Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 07, 1867, Image 2
Jtoaps and |ads.
It has been said that it must be an easy thing
to break into an old man's house, since his gait is
broken, and his locks are few.
Witnesses against Suratt are already being
summoned to testily against him. He is expected
to arrive next week.
Mr. Schofield. of the House of Representatives,
in a late speecn, took occasion to express his
disgust at Paine, for not making a better job of it,
when he undertook to kill Mr. Seward.
Brick Pomeroy is on his way to New Orleans,
it is supposed, to oollect material and evidence
to sustain his legal warfare with his ancient
foe, Ben. Butler.
A bill has been introduced into the Wisconsin
Legislature disqualifying liquor-sellers from holding
the offioe of justioe of the peace; and forbidding
the holding of courts where liquor is sold.
Five citizens of Rome, Geo., were recently
arrested by the Federal authorities and taken to
Atlanta, for having participated in a tableaux in
which a Confederate flag was exhibited.
It is asserted that a furnace for destroying
illegitimate children has been discovered in the
basement of the residence of Madame Restell, the
celebrated abortionist, of Fifth Avenue, New York.
The New Orleans Times places the Sugar
- * ? Ann 1 1
crop of Louisiana tins year at ou.uuu nugsueaua,
ana estimates that it will reach 100,000 hogsheads
next year. The Sugar crop of last year was only
16,000 hogsheads.
The Chamber of Commerce at Cincinnati,
Lclvo pcuxxxl vcqolntiona adopting tVie cental system
in regard to the weight of grain, and changing the
weight of a barrel of flour from 196 to 200 pounds,
to take effect from the 20th of September next
At the Virginia State Library may be seen
a curiosity in the shape of a piece of white pine
plank, in the heart of which is a perfect representation
of a human leg and foot, complete in its proportions,
as well as color.
?- The W ashington correspondent of the Springfield
(Mass.,) Republican, reputed as accurate in
his observations and statements, estimates the
ohanoes of impeachment as being one in a hundred,
and of conviction as one in a thousand.
A resolution has been offered in the Virginia
Legislature authorizing the purchase of a copy
of Webster's dictionary, an English grammar and
a spelling-book for each member. They would be
useful articles in other Legislatures we wot of.
The days seem short enough here at this
season of the year, in all conscience, but just think
of the days in Russia. At Archangel, a town of
25,000 inhabitants, the day lasts only from twentyfour
minutes past 10 to twenty-four minutes before
two.
The New York Herald applauds even the
most violent of the attacks on the Constitution of
which Congress is the scene, declaring that "the
revolution must run its course." So the swine on
the sea-shore ran theirs, when Satan had entered
them.
The debt of the United States may beset
down, in round numbers as, $3,000,000,000. This,
if all in silver dollars, weighing one ounce each,
would amount to 125.000 tons, and would require
a train of wagons, loaded with a ton each, 350 miles
Ia a??o ttt if
ill ICU^Ui W luan iv.
We understand that, on last Saturday morning,
an old negro woman was found frozen to death,
in a car immediately in front of the United States
headquarters in this town. In the car with her
was another woman, with a child three days old.
Where is the Freedman's Bureau??Chester Standard.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
Senate excluding from the exercise of suffrage all
who may have sympathized with the South in the
recent struggle. * It is designed as a blow at those
from the late Confederate States who are now residents
in New York and a part of its population,
and also at those of the Democratic party who opposed
the late war.
We are pleased to learn from the Kingstree
Star, of the 30th ultimo, that Messrs. J. S. Beck
and J. P. Barrineau, who were arrested by order
of the military, on account of the death of the negroes
in the burning of the Kingstree Jail, have
been released from Castle Pinckney, upon the requisition
of T. B. Logan, District Judge; for the
trattsffer Ofthe piiauuni to the civil authorities.
Our young friends?and old ones too?who
are anxious to learn how many weddings a married
couple may lawfully have, will be pleased to know
that one year after marriage comes the paper wedding
[ five years, the wooden wedding; ten years,
the tin wedding; twenty-five years, the silver wedding
; fifty years, the golden wedding; seventy-five
years, the diamond wedding.
A story is told of a soldier who, about one
hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen in Siberia.
The last expression he made was, "It is ex ."
He then froze as stiff as marble. In the summer
of 1860 some French physicians found him, after
having lain frozen for one hundred and fifty years.
They gradually thawed him, and upon animation
being restored, he concluded his sentence with
"oeedingly cold."
The Winchester (Va.,) Times states that
from all quarters the most favorable accounts are
brought respecting the fine prospects for the coming
crops. A very lar^e area of ground?perhaps
more wan nau ueeu uueu iui icu jcais?nu uui
fall sown in wheat, and the seed being of a very
superior quality, the result is the promise of an abundance,
which will go far towards restoring to
prosperity our agricultural interests.
A notice of a race in the Baton Rouge Advocate
has the following regulations appended:
"The judges will settle no squabbles between private
parties. The fastest horse will win the race.
Colored people will be removed from the track if
they do not behave like white people. No fighting
allowed until after the race, and then not within
six hundred yards of the track. No liquor to be
brought on the ground, outside of the person carrying
it,"
A Memphis paper says: ' 'Colored aristocracy
seem* to be coming to grief. Last week 'George
Washington' was convicted in Richmond for stealing
a lot of old iron, and 'James K. Polk' for a
similar freedom with other people's property.?
'Horace Greeley' was found guilty of murder, in
Charleston, on Monday, and will soon expiate a
life of rascality on the gallows. In New Orleans
'Andrew Jackson' was in limbo for robbing a hen
roost
A difficulty occurred at Fernando, Florida,
on the 26th ultimo, the citizens resisting the seizure
by the sheriff of some property that had been
sold lor taxes. The sheriff was driven off, and appealed
to the Governor for military force, and the
Governor having no men, asked the interference
of United States troops. Col. Sprague, who has
charge of the latter, declined, and the Governor
has applied to the President. All was quiet, and
the authorities were awaiting instructions from
Washington.
The exact number of nersons assembled in
the convent at Arcadsum, when it was blown up
i?a. n?, ?? oot ocn ?c
Uy 1116 V^rCUHITij Witt 0~U liiULI} ~dU\r vi v> iiviiJ ncit
fit to carry arms, and 641 women and children.
966 persons in all, of whom thirty-three men ana
sixty-one women and children alone survived the
explosion. The women threw themselves into the
flames with their children, so that they might not
fall into the hands of the Turks. The bodies of
the Christians remain unburied.
The Rev. Mr. Finney, of Oberlin, Ohio, in
a recent prayer, made at a special invocation in behalf
of the Congress, extolling their virtues to the
skies, and then called the attention of the Lord to
the President. "But how," said he, "shall I pray
for the President? Oh, Lord, if thou canst manage
him, without crushing him2 spare him. Otherwise,
crush him! This reminds the Rochester
Union of the preacher who, having a grudge against
an unknown neighbor, prayed: "Oh Lord, take
John Smith by the slack of his breeches and shake
him over hell, but don't drop him in."
The cypress of Somma, in Lombardy, Italy,
is perhaps the oldest tree on record. It was known
to oe in existence in the time of Julius Caesar, forty-two
years before Christ, and is therefore more
than 1900 years old. It is 105 feet high and 20 in
circumference at one foot from the ground. Napoleon,
when laying down the plan for his great
road over the Simplon, a portion of the Alps, diverged
from a straight line to avoid injuring this
tree. The honor of superior antiquity, however, is
claimed by some in benalf of the immense and valuable
tree in Calaveras county, California, which is
supposed, from the number of concentric circles in
the trunk, to be 2265 years old.
A letter from Iowa to the Day Book. gives
an awful groan over the financial part of the Northwest.
All kinds of produce are very low. The
Southern market is irrevocably lost, and the Eastern
market, burdened with enormous freights, is
worth nothing. Stock has fallen fifty per cent.?
Money is scarce?improvement stopped and mer
chants unable to oome to time. Under the last
head, we were, in fact, assured by a New York ,
merchant, a few days ago, that as extensive as was
the failure of the Southern merchants to meet their
paper, the Western men were doing still worse. It
is not impossible that the argument of the pocket 1
may in time help to restore the political equilibrum.
It is noticed that Germans have settled in
almost every part of the world. Besides being
found in all parts of Europe, and forming a large ,
and valuable portion of the population of every
State of the Union, a large German society is flour- 1
ishing in Hong Kong, in China; and Rio de Ja- '
neiro, in Brazil, has a population of 50,000 Germans.
They have penetrated to the most remote ?
regions of Africa, and in Abysinnia have a flourish- i
ing colony, which controls the manufacture of gunpowder,
and is regarded by the king of that country
as a valuable addition to his people. Industrious
and energetic wherever they go, the Germans
in all parts of the world are held up as examples
of thrift and prosperity.
She ffarfcviUe inquirer.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB'Y 7, 1867.
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RADICAL CHARITIES.
A meeting was held at the Cooper Institute, New
York, on the 25th ult., with the ostensible object
of raising means for the relief of destitute portions
of the South. Doubtless there are many persons
in the great city of New York, whose sympathies
have been really excited by the cry for help which
has recently arisen from some sections of the unfortunate
South, and who are really desirous to do
something for their relief. It must be so in a community
already known for its largeness of soul and
its previous liberal responses to the appeals of the
suffering in all parts of the world. And when the
appeal comes from a people whose patronage in
other years contributed no little to the building up
of their own prosperity, the remembrance of former
obligations must inspire the good people of
New York to respond to it with gladness. To all
this class, to whom these remarks will apply, in
other words, to all who sincerely wish to help us,
our people owe a real debt of gratitude, and they
will cheerfully acknowledge it
But spirits of the baser sort were mingled with
the crowd who met at the Cooper Institute, in answer
to the call of suffering widows and orphans.
Some were there, who came to gloat over the miseries
of a fallen people, whose glorious victories
have more than once made them tremble, and, under
the guise of charity, to gratify a mean revenge,
by insulting and false comparisons between the
cruelty of the South to her prisoners and the genemsitv
of the North to her conauered foes. Among
the good Samaritans there assembled, was a Levite,
who sank below his prototype of the scripture
narrative, in hardness of heart and smallness of
soul. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher made an
address on that occasion, the sole object of which
was to excite contempt for the South, because she
has called for help on those she once met on the
field of battle, and to express a satanic joy that she
has sunk so low. In the course of his remarks, he
said:
"The bread they [the Southern widows and orphans]
would not give our poor boys in prison,
their own lips crave for. Give them the loafgive
them the loaf. The raiment they took from
our boys, leaving them in the chilly winter to shake
and die for cold, as long as vour looms are fruitful,
spin off the yards and send the clothes for their
shivering limbs."
Now the Reverend slanderer knew that what he
said was false, but he wanted to give a stone, when
asked for bread, and he said it Such charity as
this would be scorned by the most helpless outcast
on earth, and our people have not yet sunk low ,
enough to accept it. Mr. Beecher may keep his i
loaf and his cloth to himself; our people prefer his i
open hatred to his assassin-like friendship. It was
an unnecessary labor in him to tell the world he
hates us, for the world knows it. But, true to his
puritanic iifttincts, he must push himself into the
front rank of those who are about to undertake a '
praiseworthy deed, praise himself for his patronizing
mercy to his enemies, and turn the intended ;
kindness into an insult Even when they wish to
do a favor, gentlemen of Mr. Beecher's kidney
cannot do it with delicacy; they will parade their '
overpowering goodness in so ostentatious a man- 1
ner as to make it offensive. But in this instance, '
the intention plainly was not to be kind, but, in '
the garb of friendship, to strike a mortal blow, and 1
so it will be received at the South. We would
rather perish of hunger, than to receive a loaf '
from the left hand, accompanied by such a stab 1
from the right.
The character of the Puritan church is not much
raised by this exhibition of its benevolence. Exultation
over a prostrate enemy is despicable, even
in a savage; but to mock at his distresses would
seem to be an adorning element in the character of
a Radical christian. At least, Mr. Beecher has
long been and still is considered as a shining light
in that pre-eminently pious church. For our part,
we prefer the friendship of the rattlesnake and the
mercy of the tiger, to the charities of Beecher and
his followers. From all such saints, "Good Lord,
deliver us."
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The bills for the admission of Colorado and Nebraska
have been vetoed by the President, on the
ground that he had previously vetoed substantially
the same bills, and can see no new reason for approving
them now.
The most important action of Congress, during
the week, is the passage of the Tariff Bill by the
Senate. It now has to go back to the House for
the concurrence of that body in the amendments
made to it by the Senate. Its fate is uncertain, as
the Western members are beginningto show opposition
to it.
The Senate Committee on Claims was directed
to inquire into the expediency of paying East Tennessee
loyalists war losses recommended by Gen.
Burnside's commission.
The Reconstruction Committee are, it is said, getting
up a bill, declaring void the recognition, by the
Supreme Court, of the Southern States as States,
until they are reconstructed.
Congress is determined to degrade the Supreme
Court from its high position as the final adjudica'
tor of the powers of Congress. The first shot against
the Court is in the form of a bill, to regulate
is decisions, and requiring them to be unanimous.
If this fails, the President must first be removed,
and the Court settled afterwards.
The preparations for the impeachment of the
President are still going on ; the Committee intrusted
with it being engaged in preparing lists of
witnesses to support the charges produced. In
this labor of love, they are assisted by the Committee
of the Southern Republican Association. Neither
of the Committees have subpoenaed any witnesses
as yet, nor have any of the charges to be
proved been made public.
The House, by a vote of 111 to 38, passed the
, Senate bill regulating the removal of public officers
by the President, having previously amended
it so as to include Cabinet Officers. This is a heavy
blow at the President, as it will deprive him of the
choice of his own Cabinet. He will doubtless veto
it
The Senate has, by a vote of 31 to 6, passed a
bill directing the Clerk to place on the roll of the
next House, only the States now represented. The
Senate Finance Committee reported adversely to
the Gold Bill.
Of ninety-six appointments sent by the President
to the Senate for confirmation, twenty-three,
nearly one-fourth of the whole number of names,
were rejected.
The House Committee of Ways and Means have
been instructed to inquire into the expediency of
selling confiscated stills for old Copper. As the
House has destroyed a great deal of whiskey this
session, these stills, instead of being sold for old
copper, ought to be used in the manufacture of
that article, for the benefit of the next Congress.
The House referred to the Reconstruction Committee
a bill, drawn up by the Southern Republican
Association and presented by Mr. Ashley,
guaranteeing republican governments to the lately
rebellious States. Mr. Williams introduced a bill
to place the Southern States under military officers
of the regular army. This gentleman must certainly
have failed to read the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Milligan case.
The grand jury of the District Court have regularly
indicted John H. Surrait for murder. The
Session is so near out, that the Radicals are beginning
to fear a failure of their pet political measures
in the present Congress. Bingham, Conkling
and others of the party having deserted them, the
impeachment and the reconstruction projects are
likely to await the action of the next Congress.
PUGILISTIC LEGISLATION.
The enforcement of arguments by means of the
fist is rapidly becoming the favorite mode of reasoning,
among those dignified assemblies throughout
the land,,whose business it is to make laws foi
their less distinguished fellow-citizens. Some mem
bers of the Common Council of New York, in th(
ardor of debate, recently exchanged inkstands
which were made to travel with the velocity of rock
ets, and were probably very effective and striking
arguments. Certain Aldermen of Philadelphia
laudably anxious to make their debates as interest
ing as those of New York, got up a "rough anc
tumble,'' by which they have gained a great deal o:
reputation as powerful reasonera. The Virginia
Legislature has also evinced a desire not to be be
hind the times. In the hall which once echoed th<
voices of Jefferson, Henry and Randolph, th<
dull monotony of Legislation has lately been en
livened by the exciting vicissitudes of a regular fisi
and skull fight Other instances of this intensely
thrilling kind of eloquence could probably be founc
by a close examination of our exchanges, but the?
are sufficient to exemplify the war-like spirit of th<
age.
It might have been supposed that the experi
ence of a four years' war would have quenched al
thirst for the stern joys of conflict, especially amonf
those dispassionate and thoughtful sages who art
generally selected to grace the halls of legislation,
This, however, would seem to be a mistake. Ir
olden times, warriors were accustomed to keep alive
the memory of their deeds upon the tented field
by means of mimic representations of them in sea
sons of peace. In like manner, the "choice anc
master spirits of the age" appear to delight in re
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uents, the interesting combats of the past So fai
as heard from, these carpet knights have sustain
ed no farther damage than a broken nose or slight
ly fractured skull, and they are more than compen
sated for these trifling injuries, by the glory thru
acquired. The practical influence of these fascina
ting relaxations from toilsome labors, will be to in
duce electors to choose representatives for then
weight and activity, and not for their brains, a.?
was once the case. No man used to like to hear o:
his representative having been used up in debate
nor will it, in future, be any more pleasant to lean
that he was whipped. Of course, then, the solic
men will be in demand for vacancies in high places
Congress has not yet done her share of the knoclf
down and drag out style of oratory, though its mem
bers show an honorable desire to commence, as thej
abuse one another in no limited terms. The chie
hindrance to the full enjoyment of all the luxurie;
peculiar to similar assemblies, is the absence o:
Southern members. If they will only admit these
a speedy and thorough stirring up of the Hous<
may be expected ; for southern representative;
have been so long deprived of the pleasure of ex
ercising their muscles, that the terms "liar,'
"scoundrel," Ac., which sofrequently occur in Con
gressional discussions, will be hailed by them witl
the joy of the old war-horse thatsnuffeth the battle
afar off.
KEEP UP YOUR POST-OFFICES.
The law requires of subscribers to papers pub
lished outside of their county or district, to pay su
cents a quarter for these papers, and it holds post
masters responsible for the payment of such post
age. The pay of postmasters is small, nor does il
require very many of these sums to make an amount
equal to, if not greater than, the salary oi
the office. If subscribers fail to pay their postage,
(and many do this from carelessness because of it
trifling amount) this neglect compels the postmaster
to discharge his duties without pay, and sometimes
at an actual loss.
Our people can certainly see the injustice of letting
their quarterly postage accounts stand unsettled.
The keeping of a post-office is a work involving
considerable trouble, and it should not be permitted
to become an expense also. It should be
remembered that a post-master is hard to get, sc
few being qualified under the present law; and, af
the salary is too small to be an object, the main inducement
to take the office is to accommodate a
neighborhood. But, if a disposition is shown tc
abuse the kindness of those who have taken the
position to oblige their friends, the effect will be t<
disgust them with holding on to a thankless and
unprofitable office, and thus to deprive us of the
conveniences of post-offices. We hope that, the
attention of our people being called to this matter,
Tirill .ltt/inr) to ie at nnnnd nnv rin t.hnsf
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dues which, taken separately, seem so small, bul
which amount to a considerable sum in the aggre
gate. If they do not, post-masters should aval
themselves of their right to detain the papers 01
those who fail to pay up. It is no part of then
duty to credit subscribers or to go to any trouble
to collect post-office debts. These remarks have
been induced by some complaints, which have
come to us from country post-offices in this district,
where the holders of the office declare themselves
unwilling to keep their places, at the risk of see
ing their salaries swallowed up by the delinquen
cies of the public.
MERE-MENTION.
A. T. Stewart, of New York, has presented the
Presbyterian Church of Anderson, S. C., with t
handsome carpet Col. Burton N. Harrison
late private Secretary of Mr. Davis, is practicing
law in New York City. In one of the ward;
of New York there is a grog shop to every fifty
seven persons. They boast of a baby in Ax
kansas, eleven months old, which walks and talks
and weighs 124 pounds. When have marriec
people passed through the alphabet of love ? Whei
they teach the ba-be. The snow in some part
of Denmark has attained a depth of 14 feet A
woman in Michigan asked for a divorce from he
husband, because he refused to wear a moustache
The New York Legislature have before them i
Bill allowing husband and wife to testify agains
each other. The English language is the ver
nacular of 75.000,000 people. The America!
Bible Society printed last year 1,119,259 copies o
the Scriptures. Mechanics have worked sb
hundred years on the spire of the cathedral at Stras
burg. Reverend Heniy Ward Beccher, in i
recent sermon, spoke of "through tickets for sal
vation.'' A negro in Virginia who farmed "oi
his own hook'' last year netted thirty cents on hi
tobacco crop. It has been resolved to invih
Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher and C. L
Vallandighani, to lecture for the poor in Atlanta
Georgia. A Tennessee paper says that thi
"East Tennessee Vendetta" story is an "infernu
lietta." General Gideon J. Pillow is now run
ning some half a dozen different plantations in Ten
nessce and Arkansas, and working on them nearb
a thousand negroes. The planters of Alabaim
are making active preparations for the coming sea
son, and are contracting largely with the freedmen
The New York Tribune thinks low and vulga
personalities are more common in Congress nov
than in the days when the Southern chivalry wer<
; war. Two sunken gunboats have already oeen ^
, raised, and workmen are now engaged in raising the ,
. ram Ogeechee. The cost of this undertaking thus
, far has been $30,000. All, this has been done in '
, twelve months, with the small sum of $2,000, to
. begin on, and it speaks well for the energy and bu- t
1 siness capacity of the city council. In former years fc
f Savannah was usually regarded as the most fast t
i asleep, inert city on the Atlantic coast. Her growth, 1
- both in population and commercial importance, was ^
? slow ? almost at a stand-still. But she seems to y
i have been aroused from her lethargy by the vieis- q
. itudes of the last few years, and to have entered \
t with a giant's strength, upon a career of prosperi- t
r ty. Her record for the last year is one, of which '
| the whole South may be proud, as it shows, in a j
? tangible shape, that there is life in the old land t
; yet. e
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TAX ON BACHELORS. s
1 A novel method of providing for the susten- 0
, ance of widows and old maids, has been suggested
! in the Virginia Legislature. Some profound legi.slator,
who sympathizes deeply with the trials of un- <]
protected females, has proposed a tax on confirmed
bachelors, to be devoted exclusively to the support
of these (theoretically) unfortunate persons. But
a difficulty has already arisen in the application of o
this well-intended measure. The Committee of r
Finance, to which was entrusted the task of putting c
the crude idea into the practical form of an Act, r
have asked for information as to what constitutes (
an "old maid," and when a man becomes a "con- t
firmed bachelor." Whether or not the committee t
will ever obtain sufficient light to solve these
mysterious questions, remains to be seen. But, in r
our opinion, the subject i3 not one of sufficient im- E
portance to occupy the attention of grave legisla- ?
r tors. It might do to amuse the overtasked brains ]
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p ern States can find problems to unravel, of more c
vital interest to their constitutents, than that of v
, deciding the requirements needed to constitute a *
I confirmed bachelor. In the justice of the tax pro- t
posed as the price of his single-blessedness, the r
. greater portion of our readers ? the fair ones, at c
least, would heartily concur. It is doubtless the t
} duty of every man to be taxed for the support of I
p the weaker sex, but the old maids and widows in ^
5 this section have a way of collecting the tax, with- t
p out the aid of legislative enactments. This meth- c
od, which consists of serving an attachment upon c
} some one of the wnconfirmed, has been found to c
j work admirably here, and we recommend its intro- ^
. duction into the old Dominion.
. ??ITt)KUL INKLINGS.
An exchange says, that in many parts of r
, England, farmers estimate the value of their land i
in proportion to its nearness of access to the lime- v
kilns. They do this, because of the valuable p
properties of lime when used for dressing the soil. r
. If this rule is good, the lands of York District
. should rate pretty high ; for there is an abundance c
. of limestone in the upper part of the district, which ?
. could afford material for several lime-kilus.
t A steam plow, manufactured by Messrs. j.
Fowler & Co., Leeds, England, has just arrived in t
P New Orleans. This is the first plow of the kind f
, brought to the South, and it was imported for the ^
s purpose of testing its power and fitness for use in v
. the Mississippi valley. Its friends claim that this j(
. implement will save a vast amount of human and f
animal labor, and that it will ultimately become I
the machine for cultivating sugar and cotton crops, e
. The manufacturers have introduced these plows ^
. into Egypt, where, it is said, many of them are
. now being worked by the astonished natives, in v
> preparing the soil for this year's crop. As soon as t
1 all the parts of the machine have been landed from c
> the vessel, a public exhibition will be given, of its c
capacity for turning over Mississippi mud. We v
i will keep a sharp look out for the account of its
> performance, and will, in due time, inform our c
> readers of the fact, if it proves equal to the task of h
) doing more work than a self-supporting freedman fc
[ with a lazy mule. 1
r As the Supreme Court has lately decided j
s test oaths to be unconstitutional, Postmaster Gen- y
it, iiii.. ?... ii . rr? .
i erai iianaau nas, uccoruuig to me ir uauiugiuir c?- c
i ion, determined to enquire of the Attorney Gene- ii
t ral, whether this decision does not also relieve ex- {
rebels from disability to act as postmasters, on ac- *
I count of their being unable to swallow the "iron- '
f clad" now required of these officials. Ifthcdeci- t
sion referred to does relieve them from this neces- i
' sity, the former prescribed oath of office will be *
- sufficient to qualify them. This merely binds them c
to a support of the Constitution and the Union, ?
i and a faithful discharge of their duties, without ex- ,,
> acting a declaration that they never sympathized fc
with the rebellion. The effect of an answer, in the f
affirmative, to the Postmaster General's interroga- 11
toiy will be to re-open several thousand offices in ^
the Southern States, that are now closed by the for- (
midable dimensions of the test oath. As it is a r
: matter of great importance to our section, wc trust li
1 that Mr. Stanberry will be kind enough to say j
? "yes," in response to Mr. Randall's polite qucs- ^
> tion.
5 According to the Charleston Mercury,' 'Chan- u
cellor Lesesne at Charleston has recently decided
in the case of Jackson vs. Lazarus, that the prin- ci
? ciple is held that debts contracted in Confederate j
1 currency must be discharged on the basis of the
1 value of that currency, as compared with gold, at t
s the time that the debt was incurred, and considcra- )
L tion given therefor. This establishes a precedent ii
r in South Carolina for all cases involving the pay
ment of debts or obligations contracted in Confed- ?
1 erate currency."
To show how the taste of New York fash- a
ionable circles is going back to first principles, in v
.. the matter of dress, and for the benefit of those t
who wish to ape Northern novelty, we present the J
C following extract from the correspondence of the j1
Petersburg Index. The dress described is that of
1 the actresses in the play of "Black Crook," ? not
that of the ladies in the audience. But as the c
latter flock in crowds to witness the performance y
? and evidently admire it, they may take it into their a
" heads to imitate it in their next change of fashions. |
Asa summercostume, it possesses some advantages, j
' but the transition would be somewhat startling, v
' " ? -i i x-i~ i, ..
j irom me present eiaDoraiuij cAjiduutu mm u
their extensive display of dry-goods, to the simple c
and unadorned style of the "Black Crook."?
For the sake of the dry-goods business, it is to be
^ hoped this costume will not be generally adopted,
as its introduction would cause a heavy crash among ,
them. y
"The ballet troupe consists of better looking f
r young ladies than the ordinary run of such troupes, 1
7 and it is astonishing to see to what a degree of per- e
; fection they have reduced the practice of economy f
* there. It is well enough that men should be ir
i killed by love. Man born of woman should die of I
i. woman. A man in Delaware petitioned for a ^
[ divorce on the ground that "his wife was a very ?
: disagreeable woman." In England there are n
five people to one porker. In the United Slates it t<
. is the reverse. Sixteen States have now a- s<
. dopted the Constitutional Amendment Over v
100 separate blocks are offered for sale by the United 1
- States Tax Commissioners of Beaufort
[ ? n
, GEORGIA ENERGY.
As an example of energy, showing what can be d
. done by our people, in spite of their depressed and j<
harassed condition, we condense a few of the' u
. statements of the report of the Mayor of the city
( of Savannah, for the year 1866. The present Com- e
. mon Council of Savannah, were elected in Decern- c
. ber 1865. At that time, the finances of the city a
i were disordered and its revenues appropriated by
, the military tax-gatherers stationed there. The *!
, Treasury contained $2,000; while the outstanding ji
account for past due coupons alone amounted to t
$371,570. The greater part of this amount has t
been funded, $59,365 has been paid on coupons ii
i falling due in 1866, and at the close of the year, "
. the city has on hand $231,000 to defray her current j
. expenses. In addition to this, a contract has been
r made, and is now in operation, lor removing tne
. artificial obstructions placed in the river during the .
i dress. If Mrs. Eve could find herself in Niblo's,
think she would feel* perfectly at home, and Mr.
Ldam would not think of bushing at all on account
f his scantily supplied wardrobe. I don't exctly
know how to describe the costume, but it
aminds me very much of the pictures that I used
3 see in Mitchell's geography, when I was at
jhool, of 'native Hottentots. It is a mighty conenient
costume for dancing. You can't tread on
er skirts to save your life, and there is no danger
f being tripped up by crinoline as you go round
i the German. No collars or cuffs to be mashed;
o sleeves to be ripped; in short, it is so close to
othing that you are a long time finding out the
ifference; and if you don t like my description,
ist come on, buy two tickets, and I will carry you
3 see it"
In the New York Times we find some intersting
and significant statistics with reference to the
ommercial failures at the North for the past year,
s well as for the preceding years.
In 1862 the aggregate liabilities of those who
riled was, in round numbers, $23,000,000; in 1863
he aggregate was $8,000,000; in 1864 it was $8,00,000;
in 1865 it was $17,500,000, while in 1866
' - 'a/?A TV ,1
he aggregate was $4Y,uuu,uuu. u tnus appears
hat the aggregate of liabilities of those who tailed
a 1866 is nearly six times as great as in 1862, and
early three times as great as in 1865. This is a
rightful increase, and indicates that the terminaion"
of the war was but the commencement of filancial
troubles.
A Northern paper of a late date reminds us of
he curious fact, that almost every decade in the hisory
of this country, ending with the figure seven,
las marked the beginning of a financial crash or
evere depression. It says:
Historic fatalism: if not actual signs of the times,
ncline many to believe that 1867 is to be added to
he periods in our past history, made memorable
>y financial troubles. With 1797 came the crash
hat wiped out the Continental currency, and in
807 our troubles with France and prospective war
rith England threw the business or the country ino
confusion, while in 1817 we got the legacy of the
rar of 1812-14 with England, which was a tremenlous
financial revulsion. That of 1827 was less seere,
but ten years later it came in good earnest?
he smash of all previous smashes, in which the
vhole banking system and business of the country
rent down; not to rise for nearly five years. King
ludson reigned over the English railroad speculaion
of 1848, and famine stalked over Europe, and
specially in Ireland spreading suffering and causng
wide-spread failures. A purely commercial
nap emphasized 1857, caused by inflation and
vertrading.
But the crash of 1867, if one is inevitable, which
re neither proclaim nor admit, will be "Pelion upm
Ossa," indeed. The chasm is too deep and
lark to think of, much less to look into.
INTERIOR OF A "TIGER'S" DEN.
The Richmond Times gives the following account
if a sale which took place in that city, at the late
esidence of a well-known faro-dealer, who has reently
died. The house herein described was, duing
the war, tlic great resort of Commissaries,
Quartermasters, and other gentry who were wont
o travel with trunks full of "Confed," of which
hey wished to be relieved:
The demise of a gentleman "in the fancy line"
esulted on yesterday in the invasion of one of the
nost elegantly furnished and expensive gambling
stablishments of this city by a vast throng of men
nd women of every grade, calling and position.?
.'he rooms of thjs famous establishment, from their
entral and fashionable location, afforded easy acess
to the largest and most fashionable assembly
rhich we have seen in this city for months. On
he day previous to the sale, hundreds of wellIressed,
fashionable people were strolling through
he different apartments, examining the unusually
are and costly parlor, dining room, saloon and
hamber furniture. Ail through the war this esablishment
did a roaring business, and was nightv
thronged by the elite of the civil and military
ircles of the Capital of the Confederacy. When
amine prevailed elsewhere, the tables of this esablishment
always groaned beneath the luxuries
if every clime. Countless millions changed hands
?ver the green tables which excited so much curiius
examination from the judiciary and clergy on
esterday. Of its class, the Tiger's Den in quesion
was always the best, and, at the end or the
rar, the proprietor refurnished it in the most costy
and substantial manner. He was a man of good
ncfo onrl itrViIlo tVinre wflro pvidenpps of reckless
less of cost in every article about his establishment,
t was furnished with a grave, decorous taste which
vould have reflected credit upon the refined tastes
if the most cultivated man of wealth. Carpets,
>ook-cascs, chairs, tables, paintings, chandeliers,
nirrors, chamber furniture, table china, plates, &c.,
cc., were all in the best taste, and the servants
onnected with th > establishment were all quiet,
;rave and well-behaved men, the rare types of the
iow almost extinct race of family servants. The
>aintings were not numerous, but they were exeedingly
appropriate, and strictly in keeping with
he character of the place. Immediately in rear,
br instance, of large and mysteriously shaped tailes
covered with the inevitable green cloth, there
I'ere suspended capital paintings? two grim, stern
eniorseless-looking tigers and lions. "Ye tiger"
joked down upon the faro-table, while the lion
rowned ominously upon the victims of roulette. ?
Joth of these tutelar divinities of the temple lookd
plethoric, cruel and truculent, as if they had deoured
many thousand pigeons; greenhorns and
loobies, and rather liked their diet.
Long before that most eloquent, popular and
eracious of auctioneers, Mr. Cook, commenced
lie sale, on yesterday, a vast throng of people
rowded the large rooms and blocked up the stairases
of the tiger's elegant jungle. The church
ras superbly represented by a bishop of great einiicnce
and distinguished learning ana eloquence; of
iriests, elders, deacons and lesser church lights we
an make no enumeration ; but curiosity to see the
launtsof "ye terrible tiger" attracted a vast num>er
of them, now that the place was harmless and
he owner gone to his long account. Judges, proscuting
attorneys and editors?the lights of the
hrcc professions?took solemn note of what they
lehelu, and were rudely jostled, pressed into cornrs,
jammed into door-ways and hustled by a surgng
and irrepressible crowd. Locomotion was a3nost
impossible, so dense was the throng, and the
lidding was so spirited that the autioneerwas sparid
all superfluous lamentations over unheard of
| sacrifices." Every thing was of the best descripion,
and the prices paid were, we imagine, greatly
n advance of those usually paid for second-hand
urniturc. The auctioneer had a comparatively
lasytimc, of it, as the crowd bid for the contents
if the Tiger's Den. as if they were contending for
he possession of holy relics. The crowd was so
jcat that the ladies had rather a hard time of it;
>ut their curiosity must have been amply gratified,
br they explored every portion of the establishuent.
We noticed a group of pretty women puzling
their brains over a roulette table; and they
sere about leaving the mysterious article of furniure
in despair, when it was explained to them in a
einarkably lucid and eloquent manner by an inteligent
deacon, who had not forgotten the now abured
weaknesses of early youth. As lotteries, rafles,
&c.. are fast becoming religious institutions,
lie study of this splendid Tiger s Den must have
leen instructive to those pious persons who are
inbarking in such things.
The auctioneer made speedy work of the contents
f this large gambling establishment, and by this
injwntv nrtalinru nnintinfra Xw.
nut mill via, vuuimvuv.?, l" o"l ?? j ?
lave looked down in their day upon many a scene
if wild excitement and desperate hazard, have been
ransferred to quiet and orderly christian houselolds,
where no worse kinds of gambling than chartable
raffles and pious lotteries are ever tolerated.
In making himself comfortable in this world, the
[ambler exhibits a wise, although epicurean philosophy,
for he does not precisely know what sort
if quarters will be provided for him in that great
nd mysterious land of shadows and spirits to
rhich all of us are hastening. It may be that
here are other things than costly mirrors, soft car>ets,
luxurious beds, brilliant chandeliers, rich vinds
and voluptuous paintings and couches in store
br him there.
What a Pint of Wiskey Cost.?Some thirty
me years ago, Jonathan Beckwith, a young lawcr
of decided promise, bought a pint of whiskey,
.nd getting drunk, wandered out on Terre Coupee
inline on a cold winter night, and was so badly
rozen that he lost his reason and the use of his
iinbs, and has been ever since until his death, two
reeks ago, an inmate of the county poor house,
m insane cripple, and his keeping has cost the
ountry no less than eight thousand dollars!
South Bnul (Ind.) Register.
Street Cars.? A movement will soon be
nade to establish a line of Street Cars in this city. J
k track laid through our four principal .street^
nth light cars to be drawn by one horse, would afbrd
great convenience, and no doubt would pay
landsomely. With stone uavements, a steam fire
nginc and a line or two or street cars, we can afbrd
to claim to be a city.?Charlotte Democrat. '
LOCAL ITEMS.
HEW 4DVEEH8EMEHT8.
Dulcina Dickson?Warns persons not to trade with :
her son. (
F. C. Harris, 0. Y. D.?Citation?W. F. Jackson, ;
Applicant?David Jackson, Deceased. ,
T. M. Dobeon A Co.?Tacks.
" " 44 ?Padlocks, Ac.
44 44 44 ?Shovels and Spades. (
" ? -Flour. J
44 44 44 ?Mason's Shoe-Blacking. J
44 44 44 ?Curry Combs and Shoe- j
Brushes.
44 44 44 ?Cotton Cards and Collins'
Axes. <
Dr. John May?Valentines.
44 44 ?Medicines, Ac.
44 44 ?Garden Seeds. '
W. E. Jackson, Administrator?Notice to Credit- i
ore and Debtors. ,
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. D.-SherifTs Sales. 1
44 *4 44 ?Attachment Sale. <
44 44 44 ?Ordinary's Sale. ]
National Publishing Company?Agents Wanted
for the Life of Hon. A. H. Stephens, Ac.
F. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Notice to absent Defen- 1
dants.
F. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Citation?James B. Allison,
Applicant?Eli Meek, Deceased. J
W. B. Metts, C. E. Y. D.?Notice to the Credit- ,
ore of S. B. Zimmerman, Deceased.
4 4 Dry" Ticket For Town Council.
i
RELIGIOUS SERVICE. 1
iAoin^A Dnv XAI ATM?
IT V uavc UCCU IdJUCSlCU U/Oiauc vuav ^n.14 iiiwiu.
Hill, will preach at Union (Baptist) Church, on
Saturday and Sunday next
OHTTRCH MEETI5Q.
A meeting of the congregation of the Presbyterian
Church of this place, was held on Tuesday last
to fill the pastorate, made vacant by the resignation
of Rev. M. D. Wood. The choice fell upon the
Rev. R.B. Anderson.
OAS I
Yorkville, more fortunate than most interior
towns of its modest pretensions, is supplied with a
gas manufactory, and a large number of private and
business houses are provided with fixtures. Fortunate
in the possession of the manufactory, we are
unfortunate, however, in the fact that it don't
work. Cannot its directory give us light ? Surely
some arrangement can be made that will furnish the
requisite, and return the perquisite therefor. Gentlemen,
suppose you try !
marriages ahd deaths.
We have recently received several notices of marriages
and deaths which we have not published,
for the reason that the announcements were not accompanied
by the name of a responsible person
known to us. We solicit notices of marriages or
deaths when they occur, and will publish them gratuitously,
but in every case they mustbe aooompanied
by the name of some person with whom we
are acquainted. The name of the person sending
the notice is not desired for publication, but as an
evidence of good faith and to shield us from imposition.
8ALE8-DAY.
Several tracts of land and some personal property
were disposed of at public sale on Monday and
Tuesday, bringing fair prices, considering the stringency
of the times. The Commissioner in Equity
?1J L-nAnmooflio ''.Qfnnflr nlonp "
5U1U UUt: U'dCk Ul lOUU) &uunu<u ui? wwuv; ^***^1
containing 436 acres, at thirty five cents per acre,
over a mortgage of $2,700, specie. Another tract?
the "Kennedy land," 307 acres, sold by the Executor,
brought $3,625, specie. A tract sold by the
Sheriff?190 acres?was bid off at $600, specie.
We take it as a hopeful augury of forbearance
on the part of creditors, that but one tract of land
was put under the Sheriff's hammer, on this occasion
; this, too, at a sales-day only a month preceding
Court.
Our country friends seem to be sufficiently occupied
with the care of their farms, and did not find
time to spare in visiting the town on Monday.?
This induces another hopeftd augury, and ere long
we hope to see Labor recognized as king everywhere
in our community. Forbearance on the
part of creditors, and the determined persistent
industry of all classes, will go far towards relieving
those weighty troubles that hang so portentously
over all. Let both be tried and we will guarantee
a happy result
DEATH OP A OEHTEHAHIAH.
In another column, is announced the death of
Mr. . Francis Henry, of this district, who had attained
the unusual age of 101 years. Some incidents
of his boyhood and youth are full of interest,
as belonging to the historic period of the Revolution.
When about fourteen years old, he was frequently
employed by the Whigs, in the capacity of
a messenger to convey information from one settlement
to another, concerning the movements of the
Tories. On the day after the battle of King's i
Mountain, near which locality he was then living,
he, in company with others of the neighborhood, 1
visited the battle-ground and assisted in attending
to the wants of the wounded. During his whole
life, Mr. Henry enjoyed remarkably good health,
having never been confined to his bed by sickness,
until within ten days of his death, and having never
taken a dose of medicine in his life. By his decease,
another of the few remaining links that connected
the present generation with that of'76 has
been broken. Some uncertainty exists with regard
to his exact age, but from the best information to
be had, it could not have been less than we have
stated it, and may have been two or three years
more.
VALEHTIHE'8 DAT.
This time-honored anniversary of the little winged
disturber of the peace of unsophisticated youths
and bashful maidens is fast approaching. It has
long been the custom among sufferers from the |
tender passion, to take advantage of the privilege
belonging to them by established precedent on the
14th of February, by giving utterance, in black and
white, to those sweetly torturing emotions which
they find it impossible to express in words, when
face to face with the unsuspecting objects of their
devotion. Many a fair one has been led, by means
of these little missives, to consider seriously the
fascinations of some ''nice young man," of whose
undying affection she would never have known, if
left to wait until he was able to face the music of
her voice.
It would be well for aspiring youths to bear these '
facts in mind, now that the occasion for testing them ;
is at hand. Dr. May, whose business it is to keep
a cure for all the ills that fiesh is heir to, has not ,
neglected this class of sufferers. Sympathizing
deeply with their hidden sorrows, he has provided 1
a stock of valentines to suit the varying taste of
lovers, whether they prefer the deeply blue, Byron- '
ic style, or the lighter shafts which aim to win the
fair through the gentle medium of a smile. Cheer !
up, then, ye disconsolate; go the "old Doctor's,"
and get your medicine.
0 , i
Jefferson Davis.?The Springfield Republi- [
Eoq fViQ fiOlniirinnr romarlrs nil .Tpffersnri DftVlfi' '
UU't UOO UAV ivuvn Uig AvtutMuw v.. ? ? ? ? ' ?
condition:
Mr. Greely is reported to have used his influence i
with the President, while at Washington last week,
in connection with Charles O'Conor and Mr. Shea, \
counsel of Mr. Davis, to procure the release of the .
nation's prisoner; and it is said that there is a pros- ,
pect that he will soon be released, on bail or parole.
Mr. Greely will be blamed by some of his <
friends for his persistent efforts to obtain the release i
of Davis, but they are creditable both to his head
and heart. The President with all his obstinacy in j
some things, has shown great want of courage in
this. The detention of an alledged criminal for
more than a year and a half, is in violation of the
spirit of the Constitution and the general sense of
justice, and in this case the hardship is aggravated
by the nature of the crime for which Jefferson Da- ,
vis was arrested, that of complicity in the assasination
of President Lincoln. Guilty, as he is, of 1
conspiracy against the nation's life, that furnishes |
no excuse for holding him under accusation of a i
more cowardly and monstrous crime, without trial ]
and without apparent evidence. If President
Johnson had been both just and brave, he would
have released him on parole long ago.
fiSf" An English farmer recently remarked that '
he fed his land before it was hungiy, rested it be- i
fore it was weary, and weeded it before it was fouL
Seldom, if ever, was so much agricultural wisdom
condensed in a single sentence. i
" CONTRIBUTORIAL."
BY JAB. WOOD DAVIDSON.
JOLUMBIA, 80UTH OABOLISA. 4TB rEBBUABI, 1867.
Paradise Lost.
A panorama illustrating Milton's poem has been
>n exhibition in Columbia. We have not seen it
rhe Pha-nix pays it an indifferent compliment;
ind the Carolinian thinks it a humbug.
We shouldn't^* surprised.
Out of Nazareth.
John Quincy Adams, son of the present minister
to England, recently made a speech (in Boston,
we understand) in which, speaking of the constitutional
amendment he said: "I am glad the South- <
3rn States'rejected it and refused to dishonor their
leaders, dead and alive. I should have despised
them had they acted differently."
The Rural Southerner.
Messrs. Stokes & Co. have not vouchsafed us
any explanation of their failure to meet their engagement
with the public.
Some explanation "is due both to the public and
to the corps of editors whose names have been
used in this connection.
We, as one of the parties interested, call for the
explanation.
Restoring Columbia.
mina nn mitt, fVlO wnrlr nf
vui vitj raiiicia ate gum5 vu n*v? ?.w.? v.
reinstating Columbia in her former loveliness and
order. We obsen'e they are having the charred
and deadened trees uprooted and living ones put
into their places. It will take years for these plantings
to become what the old ones were, but it is
the only way to restore our beautiful street-groves
to their old-time splendors.
Conondrums.
1 ? Why does the Milton Panorama exhibitor
appear to be a gambler in distress?
Because he advertises a Paradise (pair o' dice)
Lost >
2?What kind of a snake was it that tempted
Eve?
We don't know. The Man about Town says it
was either an Adder, (at her,) or a Moccason (mock
a son, or mock o' sin) or else a Boa Constrictor.
He avers that a lady told told him the last answer,
but that he he did not understand exactly how she
pronounced it We shall inquire.
Spartan Patriotism.
A citizen of Columbia, an artisan of high rank,
a foreigner by birth, has within the past month taken
such a stand among the patriots of South Carolina,
as entitles him to honorable mention among
the heroes of the time. The circumstance referred
to is the birth of two sons to him, added to the
fact that he had seven sons before; thus making
him the father of nine boys. We forbear to give
his name for the present, but it is destined to be
"Om of the few, the Immortal, name*,
That were not born to die
at least if he keep on at that fate!
The Penitentiary.
We have taken occasion to visit the site of the
new State Penitentiary, now in process of erection,
under the supervision of Miy. Thomas B. Lee,
Architect and Civil Engineer. The locality, as
everybody knows, is between the city of Columbia
and the Congaree River. It is something like the u
third of a mile below the Greenville railroad and
about five hundred feet above the river bank. The
front of the building is to be about five hundred
(500) feet in length, and the thickness from front
to rear is to be about fifty feet It is to contain
five hundred (500) cells for men and one hundred
(100) for women. The cells measure five by eight
feet, and of ample height, well ventillated, watered
and warmed. The work thus far done is the flooring
of a line of cells upon the right wing. This is
a granite affair at least a foot thick, and decidedly
less easy to lift than was that of the Ohio Penitentiary
(which was four inches thick, we are informed,
) through which General Morgan mined his way
so much to the astonishment of'the keepers.
There are about ahundredhands, mostly negroes, 1
employed and now at work upon our Penitentiary.
This labor can be hired for about seventy-five (75)
cents a day. There is no scarcity of labor. It is
rather a drug upon the market, such as it is.
The granite used in this building is of the same
quality as that used in the new State House, and
is about equal to the best granite of Quincy, Massachusetts.
This is quarried along the bank of the
Congaree and Broad Rivers, about three quarters
of a mile above the Penitentiary; and is boated
down the canal to a point opposite the Penitentiary,
and thence is to be sent up to the building upon
an inclined-plane railroad. These appliances are
all in process of preparation, and are being pushed
to completion as rapidly as circumstances will allow.
St. Elmo.
This, as our readers are aware, is the title of the
la?t novel from the pen of Miss Augusta J. Evans,
of Mobile Alabama.
This book had been announced as "brilliant with
genius, magnificent in word-painting, powerful in
plot, and intense in iterest" It was also announced
as "the finest American novel ever published,
without any exception whatever."
We consider it superior to both Beulah and
Macaria, as a novel ^though itis, like them, chokefull
of metaphysics, hardness, obstinacy, and pedantry.
It is the same spirit-battle between a
hard, poor, proud, pedantic woman and a stern, . ;
heartless, headstrong, ungentlemanly, irreligious
and pedantic man, that we had, with some variations
of detail, in Beulah and later in Macaria.
The hero is St Elmo Murray, and the heroine
is Edna Earl. The central scene is in Georgia;
and the side-scenes are scattered over the greater
part of the habitable globe. It begins with a duel,
(which the author puts in its true light of mur- ^
der,) and ends with a kiss, (which is killing too in
its way, but we like that way.) ^
Those who were pleased with either Beulah or
Macaria will find St. Elmo a charming novel. The
heroine is said to be like the author. We don't
pretend to know about that; but we do kuow that
Edna Earl is brimful of spirit and book learning.? #
St Elmo is described as one who being "Blase,
cynical, scoffing, and hopeless, had stranded his
life, and was recklessly striding to his grave, tramp- ?
ling upon the feelings of all with whom he associated,
and at war with a world, in which his lordly,
brilliant intellect would have lifted him to any eminence
he desired, and which, properly directed,
tvould have made him the benefactor and ornament
of the society he snubbed and derided."
Isn't that a "broth of a boy" for you, my dear
sentimental very-young lady reader? Well,
this Mephistopheles of a hero badgers and
bully-rags the heroine through most of the book;
ind capital fun it is, too-?to read about. Many
nf the scenes are wrought with wonderful power
and artistic genius. It is the most striking
novel that has appeared in the South for ten years
it least
The story winds up with a kiss?a very good ^
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? a kiss of those four lips through which so much
bitterness, pedantry, and scorn had passed in the
course of the story ? a kiss as St. Elmo stops to
style it, "long as my exile, sweet as my revenge."
And thus we prefer to leave the pleasantly-situated
parties? thus as their
"Spirits grew
Together in one long, long kissOne
swooning speeehless pulse of bliss,
That, throbbing from the heart's core, met
In the united lips."
We purposely refrain from tracing the plot of
the story, for by so doing we may deprive some of
our readers of the charm of perfect freshness when
they read the book. We can honestly commend
it to our friends as worthy their attention; and we
bope everybody will read it
The copy upon our book-table comes with the
compliments of Messrs. Duffie and Chapman,
Booksellers, who have recently opened a well-selected
assortment of books in Columbia. The price
is $2.
SkxT It takes more to run the Freed men's Bureau
than it did the whole Government under Jefferson. >
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