Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

VOL. XXII 'JCS Vt WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1871 NO. 18 Tlmeo Danae? Et Dona Fer?n?ea.-Vlrc. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, MORALITF AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. ie Sumter Watchmai {ESTABLISHED IN 1850.) 18 PUBLISHED tY WKDJIESDAY MOBNIN? fT SUMTER. S. C> BY .BERT & FLOWERS. Terms. .$3 00 ?ntbs. . 1 50 ?OUthS. 1 00 JERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate lg DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per ?for the first. ONE DOLLAR for the ( and FIFTY CENTS for each ?ubsequent sn for any period less than three months TUARIES, TRIBUTES OF RESPECT communications which subserve private s.will be paid (or as advertisements. :HE SUPERFICIAL GIRL. [group o? girls were studying their as one evening in the study hall of female College in S-. The day leen hot and sultry, and we were ixious to finish our lessons, so as io the cool shade of the grove of io the grounds around the college, silence was broken suddenly by Graham exclaiming: "I declare I see any use in worrying over this lem any mure. I am just tired to of mathematics, and I want to go ?the grove, and then besides it's no o girls to learn algebra What good it ever do me, I should like to know? se, shut up your book and come with .ace White looked ap from her slate, trushed back her brown curls from high, white brow, aod said : '*Viola, can't be in earnest Miss Gray says mathematics will discipline our jds, if we never make use of thc study rwards." )h, my mind is good enough, and Iipliued, too, . for that matter. 1 't intend to be a teacher, as you do, I so 1 shan't puzzle my brain over ^ty mathematics." She shut up her aud began to hum au operatic |Viohi, you won't know your lesson. Miss Mary will be cross with ycu. say you are not going to be a pher ; perhaps you may alter youi tutious. and then w> at will _\ou do it [ are unfitted* for such a position," * Grace. shall never condescend to spend days in a school room, Grace. 1 :y father is rich enough to support without that. 'Riches take to themselves wings and [away, Viola." 'Well, negroes won't then, and I have , fifty of my own, grandpa left me I i't think that they will fly off verb? and she laughed at Grace. ''Then [re is my plantation io Mississippi. Uncle Harry left me last y ar, and |t won't go by >ky-1arkitig 1 am sure ian't bother myself to day any more, tome out, Grace." fl can't Viola. I have my French to ti over, and my music .esson to prac? yet," aud Grace bent over her book in KTioia Graham was thc daughter of an pb:mia planter. Her motlier died len she was young, and her father had kt her to S-to receive her educa? te. She was a beautiful, lively, sightless girl lier greatest fault was ?lessness, which extended to every she undertuuk. *'lt is of no use," 'jcr favorite expression. lier up? most idea was that irr-rffh was all one needed to get on in thc world, len her teachers would urge her to j ijrencc io obtaining knowledge, and to irntuce her to improve her natu- j1 Bly Soe mind, her answer was gener- I? : "What's thc use '! I am rich ami ': (n't have to teach." There were!1 |oe of us girls who rather envied Viola ! I ? wealth. Wc were mostly daughter" Virginia planters, merchants and ?rgymen. Many of us expected to be ichera, and were often rather hurt by ola's sarcastic flings at the profe&sio< lt as she wai the leader of our sports |: i one of the oldest girls amongst us, j ' did not like to resent her remarks, j ' ter she left, Grace merely said to a j of us who were trying to solve our ;1 ?cult questions : "I hope Viola will ?1 ter be t?oder t he necessity of teaching ; 1 I know ?he has never been thorough * ja single study, aud I don't believer kt she could teach anything :it all." j ' ?a lew mouths our session closed. I c ?urned hume and sa? no more of Viola I ' )1 came. Our revolution in the South j( jan, and for four years we had indeed j ^ cirible time. Fortunes vanished.!1 groes did "take wings and fly away." j1 ppy homes were made desolate, and J ere once wa* peace and plenty, gaunt j ' n and famine stalked hand iu hand, j( last the war was over People be- ' pto look about them to see what ' ?lld be dune and to try to support a li which to many was almost a " Irdeo. I? In 18GQ I was called to the charge of?v ? em a le College in Maryland, and had i ' perused f a teacher to take a vacancy Iv kt had occurred, when one day I re- js Ived a letter from Viola, asking me to ! * fmd something for her to do. She 1 |uded to our school girl days, lamented ; ' very superficial knowledge, and ' ? Lot of application v len a girl. Shej* ld that she could not teach anything * [all, unless it would be some beginuers I ' treading. She said : "O that I had >.* Ken the advice ol my teachers and jf krned thoroughly what ? then hurried !1 fer and thought of no use! I'should 1 lw be able to do something for the 11 >port of myself and two little girls." j1 je gave me asad history of her life !( ir plantation in Mississippi had been j ' Jvaged and her mausion burnt. Her , ! therand husband were both killed ( iring thc war. All her negroes were ?ne. She was left destitute indeed 1 ld no situation to offer her except that 'matron of the boarding house. I rote to her and told her so. She was tankful to accept that position. I heard a girl say the other day: 'I sh Dr. Gray had'never put these hard >es in his botany. What's the use j classifying a flower! It is justas ?tty to look at as if I knew its botani name. I can't learn them." I]1 foug it of Viola's school days. j I I beard another girl say : "Geometry j1 !I9 only intended as a bother to us rls. It is of no earthly use. All that e men care for is something good to At. They don't want learned wives." "thought again of Viola. I heard a father say to bis daughter : Mary, I am very busy. Just cast up ie interest on this note for me, will DU ?" Mary blushed, and said : "I m't, sir." ? What !" said bc, "did you ot study interest in your arithmetic V ll did not think it would be of any use to me, and so I paid but little attention to it, sir." Again I thought of my schoolmate. I heard T student say : "I don't care i to be a linguist. I intend to be an en jgineer, and what's the use of lan? guages ?" Thus through my life I see some in? stances to remind me of my careless friend. The same superficial disposi? tion is manifested by many of my young friends. Possessing a smattering of any? thing never does any good. It is truly of "7?o vse." Young people who never learn anything thoroughly will nevea be worth anything to themselves or others. Then I would say to the readers ot this paper. Be thorough. Learn one thing well in which you can bc useful, and never be satisfied with a superficial kuuwledge of a hundred studies. [From Every Saturday.] A WORD ABOUT FACES. Some one calls the face the index of the mind, but it was a wiser observer the very widest of observers-who wrote : "There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face." There are a great many people who plume themselves on being what is called ''readers of character." We never knew a professional reader of this sort who was not constantly deceiving himself concerning his fellowereatures. As a general thing, faces have an obstinate way of uot betraying the men-., tal or moral traits of their possessors - Character doesn't ?>ut all its goods, nor even a small proportion of them, io its shop window. 'J he idea of reading at a glance anything ?o abstruse and complex as the human heart ! Ile is a wise man wixi eau understand himself, to say nothing about reading other people. There are few things in which we are so apt to be mistaken as in the off? hand estimates we form of men and women. A man of dissipated habits curries signs of dissipation iu his coun? tenance ; but then, intense mental labor, prottacted anxiety, and lack of exercises will give the same jadee, wornout ex? pression to the face. A friend of ours (a famous studeut of physiognomy) once pointed out to us on the street a emineutand exemplary divine as being evidently a in eui ber of thc sporting fra tern i ty-"a fine old sport," he called him. Our friend was illustrating hi? fatuous theory of reading character. He committed the easiest of errors. It so happens that a man of thc , greatest determination will have a weak mouth, aud thc most vacillating and purposeless disposition will go with firm? .et lip and defiant eye. One of the gravest of the young generals in our j ate war-a rough rider, and reckless in tattle to the verge of maduess-is a ;ct< tientan so unobtrusive in address, , md so gentle of lace, that a straogcr f Meeting him casually would at once ??lace him in that category of temporiz? ing souls who are supposed incapable of j saying boo to a goose. Bret Harte was is true to nature as o art in his descrip J :ion of the denizens of "Roaring | 'amp : "The assemblage numbered ( ibout a hundred men. One or two of | :hese were actual fugitives from justice, ( ?e rne were criminal, and all were reck? less. Physically, they exhibited no j ndieation of their past lives and charac- j er. The greatest scamp had a Raphael lace, with a profusion of blond hair ; ( Oakhurst,a gambler, had the melancholy ( tir and intellectual abstraction of a , Hamlet ; th? coolest aud most courage- . tun man was scarcely over five feet in j ?eight, with a soft voice and an .nibarrassed, timid manner. * * * j Perhaps in the minor details of fingers, oes, ears, etc., the camp may have been lef?cient, but these slight omissions did tot detract from their aggregate force. I'he strongest man had bul three fingers '. ?n his n^ht hand : the hist shot had mt one eye." These few touches tasty and unconsidered as they seem, ?rove that thc writer is a shrewed ob- ? ervcr of human nature, a reader of haracter in the hest sense. The con 'entional novelist, who has studied lovels rather than life, makes his ?Hains the most obvious, barefaced ' illaios. The b'lack sheep is so very ] >lack, phsically and morally, the wooder ' s that the saintly hero or the angelic 1 leroine does not hand him over to the * >olice thc instant he appears. It is not ? M unknowingly that Shakespeare drew > iis rascals. It was not so be drew { ago-outwardly a most engaging, < oldierly, capital, frank-eyed fellow, ? hnugh many actors, judging by their nouthing and hang-dog manner, seem ' o think that Iago was a cheap transpa- < ent knave. As he is usually repre- 1 ented on the boards, he would not have 1 leceivec Othello for a quarter of an j lour. Othello would have split bim 1 perpendicularly with his scimitar atan < ?arly stage of the proceedings Iago 1 vas a witty, plausible, fascinating, 1 ioulless villain, cool, adroit, and sunny i -just such a villain, in short, as the ? professional reader of character would ] ?elect from a crowd as being an open- * faced, honest man, and right good fellow, j It is only io books that the sharp- i Matured mao is always irritable, and < he round-faced man always jolly. In < ?eal life it is often the Bcamp who has I he "smile that is childlike and bland," ? ind the choice spirit, the heart of true < ?old, that wears unprepossessing clay I tbout it. -A writer says Japan is a small! country, but it can number more islands tod mountain peaks than any other ;mpire io the world. There are more ;bao 8,500 islands, and the mountains io man can number. The surface of he cono try, seeo from afar, ibas tbe tppearance of asea whose tempest tossed ?aves had been suddenly arrested io their gigaotio tumbling aod congealed forever. *< LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD !? Some of oar editorial confreres are glorifying oar great Southern song bird, aod we take pleasure in aiding to spread his fame. Col. Dennett, .of the Kew Iberia Barnier and Times," thus immor? talizes a mocking bird belonging to Mrs. Quinn, of Washington, Parish of St. Landry : Mrs. Quinn takes great pleasure in her climbing vines in front of her humble dwelling, her beautiful flowers, and her singing birds. Aod shebas one of th? most remarkable mocking birds we have ever seen or heard sing. He is proud and conceited as a peacock, keeps his person as neat as a dancing master, and out-sings anything we have ever heard. He has a powerful voice, sings almost unceasingly by day, and sings much in the night. Perhaps Mr?. Quinn gave bim a hint that if he did his best be might ' get a notice in 'the Banner. He siugs so load that be often interrupts conversation near him. We listened to him attentively, and noticed him well. Most people de not realize the wonderful character of these birds. Their music consists of merely brief specimens of all the singing birds of the country. Sometimes they will linger upon a single specimen, and repeat the notes several times. While listening attentively, we recognized the notes of the canary bird, tbe yellow bird, red bird, black bird, bobolink, blue jay, kingfisher, rubin, cat bird, sparrow, wren, the young bird cryiog for food, the swallow, partridge or quail, the lark, and even the sound of the* woodpecker's bill on the hollow tree, and many other notes which doubtless imitated birds of which we have no knowledge. It is curious to eee a little mouth and throat, and a little set of lungs, produce such perfect imitations of such a variety of birds. The male mocking bird is the vocalist -the female never sings. With his stomach well stored with the yellow of a boiled egg and a boiled Irish potato, he can out-sing Jenny Lind. And Mr. Leet, of the Abbeville (La.) Flag, has this to say of afc unknown warbler in Vermilion Parish. Close to the Methodist Church, and near our tranquil bayou, the broad branches ofa lonely oak droop over a cluster of unmarked graves. As regu? larly as the day returns, a mocking bird perches itself upon one of the boughs that overhang a particular grave, some? what isolated from the rest, and sings his changing plaintive song, in the sweetest but saddest strains we ever heard. As we listen to it, Miss Haw? thorn's exquisite "Listen to the Mocking Bird," crowds upon our memory, to pether with Hoffman's inimitable varia* tions of its inimitable air. In a land where the magnolia does not bloom, and tvhere thc mocking bird was never Lnown to sing, in long days that are now. fading, we first beard the words and music of this matchless piece, which awakened in our heart an irresistible longing for the country where the genuine mocker gave bis own wild rhapsodies to the breeze. We cannot but think that the rude little mound of :lay reposes on the breast of "Some? body's darling," and perhaps he sighs at th is m n tn caa t "I'm dreaming now of Halley ! sweet Halley ! sweet Hailey I" .And the mocking bird is singing o'er ber grave." Longfellow, in describing tbe passage )f his Arcadian heroine, Evangeline, up the Teche, turns aside from bis narra ive, and devotes a whole paragraph to he "wildest of singers." lt is a mas crly illustration of the poet'? descriptive powers : 'Then from a neighboring thicket tho mocking bird, wildest of singers, twinging aloft on a willow spraj that hang o'er the water, Shook from bis little throat such floods of de? licious music, rbat thc whole air and the woods and the wares seemed silent to li.-ten. Plaintive at firrt were tbe tones and sad; then soaring to madness. rUS TIELAFfCOOL Y COURT AT CHISELHL'RST. A correspondent of Le Messager Franco American drawn a very gloomy aicture of the life led by Napoleon III md his imperial court at Cbiselhurst, England. The villa itself is of ordinary md tasteless architecture, both exter illy and internally. Ita unattractive ippearanee is counterbalanced by the tingle advantage of ita fine park. The :ourt of the ex-Emperor ?a composed of ibout eighty former habitues of the railleries, who do not hesitate to bewail rery loudly the squalid misery of their sxile. The faded splendors ol' the im >erial regime haunt their memories with antaliziog reminiscences of departed oye-departed never to return. Eu jeoie bas no carriage and takes tbe air >c toot in the park. Her misfortunes lave begun to tell sadly upon her leauty Domestic dissension ha? added ts bitterness to the destruction of all imbitioua hopes. It is a matter of public notoriety- thai oo connubial lentiments exist between the unhappy Mir. The Kay young beauty, whose imagination waa captivated by the splendors of an imperial court, ba? bee? iisenchanted by tba exploita of Saar bruck and Sedan. ' The disagreeable old maa to whose fortunes she united her? self in the halcyon dayl of ber prosperity bas now oo crown tad scepter under which to bide away th? repulsive sel? fishness of hil character. Hil Boody churlishness hat just vented itself in refusing ber ' permission to reside io Madrid, ia s su'uurban vialla, lately-tha property of ex-Qaeea Isabella, thus compelling her to share the gloomy seclusion of hil English r?sidence, where his ulcerated soul oosupiea iuelf in organizing abortive plots for hil restoration. Pbor ficgenie, her Inil liant career hts bad t Beurafa? culmi? nation. SUICIDE OF A CAP?T?THlCE-S?'ME? WHAT OF 1 MYSTERY* F?w of eur theater-going people bat will remember the beautiful Amelia Garcia, who, for three br four successive seasons, won unbounded applause on the stage of bur principal theatres. Young, lovely and accomplished, the wonderful charm of her voice was augmented by ?great persona! attractions. Gay, fasci? nating, and brilliant, she won admirers by the score, and at one time-in the height of her theatrical fame-was the mest sought after and the acknowledged beauty of .her profession. That such a woman should have sud? denly died without her death being made known is surprising. Nor wii! the publio surprise be lessened when thc fact is made known that she died a suicide. Her death occurred about two weeks since, on Jackson street, near the corner ' of Annunciation, where she hud resided for over a year past. It will be remembered that about two years since she quit the stage and re? tired to private life. She bad become passionately enamored of a gentleman io this city, aod for his sake abaodooed whatever of fame aod prospect of ad? vancement she bad in her profession. She occasionally appeared on the street, always radiant, always beautiful, and whenever she came into the theatres or publio places of amusement she was the cyoosure of all eyes. She enjoyed this public manifestation cf admiration, and sustained it regally. Had she never been a famous singer. Garcia would , still have been admired for her splendid ? beauty. But it began to be whispered about ? that her life was not happy. Society had its observances that" could cot be , neglected, aud the poor singer, with all ( her beauty, could oot retaio an aile- ? giance which society demanded to be j broken. The conviction came upon her slowly, , but it came at last. To one of her pas siooate nature there was nothing left for her but to die. It would be wrong, , if it were possible, to lift the veil from those last hours of her life. Convinced z that the happiness she had bartered so c much to secure waa slipping from her ? grasp, aod the cheerless future spread? ing dark before her, she resorted to that Lethean cup, the poison of.tbe suicide, : in which to drown the senses of her a misery aod the joyless life of a deserted c aod abaodooed woman. r It is said that the morning (some two s weeks since) the final separation took place-when her friend said good bye G for the last time-Garcia ordered her q servant to go to the drug store and fetch t her some laudanum. The servant, sus peeling her design, refused to go. The c command, repeated still more imperative- D ly, was disregarded, and the servant 2 with tears and entreaties besought her fe to refrain from her wicked intentions. ? It had no effect, however, and she s went herself for the poison. On what p pretext she obtained it is not known ; " but she did get it, and having taken it, a died from ita effects. The residents in the neighborhood fc say that about the time the poison p must have commenced its fatal work a she went and'seated herself at the piano, c ind for more than hour played and sang. tJ Her rich, thrilling voice, rising to its t full compass, reveled the sweetest music ? they bad ever heard. Strains of pas- a sionate sorrow mingled with the sorrow- ? fol cadence of a funeral dirge as the Q dying cantatrice sung her life away. y Amelia Garcia was about 23 years of p age, aod a native of the West Indies.- c Her father was a Spanish Creole, and t her mother a Jewess, a native of Ger- s many. Her parents came to New York 0 when she was quite young, aod she s eommenced her professional career in s that city. She sang one season at the ? Academy of Music in this city, and one s or two engagements at other theatres c She left the stage, however, in 1869, E ind has not since appeared, profession- j ally, in public. t Such, in brief, was the career of one of the sweetest singers and most beaut i . c ful women of the age. Whether her | life was good or evil it behooves us not \ to say. If she was reckless, frivolous r ind gay, abe bad, at least, a passionate f and loving nature, and died a suicide, t [A*. 0. Picayune. \ GOOD WORDS A!tD TRUE. From an address delivered io Griffin recently, by Geoeial William M. Browoe, sf Macon, before the Spaulding County Agricultural Society, and published by request, we tako the following para? graph, cmicently worthy of study by the yoong meo, oot ooly ot Georgia, bot of the Sooth : One of the greatest evils of the present day is the tendency of yoong men to leave the farm and seek a liveli hood in town, in a store or counting room, or as a lawyer or physician. The cause of this is that they think it de? grading to "work on a farm," that no mao caa be prominent io li fe as a fermer, that distinction is unattainable except io towna aod cities, tbat it is " impossi? ble to be a gentleman and a farmer." There cannot be a nore dangerous de? lusion, more alarming io ita con sequences to the yoong mao who entertain it aod to the welfare of the country. Ieoojqre the young meo of Georgia to banish it from i;heir minds, aod to be assurred that if they will stick eloae to their fathers aod mothers, and to the old homestead, if they wilt love their farms, take a pride ia their business, and assert the independence of their calling, they will be far happier, better and mora useful numbers of so? ciety than many of those who seek "?BfJiaot?on" behind the liar of a town grocery, who think that they are more "gentlemanly" than their lathers be? cause they measure calico behind a counter, and who imagine themselves on the highroad to "prominence" when they secure a petty clerkship in a rail? road office or bank. Wou'd that theyoUrJg men of Georgia could hear and would heed my counsel and my warning? I would appeal to them by the recollection of their birth? place, the memories of their childhood, the holy associations of home affections, the remembrance of the church yard where, perhaps, their parents are sleep? ing their last sleep, not to forsake the peace, plenty, comfort and happiness of their country homes for the sorrows, cares, dissappointments, and not un frequently the crimes which befall those who, believing farm labor degrading, come to town to seek their fortune. If they will be co?tent with country life they can "lead society, give it its tone, its manners, morals and religion/' con* trol legislation, direct improvement, and while they amass competence for them* selves, live happily and virtuously, with the love of God and of their neigh? bor in their hearts, and Faith, Hope and Charity, guiding and supporting them on their pilgrimage to the happier and better land. [Correspondence of the New York Beril J from Long Brunch.] A iTIODEL FOB AMERICAN YOUTH. As I rode up from the depot to the hotel recently I was attracted by a man? ly young fellow of about twenty-eight who sat next me in the stage. He was. handsome, with a hazel eye and fresh complexion, was well and neatly dressed, md had especially a silver-toned voice, [ spoke to him at first, because I was tttracted by his modesty. "Yes," said he, in reply to an intro Juctory question in regard to the hotels ^the weather being entirely beyoud irgutnent), it has turned out a pretty good season, I believe. I have been iere several seasons; and have seen jone better." "You spend aU your vacations here ?" "No," reflectively, "not vacations. I jsually pass the summer season here." Evidently he was a rich young blood, md with bis good looks and modesty an excellent model for the American routh. "Stopping at the-Hotel ?" Ile was bowing to a sweet looking ;irl just then, and did not immediately nswer. She was smiling back with a lelightful grace, showing a mouthful of ich pearls. Evidently he knew the good ociety of the Branch. "No, no," he replied, when he had eased bowing and comprehended my , [uestion. "No; I stop at-at-at a cot- , ?ge- , . i Fine fellow, this, stopping ai his own . ottage, and independent enough to ride , ipon an omnibus. He interested me ;reatlyas we went along, evidently mowing everything about the place. There's Judge-'s cottage; hand? ome, isn't it ? There's the handsomest iair of steppers at the Branch, those ;rays just turning in at thc Continent- ! 1." 1 Here he was attracted by tlte repeated ? tows of two gorgeous dames who were j lassing us slowly in their open carriage, i nd who opened two hnge mouths and a i onple of batteries of ready-made teeth < ipon him. He bowed quite gracefully o them, and ?rent on with his pleasant \ lescripttons. At thc hotel we parted ! nd I lost him; but I thought in this < risc of him: Talk of the degeneracy < f the American youth. Look at this ! oung fellow. Handsome, polished, i ilea8aot-tempercd, elegant in his man- ' lers, rich, modest sensible. He vista ' his watering place evidently not to ! uffocate in the hotels and follow the i ld winter city routine of dissipation I nd flirtation. He would certainly uot ; eek them in his own quiet cottage, i Ie comes for the more rational joys ot i ea air and sea bathing, to bo, perhaps, 1 iear the girl he loves.and hopes (and I i nay say deserves) to win. Happy tel- i ow! True model he for the youth of i his glorious republic ! In order to see one of the lions ? went < iver to the cottage where the tiger is : et loose, just a step or two from thc Yest End, and as I went into the back i oom, among the rattling of chips at the i aro table and the olioking of the little j tall in the pool of the roulette table, I : leard that silvery-toned voice again : ? 'Walk io and have come supper, ;entlemen-just ready -IS, red. Ah, i low de do?-met you on the stage-I emembcr. Have ?upper? No? Then, ake a drink-21, black. Excuse roe -business, you know. Charley, pass be cigars to this gentleman." > There he was-my model of the \mericao youth ! I passed out without >atronizing that establishment. i ?--I The following paragraph from he Enquirer, will suit this latitude as rell as Columbus : A SENSIBLE WOMAN -One of the 'lords of creation"-a subscriber to the ( Enquirer-recently oidercd his-paper , topped, giving for a reason thev"tight tess" of the times. We met him yester lay, when he said "You had better have he paper left at my house again ; my life has become attached to it, and kick sd op a row" at its beiog stopped."- ? Sensible woman that, and we glory in >er spunk. Why should not the ladies md children have the benefit of the iaily papers at home ? Ther business nen take them at their business houses, ?here perhaps they read them and < perhaps cot, but what benefit, in many nstancei, do their families derive from .hera. We should like to enltivate our icquaintance of the ladies and children, >y sending the Enquirer to every family o town. As far as onr humble influence joes, we desire to make it the vehicle )f useful intelligence to all classes A good poper is a general educator, ai d in ?rder to keep op the times everybody should have one or more papera as constant family visitors. ABOUT DYEING AND GREASING HAIR AND ABOUT BATHING. A Saratoga letter to the New York Com? mercial cats to the quick, as follows : About dyeing the hair black, I Will say a word. .Light hair makes the eyes look brilliant by contrast. So, by-and-by, when the eye becomes dimmed by age, God paints the hair White, and the dimness of the eye is unperceived. Look at a man or woman with dyed hair ! The eye is as dead as that of a sleeping ox. And still these silly people think they are deceiving some* body-they think that they are making themselves look younger, when in fact everybody with a particle of sense discovers their foolish attempt at deception. Powderiog the hair gives the eyes an unnatural brilliancy, hence it is frequently resorted to in court circles iu Europe. But, as a general thing, young gentlemen and old ! don't try to improve on divinity. God knows best what to do, and when he silver:) your hair with white, or paints youi: moustache with auburn, he has a purpose as grand as Himself. Here is something I heard Mr. Seward say once (you know thc cx-Prcmier is the homeliest man , except Gcn'l Sherman,- in America) well, old homely handsome Secretary Seward said : "Thc cleanest man is the most comely to look upon ; so bathe well. eat well, aod love well, aod jomehow or other the homeliest will be beautiful." Now, it has struck me a thousaud time that Mr. Seward, who looks always so neat aod sweet, is really a handsome mao ! The cleanest man is the best mao-I mean morally and physically, too ! How many" young ladies-and I beg their pardoos for sayi?g it-look beautiful at a distance ? but when you' come close to them they have a soiled look. The hair will look greasy. Now there is no more excuse for puttiosr grease on your hair than there is fo. putting it on your hands. You p< >ple, I say, who grease your bair are just as barbarous as the Camanche Indian who greases his face ! A gentleman will never fall in love with a soiled woman. She must bc sweet. Have you never, in so-called polite society, met a young lady whose face would be improved by a good, square washing ? Now this is plain, homely talk. European court circles do more bathing, ten to one, than the bourgeoise. Indeed, in Russia-in Moscow, where you see the sweetest blonde women in the world-they have four bath-houses, each as large ss the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Once daily every j man and woman and all, under pure, sparkling, rejuvenating water. This makes the hair light-colored-gives it i fleecy, airy appearance, and gives to Lhe homeliest something of the angelic. I beg pardoo again for this plain talk. STATE BIGHTS. "Thc nation at large is surfeited of State rights, as held at thc South and ay the leaders of the Southern opinion, ind it wili take many years to unlearn its experience of thc bloody resulto which ensued from peimitticg the national supremacy of such men and such doctrines."-Boston Journal. The South has bald no more marked fiews in regard to the rights of the States than can be found io Mas? sachusetts. During the Hartford coo rention discussion, Massachusetts was States' righf3 up to the hub. During the discussion cf the annexation ot fexas, it held the most extreme views, rhe written coostitutioo of Mas? sachusetts is not far removed from the ideas of Calhoun and McDuffic. The bill of rights cf thc old Bay State was .head, we think, of any State south of Lhe Potomac. The greatest teachers of liscord and bloody instructions have been thc m *n of Massachusetts, from the embargo till now-or from Josiah Quincyand thc floor of the House tc harrison and Wendell Phillips before the people. In thc Massachusetts jeclaratioo of rights, the constitution ?ays : "ARTICLE 4. The people of this ;ommonwealth have the sole and ?xclu^ive right of governing themselves is a free, sovereign and indepeodeot State; and do, and forever hereafter shall exorcise and enjoy every power', jurisdiction and ri^ht which ia oot, cr may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America io Congress assembled-" Thc day is not far distant when Massachusetts will occupy her old ground for the rights of the State agaiost thc usurpations and despotisms of the Federal gouet muent ; and, as under the administration ot Polk, Tyler and Calhoun in thc State Department, she will prove as rebellious, on paper, to Federal power as was South Carolina in the worst days of nullification. It ts not the South which has unlearned her experience, but New England, and Mas? sachusetts especially. [.Ww York Express. 9eW A few nights since, at a late hour, the speaking tube at thc office door of ooc of New llaveu's popular physicians was used by some midnight wag, to thc following effect : The doctor was io a sound sleep, wheo he was partially awakeocd by a "halloo" through the tube, wheo the followi ;g dialogue took place: "Well, what do you wast ?" ??Does Dr.- Jones live here ?" "Yes, what do you want ?" 14Areyou Dr. Jones ?" "Yea." "Dr. Simon Jones ?" "Yea-yes !, what do you want ?" "Why, how long have you lived here ?" "Some twenty years ; why?" Why? why don't you wow ?" "If you stay there about ten seconds more you'll find I am moving !" and fae bounded but of bed, but the patient was heard "moving" down thc street at a rite that defied pursuit. [From the Raral Southerner.] WEAT THE HON. ?OBT. TOO?BS KNOWS ABOUT FAR Ti INC "A NEW DEPARTURE.''* We were pleased, a few days since, to welcome io oar sanctum this distinguish? ed gentleman and Statesman, and to converse with him for two hours* We had heard, through our friend ''Pro? gress," (.John T. Wingfield, Esq., of Washington, Ga.,) that Gen. Toombs manifested much interest in, and de? voted considerable time to, the cultiva? tion of his farm on which he resides, near Washington, but we were net pre? pared to Sad in him :be enthusiast that he is on the subject of improving our agriculture. We did not expect to find a man who has spent almost his entire life in public affairs and trusts .au analytical agriculturist. Bat his know? ledge of this, as of all other matters, is comprehensive. "Suppose, General Toombs, that the South plant, in cotton only, one half the area that she does, and devote the re? mainder of her lands to grains and grasses, what would be the result ?" we asked. "Why, in five years she would be the ric!' .?t country on the face of the globe," was the earnest reply. Editor-"Do you consider this section of the Sooth adapted to growing grasses." Gen. Toombs-ul do. I have never seen any region, either in Europe or America, where clover and grasses suc? ceed more beautifully than they do iu Middle Georgia." Editor-"Have you grown any grass? es?" Geo. Toombs-"I have succeeded well with clover, orchard grass, and lu? cerne on uplands, and with herds grass on damp lands. I consider lucerne thc finest forage grass that grows. It is *hrifty and hardy, and makes more for tge for six months in the year than any other crop. It should be sown more universally than it is." Editor-"But can the South afford to grow only half the cotton that she docs? We have to purchase such a vast amount of manufactures of other countries and other sections of our own country." Gen. Toombs-"If the Sooth raised only half the cotton she does, she -oald realize as much money for it as she does for her present crops, and would have her provisions and stock at home besides. She would then be able to manufacture much more largely at home." Editor-"You think, then, that every farmer should raise at home articles of consumption ?" Gen. Toombs-"Yes, and every man can do it, and when he does, he will be the most independent of all men." Such was the tenor of Gen. Toombs expressions, and who will deny their practicability ? This is one "depar? ture" from old customs that he endors? es. CIGARS APtO ECONOMY. "Father, do you remember that mother asked you for two dollars this norning ?" "Yes, my child ; what of it ?" "Do you remember that mother didu't get the two dollars?" "Ye?. And I remember what little ?iris don't think about." "What is that, father?" "I remember that we arc not rich. But you scetu in a browu study, what is ny little daughter thinking about ?" "I was thinking how much ono cigar soots." "Why, it costs ten cents-not two lollara by a long shot." "But len cents three times a day i* hirty cents." "That's as true as thc multiplication able." "And there arc seven davs in thc ireek." "That's so, by the almanac." "And seven fimos thirty cents are wo hundred and ten cents." "Hold on. FI! surrender. Herc, :ak? thc Iwo dollars to your motlier, tod tell her that I'll do without cigars! *or a week." "Thank you, father; but if you would! )nly say a year. It would save more j ;han a hundred dollars. We would alli lave shoes and dresses, aud mother a! i nice bonnet, and lots of pretty things." j "Well, to make my little girl happy. [ will say a year." "Oh, that will he so nice!. But wouldn't it bc about as easy to say al? lays ? Then we would hare the money ?very year, and your lips would bc so nuch sweeter wheo you kiss us." S-LF'RKLIAKCE* There is no habit that a young man leeds to learn earlier, and an old man forget later, thau that of depending upon lineelf. Wc do uot mean that moral tttributc of self.reliance which is a su- J Dreine faith iu one's own judgment,* ibiiity and capacity ; this is a very good . ittribute in its place, iu the higher; ipheres of actiou, when it is weil bounded-that ii, when one's own judgement, ability and capacity ot )thers ; but we mean that homely habit : if doing important tilings ourselves, instead of trusting to others to du them Torus. Oue half of the uudone duties if thia life are those we commit to thc (lands of others-friends, servants and ?gents. These duties are not their particular business, and they thcrelore> &3glect them, forget them, or slight them. Servants and agents will per I form their regular tasks faithfully and 1 nay be relied upon todo so, if they are! terrants and agents of proved diligence j i bat there are many things to be done or j looked after in every business that dot not belong to any particular depart? ment of duties. These should be attended to bj him whom they most concern ; it [^.trusted to others they will, half the time, bc unperformed or half performed, JOB WO ll K 0 F EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF The Sumter Watchman. -IN THE Highest Style of thc Art. and the result will be inconvenience, disappointment, failure and vexation. Giving orders would be a very agreeable way of accomplishing great tasks if they could be accomplished in that manner ; but no person ever achieved great resulfs in such a way. Orders are liable to be mislaid, forgotten, misconstrued and disobeyed. It is, therefore, not suffi? cient to give ordere ; it should be seen that they are executed ; it shcnld be seen to that they are well performed ; it is not sufficient lo have a task per? formed. There is no one who will or can toke so earnest an interest in a man's busioess as himself; and a little experience will serve to teach him that wheo he wants a thing thoroughly done, at the right time, and in the right way he must depend on himself alone to do it.-St- Louis Home Journal. HOW TH KV TUX K E UP. Somewhere near Louisville there lives a husband who was a soldier. Roth man and wife have fiery tempers which break out about once a month in a war of words. Then failing to reduce his wife to subjection in thc unequal strife, the soldier shoulders his tent, takes a frying-pan and provision?, goes to the woods and camps out. Xot msny days pass before loneliness compel- the woman to go in search of her lord, who, although he may have been in the dole? ful dumps before be saw her coming, whistles and sings at her approach and pretenc - at the green wood is the place for nim, and in it he could live forever. Then the wife bursts into tears ind prays him to return. Ile remains obdurate for a while, but finally suc? cumbs ; the two then rush into eich )titer's arms, then disentangle them? selves and rush, back home again, he >eariog thc tent and she the frying? pan. 8g?? A suggestive conversation re? ;ently took place between an eminent awyer and Judge Rodman, of the Supreme Court. Said thc lawyer : "Our people became iccdlessly alarmed and voted against Convention. Hodman : "Do you say 'needlessly ilarmcd? I do not agree with you. Chere was very good reason for their ears, for it is pretty certain tte United ;tatcs Government would have inter? bred and forbidden any changes to bc nade.'* Lawyer : "What right has t.he Govern - nent to interfere with eur affairs ? North Carolina has the right to alter her Con ititution, and the General Government las no more right to interfere with our tatters than it has with thc people of Sew York." Rodman : "Why,-, I thought yon vere a man of more intelligence than to alk of right. Do you not know that night makes right?" Lawyer : "Ah, well, ifyon set up that >lea then liberty is gone, constitutional ights are gone, and we live under a lespotism." Rodman : "You are right ; wc do live mder a despotism." Judge Rodman is a man of ability md a Radical. Ile has spoken thc ruth. Oxford Cor. Richmond Dixpatcli. figyThe late Empress of France, used iften, when a child at Granada, as eugene Montijo, to bc danced upon the ?ncc of Washington Irving. In a letter rritten in 1S53, just after the elevation? if Kugcoie to the high station she fiilod or eighteen years, Irving wrote thc oliowing, which now reads almost like >rophecy : "The last I saw of Eugene Montijo he was one cf the reigning belies of dadrid. X<?w Eugenie is*upon a throne, aunched from a returnless shore, upon i danserons sea, infamous for its remmdous ship wrecks. Ara I to ?ive o see thc catastrophe of her e.-ireer and he end of this suddcly conjured up ttupire, which seems to bcinaie of such turi as dreams are made of ' "I con ess my personal ao<j'taintar.ee with thc Mividiuls in this historical romance :ives me an uncommon interest in it ; ?ut I consider it stamped with danger nd instability and as ??able to oxfrava ;ant vicissitudes as ot.c of Duma's lovels." SOUTH CAROLINA Jentral Rail Road Co? Maf?^r^S) *r."?T7?TiiV"?7,? CHARLESTON, C., Ang ! .. 1ST!. rHE TWELFTH INSTALMENT OP TEX DOLL A KS PER SHARE, will bo payable n I'.'ih Sept., proximo. a Charleston-at the Office of thc Company, No. ll! Tr..;il -tr<-f. n Swater-To M .j T .!.>* KPH JOHNSON, o Clarendon-To |?r. G. ALLEN HUGGINS. WM. II. PERONNEAU, Treasurer. August Io Schciiuie Western division kVUtnliictou, Cbariott<* ami Bather lord Railroad. la^^TOJugMS Ornen ?v Acrarr i>r W KSTKKN 1>I\ nuns, Vti.visoTos, Cn\KLOTTK AS?? RcTiTn lt. Tl , Lioeoloton, N. C., June 2S, IS7I. LEAVE Charlotte S.30 A. M., Tuesdays, Thursdays xn-1 Saturdays, arriving at ;nerryvilio 12 45 P. M.. connecting with pood licks for Cleveland .Mincrnl >prin?.?. Return to Charlotte 6 P- M. *amc days. V. (?. JOHNSON, A<?s??tnr.t Sop't CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. CH l li LOTTE, X. C. tFV. R. BURDELL, ? P,.^CII.A1S rHE llth ANNUAL SESSION ?numcnc... on the 2nd October next, an.i continue* mfil ?.Qlh of June. 1S72. This school i.? believed ro possess pcrtilitr nd ?an'ngei for yi'un^-Ladi> .* to acquire a fi ni.* lied ducatinn, in ail branches usually taugiii ia Grri lass Female Seminaries. Circular anJ Catalogue containing full p:ir icular? as to ti-rir.<. Ac., forwarded on applier ion to thc I'rincipala. July 12 2m /