The Sumter watchman. (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, March 08, 1871, Image 1

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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.) Ii f tl Ul (ED E ;:itY WEDNESDAY nORNINtt AT SUMTER. S. C., BY GIL??ERT & FLOWERS. Terms. Ono year.$3 00 Six mu lt (ii i). 1 ?0 Turee mouths.mm. . 1 CK I llQlliilB?\yilitTr?i ininrfti it 'itu rat? 0NR~ DOLLAR AND FIF*rY CENTS per .,|ture for tue Britt, ONE DOLLAR tor the second, and F1FTV CBNTS for each subsequent nsertioa, for any period len then three months OiilTUAltlES, TRIBUTES OF RESPECT and ell communications which subserve private merest*, will be paid tor aa advertisements. DrTTutt's EXPECT?RANT FOR Coughs, Colds, &o. For the Speedy Relief and Per? manent Cure of CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Astlaa> Colds, A nd ell Diseases of the Lungs, Chest, or Throat ? rpHB EXPECTORANT is composed A exclusively of Herbal and' Mucilaginous products, which Permeate thc very Substance of the Lungs causing them to throw off the acrid matter which collects in the Bronchial Tubes, and at the same time forms a soothing coating relieving the ir? rigation which produces the cough. Tho object to be obtained is to cleanse the organ of el) impurities; to nourish and strength? en it when it bas become impaired and enfeebled bj disease; to renew and invigorate the circulation of the blood, and strengthen the nervous organ? ization. The EXPECTORANT docs this to an astonishing degree. It is active but mild and congenial, imparting functional energy and natural strength. It affords Oxygen to vitalize the blood, and Nitrogen to assimilate the mat. ter It e? uallzea the "uervons Influence," producing quic: and composure. -o TO CONSUMPTIVES It is invaluable, as it immediately relieves th3 difficult breathing and harrassing cough which attends that disease. -o FOR ASTHMA It is a specific-ono doso often relieving tho dis? tressing choking, and producing calm and pleasant repose. FOR CROUP Ko mother should ever be without a bottle of the EXPECTORANT in the bouse. We havo numerous certificates of its having relieved, almost instantly, the little sufferer, when deeth appeared almost inevit-ble. MOTHERS BE ADVISED ! Keep it on Hand ! This dread disease requires prompt action ; as soon as the hoarse, hollow cough is heard, apply the remedy, and it is easily subdued ; BI T TUE DELAr IS DANGEROUS ! ^a. The prope: ties of the EXPECTORANT are demulcent, nutritif*, balsa mic, soothing, and bealing. It braces the nervous system and pro puces pleasant sod refreshing sleep. It Exhilarates and Relieves Gloominess and Depression. Containing all these qualities in a convenient and concentrated fono, it has proven to be tbe MOST VAM A?LE LI75G BALSAM ever offered to sufferers from Pulmonary diseas? es. Prepared by W3I.H.T?TT, AUGUSTA, OA. pS* Sold by Druggists everywhere. Nov IS 6m PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY. Pictures ! Pictures ! ! Pictures ! ! PHOTOGRAPHS^ FERROTYPES, AMBROT?PES, AHO PORCELAIN PICTURES. These Pictures are now taken at the Sumter j Gallery, in all sizes and styles-up to life size. Recent improvements have been brought into requisition, and tte undersigned feels confident that beean produce as -crfect and well finUbed Pictures ac can be obtained in the State. Copying from Old Likenesses, and the original lineaments of the picture fully reproduced. J. D. WILDER. Oct_tf_ REEDER & DAVIS, COTTON FACTORS, AND General Commission Merchants, ADC ER'S WHARF, Charleston, S. C. Oswell Reeder. Zimmerman Davis Oct 19_6 JJ "CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. This well known and popular FIRST-CLASS HOTEL, situated io the centre of the eily, and, also in ibe centre of the Wholesale Business J Houses, affords facilities, comforts and extention to Travellers for Pleasure and Merchants on Business, second to none in the United States. Oct 26 ?a THE MILLS HOUSE, PARKER & POND, Proprietors, Charleston, S. C. HAVING been recently and thoroughly ran- I ovated end repaired, is now the most j comfortable and luxerions establishment South New York. Nov 9 ?m BUBER'S HOUSE, 23* KING STREET, (IN THE BEND,) CHARLESTON, S C. TH TS POPULAR ESTABLISH? MENT, pleasantly located on King, be? tween Wentworth ead Heeel Streets, offers aa excellent accommodation to the traveling public. It is bot e few yards from from the City Rail? way, ead oot more thea five min?tes walk to the Post Offieo, and sJl the business houses on Meettag ead Heeel Streets. Transieat board $t.0S per day. Special wangea eats will be made for board on application to tLe proprietors. B-HILBBRS, Nov 16-Sm_ORO. A. WAQ8KBE. A Hearty Old Virginia Welcome AWAITS YOU AT i HEWITT'S GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA. rf. C. HEWITT, Proprietor. Jaa ........ ,tf PATILIOH HOTEL? BOARD. PER DAY, $8.00. ROBT. aaauTOS, aaa. x. h. ssrraariiLS, SaperiBteadaat. Propri?t?* Ost S G?eraw and Darlington Rail Koatt. CHER AW A D DAKLINCTO.I K. K. CU., I _ CHF.RAW, S. C., January 21,1871.) ON AND AFTEK MONDAY NEXT, tb* 23d inst, the following SCHEDULE will be run by the Trains on thia Road: DOW.H TRA?. Leave Cherawat.8.45 A. M. Leave Cash's ??.,,.?????? ".T ff A. M. Leave Society Hill at.7.5? A. M. Leave Dove's at.-,,,,",nm.8.35 A. M. Leave Darlington ?*.,,.,..".......... 9.10 A. M. Arrive ai Florene? at..................... 10.00 A. M. UP Taint. Leave Florence at. 3.00 P. M. Leave Darlington it??,.?.50 P. M. Leave Dove's at.ft.????? i 7 fr P. M. Leave Society Hill at.8.10 P. M. Leave Cash's et.8.4* P. M. Arrive at Cberaw at...9.15 P. M. Other Trains make close connections at Florence with tho Trains to and from Charleston, and to and from Kingville. Passengers tor Wilmington and tbe North will remain at Florence from 10 A. M. until 5. 45 P. M. Fe bl. SOUTH CAROLINA Central Sail Road Co* CHARLESTON, S. C., January ll, 1871. THE EIGHTH INSTALMENT OF FIVE I DOLLARS PER SHARE, will be payable j on ?5th March, proximo. In Charleston-at the Office of the Company, | No 10 Brood-street. In Sumter-To Major JOSEPH JOHNSON. In Clarendon-To Dr. G. ALLEN HUGGINS. | WM. H. PE RON NEAL", Treasurer. _Feb 8_ WINES, LIQUORS -AND Tobacco, ^yHISKEY-N. C. Corn and Ry*, ^ -Kentucky, Ry and Bour!)oa,^- gp GIN-Holland and Domestic, Bes? J^UM-Jamaica and Domestie, 1J HANDY-French and Domestic, >fZ JJ R - ? 4 LE AND ORTER-English and J J\_ American, a: WT I Sherry, Port. fri? "J Madeira and Seuppernong.^S GERMAN BITTERS-Rummel. Wig. Z gins' Herb Bitters, -^ALSO Chewing Tobacco, in caddies and t boxes, of great variety. Smoking Tobacco, all kinds, in i, i, i and 1 pound packages. cegar?, a good many different aorta and all qualities. The abore we offer to tho trade low 1er CASH ADRIAN & V?LLERS, Jeu 18 Wilmington, N. C. WILMINGTON Iron and Copper Works -AND MACHINS SHOP, FRONT STREET, BELOW MARKET, WILMINGTON, N. C. Dealers and Man o fee tarers of Steam Engines, Pea Nut Machines, Sugar and other Mills, Gin Gear, Cotton Screws and Presses, Turpentine Stills, and all kinda of Cartings and Machinery nade or repaired. Also, Pecking end Belting, <F?od Moulding. Brackets, Newell PosU, Stair Railing, Ac, of the latest patterns. UART & BAILEY. Sept 14_6m*_ D. A. SMITH" WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IR 7 Parlor, Chamber, Dining-Room, Office and Library Mattreeses, Window Shades. Saab, Blinds and Doora, Granite frat Bindings, Sept 14-em] WILMINGTON, N. O. , P. HEnrSBSROSE, BOOK SELLER, STATIONER -AID Blank fcook Manufacturer, DEA LCR t* Pianos, Organs, Meiodeons, Guitars, Violins, Chromos, Ac At New York and Balt'unore Prices. Sept 14-_WILMINGTON, N. C. GEO, W. WILLIAMS & CG., FACTORS, Proprietors Carolina Fertilizer. CHARLESTON, S- O WILLI AMS, BIBINE & CO* COMMISSION MERCHANTS, IM. T. Liberal Ad vanees made OB Cotton and Pit^^e* chipped to us in Chef letton or New York. Agent's fer Beard's Lock, Karaka ead Buekr? Tie, Batter cad Swett's Tte*. S*pt23-6 m_ JD e BING'S REMEDY (Tfce wey to l> fofufth?.) Tb? Pare Jaie** of Barta, Berk?, Koota a?d Pelf Isa, la? PssswmoBia, Pleurisy, As th ste, Brow bW*, ttetp, tboee Weeta***** aa* AOsotio**? juaaTi r at Woman. For torpid eed d*reeg?l MeeMtWab of U?a Weer, Stoawfc, Brftii a*t IMaeja SaaASt-esa Drugglet, Saaaoar, S C. NO. 3 GROCERIES. THE ONLY STRICTLY Grocery and Liquor House IN TOWN THE UNDERSIGNED, begs leave to eal! tb? attention of bi? friends ?od tb? public generally to bil NE WAND WELL SELECTED STOCK or Heavy aadFancy Groceries Which be offers lo ir-Tor. CASH ONLY. ."SB? AU ?rtie!es warranted es recornmende ? ?tW~ Pare Medicinal Liquors kept constan os band. J. E. BBSRHART. April 13__^_ tf J. E. AMER & CO., DIPORTIUS OF *HD DEALERS IS HARDWARE, CUTLERY j tl! NS, BAR IRON, STEEL, AND Agricultural Implements, J. E. Adger, A. McD. Brown, E. D. Robinson, 0. H Monett, J. Adger Smyth, E. A. Smyth. Feb 8 139 Meeting Street, ead 62 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. 6m A1TDBEW McCOBB, Jr. COMMISSION MERCHANT, AND DEALER IN LIME, CIMENT, PLASTER PARIS, Aod other Building Material. -ALIO LAND PLASTER AND HAY. 317 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, 80. CA. Feb 8- 3m] Opposite New Castora Boase. Henry Bischoff ft Co., WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND DEALERS IN WINES, LIQUORS, SES ARS TOBACCO, Ac. 197 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. Feb 8 6m -n**a ?si Kinsman df Howe//, Factors and Commission Merchants. Liberal Advances made on Cot to? and Naval Stores. Charleston, S.C. Feb 8 ly WOFFOED COLLEGE. SPABirANBURC C. H., SO. CA. FACULTY: REY. A. M. SKIPP, D. D., President and Professor Mental and Moral Science. DAVID DUNCAN, A. M., Professor Ancient Languages and Literature. REV. WHITEFOORD SMITH, B.D., Professor English Literatare. FARREN DU PRE, A. M., Professor Natara! 8deaee. JA8. H. CARLISLE, A. M., Professor Mathe? matics. REV. A. H. LESTER, A. M., Professor History and Biblical Literature. The Preparatory School, ander tbe immediate so perrini on of tbe Faculty, J no. W. SH I PP, A. M., Principal. Divinity School-Rev. A. M. Shipp, 7>. D. Rev. Whitefoord Smith, D. D.; Ber. A. H Leiter, A. M. . The first Session of tba Seventeenth Collegiate Year begins on tbe first Monday ia October, 1870, the second Session begins on tbe Int Mon. day in January, 1871. Tbe course of studies ead tbe standard of scholarship remata adeba&ged, bat tbe Faculty aow admit irregular students or thoa? wbo wish to pursue particular s todies on ly. Tee Schools also epee at tbe seme time. Tuition per jaar, in College Classes, IncludiUf contingent fee, 164 inCurrency. Tuition per yeer, i a Preparatory School, includ? ing eeatiageot fee, $44 ia eartesey. Bills payable one half ia advacea. Board, per Month, from $11 to $15 ta currency. Fer farther particular! addtesa A. M- SHI FP, President. Sept 19_ Pacific G*tt* Coflntaay'a (CAPITAL f!,*tt,IM0 Soluble Pacific Guano. THZS OU ANO Ii NOW BO WELL KNOWN ia all the Soe there States for its remarkable effects as an ageoey for increasing the products sf labor, aa nat tri require special recommenda? tion from as. Ita ase for Ire years peat baa es? tablished iteeharaeter for reliable excellence. The large fixed capita! invested bj tb* Company in this trade, affords tba surest gaaraawrof Ute COB tia ead excellence of ita Guano, . i . J. S. ROBSON. Selling AgoU Charleston. 8. C. JNO.-B. REESE A 00, General A goats HaKpaea, . January 4 _tm COXPOTJKD ACT? . . ^ PHOSPHATS 0P LOK, FOR COMPOSTOfO WITH COTTON SEED. Correspondence of the Boston Journal. TBE CSO WFUSG OF THE EMPEROR. SP LE y DID PAGEANT VERSA I LES. The Realisation of Bismark?* Dream. THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY. VERSAILLES, January 19.--The cere? mony, or rather pageant, yesterday, in Versailles, merits preservation in im? mortal fame, and 'tis a pity Germany has no poet worthy the task. The day was a straDge mixture of damp, cold, and warm sunshine, the rain occasionally weeping a little over the heroic dead and then the sun chasing awinr-the tears, as unworthy of so grand an acca sion. Toward 10 o'clock a very brilliant throng began to assemble in the palace yards, and inc* cased steadily iu bril? liancy and volume until the stroke of 12, when the King, preceded by guards and outriders, drove furiously to the door of the Salle des Glaces. Entering the courtyard from the Rue de Reservoirs about ll o'clock, I found drawn up in line the King's body guard, taken from all the best regiments of the army, and glittering like a rainbow in the hundred colors which were so strongly contrasted together Throng ing past them were thc invited guests of higher rank, hastily returning the salutations of hundreds of hands from every direction, which embodied with the accustomed servility the expression of their humbleness The Bavarian, Saxon and Wurtemburg officers who had been distinguished by the presentation of ordern were very numerous, and al? though very different in type from the now so well known Prussian, would still compare very favorably with him. The Bavarians were especially brilliant in their bright blue uniforms and shin? ing helmets, and many were men of] most majestic presence. Tho Wurteai burgers were wretchedly dressed hardly a single officer even attempting elegance. The Saxons were, as usual, au fail in appearance, and were easily distinguished, aside from their uniforms, by their jaunty carriage and mellow accent IC was evident that ail the officers ol distinction, from all sections of the army, bod left their posts to assist at this ceremony. The tall gigantic men of the Garde corps, stalking about like ghosts in their white uniforms; the dark haired,short, stalwart Brandenbur? gers ; the real Berliners, with spectacles on nose and cress er untie* (be arm for. book-carrying ; the strapping cavalry? man, with the iron cross at bis breast; and slender youth, with long hair combed back under bis casque, and sowrd buckled on bis thigh; all hurried forward to the hall, where the greatest Prussian ceremony of modern times was to occur. Presently the guests began to arrive pell-mell. There was no attempt at glory of equipages, as in campaigning i: is difficult to obtain. Moltke came in a post carriage showing that it had un? dertaken recent journeys; Bismarck in a little cal?che, hardly large enough tu hold him; the crown prince in his usual very modest carriage, and dozens of offi? cers were compelled to make their entre through a rain, which suddenly visited us, in fall toilet, on foot. Wagons of all kinds were used. Haifa dozen barons would dash in an omnibus, which they bad happily discovered; and the immortal furniture van, which had such a jolly role at the time the delegation from the Reichstag presented the ad dress to King William, again came into pity. Great precautions seemed to have peen taken for the safety of the King. There were even landwhrmen wander? ing carelessly about in the crowd, with their guns held as a huntsman bolds his when be bears the deer breaking cover. How did the Prussians know bow far French fanaticism might go ? Large masses of troops were disposed on thc Avenue de Paris and the Place d' Armes about ll o'clock, and toward 12 the King left the Prefecture and proceeded leisurely through the line of soldiers, who saluted bim with deafen? ing shouts of "Hurrah for tbs German Emperor." Arrived at the chateau gate, the royal carriage drove rapidly through the seething mass of soldiers, strangers and civilian Germans, and ?lightning as thc chateau clock struck tba hour of noon, entered the Salle des Glaces by the grand staircase, along which were arrayed, two and two, the guard composed of picked men from the various regime*, ts. Io the middle of the grand ball, and with its back to the windows which open on tbe park, * grand alter was ereoted. Upon this alter, which was gracefully decorated, lighted candles were placed and at each side stood three pastors, clothed ia tbe sombre habiliments of their order, and asserting the support of tbe church to the new Empire* Fur? ther down the ball was another and smaller alter, and io front of this were arranged tbs standards of all the regi? ments of the third army. Between the two alters also, were ranged Ba varian! and other soldiers. Io front of thc principal alter were several soldiers who had in times past orin the recent cam? paign received the iron cross, and two of them had their beads bound op, and showed other marks of recent wounds. On tbe platform, at tbe other end of the gallery, there were many soldiers stationed al the standard bearers. The Ring, preceded by tbe marshal of bia household and the court marshal, tbe Coon ts of Pulker sad Perponcher, and foll?*ed by his brothers, Prince George of Saxony, the reigning Duke of Sate L and the majority of tbe heredi TyM Beewei these, as they lair places fa front of the grand m tUc ihe Crown Prince, Prince lofPr^?eKiog's brother, and Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jentiaka; the Grand Dake? of Saxe-Weimar, Oldenburg and Baden, the Duke of.Saxe-Meinigen, the Duke of Saxe-Altenburir, Princes Luitpold and Otho of Bavaria, Prince. W illiam and Duke Eugene of Wurtemburg, Leo? pold of HobenZolern, the Duke of Hol? stein, and many others. The aged King, bolt-upright, and from time to time gaz? ing with an almost child-like curiosity ripon the scene before him, listened intently to the sermon which one of thc division preachers delivered with mach grace and eloquence. Thc sermon touched upon the historic and religious character of the ceremony now in pro? gress, and elucidated its mysterious influence on the hearts of the German nation. It was a splendid tribute as "welTto the nev? subject of adoration, the venerable hero soldier, ay d thc King was deeply effected by it. Bismarck and Moltke, meantime, one on each side of the platform, winked sleepily and wickedly, and seemed in* wardry much amused at this parade and feathers. General Blumenthal., who was also near at hand, with the com manding generals, and officers of all grades grouped around bira, was grimly silent, and seemed to consider the whole thing a waste of time. In long rows, down each side of the gallery, were all the distinguished military and civil per? sonages, Prussian and foreign, of which I Versailles boasts to-day. England was ! represented by her commissioner. Gen? eral Beauchamp Walker, and America had a representative ol her army present j in the person of Brigadier General Duff. ! of Illinois, formerly of Grant's staff. I The sermon finished, a general buzz of congratulation was just springing up in the grand halt when the King sud? denly advanced to the platform, and there surrounded by the standard bear? ers of the First Guard regiment, he pronounced his address to the Princes, io which he declared his intention of accenting the Imperial German crown. After, with faltering voice, he had finished his view, Lismarck advanced tranquilly to read the proclamation to the German people. This was the cul? mination of the war, the object of the crafty man who now held the proclama? tion in his hand?. The unification of the German people, under the rule of oue man was accomplished. No wonder such a gigantic task has made a diplo? mat already ripe in years look as old as his master. After the reading of the proclamation the Grand Duke of Baden (who seemed to have been adopted as'Trtu cxmarhina cn most of these occasions,) hailed the .Kftrg as Emperor of Germany. - A ''?.three t!?es three*" which sent eti? quette to the foul fiend, and woke the echoes which had been lying perdu for two centuries, answered, and thc Crown Prince hastened to embrace his father and to affectionately grasp his hand. Hts example was followed by all the members of the royal family and all the princes and dukes present. When the ceremony was finished there were tears on the old King's face, and many of the lookers on were visibly moved. Amid the waving of standards, fia^s which had been fa all the early battles of the present war, and the echoes of the national bymo and triumphal marches, the brilliant assembly broke up, and filtered away in its huudrcds of carriages splendid and shabby, to the duty of cit iog dinner in celebration of "orders day.' At the Reservoirs and other fashionable restaurants there was the most riotous merriment, and the word "Kaiser" echo? ed through the streets and tn all places where uniforms were seen until long past midnight. DEATH AND THE GRAVE. * A FADLE. "I am hungry," said the Grave. "Give me food." "Death answered : "I will send forth a minister of awful destruction, and you shall be satisfied." "What minister will you send ?" "I will send alcohol. He shall go ir, the guise of food and medicine, pleasure and hospitality. The people shall drink and die." And the Grave answered : "I am content " And now the church bells beg in to toll, and the mournful procession to advance. "Who are they bringiug now ?" said the Grave. "Ah," said Death, "th^y are bringing a household. Thc drunken father aimed a blow at his wife. Ile killed the mother and her child together, aod theo dashed out his own life." "And who," said the Grave, "comes next, followed by a train of weeping children ?" "This is a broken-hearted woman, who has long pined away in want, while her husband bas wasted his substance at the tavern. An I he, too, is borne behind, killed by thc hand of violence." "And who next?" "A young man of generous impulses, who, step by Ktep, became dissipated, and squandered his all. My agent turned him oct to be frozen in the street" "Hush!" said the Grave; "now I hear a wail of anguish that will not be silenced." . ... "Yes," K is Itke widow'? cry. It is the only sQtf'of his mother. He spurn? ed her love, reviled her warning, aud a bloated corpse he comes to thee. And thus the/'eome-further than the eyes can reach, the procession crowds to thy dirie abodes. Aod still lured by the enchanting . ip which I have ming? led, the sons of men crowd the paths of dissipation. Vainly they dream of escape, but I shut behind them the in visible door of destiny. They know it cow, and with song and dance and riot, they hasten 'to the?; O Grave ! Then I throw ray fatal spell upon the new throngs of youth, tod aoon they, to?, willbe-with tho?." LETTEK FBO.TI DANIEL WEBSTER ON SABBATH SCHOOLS. PROP. PEASE-Dear Sir : I have received jour very able and interesting annual report of the condition of the New York Sabbath School Asssciation, and read it with great pleasure and in? struction. It is gratifying to leam that, in "a city where vice and immorality tun riot with impunity," a few humble Christians have devoted their time and ?nergies to the cause of religion, and I fervently pray thatyocr labors may be crowned with success. Thc Sabbath Schcol is one of the great institutions of the day. It leads mirynnt]), In. t^iA.^mtli of truth and. morality, and makes them good men and useful citizens. As a school of religi? ous instruction,!it is of inestimable value; as a civil institution it is priceless, and has dunc more to preserve our liberties than grave statesman and armed sol? diers. Let it, then, be fostered and preserved until the end of time ! I once defended a mao charged with the awful crime of murder. At the con? clusion of the trial, I asked him what could iuduce him to stain his hands with the blood of a fellow-being. Turn ? ing his bloodshot eyes full upon me, he replied in a voice of despair, "Mr. Webster; in my youth I spent the holy Sabbath in evil amusements, instead of frequenting the house of prayer and praise." Could we go back to the early years of all hardened criminals, I be? lieve, yes, firmly believe, that their first departure from the path of morality was when they abandoned the Sabbath School, and their subsequent crimes might thus be traced back to the neg lect of youthful religious instruction. Many years ago I spent a Sabbath with Thomas Jefferson at his residence in Virginia, lt was in the month of June, and the weather was delightful. While engaged in discussing the beau? ties of the Bible, the 30und of a bell broke upon our ears, when, turning to the sage of Monticello, I remarked, .'How sweetly sounds the Sabbath bell!" The distinguished statesman for a mo* ment seemed lost in thought, and then replied, "Yes, dear Webster, yes ; it melts the heart, it calms our passions, and makes us boys again." Here I ob? served that man was only an animal formed for religious worship, and that notwithstanding all the sophistry of Epicurus, Lucrctious and Voltaire, the Scriptures stood upon a rock as firm, as immovable as truth itself; that man, in his purer, loftier breathings, turned thc mental eyes toward immortality; and that the poet only echoed the general sentiment of our uature in saying that "the soul secure in her existence, sruilei at the drawn dagger, and defies its point." Mr. Jefferson fully concurred in this opinion, and observed that the tendency of the American mind was in a different direction, and that Sunday Schools (he did not use our more correct term Sab? bath) presented the only legitimate means, under the Constitution, of avoid? ing the rock on which the French re? public was wrecked. "Burke," said he, "never uttered a more important truth, thau wheu he exclaimed that a 'religious education was the cheap de? fence of nations.*'"' "Raikej," said Mr. Jefferson, "has done more for our country than the present generation will acknowledge. Perhaps when I am cold, bc will obtain his reward ; I hope so, earnestly hope so. I am considered by many, Mr. Webster, to have little religion ; but now is not the time to corree; errors of this sort. I have al? ways said, and always will say that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers 'tend* better husbands." I took the lib? erty of saying that I found more plea? sure in Hebrew poetry than in the best productions of Greece and Rome; that the "harp upou the willows upon Baby? lon" had charms for mc beyond any? thing iu the numbers of the blind man of Smyrna, I then turned to Jeremiah (there was a fine folio of the Scriptures before ute of 1458), and read aloud some of those sublime passages that used to delight mc on my father's knee. But I fear, my dear friend, I shall tire yeu with my prolix account of what was a pleasant Sabbath, ?pent in the company of one who has filled a very large space in our political and literary annals. Thanking you for your report and heartily concurring with you in the truth of your quotation that "righte? ousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people," ? remain, with a high regard your friend, D. WEBSTER. Mansfield, June 15:h. 1852. BOOKS. God be thanked for books. They arc th* voices of thc distaut and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life <>f past ages. Books are the true lev? elers. They give to all who will faith? fully use them the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, no matter though (he prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling, if the sacred writers will en ter and take op their abode nnder my roof ; if Milton will cross my threshold, to sing to me of Paradise ; and Shake? speare, to open to me the world of im? agination and the workings of the hu? man heart; and Franklin, to enrich me with bis practical wisdom, I shall not pine for wsnt of intellectual companion? ship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what ie called the best society in the place where I live.- W. ? Channing. -The horse, "warraatod to stand without tying," which a mao bought al auction the other day, is offered tor salo by the purchaser with the guarantee that "he will not move without, a whip ping." - MAEX TWAINS ADVICE TO LITT LIS j emu. Good little girls ought not to make months at their teachers for every trifling offence. This retaliation should1 only be resorted to under peculiarly ag? gravated circumstances. If you have nothing hut a rag doll . stuffed with sawdust, while one of your j more fortunate little playmates has al costly china ono, you should treat her j with a show of kindness nevertheless. ! And you ought not to attempt to make j a forcible swap with her unless your j conscience would justify jon in it and j you know you are able to do it. ?ou ought never to take your little brother's chewing gum away from him by main force ; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dol? lars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. In the artless simplicity natural to his time of life he will regard it as a perfectly fair transac lion. In all ages of the world this emi nentiy plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and dis? aster. If at any time you find it necessary to correct yoar brother, do not correct him with mud-never on any account throw mud at him, because it will soil his clothes. It is better to scald him a little; for theo you attain desirable results you secure his immediate attention to the lessons you are inculcating, and at the same t:me your hot water will have a tendency to remove impurities from his person-and possibly thc skin also in spots. If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards ?ct quietly in the matter according to the dictates of ycur better judgment. You should ever bear io mind that it is to your kind parents that you are in? debted for your food and your nice bcd, and for your beautiful clothes, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect] their little prejudiced and humor their j little whims, and put up with their foibles until they get to crowding you too much. Good little giris always show marked deferece JOT the aged. You ought never to sass old people unless they sass you first. LI.TIE AS A SOUL ABBSD31EXT. Many diseases of the soil are removed by a liberal dressing of quick lime. Wheo the soil is of a peaty character, as that of wet land newly drained, the costic properties of lime will act upon the vegetable matter, making it solu? ble plant food, and it will also act on the mineral matter in the soil, elimina? ting the potash and phosphoric acid. When lime is applied to clay it makes the clay more friable and dissolves the silicic acid, a ;d other insoluble silicates, into an assimilable state, necessary not only to the growth of plants, but also to strengthen the straw of the cereals. The opinion is gaining in Europe that it is better to lime often and ia small quantities, say 8 to 10 bushels per acre, than to apply 8 or 10 tons per acre at one titre, as a larger quantity ren? ders a poer, weak soil too loose. But Professor Johnson says too much lime is a mechanical evil, not a chemical one ; that even an excess of thc carbo? nate of lime in the soil docs not leseen its chemical fertility. This is a strong ar? gument for liming even a limestone soil proper. The best Pennsylvania farm? ers act upon it. The practice is com? mon ic the limestone districts there to burn lime solely for a soil amendment ; and some farmers spread from 40 to GU bushels per acre on their crass lands annually. Yet we are told by Prof Vcelcker and others that land contain, ing 4 percent, of the carbonate of lime needs no liming. This is only true on soils of rare mechanical formation, like river bottoms, which need nothing bur tillage to make them productive. I never knew but one farmer who found that the application of lime to his soil had no effect. But his soil was one of nature'a choicest formation. It was an intervale on the banks of Cayua?a Lake South of Uoion Springs, underlaid by a lime stone ledge, that takes off surplus water ; and the soil is composed of thc choice washings from the rising ground beyond. Its mechanical construction is nearly perfect.-& IF. in iV. T. Obser? ver. TWENTY 1 ARDS S WI TI L'NDEU 11IE ICE. We are called upon to record in the present instance one of the most marvel lous preservations recorded in the an? nals ci modern history, and while thc reader may pause incredulous over the remarkable narration, we declare the leading pariiculars as veritable state of facts. The skaters were merry at the bridge on Monday night, as they were in almost every other locality un? visited by calamity, and ekiliiul skaters glided over the glassy surface, cutting names, and initial*, and hiero-, glyphius with their perilous engraving tools. The more nimble and skillful played bal! and cavorted around the clumsy amateur?, who, with half crack? ed skulls and wet seats to their breech es, blew their fingers and gazed at the experts llandiug on ono leg and look? ing at their ?eft coat tails over their righfr*boulders, in spite of ail the laws of gravitation. All at once an exclamation of horror transfixed every gazer to hie feet. Amid the cracking and breaking of iee one ' WM straggling for a hold on the slip? pery edges ol tlie ice, which broke ofl in large pieces. Iiis benumbed fingers loosened their grasp, a;>d the oufortu nate skater was carried by thc m urde JOB WORK 0 F EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF The Sumter Watchman, - rs THE - Highest Style of thc Art. ous current out af sight nuder thc cold and glassy ice. l?eing a? expert shim? mer, and possessed ul' great presence of miud, l>e struck out vigorously and swam after the manner of a diver. Thc fishes gaz?d at him with their green eyes and nibbled his clothes as i.c swam through the frigid c <rrent, and he, too, imagined that grim death was gazing at him, but he struggled manfully oo, nor heeded the meddlesome cat fish which swam along beside him, as though they would question him concerning his severance with thc affairs of the land, ile is almost exhausted, and as he lets down his feet strike the bottom, ?ehas reached a shoal. Pressing his head vigorously against thc yielding ice, with his feet braced below, a cracking is heard, and he gazes along thc surface of the ice. To come through lightly was but a moment's work, aud bidding his friends-the fishes-good bye, he is cooveyed to a fire to dry and warm, having swam over twenty yards u-idcr the ice.-Laveutcorth Republican. KISS MY AVI Fi: OR FIGHT. There are few married mcu who are not averse to seeing their wives kissed; but a correspondent relates the particu? lars of a ca-o iu which a newly wedded lienciiict felt himself insulted because his wife was not kissed. The bridegroom in question was a stalwart youug rustic, who was known as a formidable operator in a ..''free fight." His bride was a blooming and beiutiful counfry girl, only sixteen years of age, aud the twain were ata party where a number of young folks of both sexes were euojy ing themselves tn the good, old fashion? ed style. Every girl in the room was called out and kissed, except II., tho beaut Jul youug bride aforesaid; and, although ther? was not a youngster who was not willing to taste her lips, they were restrained by the presence of her herculean husb?ud, who stood regarding the party with a look of sullen dissatis? faction. They mistook the cause, for suddenly he expressed himself. Holling up his sleeves, he stepped to the middle of the room, and io a tone ot voice that secured mat ked atteution, said : "Gentlemen, I have been noticiog how things have been working here for some time, aud I ain't satisfied. I don't want to raise a fuss, but-" '.What's the matter, John?" inquired half a dozen voices. "Have we done anything to hurt your feelings V "Yes, you have ; all of you have hurt . my feelings, aod I have just got this to ; say about it. Here's every girl in the I room has been kissed nigh a dozen J times apiece, and there's my wife, who i I consider as 1 kely as any of them, has not had a single one to-night; and I j just tell you now, if she don't get as I many kisses the rest of the night as any girl in the room, the man that slights her ha* got rae to fight-that's: all Now go ahead with your plays." AVOID TUE M:T, BOYS. Come here, boys-let me speak to you. Where are you going? I heard one of your company say, "Come, boys, let us go down to the saloon and get some beer," is it there you are going? Hold ou a moment ; that is a bad place for j boys. I have known a great u-any boys begin at the saloon or liquor shop and i end in the State's Prison. Did you 1 ever sec thc fisherman ca*t a net and ! draw in the fish ? how the fish dive end j llop and try to escape, but can't. Did i you ever see birds caught in a snare or net? lt you have seen pigeons iu a net you have noticed how they try.but can't escape. Listen what thc Bible tells I you : "As the fishes are taken in au ' evil net, and as- the bird- that arc caught I in a snare, so nie the sons of men I snared tu an evil time.*' Evciy liquor j saloou or rutu shop is a net or soar*?: if j you go there you are in danger of being 1 eaug'u Shan it-keep away if you j begin drinking beor, you will soon want i still stronger drinks, and one-; started on th s track, no one can tell where you j will end-you will end sedier n en. How j easy then, to escape becoming a drank ; ard, to wit, by never drinking a drop of ? intoxicating drinks. Avoid ti.e a'e, tho beer, the lager-don't begin, mid you I will never get into th? net or snare, j Think nf five hundred thousand drank? j ard* in America, all oan-z'i? i i thc i:ct! : Some rrj as hard as do the poor fi-hes j to escape, but iu vain. Avoid the net, j buys, avoid :hc not ! is thc cry ot an o'd sentinel. Listen to the note nf warning -keep away from the dram-shops. A poor drunkard tried to I* ?now five . I dollars of me a few moo:hs ag?. Ho wandered around in drunkenness, and not fen days later was run o cr on a railroad track and killed. I knew him when a bright, promising b y. Hut lie went to the rum shop, vas < i'-g t iu j thc ?.et,a: d in anet il hom ru'n c in su ! jdenlyupon him. Keep out of that net! - Prayer is the voice ot the heart crying, in great need,.to him wl-.o ?lone can help and pave, lt is ita silent ap j peal of the heart, anxious, eajjer or i depressed to him in whose !is*iUs ar? the issu'S of life, who c:n sa; r, re? lieve, and inspire thc soul in i - help? !etsne-s, aud amid its w;i?y c.tes. -A blacksmith brought up Ms son - to whom he was very serer*-'o his trade. One day the old man wis try? ing to harden a cold chisel, which i o had malo of foreign rteel, bnt ho r>?nltl not succeed. "Horsewhip ir, father," exclaimed 'he young oi c j "ii that dou't harden v, 1 dou'i kn iw what will !" rs -A Philadelphia critic, spmV?Bg^?fe Sontag's vocalism, says : "Wc han* upon every note." "This, says thc Du-patch. is a proof of the lad}"a retrnr k ble p..wer of execution.