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DEVOTED '10 POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND JO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF TIE COUNTRY. voL~. vi. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY,_NOVEMBER 23, 1816. What OSith's Bey Sakm. A familyv named Smith has recen' y tuoved to Germantown, and Mr. Brown's boy, on Saturday, leaned wver the fense and gave to onr re porter his impressions of Mr. Smith's b1y, a lod about fo"rteen years of age: "Yes. me and himn are right ae quainted now; lie knows more'n I do, and hie's had more experience. Bill a s his father used to he a robber, (Smith, by the way, is a deactin in the Presbyterian church, and a very ezeallent lawyear.) and he has $10, 000.000 in gold buried in his cellar, along with a whole lot of louman Uones, people hie's killed. And he says his -father is a conjurer and that he makes all the earthquakes thut happen anywhere in the world. The od man'l come home at night, alter Ahere's been an earthquake, all cov ered with sweat, and so tired he kin hardly stand; Bill says it's such hard work. -"And Bill tole ie that once when a man camte around there trying to sell lightning rods, his father got mad and eat him right up, and he takes hites out of everybody he comes acrost. "eThat's whatt Bill telle. mie. That'ti all I know about it. Avid be to-le te that once he tised to have a dog. one of 1lheGe lilde kind 14 dogs and he was flyinig his kite, and jnat for han ie tid the kite strin;g on to hib dog's tail. A vd the wind struck her and the dog went boomin' d4wn the street wilh his hind legs in the air f..r s. bout a Ilile, when 1he kite all ot Ia sndden began to go ng, aid in about fit-eq-n minutes the dog was fiftien miles high, and commUanding a view (f CAliftli nia, anld Egyp', aid Oh k.,Pb. I think B11 nid. lie camtle dow1 aDN how, I kinw, in Brazil, and BiNl said lie owum loiei all tie wav in ti1e 'ittic ocesm, anld wheni he lande'l I. b_0 'AO we all ibiled off by sharks. 'I wish tsathier'd bouy mec a dig s's I could send him up~ that way. But I never thave nuo luck. Bill said that where they need to live he went out on the roof one day to fly his kite, and he sat on the top of the chimnbly to give her plentv of room, and wie he was sitting there thsinkinig about ntothaing, the old man put a keg of powder down below in the firet lace to Clean. the soot out of the chimly. And when heo touched hier off Bill was blowed over again the Baptist chureb steeple, and he landed on the weather cock with his. pants torn and they couldn't get him down for three days, so lbe hun r, t here gouintg round and round with the win.d, and lbe lived by eating the crows that came and eat on him, because they tho;ught hie was mad. of sheect iron and put up there ont purpoese. ."lie'. head more fun than enough. Hie was telli g mec the other day a bout a sanoage stuffer his brother invented. It was a kinder mnachinse theat wosked with a treadle, and Bill said the way they did in the tall was 9 to fix it 03 the big's back, anud then the he.g'd work the treadle aned keep on running it np and downe until the machine. cut the hog all up fine and shoved the meat into the skinA. B.ib said his brother called it "Ever y Hlog H is Own Situffer," and it wor ked splen(uid --But I don't know. 'Peare to me's if there couldn't he no ma ehise like that. But any way Bill said so "And hue told me about ane nncle of his ini Australia who was et by a big opper once, and when lhe got in side he staid there tuntit he et dhe 03 ster. Then he split the shell open and took half 'a one for a bo t and be sailed ang util he met. a sea serpent, and lhe killed it and drawed off its skin, and when hie got hiome he sold it to an eng~ine eomp'ay for a 4hose for $40.000, to put mut fr.. with. Bill said that wam actually so, because he conldiihow tue a man who used to belong to the engine com paTny. I vish father'd let me go and ld a sea serpent like that but he don't let me have no chance to distinguish myself. "Bill was saying olly yesterday that the Indians vaught him once and drove eleven railroad spikes through his stomach, and cut off his scalp, and it never hurt him a bit. He got away by the daughter of the chief sneaking him ont of the wigwam and and lend. ing him a horse. Bill save she was in love with him, and whet I asked him to let ine see the holes where they drove in them spikes, lie said he daren't take off his clot les or he'd bleed to death. He said his own father didn't know it because Bill was afraid it might worry the old ma'. "And Bill ttle me they wasn't Lo ing to zet him to go to Sunday School He saY his tather has a brass idol that he keeps in the garret, and Bill says he has made nip his mind to he a pagan, aid to begin to go naked and carry a tmninhawk and a bow and arrow as soon as the warm weather CestHM. And to pr.oe it to tue he says his fathier has this town all under laid with nitri-gl *cerine, and taB soon a,a he gets ready he's going to blow the old tiing out, and hnst her np, let her rip a; d demolish her lie said so at the dam, and tole me not to tell any bodr, but I thonglht ilhere'd be no harm in menti(Onlilig it to You. 'And now I believe I must be go ind. I hear Bill a whistling Mavle he's got somiet hinv else to tell me." Tie wonders of telegraphy have not vet been exbatisted. The (ild Imy-stics wi cioneeived it ti) be ptis sible for friend to hil imnediate irtercourae wit!1 friend whilst at dis tances remote frqlmn each other, coild they reappear upon earth, would find that their fatnciful imagining was completelv realiz.d when cience sumoned to man's uses the electric current, and made it the servant of his will. 'But even Morse never itna-, gii'ed it p,ossible that two musical in strumnents, j)taced miles apart, when brought into connection with an electric wire could be made to play the samne tune, or 'hat a person writ inig at one end of a wire could have a fac simile of hie6 :nanuscript produced at the o,th,er end of it. Yet these things have been done. And nlow we have, as the latest triumph of inventive genius, audib!e speech by teh-*graph. At Boston, a few days agoI, conversatioIn by word (of mouth between two persons-one in an of fice in that city a:nd the other in a t.actory at Cambridge, t wo miles ,f -was carried ons over a telegraph wire. A record of the conversation was kep)t at both ends of thse wire, and is pubhlishied in the nlewspapers. A comparison of the records shows that, With the exception oft two ot three words that tae ear (If the lis teuner failed to catch correctly, the questions and answers wese aucen rately transmitted. At first nhe sounds are said to have been tainat and inidisinct, but became suddenly quite Ilound and intelligible, as:d so conltlinued as long as the session last ed. The invent ion t hat adds art icu late spleecha to the other wonders o,f telegraphy is dithcult to descr ibe, but the author of it is Protessor A. Grat hamt Bell The Nashville American solves the pin,blem when it Bays: "St rit, between. the sectionls and between races will cease as8 soon: ase the power for evil is taken away from apay thai make. political gatins ont i sceen, s ol violence, andi the colnstirn tion i authority as pl!aced in theo han.ls (It mne whose p.liuical welare ce quires that peace shall 1be pre~served ever where. An Eccentric Preacher. Mr. Spnrgeon, in his lecture on "Eccentric Preacbers," gives the following account of Billy Dawpon: "On one occasion he was preach ing about 19oah's ark. lie was boxed up i" a pulpit, and as he warmed to lue subject, he found be had no room to suit action to his words and feel it-gs, so lie said, 'This won't dol so lie opened the door and came down to the loot of the building, and, as it he had been actually at work on the building of the ark, lie began to lay about him, cutting down trees, and sawing up planks, and then began hammering away until be had made ,he ark, and then warninie the peo ple that the flood was coming, lie entreated them to come into the ark. Ile next lighted a fire, took an ima ginary cauldron of pitch, and, to r mplete his work, pitched it thor., uly all over, and then ascended lie pulpit, banged the door to, aid then looking at his audience said, in it tolemnn voice, 'And the Lord shut !im itil' Mr. Paxton Hood, who told im the story, said the people seemel positively karned, whilst Billy Daw ion went on shouting, 'It's too late, Iowl Its too late, nowl the flood's Co Ie, and yon are lost." And theii lie set to, aid basing his discourse on this scene, he preached Jesus Christ awd Him crucified, with an earnest iwes wi.ich brought mati a penitent oimer (o the tootsiuol of divine grace. Gild bad given him tho bump of aranatizing, and he could not helip using it to a good purpose too. On ano4therl iccasion lie was vreaebii., about David's encounter % ith Goliah, and af.er picturing vividly with the cialletige of the Plilitines aid the -eance of David, lie took out a picktt-haudkerchief, and having Lmale a fdil,g ofit, lie put il an imila giilary stoue, and fling it with such appare;.t reality and f4orce that just as the sionie left the sling, Sam1my Hick, the village blacksmith, fairly carried away by his f'eeling~s, shout ed 'Tha,'s right, Billy, now hoff wit i 'is'ed.' " A REMARKABLa Fatoo SThRY.- A reumrkaijle incident occurred at Browni & Ilail's saw mill, in A c'onu, while a pine log wes being satwed ny ini o lumber. The outside slab an one beard had been cut off, arid while thre workmen were turning over the log they were sur prised to see a large toad poke his head out ot a hole ini which lie was imibedded, and wuere hre Lad barely escaped being cut by tIhe saw. [low the stranger got there was a mystery, as lie was completely encased in tIhe wood, witti no psi ble mreanse of ingr ess or egP ess. As the log was the tou rth or dfth from the butt of the tree, his position n,ust have been at least filty or sixty feet from:r the ground, and hie hiad no (dou1bt grown up with lit from infancy, n'ei. g probably hundreds of years od. Tfhe animal was qui?e fl.at anid nearn~ as large as a mnan'b IieadI ie was perfectly blind, but when taken troim bi bed he maiide uise of his~ Iimbs to~ c awl away. Ilie tree wars peer. fec'dy sonnd, withI the exception ot a dIeCa.)e: spot of about a t. on in length bieow lie hollow p)lace iiin wich lie was imnbedded. llow did lbe get I herie, and1( what did lbe live onit-T-or Glo. IIAMPT.N's INAUGURAL CHAIR-A number oft entrhusiasetic Ed&*field De miocrats have ordered a superb re cep)tionr chair for Governor Ha 'p - torn, to be used by him during his term of office. The chair will be earried to Columbia by a delegation df .ne thonsand citizens fromi Edge., geld. The boys are af'raid that onr Giovernior's reform )?olicy unight ine somew way be contumrinated bcy being b. ought in corntact, wire a enoer hner rotore used by uniprinicipled adv.en turoes. The Old Way "The time of Jeremiah was evi dently a time of conflict between op. posing influences and priociples. To meet the case of all, this message came, as sutflicient for all guidance, *Stand ye in the ways, ad see, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.1 The case assumed is that of a traveller, who on hia journey finds himelf at the opening of many ways, and he knows not wit h any assurance which of them leads to his resting place. The place whichi he seeks ia a most ancient city, the way to which has been traversed in all ages. Bit there may be more old paths than one. The bruPad way that leadeth to destruction ii as old as t lie straight road thet leadeth unto life, and far better frequented. It is, ther etore, tieceseary to seek not only the old path, but the good way. Al though every old way may not be good, the good way is cartainly old; if, theref ire, the traveller finds and f..llows the way that is both old and good, he or she is safe, and without fail shall reach home and 'find rest for the soul.' As this last expres sion occurs only in one other place, the mind is carried forward to onr Saviour's invitation, 'Colme unto mue, all that labor and are heavy laden, and ye shall flid rest to your souls.' And to come is not merely to come to IIim, bt.t by Him. For again 11e tays, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.' There was never %et found, and never w,ill be found, any way of rest or safety for the soul but by 11iin And this is the old way. Thie Ap '-sile, indeed, calls it 'a new and Ii.ng way,' as having then received new and full illustration. Yet it is a way as old as the Fall; and, in the purpose arid fircknowledge of God, older than the Creation. In these latter days the ancient path hia been more filly opened up. It is there fore our course, as it was fornierly, stillEto inquire for the old path, the good old way, thne pleasant way of Christ."-Dr. hitto. EVINs and A1KEN.-Col D. WVyatt, Aiken anid Col. Evmns are elected to Congress from the Third and Fourth Districts by rousing majorities, and now, fo~r the first, time sine the war, will the voice of true South Carolina be heard in the halls of Cougro,s. At different times Reed, bimpson and McKistbick were elected and ruled out by the Republican majority, but-evon a Republican Congress would not have the audacity to refuse their seats to Aiken and Evins. Tihe3y are liberal andi progressive Democrats, in the prime of life. Both are practical men, and the labors of Col. Aikorn in the cause of Agricultural Reform have been of inestimable value to the State. Cot. Evins is an accomplished law yer, and Aiken and Evins will make a strong team in Congress next Oss sion. Swails and Rainey will con, Liniue to be mieroe ciphe'rs. Cain may go to the Congaree Congress where Mr. Parmuelo presides. Aiken and Evinis will be the only real represen tatives, in Congress, of the people of South Carolina, white and black. And in the Senate they will have a colleague worthy of the past glory and p)resenit hopes of the Stato.--No we and Cour ior. The bigest mmree in California is not ini the Yosemite ialley. Kuigs River valley in Frezr.o County is 5,000~ feet above t he sea, anid its w..ls n b,ich are abouit 3,:000 feet high, are very precipitous. Ian this vattley a new grove of colossal red wood trees has been discoveredt. One of them eclipses all that have beens dJiscver ed on the Pacific coast. Its circum,i terence, as high as a man can reach aud ass a tape ijne around, is a hew inhes less than 1 5' feet. Iihis is beyond thie tUsmsa.em of anl . eoi in the Cataveras gr.-ve. Thie .eighnt is estimnated at 160 t~e; and1( a part of the top lying on toou ground is over QO feet in lnth By Josh Billings. I have examined these rich men, and I find that the happiest time ot their life is when they are making their money; after they get rich and sit down to enjoy it, trouble be.. gins. Most people are anxions to get the first news; I want my news about tour days old, then I think I stand some chance to hear the truth. Men who originate ideas are sel dom the ones who execute them. Without trials and temptations man would be nothing more than a a fungus. The best way to manage children is to spank the,m privately and Frase them publicly. Misers are strange creatures they sell to enjoy only those things they have not. There is no better evidence of general depravity than to see those who flatter the most succeed the best. There is no greater tyranny than fear. The most pleasant prospect from the top of a high mountain is to look back and see the rugged way we have come. I have tried all the most approved plans, and I lind the best way to innage a woman is to let her have her own way. There is une trai t of the human character that the devil himself must be prond of, and that is, the more we have injured a man the more we hate him. Most of the miserable would -be comparatively happy if they would only compare their condition with those beneath instead of those above then. Trath never is in a hurry, but a lie is always (in the jump. There is great art iii carrying your points without seeming at.all axious to do it. Peace ought to be as cheap as day light, buit it is one of the luxuies, an.d costs .s mnore thani anyth ing else we have to buy. Love, which is simply the result of fear, will turn to hate the tiret good chance it gets. It costs less to agree with a iuul than to differ with, himt. A dvice is generally like thme bread and cheese that beggars receive thrown over into the first vacant lot they come to. O'stinacy might be excumable in a wise mian, but wise men are never obstinate. Old age is a pecrch) where all the aches, sorrows anhd ills of lite comie to A good joke is told as having beeni perpetrated b)y a tarmer necar Ehmira, ile had been bothered greatly by hiuntter s from thle city, who had eat te'red htis woods with a~ peifect abain d .n and slaughte.red the eqmuir rels ini a,rea: ninb ers. One day bie prictir ed two or lee Iqirrels, to. k the to a I ax idermtiist and had t hem si ffed, [I e took themi to his woods and nai led tem lnst to the limoabs of as miany trees, in such a wayt that they conld be1 eaisily discovea ed by a he .uteset [1 .w much powder and lead hats been wasted on these squirt els it is impos si ble o mellI, but inany) a good marks mian has won'dered w hy beao could ni t bag the gamite. The old farmer has donhtlesa eijoyed miany a heerty laught at the discomifiture of the hunt era. During these cool, breezy rn.rni ings, when theo air seems fres:ier and lihe fields5 alre bJesi>aIgled witha dew .he[m')nds, when all nature seems to invYito man to a romp, how pleasant it is. just as the first streak<s of day light steal through the antters, foir th)e refreshed, reinvigorated sleeper to turn over in bed anid take anu...~ It is potent of the fate of tho Radical party in this State, as well as an illustration of their wholesale plun dering, that their organ, the Union Herald, was filled on Saturday with advertisements of lands offered for sale for taxes. It is ominously silent about the result of the election. Sel ling land for unpaid taxes may bo fun, and prcbably is profitable, to the Organ, but it is ruinous to the tax payers. Under Hampton's adminis tration the newspapers will not bo filled with advertisements of forfeited land sales, for the taxes will be so low that everybody can pay them. STATE BONDs.-The last New York Herrald in its fnancial article and re ports, says the Southren State bonds were in moderate request, and already begin to foreshadow the confidenc3 that will be engendered by an honest administration of the respective South ern governments. Already we hear of a renewed inquiry for South Carolina bonds at higher figures than have prevailed, and an expression of belief by bankers that they will soon be favorito subjecte of investment. Tennesee bonds were strong, Missou,-4 rice a shade lower, an4 Virginias and North Carolinas firm. BE COOL AND MODERATE.-The no ble and wise words of Wade Hampton to the people of South Carolina, bid ding them be ealn, patient and mung nanimous, are worthy of the man and his great cause. They deserve to bo framed in letters of gold in pictures of silver, and made to shine like the cross of Constantine in the very heavens themselves, noti merely for the benefit of the pecple of the Palmetto State, but the peoples of all the State-. Augusta Constitutionalist. A SUGGESTION OF FRAui.-A Reo, publican, who is the confident. of tho Jeaders, but who voted for Hampton, informed me to day that Republican managers of elections in several oftho countict, which had given Democratie majorities had been telegraphed to make a recount if they su?pected any frands iucre perpetrated by the De~ miocrats. This is nothing more nor less than an intimation or a sugges,~ tion to reopen the ballot boxes and either stuff themn or throw out Demo cratie votes.-Columbia Cor. New York Herald. In the hour of prosperity let us not forget to pity the chirgin of our opi p lien's. Th1ey were worsted in Ihet tight, but they fought hard, it w ill not be0 many monthls before ou r van quished Repu blican friends will learn that we wvhippeid them for their owta good. Though they tried to prevent the victory of Reform, yet whena they taste the fruits of it, they will find them good. We should have the. greater joy because we who win the day snall not alone reap) the ad var a tages of the triunmph, but that tho blessing will attend the wra:oole pe-. pie." TIHE RED FL.AO.--Secretary CIhans dier, chairm un of the national Repub licain committee, just before he left New York, the other day said: 'ro got one man ahecady down South, and1 the Demoacrats will need a d'-d fast train to get the inside track of him. I don't propose to be euchred in this matter, and Hayes has got to be the next President whether he is elected or not." These were the words of thu Republican chairman, as reported by Gen James McQua.de, who, with s;ev eral other gentlemen, overheard them when uttered. A pat y of belated gentlemn, abiout a certain hour begani to t h k .f home and their wives di.pleasure, and urge a departure. 'KNever umiund," said one of the guss "'fiftceen minutes will make no d ifferenice; my wife is as mad unow as she can be. If you want to mnake an enemyfo life just statnd and laugh at a fatL wo mn) as she passes youl on the 1.ying jump to caitchi the horso oar.