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I ?k faite jfat?im _ YOL XXII WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1871._ NO. 6. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, iSoRALITF AND GENERA ^INTELLIGENCE. [The Sumter Watchman. (ESTABLISHED IN 1353.) IS PUBLISHED ./KUY WEDNESDAY CORNING AT SUMTER. S. C., BY SILBERT & FLOWERS, j Terms. , jear.00 j month:'.~. 1 ?0 j ? Three mouths.> 1 00 j ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at tbe rate! [f ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per j quare for tho first, ONE DOLLAR lor tbe;' econJ, ?nd FIFTY CENTS for each jubeequent j fcsertiou, for any poriod less tban three months OBITUARIES, TRIBUTES OF RESPECT i ?nd ail co:mnunicntioii> which subrerve private I p teres ts, will bc paid lor ?is advertisements. I [From the Fredonia Censor, Jane 7.] ^Secretary Seward's Tour. Xjateresting Letter from Om-of the Ladles Accompanying Him-Reception of thc Party at PalteaUa. By our request Mr. H. A. Risley, 'nowa resident of this village, has per? mitted us to publish the following por? tion of a letter written him from India by his daught , Miss Hattie, one of the party aecouipr.nying Hon. William H. ISewardon his journey around the world, f "We are pleased to learn from Mr Risley I that his eldest daughter. Olive F. Risley, ' who has beeu adopted as a daug ter by ! Mr. Seward, and is now known as Olive [Risley Seward, is keeping a full and complete journal of the travels and; doings of the party on their extended ^journey, with a view of giving it to the public on their return to this country : ALLAHABAD, April 4, 1871-Wc have got back to this place, after having j w the most delightful trio one ever ?ti imagined. I wrote you last from Delhi, ! p and told you what we had seen up to!s that time; but the pleasantest part of * our journey came afterwards, at Pat-! c toalla. After leaving Delhi, we went | ii to the Commission's, at Umballa, where jw we were to rest a day before going to i h Patteaila. While there, we received a j e ?written invitation, both in Persian an ! ;i 'English, put into a silk envelope cm Ibroidered with gold; and hanging from the cord which tied it was a seal as ; >i large and thick as thc palm of my band, j tl The City of Patteaila was thirty-four ! t< miles from the place where wc were li staying, so the next day the Mahara j h .' tl sent four carriages Hued with Mue velvet j w and four horses each. The Commis-1o stoner sent a Captain Horseford, who ?ti could spc k Hindostanee, to interpret 13 for us. and when halfway there we cu ure j e to a little encampment where we choaged j w horses, and refreshments were prepared w for us. When within a mile of the wall ! III , of the city the Maharajah, according to ' fr Orients! custom, came in a very lund- i I] some eoaeb and lour, driven by pcs??!-jd? lions, to meet us. lie took Mr. Seward in with him, and we soon found our? selves surrounded by crowd* of soldier*, mounted and on foot, and processions.]" calcium lights, and hands of music, be- j ', fides ctnnon booming and a great ex-! Icitctuent generally. On reaching the j city gate there were TWENTY FOUR ELEPHANTS standing in line, magnificently oma- j Hmented with housings td gold cloth and ', ?ar riu?p< that came to th--ir feet. We' were invited to change from the carriage ki to ride on one of them; soire moatlted ai byelimbing a silver ladder into a houdah, 1 A which was rea!!} made of gold aud silver, ai Sud CUsllOUCd wit!: Vcd Velvet. Olive |r Bud I sat i:; it together, and rol > three xi tuiles through this thoroughly Kastern -> city, lighted by torches, to a beautiful w palace which the Maharajah has ou (lt )urpose for Kuropcau guests. He said h; vhen he lcd Mr Seward into it, "This ]:; s yours," and there he left us in thi> lu jeautilu! palace, surrounded by a lorely el lower-garden, trees, ?c. Thc inside m iras furnished exquisitely, and the food w icrved ufa franraixe. Wc were lulled ... ;o sleep by the falling water of the ?et grains, and awakened by the sweet pi iots%ot the birds. Before going further, A ! will inform )ou that thc Oriental ?le DOMj'iito is much larger aad Suer than ' w ny iu thc West- and <juitc as ravenous w .'he next morning we drove about the si ity, a native city, very poor and dir v. nt s all of them are. I have learned that lu his* Maharajah (which means great ca ing) has always been very friendly tu in be English, aud for this reason li? v< state, Patteaila, has been left to him, V iud is entirely r.nder his own control as ti. Ong as he continues ou the side of thc fu Cui.'ii>h During all the mutinies, he P nd his lathers have assisted in subduing he rebels, aud lor this reason he has ie eu kuighted, and given the Star nf ndia by the Queen ol England, through bc Viceroy, and he was at calcutta rhile we were there, for this purpose, >l Ut we were too late to sec thc installa- s.? ?on. Patteaila is a little kingdom, ot J"0 rh ich there arc several in 1 od ia, and VtJ be Maharajah taxes his subjects so eavily that his income is something . ibulous. lbs palaces and gardens*'*,1 impare with anything handsome in the ' ' Drld, while every one ot his people is akiogjust enough to live. He speaks uj: oglish, aud his ministers arc intelli- ca ?nt men. He thinks of going tu a,< merica some time. After driving j "e >out that morning, we went back to tc. jr palace, and the Maharajah called j,n pou Mr Seward, after which wc wc:it ^ to a building, or on top of it, to tee j AN ELEPHANT FIGUT, ' . ev hieb did not please us, although it p;] as something we shail never have au ?"v )poriunity to see again. The Malia- , t|, jah was dressed in pure white trousers an Dd sash, and a spotless turbau covered Sfl '?th pearls. He had a lovely pearl au-i tj, werald necklace on, and his ministers ?" nd attendants were all dressed in itu- : ,j, laculate costume, which is the prettiest ?t ress i J the world. After the tight his Sp icclleucy drove away, and tor four, ours we were .mused by native musi- |ea aus, gymnasts, the court fool, trained ?aD rds, and fifty of the Maharajah's show ca irse?. Wheo he bears of afiue horse for p? le he always buys it, aod pays the] jg ghest possible price. Some of these j tD ?re very handsome, and gave us great j_ easure. In the afternoon be held a pg lurbar," or reception for us, so at five j w] the afternoon we went to his palace, i n( ld he came half way down the court to ; OD cet us, takiog Mr. Seward by oue j vc iud ar.d Olive by the other, and led us : De ito a hali of dazzling beauty up to some | ch >ld chairs which were placed side by ! de, and we sat down and began to talk. ! roseotly a band of music and dancing j or iris came in, dressed prettily, and sang ; ar id danced for a few minutes. After ! "i lat all his ministers were introduced ' cii I Mr. Seward. They came forward and 1M nade a ''salaam," rvhich is a low, gra< ul bow, and at the same time touchi he forehead with the band. After tl ?bawls and jewels, pieces of silk, a nany other things were placed befe is, out of which the Maharajah took Cinkob turban of great beauty, a ?resented it to Mr. Seward?, acd a caa acre tdjtagj?ttpd r.avQ-Qfc&fyi me ea? me. .^rlT^^<k;.n?iug him and beii ireseutW "to the heir apparent, a bal >f Hi ree years, we took our departur 0 return in* the evening to see th oom lighted. The ceiling was coi detely hung with chandeliers, and whi vc returned the room contained| 2,0( ights, which had crimson shades ai ast the most becomiug hue on ever ody nod everything. The room gii ened so that it looked like one gre ?acicnd. The Maharajah changed h carls for diamonds, and there were THIRTY-SIX riAMONDS ringing his turban that were as larg :ithout exaggeration, as the end of rc ngers, or as large ?.s two good size eas, and a necklace the same. Il bowed us his coat, the one I describe eeiog him wear at the conceit at Ca utta. I had it io my hands, and \ ?ld me it cost 25,000 rupees, whic ould be ?12.000, and three others ? andsome, a black velvet; one embroh red with pearls which was exquisit nd his shield and sword covered wit recious stones. He gave Mr. SewaT picture of himself, just like the one .?ut you, and said ever so many polit tings, ani^we left him. We returnc ) our place on elephants in thc moon glit, each ot us ou a separate one, an 1 ree abreast. We thought aod sai hat a funny picture it would be fo ur friends at home, and the Maharaja! ??ed to get a photoptapher so that w light have our pictures taken. Tba retiing, after dinner, they had fire orks in front of thc palace for au hom h ich wore very pretty, and the nex turning we 'rove back to Umballa. >rgot to mention that all this time thi [?malayas were in sight. Thc nex ay we ascended the mountain. ONE OF THE HIMALAYAS, here we saw snow, and had a most de ghtful day of it. I rode a pony up id we were all brought down by met i '-juntous." Do yon not think wc har. nice time? 1 have enjoyed ?"t so much id regret that it is over. Wc lcav< ere to-ni^ht for Jagglepore, thence tc onibay, and lrotu there up the Persiat ulfwith Admiral Cockburue, on Iii: oglis?. mau-ofwar. I wonder whai randfather Crosby would say could he now his grandchildren were sailing -ound thc world under the British flag ! s far as I am personally concerned I :i not anxious togo. I have seen the .st part of the Hast, and am very an ous to ?ret into Europe. The excur on un the Gulf will take four ot five eeks, which will bring us into Syria iring hot weather, and I thiul we ive had enough of it here, and.as we ive been coming south wc foaud it itter and better. Here thc house is oscd tight all day, and punka'is are oving in every room, besides a fort of heel or machine that goes very fa>t and akes a breeze in thc room. People do erything to keep cool, it would sur .i>e you to hear me talk Hiudoos'atice. s tiie servants are all Datives, wo must am the names of necessaries, bread, ater, etc., and I have picked up many ord- which are very useful. I don't ip;>o>.>, from thc calculation we make >w, that we can get to Constantinople .fore the last of June, but after that we ti hear from voa often. We are stay, g again with that nice family 1 wrote "i about, Sir William Moore's The iceory arrived todayyand the house is led with al! tho swells in India. More ?s is made over him than over the reside . at home. TO .TI IKK MISCHIEF. Keep your eye on your neighbors, ike care of thom Do not let them ir without watching. They may do rat-thing wroug if you do. Tobe sure m never knew thom to do anything .ry had, but it may boon your account ey have not. Perhaps if it had not en for your kind care they might have sg ra ced themselves a long time ago, 11 ' re fore do not relax any effort to keep ctn where they ought to be. Xever ind your own business-that will take re of ?'self. There is aman passing .mg-he is looking over the fence suspicious ot him; perhaps he con mplates stealing, some of these dark ghts, there is no kuowing what queer ocies he may have got into his head. If you find any' symptoms of any one issinj; out of the pat!? of duty, tell ery one else what you see, and be irticular to see a great many. It is a >ud way to circulate such things, cugh it may not benefit yourself or iy one else particularly. Do keep tncthing going-silence is a dreadful ins, though it is said there was silence heaven for thc space of half an hour, > not let any such tiling occur on earth ; would bc too much for this mundane here. If, after ail your watchful care, you un ot see anything out of the way in iv one, you may be sure it is not bo? use they have not done anything bad; irhaps io an unguarded momeot you st sight of them-throw out hints that ey are no better than they should be that you should not wonder if the opie found out what they were after a nile, then they may not carry their .ads so high. Keep it going, and some ie may take the hint and begin to help ?u along after a while-then there will i musio and everything will work to a arm._ - Usquebaugh means "water of life," cau-de vie. The first two syllables e properly nitge, meaning literally rater" in the Gaelic; and the premon? ition is precisely whi?cey.'-Jokn itchd. How to Make ?HT friends Happy. We sometimes find oar friends an* happy, and we begia to wish that they would not be so, and to no something to make them happy. Sometimes we ear? nestly exhort them to be happy, and even at times scold them for not being so. And I suppose that the most of as have observed that we have seldom got them happy by the use of such means, but that it has frequently happened that the more we have exhorted them and scolded them the more unhappy they have become. And yet we have sometimes, after such efforts and fail? ures, put on an air of sanctification with ourselves, and said to ourselves, if cot to others, "How unreasonable they are ! We have done all we could, all that rea? son or conscience required of us, to render them happy, but in vain. They and not we must bear the responsibility of their unhappiness." Sometimes when we proteas to desire to render them happy, we actually put ourselves to great pains to render them miserable. If we would pot ourselves to a little pains to find out the true way of making people happy, and then try to put into practice what we have learn? ed, it woo ld save our friends and us a great deal of trouble. How often have all the members of a fsmily been thrown into a state of peevishness and general ill humor by the want of a knowledge or the way to make our friends happy ! How often, on the other band, bas a threatened trouble been prevented, and a cheerful happiness been diffused throughout a large household by thc possession ar,d use of this knowledge ! We all profess to desire, and I be? lieve that the most of us do desire, to sec all with whom we associate happy aod cheerful. And I doubt not that the most people are ready to say that they earnestly desire to learn the art of mak? ing their frieD ' happy. I wish I were able to have tv., ?.he readers of the Gol? den Hours together so that I could talk with them. I would ask them if it wa? their wish to learn how to make their parents, their brothers and sisters, their school ?mates, and all others with whom they arc acquainted, happy. Not being able to have them before me and to ask them this question in person, I shall have to assume that they would like to come into the possession of this most valuable piece of knowledge, and pro? ceed to impart it to them just as if they had asked me for it. Sometimes men- who have made a dis covery of some valuable truth, or have prepared a remedy for some disease from which many people haye sickened and died, have been unwilling to im? part a knowledge of their discovery or of. their preparation without first requir? ing those to whom they impart it to pledge themselves to secrecy. I shall not exact a promise of secrecy from you, childreu, when I tell you the way to make one's friends happy, ?o far from desiring it to bc kept a secret, I shall not be offended if you tell it to all your kindred, your friends, aad acquain? tances. You may call it, if you wish, a prescription for making one's friends hapyy at a very little cost. Now, chil? dren, that presciption is this: Usc a little kindness. "Ab, is that all?" I fancy I hear some one say. Yes, that ir Ml ; but it is a great deal. I have seen ii tried with success so of? ten that I am perfectly certain there is nothing like it for rendering people happy. 1 am sure that exhorting and scolding people do not begin to compare with it, and as for laughing at them that has never succeeded-people are always ma le worse by it. I have seen kindness tried with old and young, with 1 rich and poor, with white and black, with wise and foolish ; I have seen it tried at home and a abroad, in the school room and on the play ground, in the church and in the stores and shopj, in the town and io the country; and I have seen it tried on Sundays and on , Mondays, ou ?holidays and on work? days, and at morning, and at coon, and , at night, and I have known it to fail to have a good effect. , I remember a ease tn which its good effects were so marked that I must re ' late it. A certain little boy named Jes- ' se had begun to exhibit marked sytnp toms of unhappiness, and waa suddenly ' cured of it, and was made as bright and cheerful as if he had been translated from a world of boyish trouble into an Eden of pleasure, by a little aet of kind Den which was dooe for him by his eldest brother. The facts are these :- ' Jesse had been to a carpenter-shop, ; and had there seen the carpenter at j werk, and bad returned home filled with the idea that if he could only have a * little carpenter shop of his own, in which he could keep his tools and do 1 work like a carpenter, such as sawing 1 planks and driving nails, he would not , need any thing more to make his life as blissful as the life ol a little boy 1 ought to be. He conceived the idea of ' building him a carpenter shop, and ac? cordingly he brought out his hammer, 1 and his saw, and his nails, tod all the ' pieces af plank that he had collected to? gether, and placed them on the ground in the back yard where bc expected to build bis shop. The jard fence, which WM a close plank-fence, was to form the back wall of the shop. Thc front of the shop, and one of thc sides aod thc roof he was to make with thc materials he had col? lected io thc jard. He went to work with great earnestness, digging holes io the ground for thc posts, aaa cawing his planks, and endeavoring to pot a kind of frame together. Bat his pro? gress was slow, aod from time to time he would rest aod look somowhat dis? couraged. But he would recommence his labors again with considerable ener gj after a/cw momeo ts. His difficulties, however, did oot diminish, bot increas? ed, and terora!times he was oo the point cf shedding tears as new diffiouU ties arose before him. At last he sat I down io a state of despair and began to cry over his troubles. Jost then his oldest brother came into the yard from school, and Jesse asked him, in a tone of distress, to help him make his shop. "I am too busy with my lesson," was his response. "But you are not learning your lesson just now ; please help me/' said the little boy, with tears in his eyes. With an air of impatience, the brother said : "iou arc always asking me to do something for you. I have something j el.-e to do." The mother of the boys looked from the porch where she was sitting, at thc one who had just spoken, and quietly asked him if he had ever been a little boy. He smiled, and said he supposed he had. She thea asked him to spare a few moments and try to make Jesse happy, saying to him that the little effort required would not seriously inter? fere with bis studies, and that the act would, in the days to come, be ? source of sweet thoughts to him. Without saying any thing more, he laid down his books and proceeded at once to help the distressed little work? man. It took him^perhaps, a half or three-quarters of an hour to make the shop, with Jesse's assistance in handing him what was needed. Long before it was completed Jesse was talking largely about the various articles of furniture he expected to make for the different members of the family, and was not only happy himself, but was so sweet in his happiness that all the other members of the family-for the rest of the members had come to look at the shop-partir: pated in his happiness. Indeed, all felt e kind of partnership in the shop. Jesse was chief owner, but he was so generous in his ownership that he made the other members forget that thc shop was not as much theirs as his. The kindness which his brother had done him was not ? kindness to him only, but to all the family. And what was strange the brother found that his lesson that day seemed to bc a little easier than usual ; and when thc day was ended he was not able to see that he had lost any time. iN ow, children, I should call the hap piness thus afforded cheap happiness, and I think yon will all agree with me 10 saying that there was a great deal of it for the amount of time and trouble it cost. But this is only one case out of a thousand that I could mention if I bad time. I have seen a little girl whose eyes were filled with tears on account of some difficulty in adjusting her doll's dress, suddenly made to smile, and soon after have heard her singing her doll to sleep in the most, composed, sweet, and motherly way, and all from her having, ia her trouble, received the slightest assistance from her mother or her older sister. I have known the gloom tak;n from the brow and the despair from thc heart of some older boy or girl by a kind word of explanation or assistance on the part of another iu the solution ofsomc problem in mathe? matics, or the translation of a difficult senttbee in Latin. I have seen thc fa? ther and mother when they were over? burdened with cares and anxieties, and when their hearts saddened, made to experience relief by the "little deeds of kindness, the little words of love," or even thc cheerful smiles of their chil? dren. Recently we had the "wizard oil man" in our neighborhood, and almost every body was running to hear him talk and sing of the merits of his wiz-< ard oil. And it was astonishing to see how mkoy people there were who were suffering with pains, and aches, and bruises, aud burns, and sprains, and fractures, and dislocations, and sores, and partial deafness, and partial lame? ness, and various other afflictions and infirmities almost too numerous to-men? tion. And it was equally astonishing that so many of these people could be brought to believe, without trial, that the wixard oil could cure them all. They took the word of thc "wizard oil man" alone, and almost every body bought a bottle, and Oegan to take the 011 internally and to rub with it extern? ally. Many of them found that, like Dr. Franklin, who, then a boy, paid too much for a whistle, they had paid too much for the wizard oil. I am satisfied, . children, that if I were to tty I could obtain certificates from moro than ten thousand good peo? ple who are well known throughout thc Dountry that my prcsciption can be re? lied on-that kindness will cure more people than any other remedy ever known, and that it costs less than any 3ther. It dosen't cure them of every thing, but it does cure them of unhappi? ness. Sometimes it requires the small? est amount imaginable tc effect a cure. Some people always keep about their houses, and sometimes about their per? son, a little camphor or hartshorn, or something else which they think good iu case of accidents. What I have to tay to all, and especially to ali the chil? dren who read the Golden Jlours, in this : Always keep about you, not in a vial, of course, bot in your hearts, that whioh is far better than spirits of cam? phor or spirits of hartshorn-a spirit of kindness. It is the best thing in the world i n ease . of accidents.-Golden Hours. '_ - A gentleman driving up to a coun? try inn, accosted a youth thusly : "My lad, extricate my quadruped from the vehicle, subulate him, donate to bim a sufficient supply of nutritious aliment, and when the aurora of morn shall again illuminate the oriental horizon, I will award you a pecuniary compensation for your hospitality. Thc boy becoming ponied, ted not comprehending the gentleman's high sounding effusion, ran to the house and exclaimed: ?"Daddy, there's a Dutchman out bete who wanta lager beer." ON WASTING TIME. "Here, you are, sir, wasting your val ; nable time-as they say to me," said I Charles Dickens one morning, many j years ago, as his little boy ran up to him on the Broadstairs sands, spade io hand. And we have often wondered since how many people there are who know what is meant by wasting time? It is very easy to make mistakes on this subject, for nothing is so deceitful as appearances. We all know that Penelope, that classical model of proprie? ty and all the virtues, employed her time in weaving a garment by day, and unraveling it by night. She did this to kee,p off her lovers, who wanted to per? suade ber that her husband Ulysses was dead. When the suitors found her out, of course they accused her of wasting her time-but at that moment Ulysses knocked at the door, after seeing many men and cities. In fact, he had come home, and the fair Penelope had her reward after all. Surely it is a waste of time tor that old tortoise to try and beat the nimble bare at running, but the silly old thing will crawl on, without once stoppiug, at about the pace one gets down to the Strand in a cab on a rainy day. Present? ly, down comes the hare at a furious pace-there is no wasting time with him, at all events-but, alas! wheo he arrives breathless at the winning post, he finds the old tortoise there'before him, fast asleep too. "Ah," says the hare, "I wish I had taken my nap at the end instead of the beginning of thc race, and then I should have won it, and that tortoise would have crawled in vain ; as it is, he has made good usc of bis time, and I have wasted mine." What an idle man that is yonder, fishing, hour after hour ! Truly a mel? ancholy spectacle, as stern old Doctor Johnson would say. "A line with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." Wrong again ! That maa is an eminent statesman, who bas escaped to recruit his weary brain in thc company of the king-fisher and the heron. What eloquence, wisdom, and wholesome leg? islation do we not owe to such hours of idleness ! Nay, do not some of our best and kindliest thoughts often come to us as we sit on the beach and toss pebbles into the shining sea covered with its ''innumerable smiles ?" Recreation is not waste when ft is a rest from real work, and a preparation for more. We confess we never feel at home with a mau who must always be doing something. There was a French states? man who wrote a huge book by snatches, in those occasional intervals when he happcued to he kept waiting for bis dinner We, have not the slighest wish to see this ante-prandial performance. We have no doubt it was a very dull book, for men w-ho are never at leisure are always dull. Fussy men and idle men are .equally insufferable to us. The real worker is never in a hurry, and the real idler, wc may add, is never anything else. Who ever heard of Lord Palmerston, or the Duke of Wellington, or Lord Brougham, being in a hurry ? When we see a man in a great hurry, we may be pretty cer? tain that his profession consists io doing nothing, and that he is doing that badly. The idlest man we ever knew was always so much pressed for time that he never had five minutes to spare for anything. No one need ever be in such a terrible hurry as this. If we ever find ourselves so, it is probably because we have been wasting our time. We have had no system, and have, therefore, done iu an hour what ought to have been finished in twenty minu? tes; or like the hare, we have loitered on the way, and then we make a push for it, and arrive just in time to miss the train. How many hares are there every morning who arrive breathless in the city, because breakfast was half an hour late, or because they would not get up when the clock struck seven ! But our readers have a right to ask what constitutes, as a general rule, waste of time. We answer in a single sentence whatever hinders or prevent? you doing your work io life. Kvery one realizes that his duty here consists in applying himself to some worthy work, and his time may then safely and without waste be divided into three periods, preparing for work, doing work, aud resting from work. Waste of time becomes a thing purely relative. What is mere waste in one case is real profit in another. The idle mao who travels simply for pleasure, is simply wasting his time: the man who travels for study, or the man who travels to get rest from work, or for thc sake qf his health, is uot wasting or abusing his time, be is turn? ing it to good account. Let the heart bc filled with some good principle of action, and let the mind be directed towards some congenial pursuit, and then our innocent pleasures will be as little ic danger of degenera? ting into criminal indulgence, as our wholesome recreations into waste of time. A KKATJ I IPI L SEXTITIENT, We clip the following beautiful senti? ment from an excriuge: Sorrow sobers .nd makes thc mind genial. Andie, .row we love and trust our friends more tenderly, and thc dead becomes dearer to us. And just aa the stars shine ont in the night, so there are blessed faces that look at us in our grief, though before their features were fading from our recollection. Suffering ! Let no mao dread it too much because it ia better for bim, tod it will be)p to make him ?ore of being immortal It ii not io the bright hsj>py days, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be teen shining in the long, long distances. And it is in sorrow-the night of the soul-that we see the fartherest, and know ourselves natives of infinity and sons and daughters of the Most High. ?a. A .71 OTHER'S LOVE. Did ever any one fully appreciate this great boon, next in value to that love to? wards us manifested by our Heavenly parent in giving his beloved son to die on the cross, tha4- we ungrateful crea? tures of his mipht not be deprived of that which our disobedience had forfeit? ed ? or did there ever exist a man, woman or child, who could presume to do justice to the subject in trying to describe it? 'Tis not through hope of being able to do justice to it that I have taken my pen in hand at t'tis time, but rather to add a word of warning, and at the same time help to guide the young and thoughtless to prosperity. "Honor thy Father and Mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee," is a command? ment given by our all-wise Parent, and one which no child can defy and still enjoy life. In our youth we are apt often to come across like matters, that inex? perience on our part may render us en? tirely unfit to deal with alone; things which we are apt to see in a false light, and in such instances a mother's love, guided by her greatest experience should be consulted. How many children by heeding the above divine command have lived in prosperity, while others straying beyond its limits have drank the bitter dregs ever present in the cup o?r sin. A mother's love wilt recognize and stretch forth a supporting hand, when nearest friends turn upon you with the deepest disdain. Though cares may be bearing that mother rapidly to the grave, she never grows indifferent to the trials and misfortunes of a child, thoogh covered with the sins of disobedience to that divine command, but is willing to take his burdens upon her shoulders, and suffer in his stead, giving consola? tion that comes from a heart, long a stranger to ease. My happiest moments are at such times as I can recall some act of mine long years ago, performed for the comfort and delight of a noble mother, and nothing casts a greater shadow of regret over any past history than the knowledge that I have want? only or carelessly pained, by word or act, that fond mother's heart. Within the limits of that command are? con ta i ri? ed joys unspeakable,-outside, certain destruction and eternal wretchedness. [From tho New Orleans Picayune.] A SI'BE.N'S ROMANCE- AN EPISODE IN REAL LIFE. There died yesterday, on Music street, m this city, a remarkable woman. Her name waa Jeuet Maria Lafoux, a Creole of singular beauty and fascination. She was educated in France, and possessed all of the elegance and courtinessof man? ners, the piquancy and ensouicance which distinguish the ladies of that country. It must have been, however, that some evil dreg was in ber nature, for she, soon after returning to her home, abandoned the innocence and elegance of her home for thc vicious life of a cyprian. At the time of the Federal occupation she was iu the zenith of her beauty, and soon brought around her a coterie of admirers. So infatuated did a young Lieutenant become of her that he made ber his wife,and returning North, in? troduced her again to the society of which she could so easily become an ornament. But the wickedness in ber nature, inherent or acquired, soon as? serted its supremacy, and she again went back into the old path ot vicious? ness and sin. The scandal she caused in a Northern city it is useless to re? peat herc. Suffice it to say her husband, in des? pair, committed suicide, and infinite dis tresa was brought upon his family. She went to Washington, and was notable there for her fascination and and co? quetry, and at one lime exercised a con? trolling influence in one of the Depart? ments of State. To obtain her favor was almost equivalent to having any measure passed through the National Legislature. But after awhile she disappeared from thc Capital and re? turned to her home. Here her old life was resumed, and a career ot brilliant dissipation has ended in her death. She was a tall, slender lady, of splendid physical development and im? posing presence. She had full black eyes and hair that fell around her shoulders like a shower of golden fleece. Her face was fair and fresh, and vied in its beauty with the lily and the rose. Her hands and arms were model? of elegance and symmetry. She was fascinating, alluring and accomplished, of violent passibns, impulsive and head strou;;, and yet, when she chose to bc, as vfily as the serpent. Such was thc beautiful freud that is dead. TRUE HOSPITA LITT. Many a wife might read the following paragraph from Emerson, and be wiser therefor: "O excellent wife ! encumber not yourself and me to get a curiously rich dinner for this mao or woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bedchamber mads at too great a cost. These things, if they ?re carious in them, they cac get for ii few shillings iu any village; but rather let the stranger sae, if be will, in your looks, accent and behavior, your heart and earnestness, yoei thought and will, that which he cannot but at any price ic the city, and for which ho may well travel twenty miles, and dine sparing and sleep little, to bebrrid. Let not emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board ; but let truth and love, and honor and courtesy, flow in all thy deeds." -- - A little Beaton girl joyfully as? sured her mother the other day that she had found out where they made horses -"she had seen a maa in a shop just finishing one of them, for he was nail? ing on his last foot." ?fX-A-S OINT -AND HAMLIN ORGANS. 1"^* AVINO receivod the agency for these CELEBRATED ORGANS. will be pleased to rill any orders entrusted to mc, and gire any information that may bo de? sired. C. T. MASON, Jewelry Store, Sumter, S. C. May 31-3t ROBERT BROUN, County Surveyor. PLANS AND ESTIMATES furnished on application. Will at end to any business en? trusted to bini with accuracy and despatch. TERMS CASH. Refer? to FOES OR FRIENDS. Addresi, Box 20, Manchester, S. C. ROBERT BROUN, D. S. May 10 j_^ : For Sale? THE plata on which I reside, containing about i TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED (2,700; acras ALSO My plantation on the San tee River, in Clarendon, containing TWO THOUSAND TWO HUN DRED (2.201) acres. ALSO The tract of about ELEVEN nUXDRED (1100) acre?, lying partly in Sumter, partly in Ciar, n doc, and ten miles South of Sumter C. H. This truel is heavily timbered and weil adapted to Turpentine. Either of the abo re will be sold as a whole, or di Tided, if convenient, ty suit purchasers. JNO. N. F1UERS0N. Stateaborg, S. C. May 3-am AT THE Sumter Book Store. LETTER PAPER, 10 cents, per qoiro. Fools Cap paper, 15 cent*, per quire. Blank Books and Diaries for 1S71. Almanacs. Writing Desks and Work Boxes. Hair Brushes and Tooth. Brashes. Comba and Fancy Artielos. A large lot of Miscellaneous Books, Novels, at reduced rites. A. WHITE A CO. CITIZEN'S SAYINGS BANK South Carolina, DEPOSITS OF OSE DOLLAR AND UP? WARDS RECEIVED. Interest allowed at the rate of Seres per cent per annum on Certificates of Deposit, and Sis per cent, on SAVINGS j j ACCOUNTS. COMPOUNDED EVERY SIX MONTHS. OFFICERS. WM. MARTIN. President JOHN B. PALMER, 1 ^.^^ JOHN P. THOMAS, J ^? Prestdcnts. . 6. BR ENIZER, Cashier. JOHN C B. SMITH, Assistant Cashier. J. W. DARGAN, Assistant Cashier at Sumter. Local Finance Committee, at Sumter. J. T. 80L0M0NS, I J. S. RICHARDSON, L. G. PATE, I T. B. FRASER. This .is a nome Institution and merit? the ; patronage of the people of tho Sute-at the same time a safe place to deport their money, j which can bo withdrawn whenever needed. general Banking Business done. Hume and Foreign Checks Bought and Sold. Old Bank Bills, Dilapidated Currency and Gold purchased. Revenue Stamps for Sale. Bankinq Hours J rom 9 o'clock, A. M. to 3 P. M., and tcery Saturday aprr.. j * noon, from 5 to 7 o'clock ' i _Jan 1S_ _i 1 PERSONAL. NOAH WALKER & CO. TI! E Celebrate* Clothiers ot BALTIMORE, MD. Announce tho introduction of a nlan of ordering CLOTHING AND UNDERWEAR BY LETTEit, to which they call your special attention. They will send on application their improved and accurate RULES FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT, and a fall line of samples from their immense stock of CLOTHS. CAHSIMERES, COAT? INGS, SHIRTINGS, ic, Ac, thus enabling parties in aay part of the country to order their Clothing and Shirts direct from them, w ih thc certainty of receiving garments of The Very Latest Style And Most Perfect Fit ?ttaipable. boo** ordered will bo ?oat by Express to any part of thc country. As is well known throujhoot thc Southern SUtcs they have for FORTY-THREE YEARS ? EXCELLED in all departaaents of their business, which is a j substantial guarantee as tu the character vf the Goods they will send out. A larg? and well-assorted ?tock of READY-MADE CLOTHING always on band, together withs full lin? of FURNISHING GOODS including all fha la teat Novelties in Design, and at POPULAR PRICES. When Goods ar? sent per Express C. O P., there will ba jae collection charge cn amounts of $23 and over Rules for Self-Measurement, Samples of! Gowda ?sd Price List sent /re* on application. Tb? ettesiion of fha Trade is in rited to our | WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT which is al- ! ways kept up to the highest staudard. NOAH WALKER A CO. Manufacturers and Dealers in Men's and Bays' j Clothing and Furnishing Goods, either ready - made or tsado te on er. I l&S?tt4.16T Beltimore Street, BALTIMORE, MD. j April 5. ly. JOB WORK 0 F EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT TUE OFFICE OF The Sumter Watchman, -IN TUE Highest Style of the Art. ?EAD CAREFULLYT Ague and Fever. The only preventive Known for Chili? und Fever is the use of Wolfe's SchiedamSenna;ir.-. Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Ts good for Dyspepsia. Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Is a preventive of Chills and Fever. , Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Is good for all Kidney and bladder complaints. Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Is used ail over the wor! 1 by physicians tn their practico. Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Is good f..r G oct. Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Is good fur a!! Urinary cota] Ininti?. Wolfe's Schiedam Scenapps. Is recommended hy all the Medical Faculty. Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps. Is good for Jolie and pain in. the Stoeuch. Wolfes Schiedam Schnapps. is imitated and counterfeited, and purchaser, w?l Luve, to use cundo* iii purchasing. I beg leave to enll thc attention of thc reader to testimonials tn favor of the Schrapp?: I feel bound to say that I regar ?y .,:ir :-..!.:;..;.ps i? being in every respect pre eminently ante and deserving ot medical patronage. At all events it is tue purest possible article of Hu! land (?in, heretofore unobtainable, andassnch nay he safely prescribed bj^jrirysiciaris. DAVID L. MOTT, M. D., Pharmaceutical Chem? ist, New-York. LOUISVILLE, KV.. Sept. J.-I fell that ?c Lave now an article of (jin, suitable fur such cases a* :hat remedy ia adapted to. DR. j. w. BR in nr. "Schnappt," :s a retneiy ii chronic catarrhii ?omplaints, etc.: I take great pleasure in bc ?ring highly credita? ble testimony to its efficacy as a r> medial agent n thc diseases for which yon recommend it. slaving a natural tendency to the mucous sur Eaces, with a slight degree of simulation, I regard t as one of the most important remedies iu ?hronic catarrhal affections, particularly those >f the genito-urinary apparatus. With muck respect, your obedient servant, CHAS. A. LEAS, M. D., New-York. 26 PIXB STREET. NSW-YORK, NOV. 21, lSfiT. [JDOLTHO WOLFE, ESQ., Pretest: DEAS Sut: I lave made a chemical examination ot' a satnplo >f your "Schiedam Schnapps," with thc intentot leterniining if any loreign or injurious substancia jad been added to thc simple distilled spirits. Tito examination has resulted tn tho conclusion hat thc sample contained n>> poisonous orbarmful idmixturc. I have Leen unable to discover any race of tbe deleterious substances which ar* lometimc*"employed in the adulteration ofLbruora [ would not hesitare to ase myself, ;.. ??: lo reoar nend i<? other.*, for medicinal purp .-ea, tho 'Schiedam Schnapps" a.? an excellent and un? objectionable variety of gin. Very respectfully rours, (Signed) CHAS. A SEELY, Chemist. CHEMICAL AND Tv. R31CAL LABOBATOBT. 18 EXCHANGE PLACE. NBW-YOBK, Nov. 2?, Is"-?. J'DOIPB'I WOLFE, K><>.. DEAR SIB : Thc nader iigncl have carefully and thoroughly analyzed a ample of your "Aromatic Schiedam Sch IHI| p.-," .elected by ourselves, un i h.ive found the ?-IUI? reefrom all organic or inoran ic ?ul st mee*, more >r lc.-s injurious to health. From the rc?ult of our tzaminadon weeousider thu article one of superior jn.ility, beal ch fui a- a beverage, a...j cue.rtaa) tn ts medicinal qualities. Bopcctfclty your*. (Signed) ALEX. TRIPPER, Chemist. FRANCIS E. ENGELHARD, M. D. T?rsalo by all respectable Grocers uuJ Druggists. LTDOLPIIO WOLFE'S EST., 22 BEAVER ST, N.T. March 2:1_ lDllllN O OL? J- R.S, WJLJfflXfiTOX, X. r. IVE KEEP THE M??ST CoMILETE Ai SOUTIENT "F GROCERIES TO RE LOUND IN ANY SOUTHERN ilA*. kct. Our Line of PROVISIONS If er?ry hind is complete, .m.! ai t rices t'..*i eui .tra!? i:;ducc?-?rs to send . r " -rs N- rrh. I i i? ? raying customers wili ?i.d that th?y .-..vc atony .v . r-lerinj from ns. Oar Catalogue for tho spring rule is na usually fuJL Wines, Liquors & Tobacco. ALL KINDS Whiskey, Gin, 1 Brandy, Wines. Ititur*. Ale, " Porer, ie. Chewing Tobacco, iu caddies awi i ...>..*. ..f jreat variety. Smoking Tobacco, al! kind.-, in J. i, ; an?! 1 >otu I packages. Sc^nr-. a good many dil r-.tu - rt* . 1 tl jtta!'.:lc*. Tho above we < f."or to tho iradi :. .- Ut CASH ADRIAN & VOL! EKS, March 27 Wilmiu: on. N. C. H?STORE. 16,000 BUSHELS CORN. .?,000 Barrels Flour, 150 Barrels Pork, ?0 Boxes D. S.aod T. C. Side?. 30 11 h d.-. D. S. and San<>ked Sides and ShoubK:-, 450 Sacks hio, J-iv:i ::n l La;wayra <*? *.e<\ 20 Hhis. De ma tu ra and i'. !.. .''..?..i. 150 Db!*. Refined Sugar- ..il ? ai ?, 250 Bhd*. ?'uba M?!?->e*. 150 Rids. Cuba M?l??e?. 150 Uhds. Sugai lionne S? .* 100 Dbls. Sugar Bo??? .V o.i. ? . .100 Bales Hay, 2,000 Sack* Salt. 150 Bbl-, and Boxes Cracker*. 15 Tubs Butler, .tnt) Boxes Soap^ loo Cases Lye awi PoU-.h. 75 Rbis, and Tabs Lard. 75 DMa. ?nH Kits Macketei. 75 B ite* Tobacco, SO Boxe? Suda, 150 Keg.? Nails, 50 Boxes Cheese, For sale by F. W. KEP.CiL.ER. 27, 23 a:i i 29 North Wntet Street. May 10_W?miug:on. N. C. Lani! Plaster-Land t?tt&r. 13 000 B5IIEI"S PR?>rE T^ri. For sale be Marchi; - F. W. KL