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VOL. XX WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6,- IS70. NO 48. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE. MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. The Sumter Watchman {E8TABIIHHMD IN 18M.) i ? rviiuiit By*mir WKDN KSDAV MOUNINC. AT SUMTER, 8. O., BY GILBERT * & FLOWERS. Terms. One yr.**.v.*\ {J Hi v uwutlia. J ?JJ 'fbroo momba...... * vv ?oVISKt'l?*i$M?NXb inwruiJ ?c Hi? MI? of ON IS DOLLAR AND FIFTV OKNf? par ".iura for tb? Uni, OMS DOLLAK iur te? ?Uud, uud flt TV CUNTS ter ?u?ii mb^quvui purndu, for ?ny p?riod U?etbaa tufa? w?utl>i OlUTUAKlliti, THIIIUTKS OF ttKdPKOT ?od all couiuiuuiculioii? wbioh ?ubaor?? privat? iiiiorcBtf, will bo i?;tltl lor an advertisement!'. HISTORIC EXTRACT. . he Last Hours of Mary Queen of Scots. [rn ON wovor.'? UISTOIIY OP KMCLAKD.] Sho wus allowed lp tako six of her own people willi lier, uud scleot tlietu h?rnen'. She chose her physician Bur? goyuu, Audrcw Melville, tho apothecary, (joiion, uud her surgeon, with two la? dies, Elizabeth Kennedy and Curie's young wile, alluna Mowbray, wlio.se child sho had baptized. "Allons dune," shu then ?aid-"Lut us go," und passing out attended by thu curls, and leaning on thu urtu ol'un uflieer ut' tho guard, he descended thu grout slaiica.se to thu hull. Thu news had spread fur through ..lie country. Thousands of people wore Collected outside thu walls. About three huiidi uil knights itiidgutitlcuicu of thu county had boen admitted to witness thu execution Thu tublus und forms had been removed, and a gruat wood lire was bia zin^ in thu chimney. At tho upper end ot thu hull, abuve thu fire-place, but near it, stood thu scaffold, twelve feet square und two t'eut ut.d u half high, lt was covered with black cloth j a low rail ran round it ?covered with black cloth also, and thu sheriff's guard ol halberdiers weru ranged on thu floor bel.iw on thu lour sides to koop oft' thu crowd. (Ju thu scaffold was thu block, black liku thu rest; a square black cush ion was placed behind it, and behind thc cushion u black chair; on thu right were two other chairs for thc c.ills, thc axe leant against thu mil, and Iwn mask ligures stood like mutes on cither side at thu back. ThuQuecu of Scots, us she swept in, seemed ?is if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant Nul a muscio of bur lace could be seen to quiver; shu ascended the scaffold willi absoluto composure, looked around her smiling, mid sui down. ?Shrews? bury und Kult lol lowed, and took their places ; thu sheriff stood at her loft hand, uud Beule thou mounted a plat? form, und read thu Wiirra Ut aloud In all thu assembly .Mary Stuart appeared the person least interested in the wurds which were consigning lier lo death. ".Madam," said Lord Shrewsbury to her, when thu rouding was ended, "you hear What wc arc commanded lo do." "Von will do your duty," she nnswurcd, and rose as il' to kneel and pray. Thu Demi of Peterborough, Dr. Fluteher, approach cd thu rail. "Madam," he bogan willi a low obeisance, "thu Queen's most ex CclUnt Majesty j" ".Madam thu Queen's mest excellent Majesty"-thrice he Colliiuoiioud Ills sentence, wanting words to pur?tic it. When hu repeated thu winds it fourth limo, shu cut him short. "Mr. Dean," shu said, "1 am ii Catholic, and must dieu Catholic, li is useless lo attempt to niovu me, and your prayers will avail mu but lin lu." "Change your opinion, Madam," he cried, bis touguu being loosed ut last ; "repent ul ymir .-ins, settle your failli in Christ, by bim lo bu saved " "Trouble not yourself ?ny furl her, Mr. Dean," she answered ; "I um settled in my own (ililli, for which 1 motin to .shed my blom!." "1 um sorry, in nd am," said Shrewsbury, "to see you so addicted tn Dniiery." "That imago ol Christ you hold there," said Kent, "will Hot profil you if Ile bo" not engraved in your hean." Shu did not reply, und mill? ing her back on Fletcher knelt for her own devotions. Hu bad buen evidently itwtllletod to impair thu Catholic com plexion ol ibo scene, and thu Queen ol' Souls was determined that hu should not succeed. When shu knelt hu com? menced au extempore prayer in which the assembly joined. As his voice Sounded out in tho hall shu raised her own, rueitinii willi powerful deep chested tones the penitential Psalms in Latin, introducing Ktrglish sentences at inter? vals, thal the audience might know what she was saying, and praying willi esp cial distinctness lor hut* holy falber the Dope From time to lime, with eon spieilolis vehemence, shu struck the um ci lix agatiisl her bosom, and (hen. ns the Dean gave up the struggle, leaving her Latin, she prayed in English, wholly, still clear and loud. Shu prayed for the church which shu bad been ready to betray, for her son, whom she' had disinhurilod, for the (?neon whom she ha?l endeavored to murder. She prayed Cod rouvert his wrath from langland, that I'iiighind which she bad sont a last message lo Philip to beseech him to in? vade. She I or-j u ve her ouniuies, whom she had invited Philip not to forget, and then, praying to the saints to intercede for her with Christ, and kissing the cru? cifix and cross!nir her own brcust, ..liven as thy arms, oh Jesus," shu cried, "we're spread upon tho cross, HO reeeivo nie into thy mercy und forgive my sins." With those words she roso; thu blusk Hintes stepped forward, and in ihn usual lorin bogged her forgiveness. "I for? give you," she said, "for now I hope you shall end all my troubles." They offered their help in arranging her d -ss "Truly, my lords," sho said with a smile to tho Karls, "I never hud such grooms wailing on ino before." lier holies were allowed to come up upon tho scaffold to assist her; for the work to bo done was considerable, and huuYbecil prepared willi no common thought. She laid her crucifix on her chair. The chief execu? tioner took it as a perquisite, hut was ordered instantly to luy it. down. The lawn voil was lifted carefully off, not to disturb thu hair, und was hung upon lim rail. Thc black robe w.is next removed, Below it was a petticoat of crimson vel? vet Tho black jacket followed, and under ibo jacket was u body of crimson satin. One of her ladies bunded her tl pair of crimson sleeves, with which she hastily covered her arms; and thus she stood on the black ?caffold with tho black Ggures all around her, blood red from hoad to foot. Her reasons for adopting so extraordinary a costume must bo loft to conjecture It is only certain ?hat ?l must huve been carefully al tidied, and that the pictorial effect must liuvc bout) appalling. Thc women > wlio.se firmness lind hitherto burne the i trial, began now to give way, spasmodic , sobs bursting fruin thom which they couKI uot check. "No criez vous," she j said, "j'ny promis pour vous." Strug- i gling bravely, they crossed their breasts { awaiti und agut?), felic crossing; them in t tiru, and bidding them pray for lier j Then she knelt un thc cushion, liar- j bara Mowbray bound her eyes with u handkerchief. "Adieu," she said, smi ling for thc Inst time and waving her hand to them, "Adieu, au revoir." They stepped buck from off the scaffold, und left her uhnic. On her knees she repeated thc psulm, [II to, Domino, cuntido, "In thee, oh Lord, huvc 1 put my trust." Her shoulders being ex? posed, two scars became visible, ono on either side, mid thc curls being now a littlt behind her, Kent pointed to them with his while wand, und looked inquiringly ut Iii? companion. Shrews? bury whispered that they were tho ie mains ol' two abecsses from which she had stlfierod while living willi him ut Sheffield. When thc psalm was finish? ed she felt for tho block, und, laying down ber head, m it lt crud, "lu munns, domino tuns, commeudo nu i mum m earn." Tiic hard wood seemed to hurt her, for she placed her bauds under her tieck. Tho executioners gently removed them, lest they should dead II ibo blow, timi then one of them holding ber slightly, thc other raised thc axo lind struck Tho scene hud been too trying even for tho practised headsman of the Tower, His urtu wandered. The blow fell on the knot ol'the handkerchief, and scarce ly broke thc skin. She neither spoke nor moved. He struck again, this time effectively The head hung by shred of skin, which lie divided wit bout with drawing (lie axe; and at once a meta? morphosis was witnessed, str?ngen? was ever wrought by wand ol'lublod cuchan* ter. The coif fell off and thc luise plaits. Thc labored illusion vanished. Tho lady who had knelt before the bloek was in the mut uri ly of grace und loveliness. The executioner, when he raised the head, ?is usual to show it to tho crowd, ox posed ibo withered fea? tures of n grizzled, wrinkled old woman. "So perish all enemies of the (??ccu," said the Doun ol Peterborough. A loud Amen rose over the hall. "Such end," said ibo Karl of Kent, rising and standing over tho body, "to the Queen's and t ne Gospel's enemies." Orders bud been given that overythina which she bad worn should bo immcdi.itely de? stroyed, that no relics should be curried off to work imaginary mirucb'.s. Scuti uels stund at tho doors who allowed tm. ono to puss out without permission ; timi al'tel thc first pan e. tho curls st ?ll koep.. itig their places, the body was stripped ll tho" appeared that a favorito lapdog ba ; ol lowed its mistress ti II po reo i veil, nu?, was concealed under her doilies; w n discovered it gave a short cry. ami sc*! ted i I so! I'bet ween the' bead ami nook, holli which the blood wu? still flowing Ii was cul ried away and carefully wash? ed, and theil beads, Paternoster, hand? kerchief- each particle of dress winch the blood hud touched, willi the (dolli un ibo block and on lite scaffold, was burnt in the hall fire in the presence of the crowd. Thc scaffold itself was next ru moved. A brief account ol' I be execu? tion was drawn up, with which Henry Talbot, Lord Shrewsbury's sou was sent lo London, and (ben every one was di missed Silence settled d<>wii on Kurth? oringiiy, nod the hist scent: of the life ol' Mary Smart, in which tragedy ami melodrama were so strangely inter mingled, was over A speetuior, who wu> one of ber wannest admirers, de scribes lier bearing as infinitely iran sending the power ol thc most accom? plished actor lo present Tho associa? tion of the stage was, perhaps, uncon? sciously suggested by what was in fact, notwithstanding the tremendous reality willi which il closed, tbc most brilliant acting t?.roiludiout. Tho plain gray dress would have sufficed, had she cared only to gu through with simplicity the putt which was assigned to lier. She intended lo produce a diurnal ic sensation, and .>he succeeded. Tho soil.possession was faultless, ibo courage splendid Ni vcr did any h um ti ii creature meei death so bravely; yet, in the midst ot (bc admiration ami pity which can not be refuse ' her, it is not to hu for? gotten thal she was leaving ibo world willi a lie upon ber lips. She wa? a bad w unan, disguised in the livery ol' a martyr, and, if in any sense at all she was suffering for ber religion, it was bo cause she bad shown herself capable ol those detestable Crimes which in thc sixteenth century appeared to be thc proper fruits of it. To ussumo ?ml to carry through the character of a victim of religious intolerance, to exhibit ber sell as an example of saintliness, suf? fering for devotion to tho truth, would bc to win the victory over Elizabeth, even in defeat and death, to lasten upon her tho reputation ol' a persecutor, Which she bud most endeavored to avoid, to slump her name with infamy, ami pos? sibly drag her down to destruction, sor can it be said (hat sha (ailed. She could not, indeed, stay the progress ol the Reformation, make England a pro? vince of Spain, or arrest tin. dissolution ol'an exploded creed; but she became a fining tutelary saint for the sentimen? tal Romanism'ol tho modoro world, She bas bad ber revenge, if not on Elizabeth living, yet on her memory in ibo annals of her country; mid Euglish.history will continuo, probably to the end of time, to 11 pres nt the treatment of Mary Stuart, which, if it erred nt all, erred from tho beginning on tho sido of leniency and weakness, ns tho ono in doliblo stain on thc reputation of thc great Queen. "Who now doubts," writes un cloquout modern writer, "that it would have boen wiser in Elizabeth to anare her life?" Rather, tho political wisdom of a critical and difficult act hus never in the world's history been more signally j dst i Qed. It cut away the only interest on which tho Scotch and Kngli?dt Catholics could possibly have coruhined. lt deteriniticd Philip upon the undisguised pursuit of thc English throne, and it enlisted against hito und his projets tho passi mate patriotism of thc English nobility, who refusod to bn tempted, even by their creed, to betray thc independence ol'their eountry. At once and forever it destroyed tho hopo that thc Spanish Armada would find a party to welcome it. Thc entire Catho? lic organization, as dir cted against England, was smitten with paralysis; and the Queen lound herself, when the invader arrived at last, supported by tho loyal enthusiasm ol' un undivided na? tion. [Prow tho New York World.] THE GUA CK OF DOOM. Thu Dissolution of thc Planet tee Inhabit - I'rofissor Wurt s's Theory in Regard to flu: Emf of AH Tilings- Thc Destruc? tion of Carbon by the Mollusks- The Cont iii'f Arno Zoic Cycle. "There arc chemical chances uow active on the earth's surlace whose con? tinuance must inevitably brilia about thc lina! extinction of mau, und ulti? mately that of all other lifo on our plane?. * * * t omparativcly and zoologically speaking, tho end is near."" This st arti i ti ii announcement, made by Professor Wurtz, is, according to .sumo authorities, based ou strict deduc? tion I rom physical law. Carbonic acid forms one thottsautli part of the atmos? phere td' our globe, and is thc funda? mental nutriment ul vital- existence, furnishing, us it dues, tlx; carbon to grow plaits, lt is evident that, oom par* ed willi other constituents of the at? mosphere, this gas exists to butti very limited extent in the form in which aloue.il can support vegetable life, and thc only means by which it. is restored io the air are the combustion and decay of organic bodies, and the respira I ion of animals If the gas were used only by planta, these means ol its restoration to thc air would b<-sufficient to couutcrhal ance il? cnnisuuiptiou, and fur . this reason : The approximate number ol living species of plants is 100,000 - thc individuals ol euell species outnumber ing those of euell species til animals - The number of species MI ihe animal kingdom is. approximately, radiate-, IO, 000 ; mollusks, 20,0.Kl ; articulates, 300,000 j vertebrales. 20.000-muk.Hu in till H?0.000. lt i> thus seen that, animals being so much in excess ul plants, they would throw out moro ?ja.? than would he sufficient to support thu vegetables, (?riving bulk by bulk. Plants in decaying, would restore (arbon to tlu ar. and, as nearly all that ?mini?is I tiki 1 rom thc air they restore to it, ai equilibrium would be kept up lim lhere are oilier instrumentalities iv li iel ate utfceasiugly disturbing this cqutlib ri um ami withdrawing the gas Iron i lie atmosphere What are ihnst in-triune tain ?es which are thus lilith' i igly rendering -. the ??libe unlit l< support organic life ? Within tho sou arc living being preparing dc it ruction to all life. Tin devil fish, ol which Victor Hugo ha; given such a romantic and horrible de seription, is as naught when comptiiet with the inute. inglorious clam, and ill delicious but deadly oyster, who, lik tho heartless mousier that he i.s. lies ii his bed and bides bis time, walebing ii glim reposo his evening prey, liabbag undertook to show that thc destructtoi of ono animal by another produce more happiness than the world wotllt know, if no snell destruction went on which was a scitilitifio way of say ?ll that if no animal atc. none would li vt and that animals like to live. It too many pages of thu llridgewator treatise io prove th's astounding faut ; but wini sulaco is illili to thf eaten-all Hough i gives moral support tu thc eater ? Ar fool justified in eal ing oysters, but uh to think that all tho while they ar nibbling at our vitals, while prctcudiil merely lo be assimilating infusoria. W such ts the horrible fact. Disgttigo as wo may ; shut our eyes lo it ; t.ir our eyes and refuse to sec it-it is sti ihoTO. The oysters aro alter us. Thc ocean covers about three fourtli of the earths surface, or 10,000,01 miles, but. it is not nearly so deep .Ma inc animals with calcareous shells i skeletons secrete carbonates from tl ocean water, ibo carbonic acids rf the; carbonates having originally como fro (he atmosphere. When wc cuiis'iib thc almost infinito number of these lb with calcareous shells or skeletons those large fish who will take in carbi if they can get it-we must admit wii professor Wurt/., that they arc likely cause thc "great machine to run down and let "alliniiy obtain its liual victo over its mysterious un tagon ?st vitti ny." Water, at ordinary temperature readily absorb.-' carbonic acid, and und tho usual pressure ol' the atmosphere, takes up ?ls own bulk ol il, When ll gas has passed from (ho water, ai become a const itiicnt of tho shells of fis es it is permanently locked there, tn ever afterwards is unavailable f purposes of organic life. Thus, t water of thc ocean is forced to dn fruin tho air iuinn diately nbuvo it order to maintain its regular and nut in proportion ol'om bon, This it is coastal Iv doing ; to replace every aloin of p which becomes shell, the ocean cxlrai ono atom from the air, willoh is th steadily rendered less and less lil I tho growth of plants, and oonscquoii! Las and lest Iii fur supporting nuiu life. Mollusks wcro thc very first bein who set about to take away our carin The most ancient forms of animal 1 found io tho lowest fossiliferous rat m._.r g aro mollusks, represented by the lingula abofus. Fishes were iu the early times a weak and pusillancous race, destitute of a backbone-they merely had back cartilage; but, as time went on, they, too, learned the advantage of carbon, und soon became stiff necked und over bearing, muli ?plying us they did to an n lunn ?Hg extent. It is heartrending to think of, but it is nevertheless a fact, that the first fish who hud gono so far as to be true vertebrates, and have firm and carbonaceous backbones, appear io our own State in the coralline formation of thc upper Ileldcrburg ; nor eau tho Catskill group bo held entirely guiltless, for tiley soon followed. livil is far moro contagious than good. And tho oysters got bigger and fatter, and more of them, ut. tl thc fish became moro officious, and I grew under tho'supcrficcs of thc sea and since that time, they have been taking away onroarbon, otcalthily und noise-. Icssly, it is true, but not, therefore, less fat ul ly. Then plants followed iu thc conspir? acy. In tho old times carbon was as plentiful as heart could wish. In tho carboniferous ago, tho earth, not content with its fishes und clams, scut out trocs to rob us. Giant Urns und all imagin? able shapes and forms of plants grew in rank luxuriance, and ao soon us they had got all thc carbon tites wanted, the earth shook its back and laid them away for coal. This was all very well if it had not gono on, for it gave men a show, and when there was just enough carbon in tho air to let him live, he availed himself of the opportunity and lived. But thc thing is being curried too far. It should be stopped now ; but unfortunately, the fishes have tho best of us. ll tho vorst comes to the worst, wc must sot fire tb our coal mines mid release the carbon ibero stored, for ns Professor Wurtz says : "Geologically speaking, thc end is near." Let tuan do his best to ward it olf ; let him build his Birminghams, his Pitisburgs and his Sheffields, and thus endeavour' to restore the tupi Hy vanishing equilib? rium, but by so doing he is only partially and tetnporurilly winding up thc machine univ to see it run down ngutu, Noth? ing better could bu said in conclu? sion than thc Professor's own words : Into thc thc ocean depths this pre? cious constituent ol thc air is continually undergoing "A sea din ugo Ititu something rich anil strange," never to reappear in form available to lite, until, indeed, that time shall ar? rive when "the clement shall molt with fervent heat and which, under thc i ii ll o i-II ire. of (his heat, the calcic and tnaguosic carbonates shall be converted into igneous silicate' rendering np again the treasure of carbonic acid in theil maible grasp, the atmospheric oxygen, representativo of alliuity, enemy ol vitality, shall also lhen bo at lea.it par? tially withdrawn by oxidation ol' sui pit?les and of ferrous oxide ; and tin earth bo thus far advanced iu prepara? tion for a new zoic cycle. nv MAY wniTNKV. You sec, this was all we know lihou her when we gathered up what was Iel' ol' that dreadful railroad accident, then was only a handful ol curls matted to ufilier and stained with blood; some thing that once must have been a lac und head-neck and shoulders and ches mutilated and gory-one little ham and arm still in [dace, thc other ton away ?ind gone-feet und limbs dis figured utterly ; clothing once rich am tasteful I uttered, tl nd soiled ; no nam anywhere-no one claiming the rein mints of mortality-nothing whnteve lo .signify who and what il hud been. '.Who wns lier fntlicr ? Who wac her mother? Hil she a sister ? Mini she a brother ? ' None could toll. A delicate chain c gold was round thc neck, holding a tin lockot, crusted with jewels, but bined stained like thc rest-and in it ii curl i bl ick hair threaded with silver, and on linio word, "DAKMNO." That was all. There were twelve ot li ors who were killed, but all of thct woe claimed by some one, or could b identified, except this little waif ; an aller the excitement of thu ra i Iron disaster had abated, mid the friend who bad been bereaved by it had becom usod to grief and Ins.!, and alter mau weeks of wailing for sonio oue to com and say "She was mine," wo took tl little Coffin from the damp cold vu til and pul. it down beside our own tl a ri i 11 in thc church yard-and above it who the white marble gleamed, wo carve her name : "HAULING." Whose darling t No maller. SOUK holly's hear? yearned iu vain fur tl clasp of iho dimpled anns. Somebody lips quivered and whitened and shrui ! away because the voso hued cheeks ai I mont b could no more be kissed. Tl ! hands thal provided, and thc hands th j fashioned tiloso costly beautiful ga i mcnls, clasped eich other convulsive ! in prayer or despair-somewhere. Tl head from which that curl of silve ! threaded hair was severed, tossed nig alter niolil restlessly upon its pillo day by day whirled and throbbed at J Relied-somewhere The house t\hi< ! had been glorified by such an ange ; presence, which had resounded wi! laughter and song and paltering fcc was now dark and silent-somowhere Strange that no one bad ever como seek tho little lost ono I Wo had i tried our host to find her parents friends; wo had loft no stone unturtict wo hud spared no expense-rcmombo : ing how we had once lost just euch ' gleam of heaven. And so, being quilo alono, wo ga ourselves up to VflgUO wondering a j funoics, and in our sweet dreaming sn sometimes, "It is our own lost Inti como hack to rest beside her brother and sister dowu there among the daijes." And when wo gathered flowers thore was always a garland for "DARLING'S grave ; hor basket and urn were kept greenest of the th reo if any were best; and in our hearts wo adoptod her as our own. We hud somo reason to feel tenderly toward every stray waif which carno within our ken. When .our first buby came to us, like all tho unwise, we entrusted our treasure with servants; and one sad day, which we had-spent joyously at a pic?njo,.njiles away by tho sen, our babe carried b^r our nurse across a bridge, sprang from her arms as sho loaned against a rail, and foll into tho river below, sinking from sight for? over. ( So we learned with terror from her affrighted lips. And though we believed it must be true, and though days after a little body floated upou the shore wo had gone on loving it in ?every littlo child which carno within our knowledge Two others had since come to us, and gone back to heaven again. All this was years ugo; and to-night I have reason to thank (Jod that before this nows about ''PAULING'S" parents reached mo another gravo was added to the three iu tho church yard ; for the dear spirit could hardly have borne as well as 1 tho dreadful blow. And beside, .bbc, thc mother, had found her own long ago iu heaven, while I hero in the earth fog, could not seo or know. T nm old and gray, too, and the blow is lightened BOW because I shall soon juin them. If it had come then, if wc could have known thc truth, wc should have dono -just what wo did, with "PAULINO," and grieved just ns wo did, with thc added pang of certainty. And to think what 1 must have suffer? ed when that man carno to mo to-day au old man, bent and withered and creeping along feebly just this side of the golden gate, with hair as white as my own-and confessed to mc: "I stole -your darling yours ago, because I loved its mother and hated you for winning her away. I bought your servant with gold, and the talc sho tidd was a lie. I gave up my lifo to your babe, and cared tor ber more tenderly than any mother. And because I learned to love her ns I loved no other being, I became softened, and purified, and re? pentant ; and thc inevitable cross was laid upon my shoulders by tho angels, and 1 looked to GOD through tears and said, *Tby will bc done' And not daring* to come with tho ohild least your joy .should strike mo dead, I sent her with the story by a fri o nd who perished on that fatal train. Thc secret might have died with them, but that to-day,standing bc-ide her little grave where you had catved her ow tl sweet name which I gave out. of my affect inn, a vision, came to my soul whispering of forgiveness from thc Ta'her of Merries and pointing, tuc to tho only atonement I could make." Thc man has gone again. I could do no less than forgive, being so nearly ready to regain my own ; and sitting herc tu thu double twilight of agc and eve, 1 think of all tho darlings in the world stolen away from their lawful homes and perishing where nono can know ; of dui ling loves ruthlessly snatch ed from thc breast which quickened und warmed und cherished them; of baby hopes deprived of their natural food, and crushed out of recognition ; of heavenly aspiration ground into earth and clotted with gore and hidden away under th?! daisies. Whoso darlings are they all ? and who shall confess to have been thc causo ol their ruin aud death ? Where arc they buried '? Docs any tender hand "Garland thtdr urns with wliito roses ?" No matter. Somebody,-everybody -will at last find and know their own and go in nt thc pearl}' gate, grund aue glorious, saying, as I do to night, "Thit was my Darling." LO. Till-: POOH NliiiUO ! How thc Radicals servo their negri dupes, is shown by thc Syracuse Couria ol'New York. Referring to the lah election in Georgetown, D. O-, i says : At^tho municipal election in George town, although the Radicals had a clea majority through tho numerical powoi of tho negroes, every negro upon th til ticket was defeated. They carried ever; Alderman-all whiles. On the Commet Council ticket they had placed th names of throe negroes to gull thc rcs and managed so as tojeave every man o thom out. This is but tho beginning of like tran? actions, iu other places where negroc abound. Tho politnal equality an negro dominating dodge will bc kept u to gull thu negro, but he will bo cheat ed and kept down wherever thc Radical can do so safely and without endanger ing their own* success. Rut how lon will thc negroes submit ? Let thc whit Radicals either surrender their vaunte principio or fight fairly up to thu lin indicated. - - -*.??.?- - A STOCKI>or.o(iKlt.-Revels occup'u thc eoat once occupied by Jcfferso Davis. This affords thc Radicals a them for frequent comment. Rut the Dctroi Tree 1'ross asks,''1)008 not Zachaiia Chandler fill thc scat once occupied b Lewis CASK? ls not I'Yntou in tho sc? of Silas Wright, Dick Yates in thc SOI of Douglas.*, ('barba Sumner in that < Daniel Webster, Drake in that < Thomas ll. Beuton, Colfax in that one occupied by George Clinton and Marti Van B?ren, And Grant in that of Geor? 'Washington and Jefferson V An Ohio mun wants to bet on lad Congressmen within three y curs. Throe boxes rulo tho world-th, j ballot-box, cartridge-box and baud box. [From th? Baitimor? Gaiette.] FORCIBLE RESISTANCE. When a nh?rt timo sine? sro suggest* ed that forcible resistance to the Fif? teen tli Amendment on the part of the people of Maryland would be as unwise os it would be hopelessly futile, we by no means intended to deprecate an up? ribing of the people et this oouotry against tho footioo now dominant et Washington. Ou tho contrary, it ii our deliberate conviction that all further aggressions aud usurpations of Congress should be checked, if it can bo done iu uo other way, by tho mighty voioe of a popular revolution. We speak these words advisedly. They embody tho doctrines for tho vindication of whioh the founders of tho American Republic staked their fortunes and their lives, and it becomes this people to ding to them uow, dospite tho menaces of the faction which wields the purso and sword of the nation and controls tho corrupt currents flowing from what a short time siucc was our great fountain of justice. What is called loyally to day is a barren lie, and true patriotism means stern and manful resistance to tho powers that be. Is there never more to be opposition to arbitrary rule ? Is there never more to bo a limit to subsorvieut submission ? Are the majority of the citizens of this country to rofruin henceforth from hav? ing a voice in its affairs ? Is the Radical faction to bo suffered to obliterate the Constitution altogether and forever, and to trample ut will upon- the rights of two-thirds of tho people? It would seem so. Now or uevcr is tho time when thoso who would stop this mad Radical revolution must aot. No tyrant has ever more manifestly abused thc power con? fided to him fur the publie good that has Congress; none has ever rendered him? self moro justly amenable to popular indignation aud punishment than the leaders of the Radical faction. They have overthrown the publio laws sud time-honored, charterrcd institutions. They have cruelly oppressed and wronged thousands upon thousands of innocent men. They have by trickery aud violence forced upon the peoplo of various States rulers whom tho latter justly and cordially despise. They have wrested political power from the hands of the white man aud conferred it in large measures upon tho negro. They construct and overturn State govern? ments by their own despotic edicts, regardless of thc will or rights of the governed. They aro tho masters of this lund, and if they bo not now called to account, tho American freeman must .scmu sink into the political serf. The hypocrites cull their course .'progress." Cromwell called it tho "Lord's work" when he put his foot upon all that was best and noblest iu Englaud, stabled his dragoons in ber churches and cathedrals, and filled the Parliament at Westmin? ister Hall with a set of ignorant aud canting levellers. Marat preached fra? ternity when thc heads of hundreds of innocent women were falling beneath thc guillotine, and little children were being shot mid drowned cn musso in thc natue of liberty. If resistance to thc course which thc federal Congress is and has been pursuing bo not the privi? lege-nay, thc duty ol tho people-then thc teachings of all history are wholly false, and tho principles for which our luthers fought were but so much chip trap. They became but perjured traitors by taking up arms against the successor of thc Pla nt age not s aud Tudors, if Americans arc to be accounted culpable should they refuse to day futhcr submission to thc decrees of the sham Congress which now claims to bc thc reul and legal representative of thc people of the United States, Thc South is helpless. Maryland stands alone, and on the verge of deadly peril, as did thc prophet upon the edge of thc pit of ravening lions. Rut the Democratic party still exists. Thc majority of thc Northern people cannot but deplore the ruin which is being wrought, and despise the agitators who recognize uow no law but their own will and their own interests. Thc timid subserviency, or to speak it plainly in this great crisis, thc cowardice of thc Democratic loaders of lite large Northern Slates has mudo tho Radical faction what is. For years they cowered belove military insolence und thc threats of arbitrary power..They not only maintained silence when it'must became them to speak out man fully, but uttered from tillie to time thoughts which ihoj loathed and accepted doc vines which they despised. Since thc red cloud ol' war has passed away they have ceased to speak with bated breath, mid now utter defiant words; but, mis? trusting tho honest instincts and noble courage of millions who await tho sig? nal to vindicate liberty and constitu? tional government, they ute dallying with schemes hy which to cheat a bold, insolent faction out of its power, or seeking the channel through which it may bo most "expedient" to filch bock thc rights ami freedom which have been taken from us. How long thc true pa? triots of the North propose to bear tho yoko of on untrammelled mid despotic Congress, we cannot know. How long they intend to consent to n surrender of all they were taught to hold so dear and priceless, we may not surmise Rut in thc name ol' a Stute now powerless, wu protest against this shameless apathy, this quiescent degradation. On her be half wc di niand of tho intelligent und liberty loving people of this land a rcae j sertion of ?he sacred right of revolution, and when they do show tho knaves in j power that they uro enrnoftt mid resolute in the determination to defend them selves, a revolution will ensue than which none hus ever been moro blood? ies and peaceful. - - 4.<n>-? - 0 Some of the fushiouublc colored ladies of Now York heighten thc brilliancy of their complexions by artful ly-rn ranged pieces of Whit* COUrt plaster. 18??. ?8TO. MAYESYILLE, S- C. J. A. ??Y?slc CO., WILL CONTINUE DURING THE YEAR TO KEEP ON HAND A PULL SUPPLY OF GOODS IN THEIR LINE, CONSISTING OF DRUGS, MEDICINES, GROCERIES, AHB V&8YISI0BS. nn 1 hop? to merit ? con timi ?nco of th? liberal patronage thoy have- bera receiving. Wo desire to call particular attention to our ) trad* lo FLOUR. It is our aim to keep for sate only good quali. ties of FLOUR, and families may rely upon our | stock as affording tho best grades of Extra and family Flour. to be had in tho marketa. Our groceries genotally are all FIRST-CLASS GOODS, nud our DRUGS and MEDICINES are war? ranted to be pnro and genuine. Besides the usual stock of DRUGS and MED? ICINES, wo keep always on hand, we offer two invaluablo preparations of our owu manufacture Anti-Malarial Specific, FOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF Chills and Fevers. TONIC BITTERS, an admirablo combination of TONICS adapted to nil oases needing Tonie Medicino*. ! COUNTRY PRODUCE of all kinds taken I? BARTER for goods at fair prices. J. A. MAYES A CO. I Jan 1, 1870_1 y_ New Hardware Store, Main-st. under Sumter Hotel. L. P. LORI N Gr, -AGENT FOU Messrs. King & Huppman, BALTIMORE, RE. D> Would respectfully announce to his frieudsand tha public, that he has received and opened, at tho above establishment a Stock of Hardware and Family Utensils, embracing every article lu this lino of business, which ho in ton da to sell at the LOWEST PRICES, FOR CASH. Ho will koop always iu store, \ completo usaort mont of Collin's Axes, Amos' Shovels and Spade?, Trace Chains, Hoos, . Rakes, Pitoh Forks, Grain Cradles, Scythe Blades, Guano Soires, Pocket and Tnblo Cutlery, Brass Preserving Kettles, Tin Waro, Window G hus-all sises. Porsons in want of tho most convcnionl and economical Stoves, cnn bo supplied with tho latest improved patterns at prices which cannot fail to give ontiro satisfaction. May 26_._ PICTURES, . IN THE HIGHEST AND LATEST STYLES OF ART, ARE NOW TAKEN BY WILDER & WHEELER At tho Gallery tn Sumter, lately kept by II. B MCCALLUM, such as PHOTOGRAPHS, IVORYTYPES, AMUROTYPES, FERR"' YPES, ic. FRAMES of all sizes furnished. PICTURES colored, and old pictures cleaned and remounted. STEREOSCOPES AND STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS for salo. Nov JAMES CALDWELL. WHOLESALE ANO RETAIL DEALER IN Boots, Shoes, Hats, | Trunks cteo. Opposilo J. T. SOLOMONS, Sumter, So. Ca. Fob IH tloct. TO THU Planters of Maysviile and Surrounding Country. GKNTI.KMKN; Wo most respectfully offor you tho following mnnuroM * PERUVIAN GUANO, direct from Ibo agent, FARMERS PLASTER OH GYPSUM, up to standard, SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, OOM POUND ACID PHOSPHATE, for compost ling with colton seed, DISSOLVED HONE A SUPERIOR ARTICLE FLOUR OF HONE, UAUGH'S RAW HONE PHOSPHATE, CAROLINA FERTILIZER, THE N AV ASS A AMMONIATED SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE of Wilmington, ?VI- cash orders solicited. MAYES A COOPER Agents. Jnu 6-Sta For Salo. I WHAT V Af ?(JA ULM IMIOPHIVTY, ? calltd Hrookland, Situated loSuintor Cmiuty, about one mile from StillCrtburg, and which was tho family n-sldruro of tho lute John Ern di ev_ Il consists of a lurg? and Ano Dwelling llouso, willi 10 room,, (8 unusually large,) Hrlck Hitch, en, Stable, Ham. Cnrringo House and other nee. essury mit building?, all In thorough repa I", nnd nliout MO nero* ol' und. Placo entiroiy lu-ultliv. Price $o000 00 nnd term* ptCODIodatlitg, .|'.-r olhor~pi?rliculnrs, npply to th? undorstgncd, nt Muriella, Ga., or to J. S. G. Richardson, Uso. ut Sumter S, C. - Feb M- tf. ELLEN BRADLEV. --IN TUS Highest SUM^TEU rf MIK undersigned would in nit X announco to ilie pcoplo of 8omUr aw* roundiug country haa bo bnve jun roesi! SPLENDID LOT OF TS/Lc* ar "tolo? end la now prepared to re?oive and os.rgto- ? dura of all kinds in bi? line, with uoaiuoU j| dispatch. UtON MAILING FURNISHED TO^'l W. P. SMITH,; SUMTER, S. C. ' " ( ' V Nvo- 17_; r ST O "^7" ^3 lui Mauufueturcd'by .?'.'?SSS Harbeck, Conkliu & W?l^j Manufacturers of . . ->-'? ?Sjjf Stoves, Tin and Japaned AVai^j? And Agents tor . ' . .$3 Kaoline and Enameled Hare. For auto by ' ,^?|| L, P. LORIXG, Agout,*$Wm Jnr.oj)-_Suinter S. ?>.'^^ COIT'S ' . /Ssl MILITARY ANO COMMERCIAL^ Academy, ? :M M A Y E S VIL L,E,.S. IN HHS INSTITUTION ROYS nnd YOUlfft)?! MEN will be thoroughly fitted tuc CO LL H?ft'?? ur UUSINESS. In addition to Ancient and Modern LangaagO&JI the Soioncos and ordinary English liiu?ohosi pescinl instruction will he givon in PENMAN-*:':VV SHIP, ROOK KEEPINO, Uuelutss Korms [V*pM? Accounts, und in Voeal Mueio. + A 3H Thu Principal refera will? piulo and grtflfltfgjBfl lion to his foruior pupils, who havo liken high V* positions in Collogo or Business. '/ ' '^??? TUE FIRST SESSION hoglns October lat, and closes February 16th. . ^ TUE SECOND SESSION begins February 1 Oih^- >j and closes Juno 30lh. ' ?. . ??L?fi TERMS: $100 pur So-.-ion for Board . j Tuition, invariably in advance ' ^TmaMa French, Oorinnn nod Dru wing oxtra." ?-/3?KjB| For Circulais address .? *J5 ESI CAPT. WILLIAM, n. aotT^iSI Mnycnville, 8. REFEREES! "*^|W Rov. J- Loighteu Wilson, D. I) , Dr. J. \ A? .ra Mayos, Mayesville, So. Ca.; Gun. W.I^'JBBM Prince, Choraw, 8. C. ; Rev. J. B. Mack, CliiirftsSi^H ton, S. C.; Rov. G. W. Petrie, 1). D., 5IaolgarJi<to9 ory, Ala.; Messrs. Blandiug A ? jtieborJabn^|? Sumter, S. C. -, .^sffiS Jan 20 _j_L,7Jl?!^^ St. Joseph's Academy,^ CONDUCTKf BY T1IB f?SB Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, VjjS SUMTER, S. 0. . j*Sv THE Collegiate Exereiso's ofIfcls^JI . Pir.ft Cbiss instituto. wUlbere*?ffi*jft??9 ^^'T^wr^'11' tlll> lsI ol September. A.- prubi pt Njjj *^jiffi^srattciidanco is requested in orcUr tof^j <???fr fneilituto tho progr?s* und^m?n?Q?c^B munt of tho clodes. Tho now Lui ld in ps Ofeffvfu spacious und elegantly fmisliud. furnishing <UJ-.? cotiium.lji lions for ono hundred boiirdorf, T^^S uxtonsive grounds and pluezns ore ample tor'opv'^ j air exercise nod .voling ladies tue timiuu|n;tjua instructed lu English M al lie un. ii. ?*, Fiom-l., Ii,Vj: linn, Music, Drawing,Paioliug, .Ve., .lo*. ?f.'.o^?i?J^f lieu)thy, mr pr.ro, wa er good, mid lorma-ri.iiv'it^ aldo. For particular* apply t<> ibo Siipt-i?are**?n$S St. J.isepli's Acadoiuy, Sumter,- or to the SupeJCW riorcsa of tho Sisters of Morey, Ohurlcsiiiuv wb*f 'M, wil1 ondea vor to invut the pres.-uro ni tho limos. !>') Nov. IO '.jj? MUSIC LL?S0N-; X:| Vocal and lustrumcutal^ Tho undersigned bnvit.p taken bis re Mdonrc'nf^l Slimier, will uivo lc .-s cns in Sic).'ii ti und on tl;e I'lANO iin'l VIOLIN'. II.-will ?ikowlso ?iva Ir?fc! sirup;Pm* tn FRENCH, (?ERM AN and AUlTfl?J? METIO. TUN 1 Ntl OF PIANO? ATTENDED T?.?*,^H F-r furihor p iriieul .r*. apply to Lim ut . S> fl ?j rcsldciieo in it.trv in Street. ' " ?<5? ll. C M. Kor*T>i^^ WOFFOED COillt?^ SPAHT/.MI! HU V. U., F A v t; a, T v : U EV. A. M. Sill I'i', I). 1>.. Pr.?i.|<1ii.''^fl Pr.'f?vs..r Moulai and M..ia! S':i nc.1. % DAVID DUNCAN. A. M.. P.-..'osfvr Anei?fn^3 LangtniKCs und Literature. " '"r's HEY. V? III I EEOOiiD .S.iilTJI, D.D., ProWfOt^ English Lili rature. , ?.? rWffl WAK?EN DU PRE, A. M., Pr..ft?ar Xsiaratf Seleneo. ? JAS. H. CARLISLE, A. M., l',.,f8*8Vr ilarb^S ina lies. iffl REV A. H. I. EST EH, A M., P..,fr ?or IlUlorijI nnd lttlili? ii 1 Lit. ratnro. The Hruparaiory S.di ...I, under t|,0 imhisrilufitji s'lporvisinn of thu Faculty, Jim.' H*. ?H?s'ifiSl A. B.. Principal. - . *^ffl Divinity School-Bt-v. A. M. Sl.Ipp', p.. b*? Kee. Wbilefoord Suiiih, I). J). ? l;lV> A. J? ^ Li s I er, A.M. ' y,' '1 , Tito first Session of Ihr? Sixteenth ColU?^jo'f ! Vear b.-.tins on ibo liisi M, ",;.IV lw'-?*tiBfQk 18t\a. ibo second Se>?i.", Iv ".', ,|,? nrsb'it!?e)V^ day In January. 1870. , . The curso of sto.li..? md tho aihndirjc aoliolar/htp remoln iinehnnged, Inn tho. 'F*"3t6_ now ndmit irregular studem? or lb. wo f'.^/itifM lo pursue pnrlleular studies only . '<**~a The Schools i.lrfo ep.-n nt ilie',.iiii:e flirtfi Tuition per ve.ai, i i Coll??,. ('I.s.,,., )n?t eontin '.ent fee, ?5I in Spe.-ic. oi .4. . j .lvV) I Curre ney. Tuition por vo ir, i" Piep .1 :!(..: > .,). .,i Inn eootin;;ei.t fee, it I i.'. 11 , 1 ? mils lot vob'n <>no t.^!| in II-'V.M -, . BV i?$ M on tb. from ? !0 lo iii m e... .For lutCi.i puru-.ilin - nd ..^ ' A. Al r I!i^!' * May IO