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VOL. 4. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JAyOABY 7, 1858. ^O. 1.
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For the Yorkville Enquirer.
THE GRAVE OF COL. WILLIAMS.
Upon a sunny slope the hero sleeps,
The green grass waring o'er his silent grave.
And the grand mountain with its craggy steeps
Dyed in the blood his heart so freely gave,
Like a bold and independent thoughts
Rising proudly 'gainst the distant sky,
And breathing of thedays when heroes fought
Till Freedom's bannerproudly waved on high.
No monumental urn contains his dust,
No pillared dome high rises o'er his grave,
No art-triumphant, animated, bust,
Marks the last resting of the bold and brave.
Behind him rolls Broad River's dashing tide,
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While round his feet the sullen waters glide,
Of Buffalo that chafes her sounding shore.
I trod upon the banks of creek and river,
In childhocd's davs?nor deemed a hero slept,
The dreamless slumber that awakens never,
Beneath the sod on which I careless stept;
And as I loitering watched the dashing wave
That eddied 'round the rocks an > pebbly strand,
I little thought heroic Williams' grave
Had marked this spot as consecrated land.
The careless angler lingering in the shade,
The sportive trout was all I sought or Saw,
Or truantfancy, by some love betrayed,
Felt not as now a reverential awe:
But now I pause?a proud and stalwart form,
A noble hero rises in my view,
And where careers the battle's wildest storm,
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1 see mm move?mesoui ui vamr iruc.
And o'er the hallowed dust I lightly tread,
'Tis glory's grave, I mark it with a tear,
And envy such a fame-encircled bed
To the heroic sleeper's houored bier.
Go visit it ye pilgrims, 'tis a shrine,
Where glows the patriot's warmest, purest, fire,
Where nature wears a beauty most divine,
And bids the soul to loftiest deeds aspire.
Miscellaneous Heabing
AN ACT
To raise. Supplies for the pear commencing
in October, one thousand right hundred
atid fifty-seven.
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That a tax for the sums, and in
the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be
raised and paid into the public treasury of
this State, for the use and service thereof,
that is to sav : sixty cents, ad valorem, on '
sales of goods, wares and merchandise, em- [
bracing all the articles of trade for sale, bar- j
ter or exchange, (the products of this State,
and the unmanufactured products of any of;
the United States or Territories thereof ex-1
cepted,) which any persou shall have made j
from the first day of January, of the present!
year, to the first day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ;
and fifty-eight, either on his, her or their i
capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of I
any person or persons, as agent, attorney or ;
consignee; twenty-five cents upon every !
hundred dollars of the amount of sales of!
goods, wares and merchandise whatever, i
which any transient person, not resident in j
this State, shall make in any house, stall or j
public place; teu dollars per day for repre-'
sen ting publicly, for gain and reward, any
play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or j
other employment of the stage, or any part
therein, or for exhibiting wax figures, or other j
shows of any kind whatsoever, to be paid j
into the hands of the Clerks of the Court j
respectively, who shall be bound to pay the I
same into the public treasury, except iu cases j
where the same is now reouired bv law to 1
i y |
be paid to corporations or otherwise.
II. That all taxes levied on property, as j
prescribed in the first section of this Act, '
shall be paid to the tax collector for the tax j
district in which said property is located j
III. In making assessments for taxes on
the value of taxable property used iu manu- >
facturing or for railroad purposes, within this j
S tate, the value of the machinery used there- j
every hundred dollars of the value of nil the
lands granted in this State, according to the
existing classification as heretofore established
; seventy cents per head on all slaves;
two dollars on each free negro, mulatto or
mestizo, between tbe ages of fifteen and fifty
years, except such as shall be clearly proved
to the satisfaction of the Collector to be incapable,
from maims or otherwise, of procuring
a livelihood ; twelve-and-a-half cents,
rv1 valorem, on every hundred dollars of the
value of all lots, lands and buildings, within
any city, town, village or borough, in this
State; fifty cents per hundred dollars on
factorage, employments, faculties and professions,
including the profession of dentistry,
(whether in the profession of law, the profits
be derived from the cost of suit, lees, or
other sources of professional income,) excepting
clergymen, schoolmasters, schoolmistresses
and mechanics, and on the amouut
of commissions received by vendue masters
and commission merchants ; twenty-five cents
per hundred dollars on the capital stock paid
in on the first ot October, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven, of all banks
which for their present charters have not
paid a bonus to the State; fifty cents on every
hundred dollars used or employed in this
State by any agent of any bank of issue out
of this State, between the first of October,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-sis, j
and the first of October, one thousand eight |
hundred and fifty-seven, iu effecting loans j
or discounts, and dealing iu exchange or ,
notes; twenty cents per hundred dollars ou j
the capital stock of all incorporated GasLight
Companies; one per cent, on all pre-;
niiums taken in this State by incorporated
iusurance companies, and by the ageucies of j
insurance companies, and under writers, j
without the limits of this State; fifteen cents j
on everv hundred dollars of the amount of
in shall nut be included, but only the value
of lots and building, as property merely.
IV. That the Tax Collectors in the several
districts and parishes in this State, in
their returns hereafter to be made, be and
they are hereby required and enjoined, to
state the precise amount of taxes collected
by them for the purpose of supporting the
police of the said several districts and parishes
aforesaid, statiug the rates per centum
on the amounts T>f the State tax collected
for said district and parish police purposes ;
and the Comptroller General shall return the
same in his report.
V. That free negroes, mulattoes and mes-.
tizoes, be and they are hereby required, to
make their returns and pay their taxes, during
the month of March.
VI. That the lots and houses on Sullivan's
Island shall be returned to the Tax Collector
of the tax district in which they are situate,
in the same manner as other town lots
and houses, and shall be liable to the same
rates of taxation.
VII. The Comptroller General is directed
to cause certificates for six percent, stock, to
be issued in the usual form, to the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company, and to the Bank
of the State, in substitution for any of the
Bonds of the State which have been heretofore
issued, and payable at the same time,
whenever the said Bonds shall be delivered
up and cancelled; and a seperatc account
shall be kept of all the Bonds and Stock issued
for account of the erection of the Capitol,
and for account of the Blue Ridge Railroad
Company, and the interest upon the
Bonds and Stock issued to the Railroad
Company shall be paid by the Bank in the
same manner as the interest upon other public
debts; and the interest upon the Bonds
and Stock, issued for the erection of the
Capitol, shall be paid at the treasury.
In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and
in the eighty-first year of the sovereignty
and independence of the United States of
America
JAMES CHESNUT, Jr.,
President of the Senate.
JAMES SIMONS,
Speaker House o f Representatives.
THE THINGS THAT WE EAT.
It is a subject of sensible rema#k by all
who properly consider the matter, that scruples
and prejudices by which we endeavor to
thwart the dispensations of Providence are
more than idle. One of the most absurd of
these is the fancy some people have for dc
priving themselves of the materials which
have been placed at our disposal for the purpose
of food. Many persons appear really
to esteem it a virtue to condemn themselves
to entire abstinence from animal food. Others
regulate their diet according to notions,
which examination in the light of science
ivould speedily explode.
A prejudice against fish has been at times
general; and during the prevalence of chol;ra.
especially, the public could not be per-1
>uaded that the danger lay, not in eating fish,
jut in eating it when not perfectly fresh.?
Jne ill effect ascribed to fish is the produc:ion
or augmentation of skin diseases. This
is supposed by many to have been the origin
Df the partial prohibition among the Jews;
whereas, it is more probable that, like other
laws regulating their diet, it was framed with
the view of keeping the Hebrews a distinct
nation. An old Roman law prohibited the
use of poultry ; and a reference to Apicius,
the great oracle of Roman cookery, will show
how much our modern bill of fare is limited
by prejudice. They considered delicacies
many things we could not be induced to
taste. On the other hand, pork, which is
among us a favorite meat, has been the abomination
of Eastern nations. The two
national dishes of China are dried sharks'
fins and birds' nest soup, the nests being
formed of a seaweed coated with a gelatinous !
matter deposited by a species of barnacle. |
The old Britons denied themselves, hare, 1
goose and fowl. Blackbirds were classed by
Cranmer among choice articles of food, and
cranes, herons and curlews were eaten in
the middle ages. If we look at the habits
of various nations with regard to diet, we
can hardly discover anything belonging to
the animal or vegetable kingdoms that has
not been, at one time or another, used as
food. Experience also has taught us what
kinds of food are most nutritious, and science
has explained why they are so. The first
great principle in regard to food sectns to be
that, as the constituents of the blood may be
arranged in the four classes of water?salts
?substances containing nitrogen, as the albumen
and fibrin of the muscles, and substances
containing no nitrogen, as fat?so in
food the same four constituents should be
present, for the substances cannot be converted
into each other. All four are contained
in animal and vegetable food, and in
milk. The similarity, in composition, between
fat and the sugar and starch which
form the chief part of vegetables, has long
been kuown to be very close, but it is also
discovered that vegetables contain a substance
identical with the albumen and fibrin
of the blood. These elements, however, are
in diffcreut proportions in different substances.
From the fables, that Hercules lived on
beef and figs, and that Chiron fed Achilles,
in his infancy, upon the marrow of lions and
bulls?we sec that the ancients had a correct
notion of the value of animal food. To
do work, food rich in nitrogen is requisite.?
ITi'rhfvcf in this sr?ah> stand the flesh of the
mammalia; that of a darker color is rather
more nutritious thau white meat; the flesh
of birds and fish is less uutritious than that
of animals. Neither albumen nor fatty substances
are alone capable of affording proper
nourishment. Animals fed on fresh butter,
lard and fat, have died starved, though in a
remarkable state of embonpoint. It is probable
that fat and other non-nitrogenous substauces
merely serve for the purpose of respiration
by means of their carbon. The effect
of an abundance of fatty and vegetable
food in producing fat, is familiar to every t
owner of live stock. Fowls are fattened for i
the London market by being confined in the c
dark, and crammed with a paste made of s
oat meal, mutton suet and molasses, or coarse f
sugar mixed with milk. On this diet they t
are ready in a fortnight, but cannot well be c
kept longer. The influence of externd tern- s
perature, excess of food, and want of exer- t
cise upon the c.ondition of the liver, is seen c
in that especial delicacy?foie gras. The o
goose destined to furnish the luxury is shut f
up in a basket where it cannot move, kept in fl
a room highly heated and assiduously stuffed t
. with food. There is a hole in its prison li
through which it pokes its head to get at a v
trough of charcoal and water. In a month c
the liver has acquired the requisite size and e
true flavor. There are some human beings ii
who subject themselves to a similar discip- n
line?a course of cramming and stuffing, a
heated rooms and an idle life. They would tl
do better, if instead of taking medicines for tl
dyspepsia, they would give full play to the n
faculties of mind and body, and proportion a
their food to the requirements of nature, a
without any experiments in the way of de- a
parture from the ordinary experience of men si
in regard to suitable variety for the table.? ii
Man is an omnivorous animal?neither a o
vegetarian nor a muttonarian?and the per- tl
mission given by Divine Providence to "slay n
and eat," as well as to use the fruits of the vt
field for food, is significant of the certainty it
that our health and comfort will be best pro- s;
moted by a complianoe with this wise provi- u
sion.?A/cic York Express. si
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A WORD TO BOYS. t(
Now, boys, we are going to give you a bit at
of advice, and we want to talk with you as n
if you were all our brothers, (what a young n
army we should have,) and we wish you to *
give attention till the lecture is done, aod ai
we dismiss you with a benediction. A
We want to talk to you about your eveu- ai
ings; Where do you spend them ? how do ai
you spend them? Are you in the streets? bi
are you at the theatre or the ball room?? a<
Are you meetiug each other at corners of T
lanes and alleys, or by the doors of country ct
shops, and there indulging in conversation tl
far from instructive, or using coarse and sin- tl
ful language ? Or are you in your pleasant gi
homes, sitting by cheerful fire-sides, intently tl
engaged in reading some instructive volume, n<
which a master mind has prepared for the ei
purpose of benefitting his fellows ? si
If the former, we almost despair of your ra
becoming tolerable men, or useful citizens; c<
if the latter, you may be pursuing the up- a
ward path to usefulness, honor and fame. fc
Precious hours are these evenings that b<
you are thoughtlessly wasting; they are fast la
fleeting, and never will they return again.? n<
How that inquiring mind might be strength- w
ened by the discipline of connected study ta
planned by a judicious parent or teacher. m
Think of it, boys. What if you have a fo
deficient education ; go to work and study, cl
A college will not make you students, or m
men of sturdy intellect. Make yourselves ! of
You can do it?you alone have the power, m
Determine that you will be known, that
your influence shall be felt, and it shall unto
you even be as you will. Discipline your
minds, learn something every evening. Fix w
some historical fact upon your meinery?solve t0
some problem in mathematics?learn the &
boundary of some State or country, get by m
heart one rule of grammar, or study thor- ^
oughly a few definitions; only persevere, ar
and you will soon be astonished at your suecess.
Such exercise will strengthen your g'
memory, invigorate your intellect, open up of
delightful fields of thought, and give your
imagination the right kind of food, healthy fu
and agreeable. &
Then, by-aud-by, do you think you will n<
regret that you have thus spent your time, I'
when you gather arouud your own firesides tl
men of genius and letters ? When instead w
of a few slang words, coarse anecdotes, in- fu
delicate mirth and boisterous sociability, you ta
1 can converse about the world of letters, learn
some new theory of scientific importance? sa
listen to, and join in argument, advance if
opinions, and feel yourself indeed a man ! 1>
Xo, no; you will look back upon these w
now despised hours as stepping-stones to for- tl
tune, perhaps greatness. Then give up your ct
| idle companions, and make some happier by sc
I your presence. Head to tnat aged man, j p'
; whose eyes have long been too dim to scan ! ai
; the lettered page, and his beaming smile | &
shall repay you tenfold. Spur the younger i th
I oues of the household to action, by innocent | h<
rivalry with them, thus striving to benefit j al
i others as well as yourself. # Be not content to
I in idleness, but set your mark high, and of
then climb the rugged hill of Parnassus, j di
! crying, "Excelsior, excelsior." j 01
O/ice Branch, j
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i THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOSES. j m
1
A first division of noses, includes all that j w
are iu proportion to the face, too small, /. e., j of
all such as arc decidedly less than one-third w
of the length of the face, or less long than ce
the forehead is deep. The varieties of these to
are numerous in the snub, flat, retrousse, |
and up-turuned, or celestial noses. The j w
natural types to which they are generally J hi
: referable are either the little noses of chil- |
drcn, or the flat broad noses of negroes; and !
: it is consistent with this that in uien of j o'
civilized races all such noses indicate de- I o1
: fectivc intellectual power; and do so with a j
j certainty of symbolism which nothing but j 31
excellence in the form of the head, as in the !
: case of Socrates, can neutralize. They tell ! ft
of au unfinished intellectual dcvelopement; | "
1 aud the lower and flatter, and more snub , a
they arc, the more certainly do they indicate ; h
| feebleness and meanness of intellect, and of 1h
| a mind in which bad temper more than good
judgment will have sway. It is not quite j w
! so with woman. In them the whole orgaui- a:
zation, in its gradual develmcnt, diverges | y
j less than that of men does, from the almost h
i similar form which they both have in early y
j childhood. The retention, therefore, of the c
, little child-like-nose implies no such grave p
j defect in the woman's mind. If her head ti
>e well formed, such a nose may express
iavietc, or, perhaps smartness of wit und
lexterous intelligence. But even in woman
uch noses need lo be associated with good
eatures. If they are not they add much
o the expression of insignificance or even of
oarseness. The thicker and larger form of
nub nose in either sex commonly indicate
he predominence of the material sensuous
haracter ; and a turn-up nose with wide
bvious nostrils is an open declaration (so
ar as nose can makeone)ofan empty and inlafced
mind ; of a mind in which there is but
he spurious imitation of that strength and
oftier pride which the wide nostrils in a
rell-formed nose iuight indicate. Large
loses, in men, are generally good signs;
specially, they add emphasis to the good
adication of a well-formed head; but they
lust not be too fleshy or too lean. If they
re long (vet short of being snout like,)
hey mark, as prolongations of the forehead,
he intelligent, observant and productive
ature of the refined mind. If Roman,
rched high and strong, they are generally
ssociated with a less developed forehead
nd a larger hind-head; and they disclose
trength of will and energy, rather than
atellectual power; they show also the want
f that refinement which is indicated by
be straighter nose. The Jewish or ha whose
commonly signifies shrewdness in
orldly matters; it adds force to the roeanig
of the narrow concentrative forehead
prubolical of singleness of object; and its
sualiy narrow nostrils wear the unfailing
gn of caution and timidity. The Greek,
:aight nose 'indicates refinement of charac;r,'
love for the fine arts, and Idles letters,
jtuteness, craft, and preference for indirect
ither than direct action. 'Perpendicular
oses,?that is such as approach this form,
* * suppose a mind capable of acting
ad suffering with calmness and energy.'?
. nose slightly befied at its end, extends
ad coroborates the indication of the
nalytic forehead. Such noses, large and
road pointed, are frequent in men with
;ute practical knowledge of the world.?
he same befied end is often seen in the
igitative or wide-nostrilled nose, wide at
le end, thick and broad, indicating a mind
lat has strong powers of thought, and is
iven to close and serious meditation. With
icse symbols, Lavater's dicta fall in : 4 A
ase whose ridge is broad, no matter wheth
straight or curved, always announces
iperior faculties. But this form is very
ire.' And agaiD, <A small nostril is the
irtain sign of a timid spirit.' In a woman
large nose is of more uncertain augury;
ir it is apt to extend into caricature. If it
3 well-formed and finely modeled, a rather
rge nose, and especially one which is
;arly straight, or slightly arched, is, in a
oman, often characteristic of excllent men1
power. But any of the more peculiarly
ale forms of nose, if large and coarsely
rmed in woman, denote a too masculine
laracter; and those that of ill omen in
en, much worse in women, since.the evil
' being inappropriate is added to that of
alformation.? Quarterly Review.
ALL ABOUT MARRYING.
The world is just now in the midst of its
edding season, and it is a favorable time
whisper a word in the ears of the
ittering expectants. It is really not so
uch an object for jesting as for serious
lought. We look upon it in that light,
id have saved some capital reflections from
ie Sandusky Register, and for which we
ve credit to the graceful and practised pen
Mr. Victor:
It is a mournful feet that this world is
ill of young men that want to marry and
ire not. Deny this, as some will, it is
jvertheless true, as we can easily show.?
3 this town, for instance, there are some
lirty or forty young men, well to do in the
ay of salaries and business, yet who reuse
to take the step which they all want to
ke, but do not; aud why?
Now the first question to be asked by any
ine man is, can I properly support a wife
I take one ? Then he counts the cost of
ving as the woman of his preference would
ish, and lo 1 he finds to his amazement
lat his income is vastly too small to support
ren a modest modern establishment, and
Qnrlilanrwl Ktt r)in roflor?finn lin
lunges into labor and courts business with
i assiduity that takes away his health
rentually, in hope of attaining income
lat shall enable hiin to marry and have a
:>tne of his own. And this is the secret of
1 the hard unending toil of young men of i
-day who are fast approaching thirty years ;
age?this is the the reason of so maoy j
isappointed men and waiting woman, deny j
hide it as you may.
But, says some good woman, you do us
justice, for any woman who truly loves a !
an will adapt herself to his circumstances
ith the greatest pleasure. But what man j
' any sensitiveness, or high sense of honor, j
ould take a woman from easy circumstan- j
is and a pleasaut and well-furnished home j
i adorn his housework, as the first principles !
: economy would demand of him ? Few !
ill do it j for though the woman signifies
er willingness to take up with such ex;riencc,
we arc all such creatures of cirlmstances
that there would be complainings
i her part, eventually, and sickness from
rer exertion, and unhappincss from many
ires?all of which would render marriage
i
aything else but pleasant.
And so the young men wisely think, pre- j
irring a few years more of single loneliness, '
i order to obtain money enough to support'
modest house of between twelve and fifteen :
undred dollars a year, where she must do j
or nron wnrlf
Now, what is the remedy ? Plainly that!
'omen must fit themselves to be such wives !
9 the youDg men must have. Else the i
oung men must fit themselves to be such ]
usbands as the women want, and spend the
cry choicest years of their life in the
easelcss toil, breaking down health, hapiuess,
energy, only to give themselves up
o marriage when the best of mpnhood is
gone. The woman must choose for themselves,
which it shall bo, for the matter is
solely in their hands. Let mothers say to
their daughters, put on that calico gown, go
into your household and fit yourselves to
become a wife and a mother; let the young
women cheerfully consent to such service,
and instead of lavishing all thought, and
time and money upon the adornment of the
body, seek to nccustom the hands to proper
industry, and to school the mind to proper
tastes?then there will ho no longer complaints
that young men 'cannot afford to
marry,' and we shall have beautiful, modest
wives and loving husbands, and life shall
once more have something of the truthfulness
and virtue which it had in the days of
our blessed fathers and mothers, and when
| it was woman's ambition to become the head
I-*'* i 1.1 .1
or tne nouse, ana tnc motner or noDie
children.
"Double Narrative of the Creation
in Genesis."?Professor J. W.
Gibbs, of Yale College, the distinguished
orientalist and scholar, has contributed to
the New Englandcr an article with the
above title, in which he shows that the beginning
of Genesis contains two accounts of
the Creation; the one extending to the
third vere of chapter second, inclusive, and
the other to the end of chapter third. The
first section, according to this division, has a
visible unity, it being the history of seven
successive days. . The second section has
also an unity of its own. The beginning
and end of it both refer to the Gardeu of
Eden. The second section has a distinct
superscription, Geo. 2 : 4. Compare
similar superscriptions, Gen. 0:1, 20: 1,
11 : 10, 30 : 1; but see also Gen. 10: 20,
31, 32, 30 : 30, Ps. 72: 20. Sometimes
we find double titles. See Gen. x, xvi.?
In the first section the Deify is called
E/ohim (God) thirty-five times, and by no
other name. In the second section he is
called .Jehovah E/ohim (Eord God) nineteen
times, and by no other name, where the
writer speaks in his own person. There are
three instances in which the woman or
serpent speaks, and the Deity is called E/ohim,
Gen. 3,1, 3, 5.
The Professor judges that the writer of
the first section had digested plans before
him, and he notes a rythuiusand uniformity
in the construction of his sentences, contrasting
with the more simple and artless
style of the second section. The writer of
the second often finds occasion to go back,
in order to mention circumstances which he
had omitted in their proper place. After
noticing the formation of man, and being
about to place him in the garden of Eden,
he goes back to describe the planting and
location of that garden, chap. 28,15. Man
is placed in Eden, and the temptation is at
hand; the sacred penman goes back to
notice the origin of the woman, as she was
a partner with him in the transgression.?
This agaiu leads the writer to describe the
occasion of her being created, chapter 2,
18-25.
Prof. Oibbs notices some apparent inconsistencies.
In the first section, man appears to be
created at the same time with woman, Gen.
1: 26,27. In the second, he is formed
from the dust, chap. 2 : 7, 4 : 19, and woman
afterwards, 2 : 22. In the first section,
plants arc produced by the mere will of God,
and before the creation of man, Gen. 1:11,
26. In the second, plants appear to originate
from natural causes and from humaD
culture, chap. 2 : 5, 8. In the first section,
the earth has more of Neptunian origin,
Gen. 1:2. In the second, more of a vulcation,
chap. 2 :5, 6.
These circumstances, the Professor thinks,
are capable of a plausible solution. He
also notices some refutations. The separa
tion of the 7th day from the 1st chapter, to
which it properly beloDgs, has had, in several
respects, he thinks, an injurious tendency,
lie does not see how the truth of this theory
can well be denied, nor does he deem it inconsistent
with the Divine authority which
we wish to attach to the Bible.
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Manners?Male and Female.?Who
can tell why women are expected, on pain of
censure and avoidance, to conform to a high
standard of behavior, while men are indulged
in another a great deal lower? We
never could fully understand why men
should be tolerated in the chewing of tobacco,
in smoking, and in spitting every where
almost, and at all times, whereas a woman
caunot do any of these things without exciting
aversion and disgust. Why ought a
man be allowed to be 60 self-indulgent, putting
his limbs and persou in all manner of
attitudes, hi /ever uncouth and distasteful,
merely because such vulgarities yield him
temporary ease, while a woman is always required
to preserve an attitude, if not of
positive grace, at least of decency and propriety,
from which if she departs, though
but for an instant, she forfeits respect, and
is iustantly branded as a low creature!
Can any body say why a man, when he
has the tooth-ache, or is called to suffer in
any other way, should be permitted, as a
matter of course, to groan and bellow, and
vent his feelings very much in the style of
an animal not endowed with reason, while a
woman similarly suffering must bear it in
silence and decorum ? Why should men as
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a Class naDltuany, ana as a raauer 01 ngiu,
boldy wear the coarsest qualities of human
nature on the outside, and swear and crowd
and fight and brutify themselves, so that
they are obliged to be put into separate pens
in the cars on railroads, and at the depots,
while women must appear with an agreeable
countenance, if not in smiles, even when
the head, or perhaps the heart aches, and
are expected to permit nothing ill-tempered,
disagreeable or even unhappy to appear outwardly,
but to keep all these concealed in
their bosoms to suffer as they may, lest they
might otherwise lessen the cheerfulness of
others ?
These are a few suggestions only among
many we would bint to the stronger and
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| more exacting sex to be reflected on for the j
:! improvement of their tastes and manners,
i In the mirror thus held up before them,
i they cannot avoid observing the very different
standards by which the standard of
the two sexes is constantly regulated. If
any reason can be assigned why one should
always be a lady and the other hardly ever
a gentleman, we hope it will be done.?
Xirwar/: Advertitrr.
Unfortunate Rencontre.?A difficulty
occurred on the 24th inst., at a public
meeting in Brunswick, Glynn county, Ga.,
between J. \V. Moore, Esq., the representative
to the Legislature, and Col. Carey W.
Styles, late of this Stato, and formerly
editor of the Edgefield Informer. The
meeting was called by Mr. Styles, who was
, the conservative candidate for Mayor, and
who announced that he would discuss "men
and measures." The meeting was a crowded
one, and in the course of his remarks,
Mr. Styles denounced the "AcademyBill,"
?which, it seems, Mr. Moore had supported
in tViA T.orviclofnra?_*ia it a avefam nf r?nn_
Ill b 11 Vs JJVglCiai'Ul V WO "" a OJOIVUI VI vvufiscation
and spoliation," applying to it the
term "dishonorable," and other epithets of
that character. The correspondent of the
Savannah Republican, who was present, and
whose statements, that paper says, may be
relied upon, says:
At this stage of the speech, Mr. Moore
interrupted the speaker by rising, with his
I hand in his vest, and saying, " Tf you say
that T havo done anything dishonorable, it
is a falsehood." "Whereupon, Mr. Styles,
having ceased, turned in the direction of
Mr. Moore, hurled back the falsehood in
stronger language, and placed his hand upon
his pistol. Mr. Moore retorted, and drew a
pistol. The next moment both gentlemen
levelled their pistols and fired, without effect.
Then commenced a scene of confusion,
which it would be impossible to describe,
but which you may imagine when you
learn the fact that many persons were sitting
between the combatants.
The firing continued between the gentlemen
above mentioned, and others, until six
or sevcu shots were discharged. Our worthy
Mayor, James Houston, being one of the
persons who fired at Mr. Styles.
All at once, Mr. Moore was heard to ut
ter groans and cries of distress. The lights
were struck out, and the writer made all
possible haste to leave, with the most of the
crowd. Mr. Moore was discovered to be
shot in the abdomen, and died in about one
hour afterwards. The next morning, Mr.
Styles surrendered himself to the Sheriff,
and now awaits his examination befor Judge
Cochren.
Beautiful Illustration ?An eloquent
New England orator lately delivered the following
:
"I was told to-day a story so touching in
reference to this that you must-let me tell it.
It is a temperance case, but it will illustrate
this just as well. It is the story of a mother
on the green hills of Vermont, holding by
the right hand a son, sixteen years old, mad
with love of the sea. And, as she stood by
the garden gate on a sunny morning, she
said : 'Edward, they tell me?for I never
saw the ocean?that the great temptation of
the seaman's life is drink. Promise me that
before you quit your mother's hand, you will
never drink.' 'And,' said he, (for he told
me the story) 'I gave her the promise, and I
went the broad globe over?Culcutta, the
Mediterranean, San Francisco, the Cape of
Good Hope, the North Pole, and the South
Sea?I saw them all in forty years, and I
Dever saw a glass filled with sparkling liquor
that ray mother's form by the garden gate,
on the green hill-side of Vermont, did not
rise before me; and to-day at sixty, my lips
are innocent of the taste of liquor. (Applause.)
Was not that sweet evidence of
the power of a single word? Yet that was
but half. 'For,' said he, 'yesterday there
came into my counting room a young man
of forty, and asked me, 'Do you know me ?'
'No.' (Well,' said he, <1 was once brought
drunk into your presence on shipboard ; you
were a passenger; the captain kicked me aeide
; you took me to your berth and kept
me there until I had slept off the intoxication
; you then asked me if I had a mother;
T anlJ T nflnav 1/nnrw q wrrvr/3 frnm liac lirta
1 oa,u a uc?c? ?????? ?"??* "p" >
you told me of yours at the garden gate, and
to-day I am the master of one of the finest
packets in New York, and I come to ask you
to call and see me.' How far that little
candle throws its beams! That mother's
word on the green hillside of Vermont! Oh,
God be thanked for the almighty power of a
single word I" ,
The Dead Mother.?Look there 1 in J
that corpse you see the cold, dead body of
one of the best and godliest of mothers it
was ever our privilege to know. She had a
son; he was the stay of her widowhood; so :
kind, so affectionate, so loving. Some are
taken away from evil to come, laid in the
lap of mother earth, safe btneath the grave's
green sod, they hear not and heed not the
storm that rages above. Si'ch was not her
happy fortune. She lived to see that son a
disgrace, and all the promises of his youth
blighted and gone, he was drawn into the
habits of intemperance. On her knees she
pleaded with him, on her knees she prayed
for him.
How mysterious are the ways of Providence
! She did not live tosee him changed,
and with such thorns in her pillow, such
daggers, planted by such a hand, in her
heart, she could not live, she sank under
*' ?? ? j j a vvwrtlan lnnrf
tnese grieus, auu uicu ui * uiuscu m,?n,?
We told him so. With bitter burning tears
he owned it, charging himself with his
mother's death?confessing himself a mother's
murderer. Crushed with sorrow, and
now all alone, he went to see the body. Alone
beside that cold, dead, unreproaching
mother he knelt down and wept out in terrible
remorse. After awhile he arose. Unfortunately?how
unfortunate that a spirit
bottle should have bean left there !?his eye
fell on the old teaptar. You hare seen the
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iron approach the magnet Call it spellfascination,
call it anything bad, demoniacal,
but as the iron is drawn by the magnet, or as
a fluttering bird, fascinated by the burning
eye and glittering skin of the serpent, walks
into its envenomed expanded jaws, so was he
drawn to the bottle. Wondering at his delay,
they entered the room, and now the bed
holds two bodies?a dead mother, and her
deaddrunk son.?Dr. Gvthrie.
Parchment from Paper.?The days
of sheepskin, as a material for writing on,
seem to be numbered, and it is probable, too,
that it will be degraded from its dignity of
the drum-head. Paper-makers have succeeded
in making from rags a very exact
imitfttinn nf mrehmpnt hut a still hptt*r
imitation has been produced almost by accident.
It has been found that common
unsized paper, if immersed in a solution of
acid?three parts of water to one of acid?
and suffered to remain there for three minutes,
becomes, when taken out and well washed
in cold water, almost exactly like parchment.
It shrinks somewhat, but is increased fully
eightfold in strength, while no change in its
weight takes place A number of scientific
men in this city, professional and amateur,
have been experimenting on it, and with
the most astonishing results. It has been
brought before the Academy of Natural
Sciences and the Franklin Institute, and the
accomplished gentlemen of these institutions
confess that they are wholly unable to account
for the change that is produced in the
paper by this very simple process. The
only thing known is that the change takes
place, and that the commonest kind of paper
acquires all the properties of parchment.?
There must care be taken in its preparation,
and the paper before drying must be ironed,
or calendered; but nothing else is nedessary.
South Carolina College.?We are
glad to give expression to tho belief that
this cherished institution is in the soun jest
condition. It has now a roll of 203 students \
and this number will be increased in *
January. The catalogue for 1858 will
probly reach 215, and probably more. The
spirit of the young gentlemen is of the
most commendable character, aod we know
that the College will open iD January under
the most favorable auspices. Who will not
rejoice r We cannot disguise our neartteit
pleasure at the striking exhibition of the
public favor and confidence. We miss from
the list of its Trustees the names of Col.
Wade Hampton, Senior, Col. W. C. Preston
and Gen. Gillespie. These gentlemen
have been connected with the College since
its infancy, and none have rendered more
faithful and efficient service. They have
voluntarily retired from all active participation
in its management, but we know that
their interest will continue unabated to the
last. A link which cements our College
with the past has thus been broken, and it
now becomes our duty to cherish the recollection
of their valuable service, and to hold
up to those who come after them the bright
example of their patriotic devotion.? Carolinian.
Health and Beauty in Woman.?
At eighteen, said a foreigner, & young American
woman is the prettiest in the world;
but at thirty, mon J)ieu, she is already old
and ugly. Though there were some of a
Frenchman's exaggerations in the remark,
there was also a substance of truth. Why
is it that the beauty of our females fades so
soon ? Or, to go at once to the real issue?
for beauty is only permanent wnere tnere is
health?why is it that our women, as compared
with the women, of other temperate
climates, are so delicate and fragile ?
The answer may be made in a few words.
It is because they neglect air and exercise.
Weakness, lassitude, and a fading complexion,
as inevitably follow indolence and confinement
as tbe wilting of a plant results
from its deprivation of light. It is a law of
our existence, that we must take daily exercise
if we would continue health. It is a
fact in physiology, that a pure atmosphere
is indispensable to a vigorous vitality. All
the refinement of civilization, all the resources
of science, have failed to supply a
substitute for fresh air and exercise. The
poor and rich stand on the same platform in
reference to this necessity of our nature.?
The lady in silks and satins can buy no cosmetic
so efficacious as the sunshine and
breeze which are poured out at every step of
her humble sister.
Source of Fat.?During the course of
the past year, experiments have been made
in France on a number of ducks, to prove
that the fat may exceed the quantity which
could be referred to the food, they were supplied
with. Some were fed on rice,' a substance
which contains only few parts of fat
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ID a luousauu. vyiuciu 1CU UU live mm a
certain amount of butter added. ' At the
end of the experiment, the first were as lean
as when first placed upon the diet; the latter,
in a few days, became positively balls of
fat. Other experiments were made on pigs.
It was found as the result of several trials,
that there was sometimes more fat produced
than was contained in the food on which they
were fed. Food which, given alone, has not
the properties of fattening, when mixed with
a fatty matter acquires the property to an as
tonishing degree; and fattening articles of
food, which do not contain much fat, always
abound with its chemical constituents, the
principal of which is azote, and from whence
the fat acquired is certainly derived.
1ST " You will loss nothing in the'long
run," said an eminent divine, from the pulpit,
"by being kind, affectionate and cheerful."
Before night the eminent divine flogged
six of his children within an inoh of
their lives, and gave his wife a tremendous - - .j
"blowing up," because she had forgotten to
sew a string on his night oap. "
tST. Houses enongh have been bpilt in Chi- '
eago, within a year, to reach 17 miles.'
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