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Straps & Jfacts.
Six thousand six hundred people
visited the Great Eastern on Tuesday last.
The Metropolitan Hotel bill for
boarding the Japanese is $91,000. Among
the items are ten thousand bottles of champagne.
A Baptist Church in Pickens District
some time since, excommunicated some
of its members because they were Free
Masons.
Ex-Pxesident Tyler has declared, j
through the press, that he is for disunion in
the event of the election of either Mr. Bell,!
or Mr. Lincoln, or Mr. Douglas, to the
Presidency, and that in either case he will
fight for a funeral! He is particularly
fierce against Mr. Bell.
The circulation of the Bible is increasing
in Turkey, and converted Turks
preach the Gospel in Constantinople, and if
the Turkish government were strong enrmoh
to see that its own edicts were res
pected, the spread of Christianity would be
great in that country. But the fanaticism
of the Turks shows itself wherever it can.
"We deeply regret to state that John
Erwin, Esq., of this city, to whom we referred
yesterday morning, as lying dangerously
ill, departed this life, yesterday, about
noon. Thus has ended the life of one of
the most useful, influential and venerable
citizens of Charlotte. Peace to his ashes.?
Charlotte Bulletin, 19th inst.
Captain Kell, the agent of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, who was sent
out to take up the Newfoundland end of
the cable, has succeeded in raising a portion
of it, after some weeks of labor, and has
discovered a serious defect in it, caused by
its resting and chafing on a ledge of sharp
rocks, over which it was laid, a mile or two
from Bay of Bull's Arm, Trinity Bay.
A home for aged men is a new
notion just originated in Boston, and
** ' ? A AAA
will soon be practically realized, as %>iu,uuv
have been subscribed in a few days, out of
$30,000 needed. The institution is intended
for such aged men born in Boston
whom the reverses of business or loss of
means of support have thrown on the charity
of strangers, or the care of impoverished
relatives.
For several weeks past, the diptheria
has prevailed in the adjoining town of
Mechaniesburg, in the Ccunty of Giles. It
baffles the skill of the most skillful physicians.
All who tyike the disease, it seems,
die. Thus far a considerable number have
died?as high as five in one family. The
mails between Mechanicsburg and all the
adjoining towns have been discontinued.?
Jefferson ( Fa.) Advocate.
The Montgomery, Ala., Mail records
the following: A citizen of Montgomery,
in giviDg his return to the censustaker
the other day, estimated his cow at
fifteen hundred dollars. This will be the
highest-priced cow that will be contained
in the census of this country, if not of the'
State. Her owner acknowledges a weak-j
ness with regard to his estimate of her;j
indeed, he would not part with her at any!
price. We've heard him say that she will j
give twelve hundred gallons of milk a year.
Xhe Memphis Appeal, of Saturday;
says: A suit which possessed certain pe-j
cul:ar points was decided by his Honor;
Judge Dixon, of the common law court, j
rpsfcerdav. A traveler, while a guest at the ;
J ~ ** ' * ' _ I
Worsham House, lost the sum of four hun-i
dred dollars, which was stolen from him!
while there. The traveler brought suit against
Mr. Worsham, the proprietor of the |
hotel, for the amount lost, which Mr. Worsham
resisted. A decision was given, yes- j
terday, for the plaintiff', and an amount equal
to the sum of money lost assessed against
Mr. Worsham
We learn from the Rock Hill Citron- j
icle, that Ex-Gov. Alston has distributed
five quarter eagles to "the five most order- j
ly, industrious, and of good example to j
their childreo", among the females of the)
Catawbas. These were reported by their j
neighbors to be Sallie Harris, widow, hav-j
ing in charge two nieces; wife of John Harris,
two children; Patsey George, widow,;
nephew and niece; Rhoda, wife of Allan)
Harris, five children, and Caty Joe, very
old, having-charge of grandchildren. The!
presentation of the gold pieces was accompanied
by a suitable address from Rev. A.!
Wbjte. I
They are rapidly progessing towards I
"the largest liberty" in Massachusetts.?
? > r i i j \\T !
Ttic Doara 01 Aldermen 01 *> urcesier, iu<
that State, have placed upon the jury list;
for the present year, the names of two negro!
barbers, William H. Jennings and Francis:
A. Clough, the former a runaway slave from j
the South. The negroes hold offices andi
sit on juries; and white men who cannot!
stomach negro equality will, apparently,'
have to emigrate from the State ere long, j
Adopted citizens arc made to stand two!
years from the polls, and negroes invited up. |
Black Republicanism is in full bloom.?1
IfVts/e in;/ton Sfa tcs.
Twenty-three native Africans are to
be sold at auction, to-morrow, said to be!
part of cargo landed a few days ago in Mo- i
bile Bay. They have already been visited j
by a great many of the curious, who pro-;
nounce them a fine gang of field bands, and'
very lucky fellows to exchange their condi-:
tion of barbarity for the happier and better!
life of a Southern slave. One of them, I
said to be seventeen or eighteen years old, j
and supposed to be the son of a warrior in
the Bozale tribe, stauds over six feet high,
and weighs 170 pounds. Their importation
and sale, iu such a public manner, is a
refreshing act of boldness.?X. 0. Bet. \
Oue of the oldest papers printed in
the English language is about to bo discontinued?the
London Momimj Chronicle.
It was in the Chronicle that Sir Phillip
Francis, or somebody else, under a well
preserved incognito, gave to the world the
Junius Letters, the fame of which has not
been confined to those countries where the
English languuge is spoken. These letters
appeared in the Chronicle during the term
of office of its first editor, Woodfall, who
introduced iuto his paper the custom of
regularly reporting the debates in Parliament,
a new feature in English journalism
at the time. Woodfall was considered "a
recklessly brave person" for having given
publicity to the ideas of Junius, Burke,
Fox, and Sheridan. Tom Moore, Campbell,
Goldsmith, Byron, and Dickens may
also be numbered in the brilliant array of
writers for "the good old Whig of the
Strand." The Chronicle was established
in 1770, eighteen years before the Times ;
and thus, after a career of ninety years, it
disappears from the list of British journals, j
?Boston Post.
C|c fforkliille inquirer
EDITED BY
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contributing editor:
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YORKVILLE, S. C.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1860.
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Limestone Springs. 1
Thursday Morning. July 19, 1860. J
Dear Enquirer: We arrived at this noble seat
of learning, this shrine for the baptism of woman's
intellect and heart, on Monday evening.
The examination of the young ladies was then
progressing?having begun on last Thursday.?
The principal, we are glad to see, has adopted
the searching and satisfactory method of writ-i
ten examinations. For four days this severe
test of scholarship was applied-to the pupils of
Limestone, with very great credit to themselves
and their instructors; and judging only after
careful observation of its effects here, we heartily
recommend this method as entirely superior
to the old plan of oral examinations.
? ?- J i? .u? ?r
\Ye save oeeil mucn jmpresscu u_y iuc opmt vi
order and system which pervades this Institution.
It evidently has bad at its head those who have
studied, con amore, the wants of the female
mind, and the best modes of supplying them.
First, the masterly intellect of the elder Dr.
Curtis, then the rapid, penetrating and comprehensive
mind of the younger, have beeu busy in
building up a model school?in unfolding an ideal;
and their success is clearly exemplified in its
justly high and extensive reputation, and the
large number of girls attendant upon its daily
dispensation of truth and light, of mental and
moral culture.
It is one of the hope-inspiring facts of the age,
that we have so many high-schools for youth of
both sexes, and they are so well patronized.?
Dr. Vnughan in his recent book, entitled "Revolutions
in English History," tells an anecdote of
two "learned men" of Oxford University, of the
year of Grace 1455, which illustrates the amazing
superiority in this respect of our nineteenth
century. Oxford had become so poor, from want
of patronage, that she had to "beg or starve."
The Chancellor sent the two learned men, mentioned,
who possessed with their learning "(he
gift of poesy," on a begging expedition. Upon
coming to the castle of a nobleman, they were
let dowu into a well, one in one bucket and the
second in the other bucket, and kept alternately
bobbing up and down, until they composed each
a verse suitable to their feelings in this novel
situation ! Such is the patronage given to learning
in "the good old days of yore." Now the
poor and rich alike, are electrified with the desire
of educating their children. No wonder that |
"miracles become common conveniences, in
these days, before we have time to mentally realize
them."
But we wander from the subject of this letter.
This is the very spot, it seems to us, which we
would have selected for a school in which to train
up girls, if we desired to do so in accordance
with the prevailing seclusive and nunnish spirit
of female education at the present day. It is
separated from all the allurements of promiscuous
society ; is here alone in the bosom of nature; j
with no surroundings either to nttract or disturb
the college sisterhood, except those which nature
kindly furnishes to the ear and eye. The small
village is nestled upon a few rolling limestone
hills, with green valleys of clover intervening,
and clump* or avenues of willow oak diversifytkn
r.!?hirocnno lamlipqno Tho s?01ie is
11IK ..... p.,,.?v.-.,?, r
eminently a rural one. Late Tuesday evening, |
after night-fall, a stage-coach with its lamps J
burning, drove up to the door of the seminary,
and dropt one of its passengers?a fact indicative
of the remoteness of Limestone Springs from
the "loud marts of trade."
Every thing about here has originated in the
wants of the Institution. The stores supply the j
girls with dressing material; and the hotel now j
belongs to Dr. Curtis. To show you how fully
the village partakes of the nature of the school,
and how entirely it has sprung from it, it does [
not sport a barber?one had to be imported from I
Spartanburg to do the shaving this week of commencement
! This feminine aspect of the village
makes it at all the more singly and solely a j
shrine for female culture.
The school was founded in 1845; and is now
entering upon its sixteenth year. The building j
was first erected for a hotel; as the springs were j
then a popular watering place. It cost first an
enormous sum ; but was bought by Dr. Thomas
Curtis at a reduced price. He converted it into
a seminary, embracing under one roof everything
pertaining to the culinary, laundry and
studentical departments. It is a stupendous
pile, four stories high, and some three hundred
feet long. lu the basement story are the cooking
and dining rooms, &c.; iu the second arc*the
school room, the chapel, and parlor, the Sigourney
Society room, with a library of some three
or four hundred volumes, &c.; then above are
the sleeping apartments of the pupils and an
immense ironing room. It is a complete system,
ami work" like a clock. The whole buuatng is
well ventilated, and during these dog-days thnt
we have been here, has been courted by a cool
and delightful breeze all the time.
The examination of the fair pupils was concluded
on Tuesday afternoon. At 7 o'clock on
the same evening, the audience was favored with
! an address by Rev. E. A. Crawlej', D. 1)., the
j new professor who has filled his chair with great
I success aud satisfaction since January. The
j subject of the address was 4Educatiou the high!
est development of our nature.' Dr. Crawley in
I his exordium severely rebuked the idea of educating
for a trade or a profession. We must
educate for the sake of the human about us, and
the spiritual within us. To do this we must
educate all the man, physical, mental and mor!
al. One is as binding as the other. "Health,
j health, health" must be the hasis of any system
j proposing to accomplish the most beneficent re
j suits for the young. Mental training must be
I associated with moral, and the knowledge of
truth with the performance of duty. His views
iare wide, profound, practical; his style clear
j aud energetic; and bis delivery by no means
j repulsive. He is an acquisition to the Institution,
and will doubtless add to its previous charlacter
of eminent usefulness. He is by birth au
) Englishman; but is recently from Nova Scotia.
Wednesday morning was occupied with the
graduation of eleven young Indies?one. Miss
I Mary Wallace, from our District. The Baccalaureate
address of Dr. Curtis was full of sound
! sentiraeuts, delivered in his peculiarly afl'ection|
ate and enthusiastic manner. First they were
to observe rapidly, minutely and comprehensively;
to take in at a glance every thing both great
and small within the field of vision. Then they
were to reflect closely, critically and thoroughly;
eliciting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, from their observations. This
would make them judges of character and conduct,
of menandthing9, upon slight indications ;
and enable them to detect the hidden vein of gold
where duller eyes would see nothing at all.?
Then they were to act promptly, decidedly, heartily
; showing in all their deeds and words that
rectitude of principle and love of virtue which
above all things adorn woman's character. Dr.
Curtis speaks slowly in the beginning, and seems
to select every word and phase of a thought with
the utmost caution. But he warms with his
subject until, as he rises to the "height of his
argument," his brain glows like a furnace at
white heat. The rapidity and saliency of his
thoughts, then are almost wonderful; would be
quite so, did he not in all his movements about
the Institution, present the air and manner of a
man who has ideally investigated, and, therefore,
is thoroughly in love with the business in which j
he is engaged. This school is the atmostphere
in which he lives ; but let no one suppose that
his views are contracted to its mere daily routine.
The female mind, its capacity and want I
of culture : the sphere and influence of woman ;
whatever connects her with human progress and
happiness?these are the themes of his anxious
and almost rapt contemplation. Principles as the
life-blood, and system as the heart, arteries and
veins, for their circulation among the college
sisterhood of members, are the daily food of his
teeming mind, and the ground-plan of this noble
Institution.
At twelve on Wednesday, we listened to and
admired the "Commencement address" by Rev.
J. R. Kendrick, of Charleston. His subject,
"Science in harmony with Revelation," was
handled learnedly, judiciously and ably. He
first showed that science is not antagonistic to
revealed truth ; and contended that this amounted
to a powerful and positive argument for it,
when we consider that this revelation has been
made at wide intervals of time, and through men
many of whom were noted for their illiteracy. J
He then adduced arguments to show that science
actually supports Christianity; and concluded
with an exhortation to woman to take the bible
as her best friend, and to lean upon its teachings
with undivided confidence. As this address will
likely be published, and as we cannot do it justice
from memory, suffice it to say that it was
excellently written, and delivered eloquently.?
Dr. Kendrick is a young man, perhaps thirty
years of age, possessing an intellectual and
amiable face; and is a baptist minister of Char
leston.
At four in the afternoon?yesterday, that is?
honors were awarded to the first and second
classes, consisting of a gold medal to the former,
and a silver medal to the latter. His excellency,
Gov. Gist, was chosen to preside on the occasion;
hut his being unwell kept him at the hotel, and
Dr. Kenkrick was invited to occupy the chair.?
Miss Carrie Cleveland of the first, or graduating
class, received the gold medal. It is due to
Miss Ilattie Choice, however, to say that her
marks of merit were only eight behind Miss
Cleveland; and she received the second honor.
Miss Laura Nance of Newberry, and Miss Mary
Wallace of our District, bore off respectively the
third and fourth distinction. Miss M. A. Walker,
of Cedar Springs, as the honored one of the
second class, "wore the blue ribbon and took
the silver medal." Dr. Kendrick presented these
medals with much grace and affability,
j Last night was devoted to the musical Concert.
The music was very fine, we thought?especially
the singing by Misses Walker and Walthour?the
instrumental pieces by Misses Hickson
and Kirkland, and the "piano duets for four
pianos," chiefly by the younger girls of the
school; but it was listened to only after repeated
appeals to the politeness of the noisy and
chit-chat-y audience. Dr. Crawly was interrupted
in the same manner, on the evening previous.
When will our Southern audiences lcaru to keep
respectfully and decently silent on such occasions?
It is due to the Limestone audienec,
J however, to say they paid the most exemplary
I attention to Dr. Kendrick's address. It is due too
i
| to the principals and teachers to say that they uI
nite in enforcing good order and attention. They
| are right; and no one need go to Limestone Com
mencement, and expect to insult the whole cou[
cern by his inattention and fussincss, without
I being "called to order."
| Taking it all in all we have been very favor
| ably impressed with the spirit which pervades
I this institution?its high standard and thoroughness,
and its systematic distribution of merits
| and demerits according to the real advancement
: of the fair pupils We have seen uo effort at
mere display since we have b en here. The
number of teachers is fifteen ; of students, about
one hundred and fifty. Almost at first sight, one
sees that Dr. Curtis is the ruling spirit here.
Heiscminently fitted for the position. He knows
just when, where and how, to touch "the secretest
springs" of taste, affection, association and
experience. Yesterday at the dinner-table, when
the meal was over, he rose and said: "young
| ladies, I propose to introduce a new custom at
old Limestone"; and he had the four long tables
[ to rise and sing "Praise. God from whom all blessj
inys flow," ^"c.?a thiug to be done ever herei
after at dinner on Commencement day. Thus he
j appeals to and gratifies the ideality, and finer
and purer sentiments of his fair pupils, in a
thousand and oue nameless ways, and makes
them in love with, (as they all call it) "the dear
old place."
| THE NEWS.
j At Home.?It is confidently believed by some
I that the split in the Democratic party, if not
I remedied, will secure the election of the Republican
nominee to the Presidency. Those who a re
| anxious, at any sacrifice, to avoid this catastroj
phe, are desirous of re uniting the two wings of
j the Democracy. Out of this desire is springing
j up in the Northern Democratic States, an effort
| to compromise the differences between the friends
of Douglas and the frieuds of Breckinridge. It
| has been proposed that the Democrats of the
I Northern States run the Douglas ticket, and
j those of the Southern Stntes the Breckinridge
i ticket, in order thus to secure a preponderance
of Democratic electors in the electoral College.
' For, it is believed that, if the Democrats are diJ
vided, the Republicans can carry any Northern
State. The only means, then, of saving any of
the Northern States to the Democratic party and
the constitution, is to ignore the great principle?
: which divide the Douglas and Breckinridge
Democracy. This scheme is now at work : and
I :r ,?;i] It in cr>r<nrinrr to Douplai
Ill SUUUV^JIUI, f? 1*1 ' v.jui. ... WW-. ...Q ? -c
or Breckinridge?whichever proves to be the
stronger of the two?the united vote of the
States in which the scheme is on foot.
One captain Walter M. Gibson has devised a
plan, which has been approved by Brigharn
Young, to remove the Mormons of Utah to one
of the East India islands. They simply request
the United States to purchase the property they
must leave behind; which will, doubtless, be
done to get rid of such an unmitigated nuisance,
j It is said that the cause of this movement is the
jabhorence of their creed and practices expressed
without reserve by Representatives from all
parts of our country in the late debates of Congress
on the Bill to punish polygamy in the Territories.
Such is the happy influence of civilization.
The Africans at Key West are being returnod
against their will?in small numbers, however?
to their native land. From accidents and distase
the numbers are so thinned, that probably not
more than a hundred or so will reach Africa. It '
is said?we know not with what truth?that
chloroform has been administered to many of 1
them, who in the state of insensibility prodmed,
underwent a mock-burial and were "spirited
away" to Southern plantations.
The Knights of the Golden Circle, after a
few weeks of quiet, have again appeared on the
stage of action. General Bickley, in a -late
address to the order in Virginia and other Southern
States, has ordered the members to repair
to their encampment, in Texas, by the 15th of
September. The address says that Texas has
raised money and material to the amount of
$498,000, and appeals to other Southern States
for contributions. The Knights will march
from their encampment as emigrants into Mexico,
and become bona fide citizons of the illstarred
republic, before they begin operations.
This thev do in order to evado the violation of
existing neutrality laws. The order is represented
to number 50,000 members. Their avowed
object is to "Americanize and Southernize
Mexico."
Mexico.?Meanwhile, it is stated that France
and England have agreed to intervene in the affairs
of Mexico, and force the belligerent parties
to an armistice for twelve months. They have re- '
j quested the United States to join them in this
measure; but brother Jonathan seems disinclined
to do so. Mr. Buchanan thinks that these "entangling
complications with other governments"
are, to say the least, of doubtful policy; and would
certainly be an abandonment of the line of conduct
he has pursued towards the Mexican republic.
Central America.?The Bay Islands are inclined
to resist their annexation to Honduras.?
Gen. Wm Walker, "the man of destiny," taking
advantage of this feeling among the Bay-Islanders,
has gone to Central America to stir up a
civil revolution. The governor of Honduras is
said to be hateful to a large party of his countrymen
; and these together with the Bay Islanders
who also resist his domination, would form a
formidable array against him. The "gray eyed
man" sleeps, like the rabbit, with his eyes open !
Abroad.?The only general news of interest
from Europe is the promise of a Peace Congress,
or,Conference on the Swiss Question. It will
meet about the first of October at Paris. The
Conference will be composed of the Ambassadors
at the French Court, endowed for the nonce with
plenipotentiary powers. This is a matter in
which all Europe feels deeply concerned. The
balance of power is watched with a jealous eye
" - ' * ? 1--.1 ? n ?
by all the nations; ana owiuermuu umumii;
feels some solicitude about the aggrandizement
of France, especially when it is at her own expense.
England.?Lord John Russell's Reform Bill
has been withdrawn by the English Cabinet for
the present. It is said that any Reform, contemplating
an extension of the elective franchise
would strengthen the Popish power in Parliament
by creating new Irish delegations. This
is one principal reason why Lord John's Bill has
met such signal and persistent opposition.
Ireland.?The news declares that nine hundred
Irish families are positively suffering for
the want of bread ! Hence the immense exodus
from that country to the United States.
Sicily.?It is estimated that twenty thousand
Royalists are prepared to defend Messina.?
Nevertheless, Garibaldi is actively prosecuting
his movements against the place. We may reasonably
predict its downfall. Palermo, defended
by 25,000 men, fell before his handfull of undisciplined
yeomanry: and 18,000 were compelled
to ground their arms to the conqueror, and
embark in ships that bore them away. Messina,
doubtless, will share the same fate.
AN OLD MAGAZINE.
We have been lately permitted to examine several
bound volumes?5, 6, 7 and 8?of the Port
folio, a "Monthly Miscellany" published in
Philadelphia, by Harrison Hall. The magazine
was first issued in 1816, two volumes a year;
and the numbers we examined were of course
published in 1818 and 1819. It was a curious
admixture of politics, news< art and literature.
The following, which we found on the title page,
will explain its character:
"Devoted in chief to orginal communications
in the popular departments of science, combined
with occasional criticism, classical disquisitions,
miscellaneous essays, records of the progress of
fine and useful arts, with all the extensive and
variegated departments of polite literature,
merriment and wit; to which is added The Proceedings
of Congress.
Each number contains at least 88 pages, and
I one elegant engraving. The price is Siz Dollars,
in advance."
The noticeable points in this are the high price
of six dollars for the periodical, the free use of
capital letters, and the publication of the proceedings
of Congress in a literary magazine.?
These were, however, not sd "long drawn out,"
nor so devoid of the "linked sweetness" of peace
and patriotism, as at the present time. One
number contained a very long and dry message
from the then President.
The engravings in the numbers we saw. were
j "TheCity Hall, New York"; "Portrait of Mrs.
Madison" in a frill cap, and tight sleeves; "view
of the Battle of Bunker's Hill" ; "Portrait of
James Monroe, Esqr." ; "View of a Steam Distillery";
"View of the Orphan Asylum, Norfolk,
Va" ; "Portrait of Gen. Putnam drawn by Miss
A. Hall from an original picture by Trumbull;
and a "Portrait of Benjamin Franklin" in the
huge powdered wig of his time.
One is struck with such picture-subjects as the
"Steam Distillery" and "Orphan Asylum" in
juxtaposition ; as well as with the Esquire instead
of Honorable as a handle to president Monroe's
name.
The wives of William Meredith and Joseph
Hopkinson were occasionaly contributors to its
columns; and were women of high literary character,
and drew around them the distinguished
rneu of that day. Tom Moore, the Irish poet,
during his residence in the surburbs of Philadelphia,
in a house which is now pointed out and
called "Tom Moore's cottage," knew both intimately,
and visited at their houses frequently.
In one of his poetical epistles to Mr. Spencer, he
speaks thus of these visits :
"Believe me. Spencer, while I winged the hours,
Where Schuylkill undulates through banks of
flowers,
Though few the days, the happy evenings few,
So warm with heart, so rich with mind they flew,
That my full soul forgot its wish to roam,
And rested there as in a dream of home!
"Oh ! we have nights of that communion free,
That flush of heart which I have known with
thee
So oft, so warmly; nights of mirth and mind.
Of whims that taught and follies that refined."
The Death of Jer am< Bonaparte.?We learn by
the Parma of the death of Prince Jerome Bonaparte,
ex-King of Westphalia, uncle to the
Emperor of the French, and last of the brothers
of the great Napoleon.
Jerome Bonaparte was the last and youngest
brother of the great Napoleon First, and the only
remaining member of the family of his parents,
Charles and Letitia Bonaparte?the first of his
brothers, Joseph, King of Naples, having died in
1843 ; the second, Napoleon, Emperor of France,
in 1821; the third, Lucian, Prince of Canino, in
1810; his eldest sister, Marianne Eliza, Duchess
of Tuscany, in 1820; Louis, King of Holland, in
181G; Maria Pauline, Duchess of Guestalia, in
1825; Marie Antoinette Caroline, Countess of
Lipana, in 1S30, and Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia,
the eighth and last, in 18G0.
Jerome was born at Ajaccio on the 15th of
December, 1784, and at the time of his decease
| was consequently seventy-six years old.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Frank Moore, in his Diary of the Revolution,
thns speaks of the Carolina women of
1780, who by their patriotism, high spirit and
pelf-sacrifice, contributed so much to the waning
cause of liberty:
"The virtue and magnanimity of the Charles- J
ton ladies vies with the Spartans of old. Nothing
can equal their adherence to the independence of
America. The vanquishers strive all in their j
power to induce them to partake of their amusements,
but all their importunities cannot prevail
upon any of them to add a lustre to their balls,
etc. They, sensible of the distresses of their
(once happy) country, seem to take no pleasure
but in retiring from public view, to bemoan the
cause of suffering liberty. When nothing but
tyrannical destruction appears to be hovering
over every friend to freedom, they, like true
heroines, discover an invincible firmness and resolution.
Were the men half so steady to their
country's good as the women, no nation could
boast of more illustrious natives than Carolina.
To the everlasting glory of the sex many examples
can be adduced of ladies exhorting their
dearest connections to behave with a becoming
fortitude; anxious for their honor, earnestly
urging them to perseverance, while they, by a
i >-1-1? "MO o.innrvrtincr their families.
lauunuic CUUUUlUjr, ak KJ
Are not these enough to reanimate the Carolinians
to recover their oppressed country?"
The Siamese Twins have been laid in the
shade by a birth which occurred in Birmingham
county, Virginia, recently. The Pittsburg Z?mpatch
speaking of it, says:
"A woman gave birth to twin male ohildren,
of full size, weighing twenty-five pounds, and
joined together by fleshy ligatures, being face
to face when born. The twin-fetus presents a
perfect development of the heads, arms, legs,
and feet, and of the bodies, except where joined
at the sternum. The dissection prosented these
facts: There is but one vena cava, while there
are two hearts in one pericardium, common to
both. The ribs of both join the one breast bone.
The lungs are imperfectly developed?the outer
lobes in each being full sized and regular, and
the others in each false or imperfect. Both of
(what we believe the physican calls) the trunki
anonymi and arcus aorta, are regular, the aorta
and its branches feeing normal and regular to
the head and arms. The vena cava superior is
natural, or of the usual size or form, but the
vena inferior form both hearts into one trunk
running down to the abdomen. As to the bronchial
organs the physicians could not determine,
definitely, they having been partially if not entirely
destroyod in the accouchment with in
struments; but it was their opinion mat, men
condition must have been abnormal, as the lungs
were seated loo far down for them to have been
otherwise. There is but one diaphragm, and
that common to both. Between the two bodies
is an enlarged double liver, four inches long,
which fills nearly three-fifths of the abdominal
cavity. While in the hypochondria of each fetus
are found an imperfect liver?one about oneeighth,
and the other about one-fourth the size
of the enlarged liver, while between these and
the enlarged liver are the stomachs. In one hypochondrium
the spleen is double the usual size ;
in the other the normal size. Below the umbilicum
the intestina are perfect in each fetus,
while to cap the climax there is but one umbilical
cord. It was the opinion of both physicians,
after an examination of the intestines and blood
vessels that this compound humanity could have
lived only a fetal life, or otherwise could not
have lived after birth, had it been possible that
it could have passed parturition alive. At last
accounts the mother was convalescent, and will
soon be about."
Edmond Burke, the English orator, and
author of an "Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful,"
seems, also, to have had model ideas ol
home and the domestic circle. Here, for instance,
is his beau ideal of a perfect wife ; and il
indeed is a charming picture. We commend il
to the study of our fair friends. It is both sub
lime and beautiful. Bead:
"A perfect wife is handsome, but it is not a
beauty arising from the features, from complexion,
or from shape. She has all three in high
degree ; but it is not by these that she touches
the heart. It is all that sweetness of temper,
bonevolence, innocence, sensibility, which a face
can express, that forms her beauty. She has a
face that just rouses your attention at first sight;
it grows upon you every moment; and you wonder
that it did not more than raise attention at
first. Her eyes have a mild light, but they awe
when she pleases?they command, like a good
man out of office, not by authority, but by virtue.
Her stature is not tall?she is not made to be
the admiration of every one. She has the firmness
that does not exclude delicacy?all the softness
that does not imply weakness. Her voice
is soft, low music, not formed to rule in public
assemblies, but to charm those who can distinguish
a company from a crowd; it has its advantage
; you must come close to hear it. To
describe her body, describe her mind?one is the
transcript of the other. Her understanding is
not shown in the variety of matter it exerts itself
upon ; but the goodness of choice she makes.
Her politeness flows rather from a natural disposition
to oblige, than any rules on that subject,
and therefore never fails to strike those who understand
good breeding and those who do not.
A Palestine correspondent of the Albany
Patriot, speaking in relerence to one of the most
solemn and impressive events of history, the
dispersion of the Jews, and their expectation
of a coming Savior to restore to them their lost
land and nationality, says :
' One of the most affecting sights in Jerusalem
for us, was furnished at the Wailing Place
of the Jews. It was the afternoon of the Feast
of the Passover, on an occasion of great impor?
I- nf Ak.okom arhnn on ,1
ly interesting visit to this place was made.?
A part of the Saracenic wall that encloses the
city are built of stones formerly used in the
old Temple. This part of Mount Zion ia
their Wailing Place. Here are gathered the
faithful Jews of the town, and representatives
from every part of the world. Their sorrow and
wailing is of the most touching character. Fervently
an 1 with reverence, they press their faces
against the stones of the ancient sanctuary, with
confession of their sins and prayer for "theii
coming Messiah." Their mournful song is repeated
over and again. "We buy bread and
water of our enemies, and are strangers in out
own land." The side of the valley of Jehosaphat
are covered with the graves of the faithful, who
havo come from far distant climes to lay their
bones near the Holy City. In Hebron, Tiberias,
and many other cities of Palestine, we found
Jews who had come great distances, waiting tc
greet their promised Redeemer. Seated high
upon the mountains of Galilee, is to them a
holy city, and it is their earnest and firm beliel
that the true Savior will soon appear; that he
will rise from the waters of Tiberias and estab
lish his kingdom in their mountain home!"
A very interesting case of recovery fron
blindness has occured in Philadelphia recently,
The Ledger says:
A physiological wonder occurred a short time
since, in this city, which will doubtless prove a.1
interesting to our readers, as it already has tc
physiologists and oculists. A young and exceedingly
interesting girl, residing on Eighthstreet,
whose name we suppress from motives
of delicacy, and whose amiable disposition, ele
gant manners and placid beauty of soul, had endeared
her to all who knew her, was a year 01
two ago compelled to discontinue her studies and
leave school in consequence of a partial loss ol
eye-sight that threatened to become total. She
was entirely unable to read, and although she
could see well enough to enable her to walk
about, visit her friends and entertain them when
they called upon her, the threatened loss ol
sight gave her much annoyance, aid aroused the
sympathies of all who became acquainted wit!
the facts. A number of our most skillful physicians
were employed by the family, and sh(
was even taken to some of our most noted oculists
; but all their learning, dexterity and management
proved unavailing. Her eyes looked
healthy, were beautifully pensive in their expression,
and seemed deep as her soul was pure, bul
they were, nevertheless, to her almost whollj
useless Notwithstanding this rather melancholy
physical defect, a young man, who had
long been devoted to her, offered her his hand it
marriage. She demurred, and through an excess
of affection, refused to bestow it upon the mat
who had long since won her heart, stating thai
she never would consent to become a burdet
upon the man she loved. For a long time ht
persisted in his suit, and at length, through his
praises and sighs, made her believe that life with
her, even if she were wholly blind, were bettei
than a Paradise where she was not. A month
or two ago her resolution was rescinded, and
she became his wife; and strange as it raaj
seem, from that day her eye-sight began to improve,
and she is now able to read the lineal
| print by gas-light, without pain and without anj
optical iujury. The case has caused consideraI
bie sensation among those who are conversanl
with the circumstances. Apart from its signifi
cance as a well established ocular fact, it is a
praotical illustration of what has been olererly
and wittily said, "that Dove is Dlina, Dm nymen
is the oculist who alone can open his eyes."
Mr. Isaac V. Fowlee, late post-master
of New York City, who, on being found guilty
of an immense defalcation, went post-haste to
Havana, Cuba, is now enjoying fine health and
spirits in that city under the name of Mr. Post.
He is chiefly engaged in learning to pronounce
the Spanish language, preparatory, it may be,
to a career of gambling or murder on the island.
? The news from Washington of the 22nd
instant, announcos the death of Joseph Gales, of
the National Intelligencer, thus:
"Joseph Gales, the senior partner of the firm
of Gales and Seaton, Editors and Proprietors of
the National Intelligencer, died last night in the
seventy-fifth year of his age. Few men in the
Federal Metropolis were more widely known.?
During fully two-thirds of his life-time, he was
actively connected with the Intelligencer establishment,
and from his pen emanated most of
the chaste and dignified leaders which have given
to that journal its world-wide reputation. Of
late years, however, Mr. Gales has been afflicted
with infirm health, but the faculties of his mind
continued nnimpared, and he persisted in making
his daily visit to the office up to the close of last
week. He was universally esteemed, and his
death has created a profound sensation among
our whole community."
A counterfeit ten dollar bill on the bank
of South Carolina seems to be in circulation.?
The Charleston Mercury says:
"We have been shown a specimen of a spuririous
ten dollar bill on the Bank of South Carolina,
which, it is said, is being extensively circulated
in the West. There is, however, very little
attempt at imitation, the design of the genuine
bill of that denomination being wholly different.
The counterfeit is executed apparently by
a photographic process, and has the head of
Minerva at either extremity, with a group of
sailing vessels in the centre of the note. The
genuine bill, on the contrary, has the statue of
Calhoun on one side, and a single large steamship
in the centre?a smaller one being represented
below. Another very perceptible difference
in the signature of the President?Mr.
Birnie?which, in the genuine, is written in a
tremulous hand, while in the counterfeit, it is
executed in a bold, free style of penmanship.
LOCAL AFFATRS.
Yorkvllle Female College.
The advertisement in another place will inform
the reader that the next Session of this Institution
opens on the 22nd of August next, under
better auspices than ever before. The standard
of this school is high; and it affords us pleasure
to chronicle its increasing prosperity. It is located
in a community as healthful, perhaps, as
io tn ho fnnnri anvwtlCPli in this Section Of COUU
try.
The Weather.
Within the last week we have had two refreshing
showers in portions of our District.?
The prospects of our planting friends in these
places begin to look up a little. But the droughl
still prevails over the greater part of the District;
; and the crops are prescient of an unprecedented
. scarcity. The heat is not so intense as it has
been. The health of the people remains good.
Broke Jail.
^ On the night of the 24th inst., two prisoners,
Yokk and John Mixcey, escaped from jail, bj
passing through the provision hole of their cell,
and streaking it down the lightning rod. One
hundred and fifty dollars reward is offered foi
their apprehension. As leaky a jail as this indi
cates, should be seen after at once. Such lightning
rods ought to bo made non-conductors ; sue!
provision holes ought not to be large enough t<
admit the entrance of a leg of mutton or the es
i cape of a nigger.
1 King's Mountain.
( On our return from Limestone, we spent a dai
with a very pleasant party in the shadow of thii
"grand old mountain." At the base is a stoni
erected, with a brief account of the battle carvec
| upon it, and the names of many who fell there.
Just to the left is the point of the attack betweet
Campbell and Ferguson?the hottest part of th<
battle. A large chesnut-oak was shown as, as
the spot where Ferguson fell. We plucked t
piece of the rough bark, and gathered up a peb
1 ble or two, as mementos of the place. We fount
a horse-tooth, and one of the party a piece of ?
human bone, which had been bleaching in th<
i sun for eighty years. We were shown the spot,
as we went, where Col. Williams died under ?
large chesnut just three miles from the battleground
; and as we returned, 'Squire Hardit
gave us a limb from the tree?which was cul
down many years ago?as a memorial of the
spot where that noble and chivalric heart beai
its last.
It was a lovely day to us?one of the whitt
1 days of our life. Patriotism the purest, heroism
the hardest, personal sacrifice unequalled, wen
the spirit of its recollections. And there we hac
come to spend a day in homage to our heroic
past. To us it was a precious day.
A Sad Epiiode.
As we went to Limestone on Monday of last
week, we halted on the banks of Broad River tc
, await the ferryman from the other side. While
i we stood there, watching the "innumerable
1 smiles" of the sun-kissed and breezy river, anoth
1 er party came up to the crossing place. Then
faces were sad ; and it was soon whispered to us
that they were on their way to the church just
1 beyond the river, to witness the burial of a soc
, and brother, the pride of a worthy family. A
noble and genial college friend of ours?V. C.
' Smith?was no more.
A short while previous, he had been prostratec
t in the far off land of Texas. He was broughi
' back to his child hood's home to die; and whai
remained of him was now going to sleep with hi;
, fathers, on the banks of the golden-tinted anc
i music-haunted river.
1 Thus it is in life. The pleasure party and th<
I funeral meet. The bridal, the altar and thi
grave, are not far apart. In the midst of th<
gayest scenes, a sad stunning truth often start!
, up suddenly and stares us in the face. Then
are many Marahs along the path of life, when
we must turn aside and drink bitter waters,
j We remember his cheerful face, as though wi
) saw it but yesterday.
> . "Green bo the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days ;
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praiie."
. Dr. W. P. Bason.
This gentleman comes to us very highly rec
j oramended by such men as Judge O'Neal, A. M
C Shipp, of Wofford College, President D. L
? Swain, of North Carolina University, Dr. Hardy
' of Asheville, and many others, as a learned am
| skilful operator in Dentistry, and a gentlemat
f of high character and sound Southern senti
> ments. He is a graduate of the Baltimore Den
1 tal College; and President of the North Caroli,
na Dental Convention. See his advertisement.
Dedication of the Phllomathean Hall.
[ "The commencement of Erskine College wil
take place on Wednesday, the 8th of August
J and doubtless will be interesting to all, owing t(
, the variety of the exercises.
I Besides the regular exercises, the corner-stom
i ? .. TV __ m-.L TI 1? ;n ko toid
' oi me .L/ue nest reiuuie n... ?? >k>? v.
! Tuesday morning, with speeches from severa
t distinguished gentlemen. Tuesday night, th<
l Alumni oration will be delivered by W. L. Hud
> gens, Esq., of Laurensville.
j On Wednesday night the new Philomatheai
i Hall which her members have long striven t(
erect, will be dedicated to the Goddess of Letters
i by William W. East, editor of the Yorkville En
I quircr, and Dr. J. C. Maxwell, of Newberry, twi
' of her worthy and honored Alumni. This ongh
. and no doubt will be an occasion of great in
I terest to all who are in any way connected witl
r the society.
As a committee of the Philomathean Society
t we most earnestly and respot'fully invite thi
. Alumni and honorary membors of this society
, in particular, and the public in general, to art"
tend.? Due West Telescope.
UUjL> XAXJ3 U XUflJ.au.
Early Rising.
We hear a good deal of nonsense on this subject.
But proverbs and silly rhymes are numberless.
Benjamin Franklin (not to mention Mother
Goose) has several trite couplets about it.?
Granny Franklin (he wa3 our Grandmother, and
we have a family right to call him Granny?at
any rate we are sure that he was somebody's
grandma)?Granny Franklin, we say, asserts
that early rising makes men "healthy, wealthy,
and wise." We infer that that was what did so
much for him?
But, seriously. We are to speak of it in reason.
It depends so much upon circumstances,
whether early rising is advisable or not, that
such sweeping proverbs are likely to mislead
rather than to inform. We are aware of the im
portance of early rising to those engaged directly
in agriculture. To such it is vitally important;
but makes even them neither healthy,
wealthy nor wise. It is expedient for their
business merely. In damp localities, even to
them, too-early rising is unwholesome. To milkmaids,
and newsboys (such as Granny Franklin
was when he wrote such stuff) early rising is also
expedient.
Let us see?Healthy, wealthy, wise. In or
der:
Healthy??We humbly opine thatthis depends
entirely upon the climate. It may be true of
Philadelphia, where Granny Franklin made almanacs;
but in the moister and more variable
climate in many sections of South Carolina we
seriously believe it is not so. Here, the heavy
dews and abundant malarial agents found everywhere,
especially in our autumnal morning atmosphere,
render a different course advisable,
in the pursuit of health, at least. At night, all
the miasma sinks near the earth. The earliest
rays of the sun expand this and send it aloft intc
the upper air, where it is out of reach. The
early sun also dries the superabundant moisture
from dew. Thus two items of safety are secured
by not rushing too early out these mornings.?
Better?safer, at least, we opine?wait till the
sun has dissipated the poisonous miasma and
dried the dew-drenched sward, lest the lungs
inhale the one and the feet get wet in the other,
We know that the poets rhyme about rosy fingered
dawns, daisy-dews, and peeping days, and all
*'?* - v-4 ? ? -nor.n'-ff"llrr aiihmtt fliat HP.-flnP.f
ILJtH j uuii no xvo|/wwu?.j wwvim.. ......
and common sense have the decided advantagt
over poetry in so practical a matter. Let th<
sun be up half an hour at least?an hour for in
valids?before venturing out; and never tak<
active physical exercise before eating something
We are aware thai the proverb says,?"The ear
liest bird catches the worm." A very good sug
1 gestion to birds; and whenever we want worms,
! we will remember it. And, at best, it is a bac
business for the worms to be out so early.
I Wealthy??We have no experience and verj
> limited observation on this branch of the subject
Wise??The venerable author of the healthy
wealthy-and-wise rhymes always rose very early
i from which we infer that very early rising has s
' tendency to develop the faculty for silly rhymes
, and in general to soften the brain. We advisi
s against it.
Let us not be misunderstood here. We ar<
no advocate of late sleeping. That may bi
worse than the opposite course; and generall;
i is, because it looses so much time. We have m
) patience with it, no plea for it, and enter ou
disclaimer in the most explicit terus3.
Key-Momenta of Life.
The drowning man, 'tis said, whil i fast the puis
7 Of life is failiug with each gurgling gasp,
5 In one bright lightning flash of memory,
; Reviews his whole past life, at once; then dies.
1 The victim of the highway murderer's hand
. May ask a moment for a dying prayer,
i His lips implore. His soul is at the shrine
} Of memory ; and the hurried pistol's flash
s Flings light agleam o'er all his years of life,
i Life often has such hours as these, or may.
The lover, when he realizes first
1 The touch of Fate?and ere his hope be born?
i Turns short, at once, abruptly to his past;
! Sees all; in agitation undulates,
i And trembles into living hope at last,
i The orphaned heart when first it hears the dull
And pulse-like whispered word, "Alone," look
> back
t Towards infancy. Or, when one looks his first
i Upon a kinsman's brow, just pale, aghast,
t With sudden murderous bloody blow. Oi
when?
i Whene'er the soul's hurled back upon itself,
i J It sees itself?itself, the one effect
! Ut all its past?useii, tne ecno ciear
I Of all the voices lost back in the years
i Agone?itself, the ambrotype cast on
The traceless glass by solar rays and shades
Of life?itself, the living shape impressed
t By every passing hand, since infancy,
? Upon the plastic pure intelligence.
! In moments such as these, the spirit sees
s Its very self?the total-sum of all
Its thoughts, and hopes, all spirit-deeds, am
prayers,
i All crystallized into one single drop?
t A gem?a soul.
i And there are times for all
Of us, apart from sudden haps, when soul
Turns back upon itself?when spirit scans
Its features in a mirror. Times like these
I Arc sacred. Heed them well. They come bu
t once,
t It may be, uninvoked, in each one's life,
i Some moonlit night, it may be, calm and hush
1 ed.
We pause in step. The touch of Fate creeps o'e
; Us as we stand?a nameless thrill that stuns.
; Out?clear and stark?will start our past of lift
2 All, panoramic, and at once.
3 Just then,
j A flashlike impulse bids us do and dare
B That hour, as never did or dared our souls
Before?or die. And we must do and dare
B Just then, or else the moment's gone. Whe
gone,
It may return for us no more.
n i. i
oucn iiuurs
Hare made an agecl man of one whose years
Were few. But thee?as well?such hours at
those
. Wherein our souls snatch hold agrip on life's
Eternal purposes and seal their futures
j From the chance of change, imparting will
] To hope, to do, to trust?(iu God, but first
i In man)?to pray, to love?to live ; for life
. Is all of these. And bandy proverbs as
. Ye will, it is the all of life to live.
Holiday.
To-morrow, the 27th, is the last school-da
(for the session) of the most persistent of 01
institutions of learning, in Columbia. We mei
^ tioued several a few weeks ago. Since thenthn
' others "cease from their labors."
5 Madam Sosnoicski's Female Institute closed c
the 15th, to be re-opened on the 15th of Se]
tcmber. We take pleasure in mentioning tl
1 success of such schools as this, for we recogni;
in it a public good. We knew, in advance, thi
* Madam S. had secured the conditions of a F
male school of high rank.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Zimmcrmann's Female Seminar
3 has closed till the first of October.
I The Columbia Male Academy, in charge of M
3 Stuart, terminates its summer labors to-morroi
1 The Carolina High School of Messrs. Bruml
j and Davidson takes rest from to-morrow for tl
midsummer term. Laus deo !
? The first of October is the time for a gener
* reopening of all our Colleges, Schools, Institute
. Academies, and Seminaries.
So be it.
*
El Fureidi* is one of the most pleaging fictions
we have read recently. It is an oriental tale.?
The meaning of the title is The Paradise. El
Fureidis, the scene of the story, is a village in
Syria. The hero, Meredith, is an Englishman.
He-travels ; sojourns some months iu El Fureidis
; sees there and loves the beautiful Havilab,
the heroine. The "course" of their love?that
does not run smooth of course?is the theme of
the book. It is well told, and winds up happily.
There is nn atmosphere of the east about it.?
Odors of the orient perfume it. The poetry of
that land of flowers, embalmed in a thousand
holy memories, hallows it.. The style is rich in
the rhetoric of Hafiz,?
"Orient pearls at random strung" M
make it a kind of Lalla Rookb without the
rhyme, but with^onr times the soul. Damascus
is visited. The 'Xrab lords of the desert enter- I
tain us a few days. The pride, the treachery,
the love; the dark guilt and vengeance of that i
wild, free race, come opportunely into our story.
Ticknor ?j* Fields, Boston, publish it. Townsend I
<$ North, Columbia, have it on sale. Price, one
dollar. Bcund. It is said to be written by
Mary Cummings, though no name appears on
the title-page.
Ziona' Harv. This is a new collection of ?a
cred music. It is intended for sunday-schoole, Jprayer-meetings,
and the home-circle; compiled
by J. A. Getze; and is published in Philadelphia,
under the favor of Lippincott Jf Co. Townsend
?J* North, have it on sale in Columbia. The A
price is fifty cents. It contains a gamut, index, V
and over three hundred hymns with music? be- *
sides a Dictionary of musical terms. k
We ourself are scarcely entitled to an opinion I
on the merits of a work so far from our specialI
ity ; yet we infer that it is good of its kind be- |
cause we find it on the shelves of Townsend ? ?
> North. I
! Personal. ,1
i A. Reynolds, of Mobile, author of a "Life of A
Calhoun," is in New York, getting that work S
through the press. Derby & Jackson are pub- 1
i lishing it. a
The Abbe Rouqubtte, a Franco-American I
i poet who lives near New Orleans, has recently
. published two volumes of poetry in French.?
The volumes are?"Le Conciliable Infernal,"
1 and "Poems Palrioflque." M. 1' Abbe has con>
tributed occasionally to periodical French literature
for several years, both in America and
France. He was educated in the latter country.
Writes in both French and English. '
Book-buying
Many of our readers have experienced difficul
ty, we have no doubt, in getting books. Many
--? r.-inf. rnnnv ton rare to find
uuwrwoiouukul j/?a~% t ? J -- ,
their way to all markets ; many, published in
i Germany or France or England, are never imported
except to order. Readers are often tixr
tremely desirons of getting some suoh book, but
. know no way to do. so. In such bases what is
- wanted is a trust-worthy and efficient importing
; agent in some large city?one who understands
i his business thoronghly, is prompt and honest,
i We know such a one?one who has direct corres- I
i pondence and communication with London, Paris, f
and Leipsic; who will get any book published 1
: or told in any of those cities, by the quickest
e steamers, and at the fairest prices; and will for1
ward the same by Adam's Express or any other
a way you prefer, to any place in the United States.
r Books published in America famished with corresponding
promptness. We know snch a firm;
and we recommend it to our friends as a favor
e to them. We do so without a dime's profit to
ns; and in the hope of enabling some friend to
enjoy an advantage that, from experience, we
highly prize. The firm to which we refer is in
New York. It is B. Westermann $ Co., 440
Broadway.
We have dealt with several other book-importers,
but were never elsewhere half as well pleased.
We always find their prices perfectly fair,
and that is of no little importance. Bat their
attention to details of instruction io orders is an
admirable feature in their management They
leave no effort unmade to get for you exactly
what you want. Such, at least, is our experience
; and we have received through them books
in various languages, published in America,
s England, Scotland, France, and Germany.
. J. W. D. {
Columbia, S. C. ^
. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ENQUIRER.
White Sulphur Springs, 1
July 21 1860. /
Messrs. Editors:?For some weeks I have not
had the courage to attempt such an andertaking
as writing to the Enquirer. I could enumerate
many reasons, either of which would be sufficient.
Nothing to write about, no business items to report,
the weather too hot either to think or write.
The only subject which could suggest itself
was the weather; and it would be very difficult
to find words suited to a description of that, for
some weeks past. I am like toe man wno was
hauling apples up a steep hill in a cart. He had
^ nearly reached the top, when his cart dumped,
and away went his apples, rolling and bonncing
down the hill. Some boys who knew the appleman's
custom of using hard words, ran up to hear
him swear; but &e only held up his hands, gave
a whistle and said: "Well! I havenotningtosay;
can't find words for the occasion." Now that's
my opinion of the weather?there's no use tallc1
iog abont it.
The dry hot weather do^n about York and
Chester, is enough to make you turn your
' thoughts to some way and place to be relieved of
r the tedium of the season. Do like your correspondent?come
up here, and board awhile with i
, Mr. Robards, the proprietor of the North Caro- f
lina White Sulphur Springs. Here is one of the
best Sulphur Springs in the United States; and
Mr. R. is just the man to make you comfortable.
Plenty of the best the country can afford, is set
before you to satisfy the appetite; and every
n variety of amusement which could be desired,
he has furnished for his guests.
I know many of the readers of the Exqciee*
would like to enjoy the pleasures of this delightful
place. So I will just tell them how to get
o here; and what they may expect while here.
Take the Charlotte Railroad, by the evening
express train, and arrive in Salisbury at half
past 12 o'clock at night. Go to the Boyden Hotel
and remain until after breakfast next morning.
Take the 7\ o'clock train on the Western Railroad
; pass Statesville and Newton, and leave
the cars five-miles from the springs, where good
coaches will be waiting for you. A little before
dinner (just time to clear off the dust) you ar,y
rive at the Springs. f
ir Mr. Robards will have a good dinner ready
i- prepared, and superintended by Mr. Tyler who
>e has been caterer for the White Sulphur Springs
of Virginia. The dinner is just as good as you
m ought to expect; every boarder pronounces it
> excellent?and tea and supper the same.
ie You will have a fine shady grove to ramble in;
je and water cool and pleasant to drink, and just
it as strong with sulphur as any human?sick or
e- well?ought to use.
The amusements offered are dancing, rolling
ry ten pins, playing billards or cards, &c,. &c. The
Ball-room is about 125 by 50 feet. The music
r. furnished is by a celebrated band of Richmond,
n. Virginia, considered the best Ball room band in
>y the State. Dancing commences at half past 't
ie eight every evening; and a more pleasant, or
handsome company of ladies could not be found,
al I might go on to give?as is usual in communis,
cations from watering places?the initials of the
greatest belles ; but I could not do all justice.? 4
So, I will only, say that "the Old North State* ^
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