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DBM MWSW raman VOL. XXI WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1871. Tl sato o> BnnaoB Bt Dona, Fcrensea.-Vifg. NO. 38. DEVOTED TO Ll TER 4 Tl RE, MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. The Sumter Watchman, {ESTABLISHED IN 1850.) 18 PUBLISHED J B7BRY WEDNESDAY MORNING' AT SUMTER, S. 0.? BY giLilER^^.&" PLOWERS. | Terme One jeer..........S3 00 I Six month?.... 1 ?0?j Three months.-. 1 00 ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rete' of ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per sqaare for tho first, ONE DOLLAR for the second, end FIFTY CENTS for emeb subsequent i neertion, for any period less than three months OBITUARIES, TRIBUTES OF KESPfiCT and al' communications whfeh sabserve private nwrests, will be paid for as advertisements. TURNING THE TABLES. THE WIFE'S STRATAGEM. "Marj, jour corn-bread is never done ! I wonder what is the reason everybody else bas things right, and ore always have things wrong?" "Why, Joe, I am ?are the corn-bread has never beeu in this state before ! You see, the fire 'hi.d a fit,' and--couldn't j be made to buru this morning." "Oh, yes ! you are always, ready with an excuse. .Now, there is Mrs. Smith ; her steve never bas fits. And she al ways bas the lightest, sweetest bread and the nicest cakes and preserves ever ate. I wish you'd take pattern bv her." "Well, I am sure, Joe, I do my best, I think I succeed oftener than 1 fail. I wish I couid suit you always ; but that, I suppose, can scarcely be expected," and Mary gave a weary sigh. Mary Starr had been married about a year, during which tims she had found housekeeping rather up-hill work. She was a neat little body, and conscientious? ly did her very best to.please, her hus? band ; but he, whatever might be the reason, was very hard to please-in fact, seemed determined not to be pleased with anything sl.o did. Per? haps, like the old soldier in one of Dickens' stories, he had a.vital and con? stant sense that "discipline must be maintained." At any rate, he never allowed Mary to be pleased with herself ou any occasion if be could help it. Mary was an amiable wife^fortunat?ly, and not easily irritated, though, to tell the truth, there were times when her forbearance was severely tried. For instance, whenever s e and Joe took tea out, or went to a party, or even to church, be seldom allowed the oppor? tunity to pass unembraccd to animadvert on some deficiency in cookery, or man? ners, or dress, on the part of bis wife. For instance, it would be "Mrs. Jones, what beautiful sponge cake you make ! Mary, take notice ho? light this cake is. I wonder why you can never have it so puffy." Or, ".Mrs. Brown, you certainly are an adept at entertaining company. I wish, Mary, that you would try to steal Mrs. Brown's art." Or, "Mrs. Green, your dress is always most becoming. Year taste is exquisite. I don't see why it is, Mary, that with al! I spend for you you never look quite as nice as Mrs Green," On these occasions Mary would blush and bite her lip, and bc inwardly an- j 1 noyed, but she was a woman ot too much pride and good sense to make display cf ber chagrin ; and was really too good-natured aod Christian a person to let it change het feeling toward Joe whom she knew to be, after all, very food of her, and a very just mao at j ? heart. Aftei a while, too, seeing that the fault was probably curable, she bethought herself bow she should pro? ceed io order to break him of his disa? greeable habit. Fortune favored her. One day lady, one of her most valued frieods and neighbors, called to invite Joe and Mary to a tea-party at her house. "It will bea small affair," she said "but very pleasant, I think. You only arc wanting to make the circle of har? mony complete." "Well," said Mary, "I will come Mrs. Vane, on one condition." "Condition ! Is it come to this, that you must make conditions ? Well, my dear, make your demand." "The condition is," ?aid Mary, "that you will allow me to furnish all the re? freshments." "Well, that is an odd idea ! Mary my dear, I hope you don't mean to insinuate that lam getting poor?" "No, Hattie ; thank fortune, she has showered ber favors on you quite liber? ally. But I bave a notion for this, which, if you pleaso, I will not divulge; only let me have my wsy this once, just for tbe oddity of the thing." "if anybody but you, Mary, had made ?uch a request of me, I certainly should have taken offense. But I never could be angry with you. So if it will be any satisfaction to you-though for the life of me I can't imagine what your drift is-I will comply with your conditions When may I ex peet my supplies ?" "Let me see ; to-morrow is my bak? ing-day, and your party is not before Thursday. Weil, on Wednesday after noon you shall be supplied with bread, biscuit, cake, and all other accessories; and mind, the only thing I allow you to furnish is butter, which I do not make." "Very well, it's all settled, theo, tod I willleaveyou. On tbe whole this arrangement suits me ; it relieves me of a great responsibility, for your cookery it well known to be particularly nice. So good bye till Thursday." "Mind you say nothing about this, Hat ;ie, to- any ooo ; it is * secret of mino. - - - "Very well, as yob say, I'll keep mus. Goombie again, for jpR.wiD have TORT hands rall, aod I mutt not interfapVyott'." * So off Mrs. Vane went, inwardly wondering yfala^&t?nxe little Mary bad gof into uer steady little bead. Everything came off on that baking sweet, aod whits sss snow-flake, with jost a golden.orown tine of cT?st sar-j roir? >$ hg #?7 ?* pfljpc?s ; her biscuits cns}) sud delicious. Thea she knew that h sr preserte? fruits were would like to seo ?tr Everything was ssa* jo. lo.Ita TODS oo Wednesday afternoon, sod she fend all Thursday io detou.ttnwsdftsav cheeks in a very becoming n Add to this that she Wafjdree neatness and taste, and eon wi wilting to. believe me when I she was the belle of the ocoasi evidently thought so hims strange to say, he made no opon her appearance that nigh ted to lower her. self-est? contrariwise, gazed at her froa time with the most profound tioo. Bot "morder will out." h < this occasion, wheo they sat < sapper. Everybody was delighte had not been such an ooezc "tea" in that neighborhood foi time. Country people are ve of their "teas ;" they compare c soother with admirable cono ois This one was triumph. "Mrs. Vaoe, yoo are the pe bread-makers. Your biscuits a beautiful. Were ever such n fore! How do you mao age i Vane ? What lovely sponge-cak, Mrs. Vane and Mary ceca shsnged glances and smiled, bot a ot iced it. Joe had been behaving so bea ill the evening that Mary begai ifraid her plans had failed. Hi mt now, however greatly to >at?8faction. "This is a feast, indeed," he sa fellow is fortunate who has a wi ?an nate-such bread os this, nothing of the sponge cake ; I ca ?by it is, Mary; you improve, true, I will give you credit for but I don't see why it is that all :an not have the knack that Mrs. bas, at cooking to perfection, ?ould make such bread as this, roar husband would be a happy Mrs. Vane looked at Mary, anc looked at Mrs. Vane. Light had I apon the mind of the latter. It like a flash of lightning, and then ivas an explosion-not of thunJei jf laughter. Joe looked up, amazed. He man who petted his dignity enorm What did these women mean to so at a sober, sensible remark of fa Particularly, what co aid Mary me ;o trifle with the respect she owed husband ? He began to grow red indeed. Vane saw it, presently, and came ?nd Mary's relief; for poor Mary begun to be a little frightened a success of her own scheme. ?Sh lot like Joe to be angry at any rat "Mr. Starr," said Mrs. Vane, ? truly glad that you like this excf ?ookery, for it is ali your wife's, pour own showing you ought to very happy man." Here the whole company caught infection, *and joined in the 1 igainstJoe. It was of no use to icgry with so maoy people ; so, h long, Joe joined the chorus himsel And so the tea-patty broke up the greatest good-nature all round, Joe went home with a lesson he o Forgot ; for it was the last time Mary ever heard any complaints 1 him. He is now the most easily pie of any husband in ten miles roun Arthur'* Home Magazine. FAMILY GOVERNMENT:. "William, stop that noise, I saj won't you stop ? Stop, I tell you, Ol slap your mouth." William bawls a little louder. "William, I tell you ! ain't you gt to stop ? Stop, I say 1 If you don't i I'll whip you sure." William goes up a fifth, and b time with his heels. "I never saw such a child !-fae's temper enough for a whole town ; Bare he didn't get it from me. V don't you be still F Whist. Wu-i si Come, come, be still, won't you ? Si $top, STOP, I say ! Don't you see thi don't yon see thia stick ? See here noi (cute the air with the stick.) William, more forioos, kicks v manfully at his mother-grows red io the face, lets oat the last note t begins to reel, and shake and twist, i most spiteful manner. "Come, William, come, dear-ito a darling-naughty William! cos that's a good boy; don't ery, p-o little fellow ; sont a b o o s e you, ? oh! Ma's ittle mao, want s piece sooger? Ma's little boy got cram p o o r little sick boy," etc., etc. William wipes op, and minds, si eat? his sugar, and steps. AFTER SCENE.-The minister is pl sent and very nice talk io going on op thc necessity of governing children. "Too trae," says mamma, "some pe op will give op to their children, and rains them-every child should governed. But theo it won't do to ca ry it too far; if ooo whips all the tina it will break a child's spirit. Ooo oog to mix kindness and firmness toge th in managing children." "I think so," said the preachei "firmness first, and then kindness." "Yes, ?ir; ifaafs my proctiee, es sctly." _ FASHION NOTUS. Beep ton over cuffe ort ?a vogt among the fair sex. Lord Stanley SQ Chancellor scarfs are now were by Iadie Metalic heeled chooa sro ?aid te ni drawing roon c?rpete. Lockets o watch guards are superseded by go] sovereign?. The present styli of ti ranging the hair is destined to ?ajo long popularity. Countess shawls tr en regie iQsrtkt&Hteb-fir'tiers. Th? roil? manna? tn fashionable Jp mtm pinces. Ktiwnl lowen an roahisaab. for ^decoration of heads fer .trw* entertainments. Clubs are fcxfaionaEJ foi the deeon?on of heads oat kit ? wjflt*? ?^^M^?^Bi jifV*# JF?sir.jf Cly ??*. po [From tho Sands? World.] Concerning a marriage to be sol nixed with doe fashionable pomp week between one ef the nott eleg bells of Fifth avenue and an ? Uah gen tiara an Ja t ely very popular New York society, the following li romance receives credence in cnn ?ocia! gossip : "Several years ago A eon of the fat ly to which the bride belongs 1 brought bis own prospects and the xiety of bis parents anti friends to si a crisis by tbe *ctihfcinntion of a i career that expatriation seemed to ol the only remaining chance for his rest from ?empi?te ruin. Although weak to resist the evil influence which his stay in his own city and coi try was made assurance of his ultimi disgrace aod destruction. The you man had euougb'.goxid satse to apprc and adopt' tie- dla? 'urged for 1 thorough wi th drawl from sash i nfl ence, and agreed to become bis fatbc business agent to Australia, there to . tablish a branch of the paternal bot of trade. Firmly resolved to make I future years in that far country ami atonement for bis misspent days bei be set sail for bia distant destinan by way of California,, leaving behii him many true and hopeful hearts, b none so thoroughly confidant of his ei tire reformation as that of his only si ter. In her be bas found an uochan iog patience with his faults and faith his better qualities, serving to bold bi back from the worse, even in his wea est moments of self-indulgent folly, ai to her he looked in bis heart while g< iog forth into exile for that folly as tbe one friend sapremcly trustful the genuines? of bis new resolution Reaching the city of Melbourne i safety, and there associating himself i commercial partnership with a youc English gentleman of high positic and connections, he entered Vigorous! upon the new path be had marked ot for himself, and soon mastered a pros perity and a popular estimation com mens?rate with bis moat sanguic hopes. All of bis letter* bomewai were fraught with a manly spirit of re paration for the past and rehabilitate determination for the future ; bat i writing to his sister, gratitude took th lead of all his emotion save the child like, reverential love in which hi whole chastened nature bowed to ki? ber feet. Two years of worthy andee vor brought bim further practical re ward ; but now hi<t health, already shat tered by past unwise indulgences, begat failing; and before he could realize tba the climate ef bis exile was helping th destroyer, he was prostrated upon death bed. Unable then to pen thcei messages to his sister, which had becom necessary to his new existence, bc con fided te his partner and friends all thai that sister bad been to him and ea trusted to his sympathetic hand th< brotherly office. Through all tbe las days of the sickness the young English man made the deputed labor of love hil own most earnest mission ; and whet death Goally closed the eyes of tbe ex ile, sad wrote the last message, ant closed the memorial lock of hair to bei whose love for and trust in the redeem? ed brother had never faltered. When about a year ago, the English gentle man visited New Tork on his circuitoui way home to England, his visit to thi family of bis late partner was as that o a dear friend to dear friends, and wba he had been to the son and brother wi? his ail-sufficient introduction to a pa? rental sod sisterly esteem needing no atc from his own floe character to make it certain and permanent. Early in the new year, now so dose at band, he will resume the journey to hie own English borne, taking with bim as a bride one in whom lives the likeness of the puri? fied and regenerated old partner of bis, whose last breath Was a blessing on bet name. Io all the current records ol fashionable waddings on the avenue, it is seldom that euch graceful prelude t.s this can bs given. KOW TO SPELL. Often in writing, a simple word is ire? quired, of the ethography of which the writter is not sers. The dictionary may be referred to--but is tot always conve? nient. Au easy mode is to write the word on a bit of waste paper, irr the two or three ways of which jon are in doubt. -Nice times in ten, the mode which lookeTrighl ie right, .fcpeljm^iartiett larly English apelline, is so completely a work of the eye, that the eye alone should be trasteo. There is no reason why "receive" and "believe" should be spelt differently, yet sounded alike, in their second sy ilables. Yet write them "receive" and "believe," ?nd your eye shows yon the mistake at once. The beet I way for young people, and indeed people of any age, to' learn to spell, is to prac? tice writing. Cobbett, the famous English radical, laugh, hia children grammer, by icqairioj; that they shqtild copy their leesons two or three times. These lessons he himself gave thea in the form of letters ; end his French ind English grammars ere two of the most amusing books Tn the English, language. Of coarse "-earning to spell" came in '^BBS .in ? ? ? -A correspo^etrt nf the Sarai New eveJttted wis ^p^^o^mo? sturt ? jest moistened with *e cold water, and immjS^O^m to etfSawlllhlomtiio; , wc?ds4 pe*V A rssfJo -isjfewho Wss ' %e4Jy*esJde?>^ I pate hy the ttsfr rs-Wy. Keep the j infti?s?st?eo w?Hter-wooe, S%tJ?,a>PrVpe^ j^msjfestc ?ft?ppjy *Ofe?* ? .?**? sj J.', j '' 'A CARPBT-BiQCER'S . SEKMOfT^ _. My .wretched bretberiog ?ad sister? ing, as I was ridtn' along the road 000 day, I seen a man settin' 00 tbe top av bis feoce, with a doubled-barreled shot goo OD bia lap, an' a swettin ' an' a fannin nv himself with an old straw hat, an' a cusin' av the Fourth of Joly, an' North America, an' the Constitootion, an' the Supreme Court, an' the Preside?t uv the United Stases, an' the Bird nv Liberty, au' the Freedman's Baro, an' the Fif? teenth Amendment ; an'?hen I h earn that man a cussin' and seen that big shot gun, thinks I to myself, in the words uv the test : "An' when they lit up airly in the more rn t behold thej wu** all dead tor? passes." And I tole Boan te wo, sud sez Ir "ray ungodly fren, ef you swore in that are way yu'll forever andeternely ruin? ate yer immortal soul, sod never git a nibble when ye go a nshin'." An' sez he, "You go tc thunder, you darned old miabappen, nirsbegottou mistake nv creation ! ef you bad to git the grass out uv a cotton crop with free niggers, you'd git on a stump an' cuss yourself out uv your domed old yaller hide." Sex I, "My orrin' fren, it cuts me to the marrer to see you strugglin' in the bon? dage uv sja." An' sez he, "My pun kin faced customer, ef you can clime this tail red oak thar and see anything in this ere mis'ble land but bondige and crab-grass, you kin have my old hst for a hen's nest." An' se* I, "My hard Bwearin' fren, I'm afraid you'll never register your name in the book of eternal life." An' set he, "I went to town last week to register, but I couldn't git site uv the book fur the infernal greesy niggers." "Oh, mistaken hu? man," sei I, "I trimble ft>r yer futur, for you are on the road leadin' to per disbun." "Ao* SSZ he, "Yon are a cussed o]e liar, for I'm on the road leadin' to Benton." I hove a sigh, an1 sez I, iq the langwidge uv my text : "An' when they riz up airly in the mornin' behold they wuz all dead cor pusses." An' he sez, "Let 'em risc, and tba devil take 'em all." Ob, sufferin' feller ereetersez I, "ef you would but sue for grace, ye might join the heavenly quire, and be raancipated from the shackles uv sin, and 'scape everlastin1 perdishan !" An' he cocked up his gan, and sex he, "1 had twenty-six likely niggers maneipatsd, an' ef you open yer jaw bone about emancipation to me again, I'll make buzzard wittles out'n yer infernal ole carcas quicker'n hell could scorch a nat." My constant freos au' bearers, when I seen that wicked mao cockie' UT his gun, I begin to feel mighty jubus, and the words uv my text smote uaon my ear: "An' when they riz up airly in thc mornin' they wuz all dead corpusscs." But my christian bearers, I felt call? ed upon to try my hand onee more on this poor obj ur it man, an' sez I, "My blasphemous fren, you are continually and eternally damned ef you don't im* mejifcly git down off that ar fence go to some sequestered spot and pray for your soul's redecpshun." An' shurc nuff he did jump down often the fence, but he didn't hunt no sequestered spot, my un? godly bearers; be stuck that big ole double-barreled shot gun close up to my reverend head, and sc* he : "I have hearn that a sequester was the next thing to a confiscator, an' ef that's yer business in this here settlement you had better begin to grow mighty small sud beautiful less." An' my hearers, it looked es ii a drove nv mules could have trotted down tho barrels uv that ar ole shot gon, an' I put spurs to ole Roan an' I gallupped through the wilderness for four sod twenty hoars ; an' I, sed to myself ef that ar man don't pill np soon he'll git to the end of his rope, and take up his abode where the worm dieth noland the fire is not ?quenched ; for in the lang? widge uv my text, with a slight varia? tion : -An' when he rises up airly ia the mornin' behold he will be damned." An' shore nuff, my patient frens and hearers, in about three days that poor, ungodly, proffanted man was tuk up by a milingtary oommisshau and bung for killin' uv a nigger. Aa' my ltstnin' frens an' hearers, when I seed him staadin'on the great immensity uv spaoe, between wind and weather, a kickin' at the fourth district, ses I, io the lstogwidge of the inspired him > "One more sinner dead ead goat ; A silver spade te dig bis grave; A golden chain to let bim dova ; A eagle horn to blow bim on." "An* wheo they rif up airly in the | mornin' behold they wax all dead cor pusses." The brothering and sistering will sing i coucludis' hime, while the deacons hand around their bat for the nick lee. WESTERS BKXJBEG*. When Horace Gre ely took his trip to Lawrence City, Kansas, he stoped for ] Ure night at the beat hotel in the plaee. . He waa received with a great deal of admiration, which he took very philo? sophically, and in doe coarse of time ww "requested the honor to register kif ' oem e. In the ace of adorn iog the page with a specimen cf bis chirography, a bedbug with a remarkably knowing look about it, rta past his hand. Th* veaer &$Ie philosophe? observed It calmly fur a oeaeot, and thea tened to the astoa ' {shed landlord and exclaimed t ?-Wen, rvtJIwwWttwti ty 8i Jot fitas, ?lad by Saasas City spiders, dined off by W??Vmgm m?eqnitocs, aid lo tciviewed by New York grajbacks, but te fiad out where oj room waa." - The editor lt UvMir cut te* wards LakeOhampiftin bas\ficovered a way of keeping egge hom spoiling. His m#M fe eat them while <*ey art tresa ! TO??. E?I&AS V ?-' sei .. V - ? + >: - '? \ ' ? . VT HOW BATCHES AHEIV?ADE. A block of wood two feet long, and of a thickness sufficient for the length of a match, is placed opon a little iron shelf in one* of these machines not a great deal more ponderous than a sew ' ing machine. The shelf mores forward by little jumps, bringing tho ?nd of the block just above a cotter composed of tiny circles of steel, which takes off twelve splints at each ascending stroke. These splints then pass between the links of a chain, as it is called, com fiosed of two pi?ces of wood (each the erjgth di a common clothes pin, a id of the same shape where it opens at both ends) placed together, tbeir convex sides toward each other. These pieces are linked at either eid ia twos, the pairs about an inch apart, forming a continuons ohain two hundred feet in length. This ohain passes throagh the machine direotlj over the cotter, tho splints as they are separated from the biook being received between the two sides of tho clothes pin links, which are grooved to sott them. The chain moves just rapidly enough to take op the re? sults of each cutting as the knife per? forms its work. Passing along a few feet, a little hammer jumps up from the floor and strikes eaoh link with force enough to dislodge the imperfect splints, which are but slightly held, and they drop opon the floor. A few feet fa rt h . er on the chain passes over a wheel, wu ich revolves slowly in a tiny reser? voir of melted brimstone, the ends of the incipient muches getting a bath as they pass. Aft jr this they move forty or fifty feet farther, until quite dry, when, on their return course, they are heid down by a steel finger, snd made to just taste the ?iqilid phosphorus, which is taken up by a s?cond wheel from a reservoir similar to that which bolds the brimstone. They then finish their journey of forty or fifty feet, by which time they are quite dry. At the end of the course the chain passes over a wheel elevated above the eutting-ma ehine, from which it falb perpendicu? larly. As each link reaches a tray made to rec ,:ve them, the matches smoking aad threatening to ignite, are gently pushed from it by a sliding piece of steel wbich is throat oat jost often enough to dislodge each row as it is brought along by the endless chain. This, emptied of its contents, soon passes again through the machine, ofter the block, to re?oive another package of its tiny freight wit-h in each of its innumerable links. Eight of these machines (the Writer has reference to a particular manufac? tory) are running constantly, making eight hundred gross of matches per day, a gross numbering fourteen thou? sand, and chipping away in the course of a ye;<r MX hundred thoo*?ml feet of J)ioe lumber. This lamber is thorough y dried in a kiln before being prepared for the machines. Two hundred and fifty thousand feet of bass wood are an? nually made into shipping cases. Three hundred barrels of brimstone and nine? ty thousand pounds of pbosporou* are taken up yearly by these endless chains from the little reservoirs. SENSELESS SCPEBCTTTIOX. In England recently, the corpse of a drowned man having been brought to land, a woman brought to the spot her son, afflicted with wens upoo the neck. She obtained of the Coroner permission that the boy should draw his hand seven times across the neck of the deceased. This, if foolish, was at least harmless. Another recent instance of folly with disastrous results- is recorded. A man had died of typhoid fever. A boy afflict ted with wens was brought to the side of the body, and the dead hand was placed upon his neck. He took the disease in consequence, and the malady was communicated to the family and spread throagh the whole neighborhood. The disease was of a violent type, and many deaths followed. Snoh things, io th? nineteenth century, seem incredi? ble, but this oceurence is vouched for and no doubt tock place. Perhaps, af j ter all, it is not much more senseless than many eta to m s which still obtain, even ?n our own midst. Not being at? tended with disastrioos consequences, we do not hoar of or note them. Bot the folly is no lesa absurd. The super? s'.'tut ion which perpetuates the idolatry of the pagan ages defies education and Christianity. m -w? m . ff HB 3LA* OEBER. The greatest plagues and chief of scoundrels are the Binderers. We have thom everywhere-those who walk up ; and down the streets breathing poison and death to the good and virtuous-the moral and upright. They, by mysteri? ous hint*, or even knowing winks and whispers, circulate reports against the character of a virtuous female or an honorable mao. How many hope*, have been blasted by a surmise ? How many hearts have been bruised by whispers ? How many charitable deeds have been blasted and chilled by a shrug of the shoulders ? Preserve qs from the sion darer ; of all th* demoes that enjoy the light of herron, tho one, wno, by false representations, seeks to injure his neighbor, ia tbe chief of all. Shun the Uar as yon would a loathsome disease Do not let him contaminate your society. His rory- presence ii sin, and his totrgoe moral death. -Josh Billiards ha* this advice for these misguided females who ge ?boat seeking (fair rights: "Eve, yo ?re grafist grandmother, commuted ? mistake, a good deal bigger than tho ooo which yoi are auxloun tew commit, hot there isa remote similarity- io the mistakes. She wanted t?w know and hare a band ia awi that was goiug on, aqd the devil offered tew teach he?, and yo hare heard what the retrait was. . Bli adria* tew yo ia tew stay right whare yo Ure ; yo have a po ?tl new that serer kan be has if yu told on to it, but if j* spit eu yore hands to gH better holt j* m?y loos yoretftpctrtirery, [ A ROMANCE o* TAB II* XBBIOR. ! A Cusfoms Inspector Learns of the Whereabouts of hit Shipwrecked Fa \ (her after an absence of Seventeen Years. The Chicago Republican says : There have been written, perhaps, a thousand romances relative to the finding of chil? dren by their tender parents. Chicago contalos a man who has been made happy in a double sense-he has dis? covered a father mourned as of the dead throngh seventeen long years, and the father aforesaid has discovered in Cap? tain J. J. Harrington, late of the Nine? tieth illinois volunteers, and now of the custom .house, a six feet three inches and 220 pounds avordupois inheritor of his name and fortuno. Nearly twenty years gene by Harrington vere left the shores of the Green Island to seek fame and fortune in the broad territories of the New World. Of! the foggy coast of Newfoundland the vessel in which he sailed encountered a storm end was wrecked, uenrly all on board perishing. Harrington was among the survivors, and settled down in the country on the oe tbe shores of which he was cast away. The emigrant had left in his own land a young wife and several small children. They.lef t Ireland for America a few months later than the husband and father. They expected to find their natural protector in New York, but were bitterly doomed to disappoint men". A 'lev wasting some weeks io unavailing waiting and hoping, Mrs. Harrington and her family followed the "atar of empire," settling down in this State, and eventually in this city. The children grew up to maturity, the moth? er was laid to rest, and the existence of the father was almost forgotten. Cap? tain Jack was always a stirring boy, and when the war broke out he shouldered a musket with the brave 90th and wee his captain's "bars" en manya field of fame. Wben peace wan proclaimed be returned to civil life, and was patronized by Uncle Sam. Three days ago he received a letter. He opened, read, and stood transfixed ; it was from his father. The old mao had heard of his family through SOL Chicagoan who had visited the land of codfish, and he lost no time in renewing his acquaintance with those so dear to him by nature. He had written to Ireladct, had heard the family had lett there for America, traced them to Nev York, ?nd lost sight of them for many weary years. He concluded they were dead, and endeavored, in peaceful toil, to drown bis grief. In those years of industry he bad managed to acquire a competence, and remained true tonis old love. He invites the presence of his son, and in a few weeks Captain Jack will shape his course to that island -far abroad, Where Bailors gang to fish for eod. Amid the denso fogs of that latitude, those so strangely sundered shall be united and the curtain of peace shall envelope them. THE DAV fer BEST. I think with a shudder, sometimes, of what life would be without Sundays-if day after day tt\6 great wheel of the world went rouod with its ceaseless clatter, never a rest io motion, never a pause in sound. I speak of the Sabbath only in its original meaning, as a word that signifies rest. And in this rouse it is, by niotf men, and ought to be by alt, esteemed as the very greatest of all the blessings which the Almighty benevo? lence has bestoved on man. The worst Sabbath breaker of all is the ingrate who is not thankful when the Sabbath comes round. He may go to church three times a day, and be austere in all outward observances, but he breaks tbe Sabbath in his heart if he rejoices when it is ever. There ave many kinds of worship, and I am humbly disposed to think that the giving of thanks is not the least acceptable of them. If it be true that laborare est orare, ire are pray, ing during six days of the week, and may devote the seventh to praise. He '< who thoroughly enjoys bis day of rest lives from morning to night in a state of thankfulness !o the Almighty ; the incense of praise is continually rising from his heart. I do not envy thc man who does not hail the advent of Sunday and rejoice in thc rest which it vouch? safes, HOW IS THIS? Hon. Cassius M. Clay, made a speech in Richmond, Ky, last Monday, in which he took strong and decided groundsagainst Grant and the present ad? ministration ; unqualifiedly favored uni? versal amnesty, and advised the negroes that it they would be prosperous and happy they must stand ty their late masters, and cease to act upon the ridiculous and totally nolbunded hope of ever being their social equals. Wheo a mao like Mr. Clay, with all the peculiar political tenets that he has held for so fong, takes the Stand that he has taken, it affords one of the most significant signs of the times, and still further confirma the rapidly growing opinion that the days of Radicalism are oara bersd. Mr. Clay, seeing at last that the coarse of the Radical party is cer? tain, if persevered in, to entirely ruin ! the nountry, lifts tts voice against it, and no little credit is ?ne him for it; bet his decided and manly expressions will fall like a wet blanket opon the Radicals of Kentucky, who bad been confidently expecting him to stamp the 8Ute in the'w behalf. They bad bett er profit by his exemple, and reassert their manhood end their dignity before it is .eternally toe late. | -Th? editor of e country paper saya: - "Wednesday's post brought tts a letter j tddreesed 'Uer.,' another "The Ben ; another 'Col.,' ana the last1 Esq * On the way to ainoer we aecidently stepped . eo a wTwnenVtrain, ana she eddresseJ us tbjrs-. Yoa brate/ Who among th< : Tofb tight g ETEUMTY. When I endeavor to represent eterni? ty I avail myself of whatever I can con ceive most long and durable. I heap imagination apon imagination, conjee ture apon conjecture. [ consider those long lires, Vhich all men wish, and some attain. I do more : I turn to an cient chronicles. I go back to thc patriarchal age, and consider life ex? tending through a thousand years; and I sayto myself, "All this is not eternity!" Haring represented to riysclf real ob? jects, I forra ideas cf imaginary ones I go from our age to the time of pub? lishing the gospel; from'thence to thc publication of the law; from the law to the flood ; from the flood to the creation ; Ijoin this epoch to the present time ; and I imagine Adam jet. living. Had Adam lived til! now, and he lived in rniaery, had be passed ?ll this time in a fire or on a rack, what idea must we form of his condition ? At what pric?> would we agree to expose ourselves to misery so great? Wha; imperial glory would appear glorious, were it followed by so (nueh w-o'a? Yet this'is not eternity! All this is nothing in comparison with eternity ligo farther still, I proceed from one supposition to toother. I take the greatest number of yean that can bc imagined ; I add ages to ages, millions of ages to millions of a?-es ; I form af all these one fixed number, and I stay my imagination. After this, I suppose God to create a world like this which we in habit, I suppose him creating it by] forming one atom after a nother, and em-j ploying, in the production of each aton-, the time fixed in my calculation just now mentioned. What numberless ages would the creation of such a world in such a mat ..?.- reqeire? Then I suppose the Creator to arrange these atoms, and to pursue tl e same plan of arranging them as of creating them What numberless ag??s would such ar. arrangement require ? Finally, I sup? pose him to dissolve and annihilate the whole, and, observing the same method in this dissolution as ht observed in the oreation and disposition of the whole, what an immense duration would be con sumed ! Tot this is not eternity ; ali this is only a point in comparison oi eternity I ? WOMALS PEPESKB OP DRESS. For myself I should be thankful to return to the habits of cur grandmother ; buy a bonnet which would do to wear ten years; have three dresses, two for every day, and one for i'nice,'' and wear them year after year till they wear out, with? out alteration ; also twist up my hair in a plain wad at the back of my head. I should then have more time for reading and study and more money to spend for books, pictures, and travelling, to say nothing of the unlimited time and mo nay for doing good. And I know of very many women who would be only too happy to throw aside wearisome shackels of fashion. Hut what would be the result? With thc mai? cn no more beaox ; with a wi: e-a cessation of devotion on the part of her husband Results too dire to be contemplated for a moment. I speak what I know, and testify what ! have s.*en. I have mysi If been to parties sensibly and economically clad, and ''. was despised w??l rejected of men ; again I have boen mir fashionable aod expensively attired, and bad more beaux than I knew what to do with. l?y the W3y, why don't some of those wise and sensible bachelors court and marry among the vist army j of working girls? They are urosedj very simple, and are accustomed to bab j tts of economy. They would be giad of j good homes, and wou;J make excellent j wives. They are personally atnactive.i and, I doubt not, are quite as refined) and intelligent os the average ol fash- ? onable women. Why is there nut 3; greater demand for them as wives, and i why are the Flora McFlimseys a drug in { ?thc market ? tat the facts speak for themselves. Ho not deceived, O nu I brethren ! With you lies the fault ; from j you must come the remedy,- refuse u pay court to silks, panniers, frill* au? chignons and we shall go over to calico| in batailions. "TOMBOYS." NereT apply the word "tomboy" to n girl who is taking healthy and innocent exercise. Are there aot mincing misses eno. gh about us, who pervert girlhood . by addult nonsense till the. wh< le bend 1 is sick and thc whole heart is faint ?"- j Fanny Fem. There is but ons greater absurdity j than the trailius dresses recently ao{ fashionable in 1 he streets, and which is yet retained in the drawing room, and that is the equally hampering obstacle of social custom on young girls. Noth? ing is worse in the eyes of Mr*. Grundy than tomboys, but there is no truth plainer than ti>at they are to be the salvation of the race, if it ever is saved from the degeneracy which threatens it. A poem which we pu-dish elsewhere in thia No., entitled *'Tl?e Three Komps,'" ? breaches the trueSscoUtnrot, and we hope j to see such pictures rs it describes re? j produced, and hung upon our walls.! and written about in our novels, until a j girlhood and a womanhood shall be made fashionable which is fit fur some- j thing else besides leading a King Charles ? or nursing a poodle, and driving around1 tn carriages Oem a utiltnary toa dry j goods store to see the fashions, and; then into the carriage again before a J dosen mincing step- have been taken Waveriy Magazine. ! - Here is the son's stovy in a Wis- j eonsin divorce caset-Am thirteen years j old ; remember talk about a pencil one | morning ; mother waa behind the stove I making pancakes; father, took herby; the back of the neek: and put her head over thc wood box ; she took a stick of wood ftooi the box and struck at him .e?r lier shoulders ; then father put her head under ?he pu i p at? 1 pumped water, ot? her face . .JOE . O F ?Ci EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF The Sumter Watchman, -IN THE Highest Style of thc Art. ?tore, Main-st. under Sumter Hotel. L. P. LO RING, .AGENT F->n Messrs. King ? Huppman, 3AI.TI7JOKK, 91. D. Worjld respectfully solicit lac patronage of bia fricad:) :tnJ the public. BE ETAS ?N STORE A COMPLETE Stock of Hardware and Family Utensils, ?uiorucing every article in this line of busine??, tvhich be intends tu sell nt the LOWEST PU ICES, FOU CASH. Ile will keep alwBy? in store, a complote assort? aient of Collin's Axes, Ames*Shovels .md Spado*, Trace Chnins, Hoes, Rakes. Pitch Forks, Grain fr. ules, Scythe Ein las (ianno Stives, Pocket md Table Cutlery, l?r.K? Preserving Kettles, 'fin W&rc, W:ndow <ila>s-all sizos. Persons in want of the most convenient ?rd ?connmical Stoves, can be supplied with the improved patterns at prices which cannot ail to give entire satisfaction. June 15 _ FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING. CASSIHERES. &c. [ am now receiving a Large and Complete Stock of FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. CLOTHS, CASSIM EEKS, TWEEDS, Kentuckey Jean?, of low grades and very cheap. Shirts, Drawers, I'ndervcsts. Gloves and Cravat--, Suspenders, Collars, Socks, Hankcrchicfs. Ac, aSO A FULL SUPPLY AND VARIETY 0 ? J??L 23??? SSE m These Goods I am determined to sell lower han they can be bought in this market. Deal ng in this line alone, I am enabled to do this. I omy ask my old friends to call and examine, md if they do not find my gocds cheaper, I will ie* expect them to buy. I). J. WINN. Agent. Sept 23_I MONEY DANINOT BUY IT I FOR SIOIIT IS PRICELESS ! : The DIAMOND ''LASSES.manufactured by J. E. SPENCER A CO., New York, which are now jfTered to the public, are pronounced by rill tio -elehrated Opticians of thc world tobe thc m->>t Perfect, Natural Artificial help to th? buruan eye :ver known. 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Soluble Pacific Guano. rp tl IS Ol ANO IS NOW" SO WELL KNOWS JL Va all rho Sinthern Stales fr its r. mnrkahie cSects as.au agency for in crea-"in g the ;>r-..luct.- , of labor, as t.ot to require special rece ?amenda rion from u>. It? u.-o for five years poet Un* ...? taMished rt* character for rel M bte exeetS :?<*e. Tr.-: large fixed capital invested by thc Company i'* tin.- trade, n?i-rdi thc surest gearawtce . f thi continued excellence ofits Guano. J. N. HOBSON. Selling A7f!ir. Ch 'rlcs'oM. S. 0. I J>.0. S. REESE ? CO.. Oeii'-.il Agents! Baliiatnrc. Jar.aary 4 .'..n CO?POUNI? At i > PHOSPHATE OF LIME, FOR COMPOSTING WITH COTTDN SEEDJ remis ARTICLE IS MANUPACTiTKED BY X'l.e PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY ar < Ballest?n. S C.. ur-d r thc Super:??? adcaee ot Dr. ST. JULIEN RAVEN EL. tt km cuespeet-j cd with an equal weight of Cotton Seed, it? resalta have been fownd fatly cowal it the beeta stan 'ard (?nlinter*. Ita ?rot oe j m?. tcnanmeBd it t ? the noticv of planter* generally. 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