilod, f,r V<hre expfcf fenced thai clumpfe,
tn<| tvoj* TceJ no ?n*ieiy", ' AHd Mv? you
betitl botri ftfcaih t' nntd ?onrtp*nW.-^
"Yw, t tri.At I ||W<." "Well," ?hid Ili?<
o?r! gentleman, eyeing'hfna attentively,
bhoufdri't (fifn'f: it ttottftl httrt yt>i to be
tK>rn oncc move."
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Going Home.
I'm going home ! shouts tho little rosy
cliceked hoy ; no more school till Monday,
while the beaming oye, bright, laughing
face, and elastic limbs, fts ho goes bounding
and shouting down the street, tell how
j irksome to his restive spirit is tho restraint
; of the school room.
Take care, Mother ! On yon in resting
a weighty responsibility. Curb not that
I restless one?he is not a mar> yet?-time
enough when ho fills tho Senator's chair,
for a Senator's dignity. Vent it must have,
j only direct it in a beautiful channel, aud it
will improve and strengthen both mind and
f bodv. W-iili'li H?|U fo?i -V.
. . . ..v.. . f<. I "V I V I V y 1111 Cil" HIS !
stops aright ; shield liim from temptation i
now; and as his mind expands, .fonifv it
will] a love of right, and a hatred of wrong;
thus preparing him to fight, manfully life's
battles, when lio shall leave the parental
| roof, and launch his own frail bark on lifers
tempestuous eon.
Going home! says the <|iiiet little bhtisj
eyed girl. Her bonnet in half-throws; back,
i while the sportive wind lifts gently the
I wealth of golden curls from that fair, open
brow; while her sweet face wears a sunny
smile, as if thoughts of home and mother
I filled that we'O one's heart. She hurries
1 Oil illlH U tmell../! I,..?..J-1.? -- ' ? ----- - *'
-...j ?s7 mv\mi ugoviwu iv?* ill l\ J'urcnc R
foot.
Mother! nurse her tenderly. All too
soon will FatherTime rob you of your
rose bud. Yours is the hand, now in childhood's
plastic morning, to ehdurc and prune
it. Tf is your mission to water it with the
refreshing dews of love; to remove all obnoxious
weeds ; all that is deleterious to
its .complete development, and throw
J around it those hallowed influences only
found within the preoincts of home until it
shall expand into a perfect 'flower, and, in
' turn, others shall bo blessed iu its genial
| atmosphere.
| Going home ! The boarding school n
.closed; trunks packed ; stag# waiting; and
! the.liappy maiden trips gaily down the av- |
on lie--?'73,we.et homo" licr song. IMeasantly
have th< months flown by on golden
wings with an honored teacher and loved
school-mates, whilo gathering unfading
flowers, and plucking ambrosial fruits in
the fair lield of knowledge. But thoso halycon.
days aro ended, and if a shade of regret
rests for an instant on her brow, as
:I?Q thought Hashes through her mind it is
soon dispelled by thoughts of fhat home to
"t'th'at fiouseliolcl cliain to be again united.
It is thine, gentle maiden, to put now to
a practical purpose the knowledge you
have acquired. There is a mother who
watched over your infantile years, bearing
uncomplainingly the burdens imposed by
your childish whims and caprices, ft is
thine now to euSo her burdens; to perform
faithfully the part allotted thee, as an older
member of that band of children. Act
well thy part; 80011 may other duties call
thcfi from l.flAin Tlien nli-ivrt CIn tw.r
form thy present allotments that no vain
! regrets shall attend thco when thou art
called upon to leave thy childhood's home;
that thy memories may he but ploa$t> g
echnos of faithfully discharged duties.
Yes! going homo! laughingly halloes
the student. My four years-at college are
passed ; my diploma in received ; graduated
with the highest honors; have visited
every nook and haunt rendered dear by
coltcgo associations; have extended the
parting hand to the TrolVjssors, and bidden
my classmates farewell; now for a rest bo- J
neat)) tho shadowv olms at the old farm
hou9c. Clothes, kooks, and all tho paraphernalia
of student life, are thrown into
the trunk in rt state of glorious confusion.
Never mind how disordered uow, When
home is reached, some careful mptlier or
doling sister will arrange, repair, and systemite.,
| Happy art llion, young man, if thou hast
passed through alt thg vutissiindwof a ^oll^giate
course unscathed. Thus far hast
thou been guided?in a measure cont rolled
?by .Othon. Now you are launching upon
your pwo. responsibility. Oo forth, vjhat
over your unuortairuig, with a realizing
sen so of tho position in society you occupy
as nn eduertlod mart. Whatever your aspirations,
bo governed by firm, leli'gious
plinciple*, a determination la persevere,
and success will'attend you.
poing homo ! murinur* tho young bride,
her head retting lovingly on hef husband's
shoulder. Threo short months has sliu
been n happy wife! fio 6oon ta the hireling
uneasy 1 S9soon the dove, scarco ca
gcd i? anbther hom6/s:gmiig for its- native
skies, and tlio land where U was -nm Mired!
Ah! she krmws'that there,. h?. one vacant
placc in Jhe home thatehu. has left-r-rthat
fond parents and loved brothers arid sifters
anxiously wait her relifrn, and slio longs
again to bu cfaspeil fr? the loving embl*acfe
of earth's first truest friends. has
she been with her husband ir? the home
oVer which she had been installed a? its
giVardiuft angel; yet thu'home of ber child:
fvood, iho fiieiids of hor yoMtht shq forgets
not{ and though years may come and go
with their pleasures and blessings, Aften
vtill her thoughts revert to the hojneofhor
youth,' and often, vfrhifo that homo remains
will she "thither* fly."
Thou doest ttell to vabio if highly, ftoon
will thoao loved parent^ , fc*t heroath the
valley PoJjjJ poon wilj tlic*e brother* and
sisters lie widely pc])?rfl(cn ; and ftrnii^ofs
tfifl gather roiind that honflhnfortb. Thoh
pf-i??e ft Htabfy ? " '
Oolrtg horrtel says the aged pilgrim.~Tho
sands of lifo are uearly run. Soeo'wjll
my pilgrimago on earth bo ended. I am j
nearitig llint dark valley through which all i
must pass; and whence nono ever return.
Alone? Alt! no. "1 know in whom I
havo believed." My lamp lias long been
"trimmed and burning," and now 1 have '
no (oars. . j
Going home! That home, unlike those ,
of earth ; when onco its portals are passed, j
sickness and sorrow, death and Change are .
Illlk-nnwh. A llotnta
---- f " "^ 'V ?"?'? !
with precioiiR stones, and whose streets arc
paved with gold. St renins there are, on
whoso banks perrenninl flowefs bloom, I
"that make glad tho city of our God."
There tho society will only bo the pure and ,
holy. Tho only employment, singing "the
Jtong of redeeming love," and worshiping |
and adoring otir Creator. And Jesus will j
be there. "He will i'oed me, and lead me I
unto living fountains of water," and "God
shall wipe away all tears from mine eyes." |
Goiim home I I hear e'en now t.hnnwfel- I
ling of Jordan's flood ; angels arc hovering |
o'er me, chanting the song of reed?oming
love, waiting, on wings of love, to carry
my spiiit home when it bursts its clayey
tenement ?
" O, death! where is thy sting? O,
grave! where is thy victory ?"
Hard SftftvlCE.?-Tn n conversation with
our friend Todd, the indefatigable Mail
Agent on the Columbia and Greenville
Railroad, he incidentally mentioned some
interesting particulars as to his mail service
YVe trust ho will-pardon their publication,
as thoy possess interest to the public.
Since his appointment, August 2G, 1853,
ho has mado 685 trips as Mail Route Agent
over the Greenville and Columbia Railroad,
280 miles to each trip, making 107,310
miles traveled. During that time ho has
mailed over 36,000 let ters. Ue lias employed
substitutes for only five trips, and
lias never lost a trip on account of his own
sicl< n ess.
Has any other man in the Slate traveled
as many miles in three years and nino
mouths ?
If the Government had as faithful and
punctual pgents on some other roads, we
nilgiu got some of our mails more regularly,
and in better time.? Curolinian.
St. Louis', June '2.?The Leavenworth
Herald learns from Mr. William^, who left
Salt Lake City, April 15th, that Brigham I
Vaiuy.-- wj??j.0w"iwwr. ~rWimits rtr"">
way. Judge Stiles, the U. S. Marshal,Sur
veyor General, and a large number of emi- i
grants, had beon obliged to leave the territory.
New Ok leans, June 1, 1867.-1110 steam ,
bh.ip Louisiana was burned in Galveston,
(Texas) Bay, on tho morning a? the 31^t.
irinUo.. ?... " ?i
a^iwwii i n wo tigio wnniui^ WUIUUCj
l>ainbridgo, of the United States* Army,
and thirty-one others are missing. Twenty-five
poraons were saved by seamen belonging
to the steamship Galveston.
Youno America,?The following letter, '
we are informed, was actually written and i
sent to Mr. Bnchanah, by the eon of one of i
our most estee ix'd citizens, (and by the way |
a prominent ( wliiician himself,)?without
any suggestion from any quarter?at loast (
so far as is known to his Father. Its contents
were nccidtnlally discovered after the
letter was finished. We give it as a good
illustration of " Young America," and decidedly
ihe best "hit" at "services" and "office-seeking,"
that we have ever seen. We
hope I he little fellow got his office, or at any
rate the Ten dollars. Such modesty in office-seekers,
as Maj. Pendenqis would say,
"ought to be patronised !"
. Ati.aJita, Oa., Nov. lfith, 1867.
*. Ifon.Jas. Jjuchattan?Dear Sir : The
election is now over, and you nrc President.
During the cam ass I have hollered for you
until I am hoarse, and my throat is Bore,
end I have *petot all my small change. If
you have got any office that would suit a
boy of my age, (13 years) I would like to
have it?and if not?please send me Ten
Dollars*. Yours Respectfully,
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
Tiir editor of. the Lumpkin Plaindenler,
haw recently' b.^eti to Cuthbert,. the county |
sent of Randolph county, nnd thus sumniH- i
lily disposes of his visil <
" Wc spent the two weeks in the fnM
town of Cmhbert, during which ?;me they i
had a fcstivnl, ? concert, one or two parties, I
two or three mnriinges, five or oil death*,
twj hnll storms, one fight, held court two;
Woe k?,went half through the business, found
no true bills, eberiff pftkl no moody to.foreign
Inwycrs, and w? enme oft' in debt, mid
left lhem in bi?h epiHfo, Expecting t>oon >Lo.
hnvo a railtOudj
Di8iNTt:ny.flTBn (jjtlicr.?Cooke, fh? tin
genutn, was in tee habit ot giving, orders Jo ;
h widow My, who wii:i oncu,sifting hi the !
pit, ,wjih her little girl, when th'ir friend,
the performer, was about to ha slabbed by
hf? stage rival. Housed by tbe supposed i
imminence of his danger, the git I sui ted up.
exclaiming, " Oh I don't kill him, sir?-.cfotv't
kill himfor if \ou do, hi? won't gire us
any mn?e pit o. ders f" Her di*rntere&ted
grief, |ike the gratitude of ?inme peppte, was
it lively se.^pe of benefits to <:omi.
" "Hs slrftncro." n fnitng rfrnn, !
na lift afhj/srrred bnme from ft eop'pcr party,
*5 bo* evil comtimdnlcntiorvs eorriipt * good
tfttrtrtfra. I've b*en ayrrounded by tumbbj^ra
nil I lift evening, nnd now I'm h tumbfer
myself"
Hay Making in the South.
A Brief Kssay, .rend before I ho " Beach
Island Farmer's Club," at the October
"Meeting.
GeNtlkmrv : As it is expected that each
member of this Club shuil make a report of
some experiment, I, take this opportunity to
present the following, on hay making :
About the first of May, I had a ten aero
lot of good river-bottom land plowed up,
with doublo plows, ftorn 6 to JO incite*
deep; thu land was then well harrowed
will) <\ good (wo liorso iron-tooth hnrrow?
hcioss ihe'plowing,, and then rolled with a
cast iron two-horse roller, in order to rhakn
the. mii face im smooth ns possible. The land
was soon covered with crnb-jj??fi?. In consequence
of the lint dry weather, I had almost
despaired of realizing a crop ; but after
the heavy rain which fell about the 1st of
September, it revived and grow oil'rapidly,
and continued to improve until the Jailer
pari of September, when it was froin two
to three feel liiyh, at which lime I cut it
with scythes. The pian 1 adopted for curing
was, to have what was cui in the mornini/
hi rued over find rinruod ??-? nlmnt f~.. -
or five hours nfter it was cut, nnd thai part,
of it ilimi had froth four lo six hours sun on
it iv? then put into common si/.o shocks
and remained mutt ilin next day about ten
o'clock, or until the dew was vfUiivly off.
at which time they were >ig:iin opened an<t
the buy ajj'iin ?plcad, nnd lemained so unlif
ev.ening, when ii was put into shocks nuQ.il>,
and lemained so until the dew was ofl* n?>xt
day, when they were opened and spread a *
above stMed ; in the afternoon, such as wnn
sufficiently cmed I bad packed in r barn.
1 measured one uoro. and obtained from
that 7,67,5 pounds of well cured hay, which
I sold for 75 cents per cwl. in Augusta ; it
was Wefghed at the city scales, and at that
low price amounted to $?o7.fifl. At r???r
- f
hundred, (he' amount would linvo been
$70.7o ; at $1.25 per hundred $116.12.?
These pi ices are not unfrequently paid for
an article in no way superior. I think '.herH
were three or four acres in the lot ns good
as the one I measured ; tho balanco not
more than two thirds as good. Attheratn
sold, the whole lot would amount to $400 :
and of course still higher nt increased rates,
its shown above.
I would simply call the attention of the
members to the fact that if this crop hnd
been made. iNOrt'norn liny
roln'mnnds in Augusta, which is about $1.-*
50, it would amount to $020, or $92 per
aero.
My impression is that two crops may bo
hlliPIl fl'Am t Yit* ktt r*rv> ?v*?J
.. "J wv'?.??v,.vtl?JJ
puilicr in the season, and there is no crop
more profituble with the same nraoont of
labor.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Jonathan M. Millkr,
Goouai.e, nenr Aiiguatn, On.
Hkn Pkusoadkuh.?The Springfield Republican,
In speaking of n new invention for
? hen'e nest, whereby theeggs drop through
n Irnn ilonr a I i.r\ 'ln/uiuno il>? '! ??
?!ic keeps on .laying, is responsible for tlio
following :
" Blobbs mcl with a loss, however, with
one of the persuaders. Blobbs bad a lovely
young Shanghai pulUt, of boondlee? ambition.
Blobbs bought a persuader, and
his lovely Shanghai used it. She went upon
the nest in the morning. Blobbs saw her
go, and his heait bounded within hfrtl.-?
Alas! lie never saw her come off again.
At night, he visited the persuader. In the
upper compartment was n handful of feathers,
a few toe-nails, and n bill ; in tho lower
compartment were three dozen and eleven
eggs! Blobbs saw It all I! Her delicnto
coiisumuon mm ueen unequttl to lite effort,
find, fired by young ambition, she had laid
herself nil away.''
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opinions of a disai-pointicij mai?.?
The iniii) who is proud uf hit* money has
rarely nnything belter to be prottd of.-?
Trees with double flowers nre too often,
the emblem of friendship?there is plenty
of blossom, but no fruit. Ther% nre many
men who dflight in plajing the fool, but
who got angry the moment they are told so
In medicine, a Brougham goes much further
(huh knnwli'/lorn. Sni>iplu I>nc a rirrKf Ia
" . 'V ? > ? " "
particular-*-it. is so often deocived ! Common
sensp lias becopie such n rare commodity
Uwt the woihi has entered into a tacit,
compact to live without it. We?lth itself
; ? not art much de?|>ised-"-?t i? only the man
who is the possessor of it. Every woman
is bori) with a master mind ; that is to say.
with (? Hv'nd, to be master, if 8he pan.
man living should .say an ill word ngainst
the doctors. Compliments nre the coin that
we pay n m-m to his face--.?A?casms ftrn
w|iat, we pay .him put \fith behind his hacV.
Toad-^atin^is always in fashion' In France,
I hero is nothie.ij vonnir?uAnr
? <v~r>, ? o y?
jet* a antique.?I dnch.
Tmdv Krkbdoms.-'? We certainly woaM
tinker the world, hero and thero, If it wer?i
comnifW nhfe?hut particularly for thn
U9es of entbarVftssed young ladies, Say? a
certain otherwise nhcniymoii? 4' ln?" to a?,
at the end of n long communication ; "Oneo
agrtin I rt??k; I* it proper for a foong, lively
and unprotected female, to introduce hlfifrlf
ta the man whom of all other j she ?n<*t desire*
l? know, while al the shme lime she
would ralltftf die than forfeit bV go^.1 opinion
; nnd would the-fact of her being a widow
mnko the nelf-presentntion ni>7 less
proper ?*' To which wg say, busihertqucjj,
" ao abend." .
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