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VOL. XXI
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1871.
Tl sato o> BnnaoB Bt Dona, Fcrensea.-Vifg.
NO. 38.
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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.
Tliey are ground under their own supervision,
from minute Crystal PeoMee, mette?! together.
?nd derive their nam?. faDiam??ad,""on account
>f their hardness aiid brilliancy.
Tl.? scientific principle ow which they arc cor- i
structed hrit.gs thc core or centre i>t :he lens di?
rectly in fr?wt of thc eyw, pr.?.?in-?ric .t clear and
Jistinct vision. a.? in thc natural. benl'by si^'h'.
md preventing all unpleasant s*nsati???s, such as
glimmering ai d war* rio? el >^^tit, u izr.i ::c.-., A'*.,
peculiar t< all others tease.
Tiley jw mountc.l i;; the fi1 "t BtftWVer in j
frames of tlie'best quality, nf ?ll materials used
f.>r that purpose. Iheir Suish and ??urai'ility
cannot I*.' surpassed.
CAiTto>.-Non? genuine anle*?bearing their
trude mark Stamped on every fr
F. HALTOM FOLSOM,
WAICHMAKE?, ?iJtWEIEl
SUMTER, S. C.
Drconiher )1 ff
Pacific Guano Company's
(PA PITA Ii > I. OOO GOO.
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.
Per specific directions l'or ?~.IU?M,.I<. and fori
.u? t lies, ni pty to .1 ?. R<???S??N. ?
Selling Aient, Chatte*;?*?, 5. C. j
."NO. S. RESK A CO.. U??.ml Agent J
Baltimore.
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