The Sumter watchman. (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, March 15, 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 Siiinter Wateliman. 'ESTABLISHED IN 1850.) ISPt7BX.If.HKD EVER Y WEDNESDAY M O It NI NO AT SUMTER, S. C.? BY GILBERT & FLOWERS. Terms. One year.*3 00 Sii months. 1. 50 Three mouths....-.- 1 08 IDVEKTISBMBNTS inserted at thc rate of'ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per Mu.ire for the first. ONE DOLLAR lor the | scc?n l, ??J FIFTY CENTS for each subsequent nsertion. fur any period less than three months OBITUARIES, TRIBUTES OF KESPBCTI and all eouirouuiention* which subserve private] Dieresis, will be paid ?or as advertisement*. Dr. ?utt's EXPECTOKANT FOR Coughs, Colds, &c. For the Speedy Relief and Per? manent Cure of CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Astna* Colds, And all Diseases of the Lungs, Chest, or Throat ? rv HE EXPECTORANT is composed A exclusively of Herbal and Mucilaginous products, which Permeate l/ie very Substance of the Lungs enuring tbetn to throw off the acrid matter which collecta ia the Bronchi tl Tubes, and at the same tiuic forms a southing coating, relieving the ir rt'ation which produces the cough. The ubject to be obtained is (o cleanse the organ ot ult impurities ; to nourish and strength en it ?ben it has become impaired and enfeebled by disease; to renew and invigorate the circulation of the Hood, and strengthen the nervous organ? ization. The EXPECTORANT does this to an astonishing degree. It is active bat mild and Congenial, imparting functional energy and natural strong.h. It affords Oxygen to vitalize the blood, aud Nitrogen to assimilate the mat ter St equalize? the "nervous Influence," producing quiet and composure. TO CONSUMPTIVES It is invaluable, as it immediately relieves the difficult breathing aud harrussing cough which attends that disease. FOR ASTHMA It is a specific-ono dose often relieving the dis- j tressing choking, and producing calm and pleasant repose. FOR CROUP No mother should ever be without a bottle of the j EXPECTORANT io the houso. We have numerous certificate; of its having relieved, almost instantly, the little sufferer, when death appeared almost inevitable. MOTHERS BE ADVISED ! Keep ii 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 ; BIT TUE DELAY IS DANGEROUS! .SS, The properties of the EXPECTORANT are demulcent, nutrif?ie, balsamic, soothing, and healiog. It braces the nervous system and pro puces pleasant and refreshing sleep. It Exhilarates and Relieves) Gloominess and Depression. Containing all these qualities in a convenient and concentrated form, it has proveo to be the MOST VALUABLE M\G BALSAM ever offered to sufferers from Pulmonary diseas es. Prepared by WJI, II- T?TT, AU'JL'STA, OA. ?Zf Sold by Druggists everywhere. Nov IO 8m PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY. Pictures ! Pictures ! ! Pictures ! ! PHOTOGRAPHS, FERROTYPES, AMBROTT PES, rn- Asn PORCELAIN PICTURES. These Picture? are now taken at the Sumter Gallery, in all sizes and styles-up to life size. Recent improvements have been brought into requisition, and the undesigned feels confident that beean produce as -effect ami well finished Pictures as can be obtained in the State. Copying from Old Likenesses, add the original lineaments of the picture fully reproduced. J. D. WILDER. Oct_tf_ REEDER & DAVIS, COTTON FACTORS, AND General Commission Merchants, ADSER'S WHARF, Charleston, S. C. Oswell Reeder. Zimmerman Davis Oct 19_8a CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. This well known and popular FIRST-CLASS HOTEL, situated ia the centre of the city, and also in the centre of the Wholesale Business Houses,affocda facilities, comforts and attention to Travellers for Pleasure and .Merchants on Business, second, to.none in the United States. Oct 20 Om THE MILLS HOUSE, PARKER & POND, Proprietors, Charleston, S. C. HAVING been recently and thoroughly ren- J ovated and repaired, is now the most comfortable and luxurious establishment South New York. Nov 9 8m EILBEKS HOUSE, 284 KING STREBT, (IN TUB BEND.) CHARLESTON, S C. Hi H IS POPULAR ESTABLISH ?I MENT, pleasantly located on King, be? tween Wentworth and Basel Streets, offers an excellent accommodation to th? traveling publie. It ia bnt a few yards from from the City Rail? way, and not nore iban fire minutes walk to tb? Post Office, and alt the business houses OD Meeting and Basel Streets. Traasieat Beard 82.00 per day. Special arraagemenu will be made for board j OB application to the proprietors. B.HILBBRS, - Nov 18-8?_GBO.-A. WAQBNgft.) A Hearty Old Virginia Welcome j A WAITS YOU AT HEWITT'S GLOBE HOTEL, j AUGUSTA, GA, , tl f isa W* C. HEWITT, Proprietor. Jae_tf PA mi on trot IL, BOARD. PER DAY, $3.00. HOST, ?aa~n.ro*, xas. H. L. S urra an II?, gttHKteUM?n?. i Prifritter Oats Ciaeraw and Darlington Rall li o?d. ? PCPEMSTEXTEKT'? OFFICE, ] CHERAw A B DARUHOTOR K. R. Co., 1 CHERAw, S. C., January21,1871. j kN AND AFTEK. MONDAY NEXT, the 23d I inst., the following SCHEDULE rill be j inn bj the Trains un this Road: DOWX TRA is. Liave Cheraw at.H.8.45 A, M. | Lsave Cash's at."...7 lt A. M. L save So? iety Bill at_.7.50 A. M. | Lsave Dove's at.8.35 A. M. Liare Darlington ??.\.9.10 A. H. Arrive ai Florence at-.10.00 .L M. Leave Florence at.fi.00 P. M. | Lsave Darlington at.6.50 P. M. L?are Dove's at.................7.30 P. M. Lia ve Society Hill at._8.10 P. H. | Leave Cash's at...........?.45 P. Bf. Arrive at Cheraw at.....9.18 P. M. Other Trains make close connections at| Florence with tho Trains to and from Charleston, and to and from Ringville. Passengers tor Wilmington and the North J will remain at Florence from 10 A. M. ac til 5. 45 P. M. Fe bl._ SOUTH CAROLINA Central Bail Eoad Co* I CHARLESTON, S. C., January ll, 1871. THE EIGHTH INSTALMENT OF FIVE] DOLLARS PER SHARE, will be payable] on 15th March, proximo. In Charleston-at tho Office of the Company, j No. 10 Broad-street. In Sumter-To Major JOSEPH JOHNSON. In Clarendon-To Dr. G. ALLEN HUGGINS. WM. IL PE K?NNE AU, Treasurer. _Feb 8_ WINES, LIQUORS -AND Tobacco, ?yy HISKEY-N. C. Corn and Rye, ^ -Kentucky, Ry and >f Bourbon,^- g1' gIN-Holland and Domestic, g** 0 ? UM-Jamaica and Domes tie, r ? RANDY-French and Domestic, ^"'J^ ALE AND ORTER-English and ? American, ^ a.<g W%VR } Sherry, Port. go? J Madeira and Seuppernong.?^S GERMAN BITTERS-Knmmel.Wtg. 2 gins' Herb Bitters, -ALSO Chewing Tobaecc, in eaddics and 1 boxes, of great variety. Smoking Tobacco, all kinds, in i, 1, ? and 1 pcand packages. Segar?, a good many different sorts and all qualities. The above we offer to the trade lo* far CASH ADRIAN & V?LLERS, Jan 13 Wilmington, N. C. WILMINGTON Iron and Copper Works awn MACHINS SHOP, FRONT STREET, BELOW MARKET, WILMINGTON, N. C.| Dealers and Manufacturers of Steam Engines, Pea Nut Machines, Sugar and other Mills, Gio Gear, Cotton Screws and Presses, Turpentine Stills, and all kinds of Castings and Machinery made or repaired. Also, Packing and Belting, Wood MouldingT Brackets, Newell Posts, Stair Railing, Ac, of the latest patterns. HART & BAILEY. Sept 14_Om* D. A. SMITH, WHOLESALE ANO RETAIL DEALER I* ' Parlor, Chamber, Dining-Room, Office and Library Furniture Mattresses, Window Shades, Sash, Blinds and Doors, | Granite Front Bnildfngs, Sept 14-6m] WILMINGTON, 5. C. P. HEX5SBERGEB, BOOK SELLER, STATIONER Blank Book Mainfaetnrer. DEALER IX Pianos, Organs, Melodeons, Guitars, Violins, Chromos, Ac At New York and Baltimore Prices.! Sept 14-_WILMINGTON, B. O. GEO, W. WILLIAMS & CQCJ FACTORS, Proprietors Carolina Fertilizer. CHARLESTON, S O WILLIAMSTB?RNIE *CO. COMMISSION ME?CHAMTS| N, J, j Liberal Advaaees made on Cotton and Pr?*. I shipped to as hi Charleston or Be? York. Agent's for Beard's Lock, Karaka and Boah!* j Tte, Batter ead Swett's Tins. 8apt28-6 a _ X> e BINO'I REMKPT 'Wi af ug:a Tia? Para Jatees ol Barks, Herbs, Roots and B serpas, for 1%^. iatMAsua OlawaawaSsawa* A iiwfMiMVmtmt xtWmWTwji - thon WosJrnewaec and ?mt??d at* Wosss*: 'Fer ioroiaaad doraagsd conditions of the LsV*, c^sa?e%^a?^stat ?dsstt For sale by -. < ?V - L A. McKASW. Sept 21-8? Droggist, 8o?tar, &. C. ?5* ? . 3 GROCERIES. TBE ONLY STRICTLY Grocery and Liquor House IN TOWN rpH E U N D E RSI G>N B D. bega leave to J_ csH the attention of kb friends ' ead the public generally to bl* NEW AND WELL SELECTED . STOCK OF Heavy amiFancy tooeries Wbieb be offers low for CASH ONLY.*' ^B- All articles warranted as recommend? IfS" Pare Medicinal Liquors kept; constan on band. J. H. EBERHART. April IS_tf_ J. 5. ASHER A CO., Of MMMM Of *?? BBUUM DI . HARDWARE, CUTLERY"; BONS. BAR IR9N. STEEL, AND Agricultural Implements, J. B. Adger, A. McD. Brown, E. D. Robinson, G. H Moffatt, J. Adger Stnyta, E. A. Smyth. [ Feb 8-_gm ANDREW fficCOBB, Jr. COMMISSION MERCHANT, AND DEALER IN LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, And other Building Materiel. -ALSO LAND PLASTER AND HAY. 217 BAST BAY, CHARLESTON, SO. CA. Feb 8-3m} Opposite New Custom House. Henry Bischoff & Co., WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND DEALERS IN WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS TOBACCO, 4e. 197 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. _Feb 8_gm Kinsman Sf Howe//, Factors and Commission Merchants. Liberal Advances made on Cotton and Naval Stores. 13? Mos Ung Street, and g2 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Charleston, S. C. Feb 8 WOFFORD COLLEGE. 81* A OT1?HH) Bel C H., SO. CA. FACULTY* REV. A. M. SHIPF, D. B.. President aad Professor Mootai and Moral Sci?Dee. DAVID DUNCAN, A. M., Professor Ancient Languages and Li tera tore. REV. WHITEFOORD SMITH, D.D., Professor English Literature. WARREN DU PRK, A. M,, Professor Natara! Science. JAS. H. CARLISLE, A. ?L, Professor Math*, mettes. REV. A. H. LESTER, A. at., Professor History ead Biblical JMmfrm Tbe Preparatory Schcol, under the immediata supervision of the Faculty, Jao. W. 8HIPP, A. M., Principal. Divinity School-Rev, A. M. Sbipp, D. D Rev. Whitefoord Smith, D. D. Ref. A. E Lester, A. M. Tbe first Session of tbe Seventeenth Collegiate Year begin* on the first Monday ia. October, 1870, tbe aaceud Seasiearbegin? on the $rtt Mon. day in Jan nary, utfl. The course of stadias aad tba standard of scholarship remain unchanged, bet the Fa* td ty now admit irregular students or those who wish to pursue particular studies eely. The Schools also open at tbe aame tim?. Tnition per year, in Cottage Classes, including contingent fee, $S4 inCotreacy. Tuition per y ev, in Preparatory Sebeo], iaclue iog eoatiegeete?eT$44{o<afTeaey^ B il I s payable one half ia ad vaaoe. Board, pc? Montb, from $10 to $IS ia currency. For farther particulars rddraac A. M. SHIPP, Pr?sid?e!. Sept 19_ ly Pacific Guano Company's (CAPITAL $1,000,000.) Soluble Fftdfic Guano. THIS GUANO LS NOW SO WELL KNOWN in all the Southern Salsea for ita remarkable effects as* ea agency fer i acre? aaa?; tb? prod acta of labor, as not tn require special reeo m men illa? tion from os. Its OM for Iv? years pest hw es? tablisbed itscharsrterforTeliable exeeReuee. The I larg? fixed capital invested by the Company ie tais trade, stbfds the surest guarantee of the I continued excel!?ac??f iU Oaaao. 1 ' J. *. ROBSON. Selling Agent, Charles toe, S. C. JNO. 8. REESE A CO, General Agents BeWeyore. January 4_ ... . $? FOR COH^C^TTJtff WTTH COTTON SEED. HA VS YOU HEARD ? "Have joa heard that scandalous Story about Judge Courtenay's youngest daughter ?" "No 1" quietly replied Miss Rose, to whom the question was addressed. "I am very fortunate io that respect. No? body ever tells me scandalous stories." Mrs. Bush, the first speaker, looked jost a little "taken back." Miss Rose I wa J not one of those people who are always sueding on their dignity. Nev i eriheiess, ahe could be very dignified if she chose. ?What story f asked Mrs. Holly. "1 thought the Cou rte nays were very fax above acaudal." "O dear nie !" said Mrs. Bush, de? lighted to have found a listener, "they wont hold their heads quite so high hereafter. I understand Judge Courte? nay is quite overwhelmed, and says he will never appear in court again, and her siajera are broken-hearted. No wonder, poor things !-though, after all, nobody can blame them." "But what is the storj ?" persisted Mfa. Holly. "I haven't heard any? thing." "Well, I do wonder at that. It is all over town !" And Mrs. Bush proceed? ed to relate a terrible tale of sin and shame; certainly enough, if it were true, to destroy any girl's fair fame for? ever. "I don't believe one single word of it," said Miss Rose. "Ob, but, my dear, I assure you it is all true. Brerbody knows it. They took her away off to California; but the matter leaked out, as such things will, your know, and now it is perfectly no? torious." "I don't believe one word oflt !" re? peated Miss Rose. "Mabel Courtenay is as respectable and -good a girl as ever lived, and very aimableand kind heart? ed beside. I will never believe such a tale, without better evidence than 'they say.''' "I agree with you, Blanche," said Ure. John Barnaby. "I don't believe one word of it !" "Ob, well, of course you can do as you please about believing it," said Mrs. Bush, considerably offended. "J know it is so. Why, it is perfectly no? torious, as I said." "It is a great pity if it ts true," re? marked Mrs. Holly. "Such a scandal in such a good, religious, respectable family. The Courtenays are all members of our Church." "Unfortunately, the fact that people are members of our church does not make them all right," said Mrs. Bush, contemptuously. "Perhaps it ought to do something toward preventing us, tbeir fellow* church-members, from publishing abroad their faults," said Miss Rose, mildly. "Why, there is Mrs. Pease-the doctorV wife, you know"-continued Mrs. Bush, disregarding the interrup? tion. "She comes to the commuuioo as regularly as the communion Sunday comes, and is forward in the Sunday school and all sorts of things ; and yet every one knows bow shamefully extra? vagant she is, and how negligent of her family. Why, jon know that illness she had last spring, when she waa con? fined to her bed so long and saw nobody; well, to my certain knowledge, all the time that they pretended she wu con. fined to ber bed she waa shut up in the insane asylum, to keep her out of worse places. "In tho insane asylum !" repeated Dulice Barnaby and Miss Rose in a breath, and in tones of the utmost amazement. "Yea, in the insane asylum ; and, af? ter all, she goes on in just the same way, only woree." "And yoe pretend to say fiat you knew thia from your own information ?" ?aid Miss Rose. "Yea-that ia-no, not exactly. You know, Mr. Pease ia connected with our famrly. His sister married a "Bush, and they are related to us through the Roots; and Mrs. Bush's washwoman told Mrs. Root. That is eemiog pretty straight, yon see." "Very straight !" said Dulice Barna? by, not taking much pains to conceal her contempt. "Nevertheless, Mrs. Bush, the story is false from beginning to end. There were not three days certainly not one week-from the be ginning of Mrs. Pease's illness to the ead of it, that Blanche Rose or myself i ?ere not with her a part of the day. I j might safely say that one or the other of os ssw her every tibor day during the whole tiste of her sickness. She suffered dreadfully moat of the time, and certainly I never saw any human being more gentle and patient than sh' waa. Dr. Wilson san tell you the same, for he visited the house very constantly." "Weil, I declare, one never knows what to believe ! Why, I have heard that s tory over and over again. Haven't yon, Mn. Holly ?" "I sever beard it from anybody but yon," re'.urned Mrs. Holly somewhat sharply; "and I never repeated it eith? er. Eves if assb stories sire true, I serer sata sw the sss is spreading them." "Bat I beard this oe such good an? thority, I never thought of doubting it," said Mrs. Bosh, a little abashed. "An? any bow, Mrs, Banaby, jos nsit rtUow that Mn. Pease ic a very odd wo ?**/' ' "?he ie very odd ia ose thing," re turned Mrs. Barnaby. "She talks a great deal ; and I sever heard ber ' say as unkind word or tell a slanderous ?tory of any honan being." IM?"? sot make. sar out quite, s taint," said Mn. Boah, laughing rather uneasily. "Ian s wis? glad the- story is sot true, though ? fear she- has gires too sseVesoaeio* ferriaader. Bot ibtro ca?Ml*i?lH Cosrttsaj, Story ooo stowe that!" "I beg your pardoo, Mrs. Bash, cv one ?oes not know it," said Mac Wentworth, who had not before spot '.The story about Mabel Courtenay jost aa true as all the rest of it. I h pen to koow of my owo knowledge t it is utterly aod entirely false. fi Coartoay has not dooe ooe thiog io matter which her most intimate frii would disapprove. I would advise ; to be a little careful what you say ab the affair, as Judge Courtenay is the mao to sit dowo tamely u ider s< an injury. You would fee! rather comfortable to fiod yourself prosecu for slander." Mrs. Weotworth was a very old la She was also a very rich aod fashio ble lady, aod a persoo of great Wei] aod influence io the community wh she lived. She did oot ofteo go i society, and it bad oot beeo without design that she had come with graodoice, Mrs. Baroaby, to the gath iog at Mrs. Flower's, Mrs. Bush loot a good deal alarmed. "I am sure I only repeated what beard," she stammered ; "and I hearc on such good authority. Are you si that it is not true, Madam Weotworth "As sure as lean be of anything aod Madam Weotworth proceeded give her proofs, which were perfec satisfactory. "Well, to be sure. Poor girl ! h she must fee!. But theo the story 1 beeo io every one's mouth, and one naturally repeats what one hears." "Does ooe ? I don't know about tha said Dnliee. "Do you think it right, Mrs. Bu; to repeat what ooe hears to the dis: vantage ot another, without knowi anything more of the matter ?" ask Madam Wentworth, mildly. "Well, I don't know. Every o does." "Every one don't, I am happy to saj interrupted Blanche Rose. "Suppose every one does, does th make it right?" asked the old lad "We are not to follow, a multitude do evil, and what every ooe does is o the rule for Christians. Make the ca your owo, Mrs. Bush. Would you iii to have any ooe repeat a scandalous ta of yourself or your husband, on no be ter authority than 'they say' ?" "I don't give any occasion for scar dal, I hope," said Mrs. Bush. "No more did poor Mabel. I ha' been listeoiog to the conversation < this afternoon," continued the old lad with gentle dignity, "and I must tav have been both surprised and grieve .at what I have heard. I heard aa em nent orator mentioned, aod forth wi some ooe declares that he is a very ii moral mao. He may be, for aught know, though I do oot believe it; li I cannot, for the life of me, see ho moral aod virtuous ladies can possib bo ?ure it," said Auot Wentworth, wit a slight smile. "But suppose it ha beeo your own husband, Mrs. Bush could you have been pleased to hav such a remark made about him?" Mrs. Bush was silent, but Mrs. liol ly said "nobody likes such things whe it comes to their owo turn." "Exactly so, my dear ; aud that is very good argument on my side; fr what ye would that men should do t you, do ye eveo so to them,' isa rule c the highest possible authority ; and b the same authority we are told that a we mete to others so we sharll be mea sured again. Moreover, we know tha the sin of lying is one of all thiug abominable to the Lord, inasmuch aa w are told that 'there shall in nowise en? ter into the holy city aoy one tha loveth ormakcth a lie.'" "I will thank you not to accuse m of lying," said Mrs. Bush, angrily. u have told nothing but what I heard ot very good authority." "Yet you see you repeated what wa false in both cases. You did not knov that the stories were false, you say but then you did not know they wen trae; aod yet you helped to give cur? ranoy to them. Was that right ? Tel me honestly, my dear, if you had beet thc individual talked about, would yoi oot have thought the person who pro? pagated tue slander almost as bad as th? ooe who ioveoted it ?" Mrs. Bush was silent. "I cao't see the use cf repeating scandalous stories, even if they arc true," said little Mrs Flower. "Sup? pose it is all so, what is the use ol spreading the s'ory any further ? It ii bad enough as it is. I remember thc answer my mother once made to a lady about that. Mamma was at Newport wheo there was a terrible fuss about Mrs. Wall-you will remember her, Mrs. Holly-she really was imprudent, though I don't know that she meant any harm. Well, after we came home, we were out somewhere, and Mrs Wall's case was brought up. 'Here is Mrs Champion,' said some ooe ; 'she was there ?jd can tell all about it. Was it really as bad as they say ?' 'My dear,' said mamma-you know she always spoke tbs plain language, a*|Frtends say, ray dear, thee knows that whatever we do, we are cm ma nd ed to do all to the glory of God. Now if thee can tell mo any way in which thc Glory of God will be promoted thereby, I will tell thee ail I koow about the matter.' There wat no more said about Mrs. Wall that day, I eeo tell you !" "No, 1 date say not. Now just sup? pose that role bad been followed io the caso before us. Suppose the first per? son who beard the scandalous tale had confined it to his or her own breast for, \o tell the truth, I believe that mea have had quite as much to do as woman in the matter-but suppose that he had let the tale,fas we say, ge in at one ear and emt ti the other, now much misery and distress would have been saved td an excellent family, and how mach shame anti pain to those who have help ed to spread the tale." "People are so reckless about such things/ iaid Mrs. Barnaby. "Howof tea ooc hears ic said of a young mao, 'Oh, I he drinks,' or, 'Oh, he is a very licen? tious,' when the one making the remark h.is no: the least personal knowledge in the matter. For my part, I think it is a good rule not to talk about people at : all, un.ess one can say some good of them.' 'It ls, indeed, and perhaps it is even a better one not to talk of people at all." "But one must talk of something-, you know," said Mrs. Holly, in rather a subdued tone. "What, with the whole universe of j nature and grace, the coming elections and the French war, not to mention the changes in the fashions and the new patterns for work, don't you think, my dear, one might find subjects of conver? sation ?" asked Mrs. Wentwoith, smi? ling. "Well, perhaps so, but-however, I am not going to justify myself," said Mrs. Holly, frankly. "Ibelieve you are right, Mrs. Wentworth, and that I have been wrong io talking about people as much as I have. I could not help thinking just now, when Mrs. Flower was telling us of her mother"-added Mrs Holly, lowering her voice-"I could not help thinking, if the Lord Jesus had been in the midst of us this afternoon, what Ile would have thought of our conversation. We are all His professed disciples, every one ot us, I believe ; but I am afraid He would have been ashamed of us, if He had been here.", "lt is well put," said Madam Went? worth, solemnly; "and since we are* as? sured that He is with his His disciples to the end of the world, and since it is, or should be, the constant prayer of all Christians, that they may so realize His promises as to be one with Him, or as the Apostle more strongly put it, 'Mem? bers of His body, of His flesh, and of His blood,' it behooves us to live always as in His sight. Shall we take the members of Christ and make them the members of an evil speaker, liar, or slanderer ? God forbid !" L. E. G. LIFE ASSURANCE The recant failures of two life com? panies in New York-the "Great West? ern Mutual Life" and the "Farmers' and Mechanics' Life"-have attracted much publ c attention. These failures do not surprise reflecta ing insurance men. The organization of new companies in that city has been of late years at the rate of more than one every two months, no less than nine having been organized in 1370. Too many of these enterprises were started as private speculations, with little or no regard to public utility. The special end and aim was to furnish official posici?n and salaries to men, too often over ambitious, frequently incompetent, and sometimes dishonest. The, in some respects, excellent article you copied a few days since from the "Baltimore Sun," ic in error in plying that the "Great Western" was L ,e of the "youngest, smallest, sod least successful of its class." It was organized iu 1365. There are nearly thirty Com? panies in New York its "Juniors." At the eud of 13G9 only one of its compeers had outstripped it io the race for busi? ness, and it had passed by several of its "Seniors." We do not believe that any of its three thousand policy holders think it was too small Neither its youth, size, not even competition (of necessity,) had aught to do with its failure; some of its "Juniors" are re? markably successful, and are conducting their business on sound principles. The failure ol the "Great Western" was owing to the iHrompetewy of its of? ficials. There does not seem to have been any fraud ou their part. Its tables allowed a loading of 30 per cent, on net premiums for expense of management. In 1869 itexpeuded 50 per cent, of io come on this account, and paid OL death claims only ll Jr percent, of income, being ?ess thao was paid by the "Mutual Lite," of Near York, and 6 percent, less ttaa was paid by the "Equitable" on same account, and 4 per cent, less than the average of Companies of its own age. An.ong its assets 38 per cent, is report? ed as due from agents, and nearly the same proportion is represented by '-premium notes" and "loans on policies.' Among its liabilities $60,000 are report? ed as "due to agents on account of com? missions." Wc have given these details in arder to show that its failure waa not the result of excess of mortality but was owing to mismanagement-mismanage? ment of such a kind that tho merest tyio in business might have avoided. The failure of the "Farmers' and Mechanics" ?as owing to fraud from beginning to end. Thc Superintendent of Insurance says "that a large number of false or fictitious entries aere made of policies that were never issued nor ev 30 applied for. The expenses of the Company from the first were enormously large and entirely disproportionate to th-; business done." In fifteen months $68,000 were ex? pended for advertising, printing and stationary. Salories sud commissions allowed officers and agents were on a scale tbat .no young Compaoy could stand. The New York Underwriter, for De? cember, says : "We have other Companies which, as respects available means for reinsuring their policies, are no more solvent than the "Great Western," and suggests "that all such, 'paper item' Companiea set their houses in order, and henceforth bc. prepared with as much 'realized assets w ;11 in hand, aa shall be equal to the reinsurance liability." ?Je venture to add that among them the editor would include nome of the "etd and large" companies, the writer of the article in the "Baltimore Sun" to the contrary notwithstanding. We think tbe article from the "Balti? more Sun tends to an unfair discrimi? nation ia favor of old as against new companies. As far as unhealthily in? crease of business is in question, the sin is not coufincd to the doings of the young companies. Old companies have some advantage*, it is true, but they do not monopolize them. They have large amounts of assets, but they have corresponding lia? bilities. They hare large incomes from interest, but the larger portion of it belongs, and is returned to, the older members in dividends, and is not paid in settlement of claims by death ns the statements of some agents would imply. They have experience, but officers o: young companies have abundant data within reach to guide them in a safe discharge of tleir duties. Young companies have a great ad vantage iu the rate of mortality of members, as compared with old com? panies. The losses of the old business as compared with new was, therefore, nearly eight times as great. It must bc borne in mind, too, that much of the "old business" referred to above was secured within the last few years. The College of Actuaries, of England, after careful investigation on this point state that the advantage of a careful selection of lives lasts perceptibly for ten years In 1869 one of the largest and most successful Companies in New York lost by death IS per cent, more of income than a young Company that cannot claim to be more prudent. This increase of mortality in old Companies docs not argue weakness. They have made cor responding accumulations to meet these losses. The smaller ratio of mortality in young companies, gives time for ac? cumulation and eounter balances their larger tatio of expenses. The only jost test of cost of insurance, other tbiogs being equal, is the per cen tage of premium income paid out for losses and expenses. Prudent and well managed young companies do not ex? pend on these accounts a larger per centage of said income, if as large, as old companies, and, therefore, furnish as cheap insurance as the old, if not cheaper. j Wc do not agree with the "Baltimore Son" in sayiog that "disastrous irrcgu* laxities" may be avoided in New York through the Insurance Department. We may differ as to the meaning of terms, bat we think the failure of a Company claiming to have more than half a million of assets, not one-fourth of which can be realized, thus disap? pointing and causing loss to three thousand policy-holders, is quite a "dis astrous irregularity." This it failed to prevent. We do not doubt that these failures are very unpleasant things to I those who have proclaimed the "icfalli I bilify" of this department. Some New I York Companies, and their agents, have ; claimed that this State supervision gave "absolute protection" to persons insuring I in New YorkCompanies,. This al! pre? supposes that the Superintendent will j always be honest and sufficiently otn oicient to detect any untruthful or in? correct statements made by a company, located one hundred miles or more from Albany. Nay, more, even these good qualities could only detect not present irregularities. A trust must, therefore be reposed, and we suggest to those desirous of making investments in life policies to seek companies whose officers and managers they know to be men of ability and integrity. This is thc best security against "irregularities." [From the New York Tribune of M o nil* v.] THE TRIBUNE ON BIGAMY. "Tine Wron* H*veu for Bowen." It appears that one oi our illustrious legislators, at Washington, is persecu? ted on account of alleged bigamous prac? tices. Wc say alleged, because he ap? pears to be on trial, or giving bail to appear, or waiting a verdict most of the time, so that the little modicum of the work he can give to his seat in the House seems hardly worth while ; but nothing definite ever comes of it. Af? ter a protracted turn in bigamy proceed? ings, and an eclipse by reason of the shadow cast upou his brightness by the many women interested in his lovely carcer, Bowen, M. C., emerges, puts on a fresh shirt collar, and takes his seat io the House of Representatives as se? rene as if he were not the prize of con? tending beaoties, the male Helen of a Homeric campaign. "Here I am," says Bowen to himself, when he is left to himself, and sits in the hall of wisdom among his mooogamus peers : "here 1 am, and I wonder who will come after me next." Bowen is cot to blame for being attractive ; he was bim so. But we question if he is not too attractive for a member cf Congress. The Boase ia a tolerably conspicuous place. Bowen cannot cit io his seat without being the target of a hundred female eyes, half ol which may be eyes that have looked on him before and longed to have him for their owo Boweo ; nay, might not! Bowen rise any day to a question ot privilege, and, laying his band on his waistcoat, look op to the gallery and ; rey, I have a feeling, Mr. speaker, that t am married, more or less to half that gallery, and I should like to have it j cleared." Such ? ann as Bowen draws1 too many visitors to the gallery There i must bc ?orne other sphere of life in j which his attraction would interfere lesa with the publie welfare. Wt are not aeekiog, by mentioning; thia mitigating circa tn taoce of this fascination to defend Mr. B wen in bigamy, it ba hat committed it, or even ; to polygamy, if ft? hu attempted to prac- i tice that, wit hoot its accompany^ religion. tor we have no opinion of an VSTviigioaa bigamist Or polygamist; but! JOB WORK O F EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF The Sumter Watchman, -IN THE Highest Style of the Art. what we desire to inquire! , if Mr. R-jwea was a bigamist, why should we desi?? to be a member of Congress also ? It* he had led a life that would render his old age liable to suits by various women for th 2 possession ot his temporal frame, what the world recognizes as the out? ward, and visible Rowen, why should he set in to such a conspicuous place for the exhibition of Iiis penitence as the House of Representatives'' Did he imagine that it is a kind of pillar of St. Simon ? Wc should, however, bc disposed to leave Bowen, R. (?., to the law and Rowen, M. C., to legislation j but lie appears now i;i a new character, to which our attention is called. The present Mrs. Rowen writes to the newspapers in deprecation of the persecution of her hu baud, who is des? cribed as thoroughly repentant of the past, and, let us hope, anxious about the future. "Ile had been an orphan boy without relations or friends, had drifted into the company of gamblers and pros? titutes, and had lived their life until it pleased the good God to lift him from the mire, arid stir within him the spirit of reformation aud purification." It is no discredit to a perron ta be an orphan, unless it is by his own fault, like the un? fortunate Frenchman who murdered his father and mother, and theo pleaded orphanage in mitigation of his sentence ; but there is nothing in tuc coustitutica of our couniry encouraging oue tobe an orphan, a bigamist. and a member of Congress at thc same time. We aro in? formed, also, that when he last married, it was with a firm resolve to lead a tem? perate, studious aud honorable life. Tor months he has adhered to this resolution, we also rea I, am! yet he continues to be persecuted by prosecutions, just as if he had not repented. We exceedingly regret that Mr. Bowen had a bad start iu thc world, and that he has until lately led a disgraceful life ; nnd we rejoice that he is resolved upon reformation-even if, we were about to say, it costs him half his wives. Rut we remember that it is the plurality of wives that is thc very thing in question We sincerely deprecate persecution of oue repentant. In all kindness, we should say, Go, Rowen, and sin no more. Rut don't go to Congress. Sit down in some in? conspicuous place for a while, and grow in grace and iu the knowledge of mono? gamy, before you appear upon a large stage of action and fiauut your peni? tence. It is a credit to you that you have left the "company of gamblers aod prostitutes," but it is no recommenda? tion to Congress that you were in that company so recently. Really, Con? gress is not a house of refuge, nor a reform school, nor a Magdalen asylum for men-however much it may have that appearance at times. Let us not get confused. It is still, even in this world of complex relations and natural selections, better had mar? ried one woman at a time, than to have married four simultaueossly, and to have repented of three of the marriages. An outraged Jaw will exact its penalty one way or another, and no penitence can altogether stay it. This is an era of rather soft sympathy for criminals, and we never feel like rebuking it when the criminal is modest and is anx? ious to make neither his sins nor his tecantation too conspicuous. We must try, however, to preserve a place in the House of Representatives for those of unassuming virtues. Ail cannot have the advantages of Rowen for making a record so bad that penitence over it will bc a recommendation to Congres* Rowen may say, and he doubtless does, and has a right to console himself with it, that there is more joy in Heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety and niue that never went astray. Rut Congress is not Heaven. And wc can say to Mr Rowen, in the present complication of hts affairs, as Sergant Ruzfuz said to Mr. Pickwick, "it would have been more decent in him, more bec ?ming, in bettor judgement, and in better taste, it he had stopped away." TOO POOH. Moore, of the linraJ A?ie Yorker was sitting in his office one at ti moon some years age, when a larmer friend came in and said : "Mr. Moore. I like your paper but ti tu es arc so hard I cannot paj I or it. "Is that so, friend Jones ? I am very sorry to hear that you are so poor; if you are so hard run I will give you tuv pa? per." "Oh, no! I can't take it ns a gift." "Well, then, let's sec how weean Bx it. You raise chickens, I believe." l'Yes, a few, but they dou't bri.ig anything, hardly." "Don't they? Neither does my paper cost anything, hardly. Now 1 have a proposition to make to you Tw?i con? tinue your paper, and w hen you go home you may select from your lot one chick en and cull her minc. Take good caro of her aud bring mc tue proceeds, w'ether in eggs or chickens, and wc will call it square." "Ai! right, brother Moore,'" and tito old tellow chuckled at what he thought a capital bargain He kepr the contract, s'ricrly, and at thc end ?frite year found that he had patti about font prices for his paper. He often tells, the joke eu hiuisclt, and says he ncv> r has had the face to say he was too r"-?r to take a paper since that day."-Mudd Firmer. - CORNED Y-F.T.r.-TtlC Scientific American informs thc ladte? that if ti.ev would have corned beef j "icy after it is cold, and not as dry as a chip, th?y should put it info boiling water when they put it on to cook, and ?hey should not take it out of thc pot v. hen done, antii cold. A Colored barber in Iowa I? i >g S;;b poened to serve as a juror, was, on ii:-* usual examination, asked "are y<?t i voter ?" and brought down the r??u<'? by answering. ' tVe black coonah, hoi ?Mt cld.cao.L'h."