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LEWI?.^,l!fBIST'I ' JMs I^?r: S?* % |?ra?rtiim flf % political, Sorial. Jgrimltuni ani Commercial |irferes(fof % strati). """"" "==="'H!?M' -* . ' * ' ' _ " i ^ 1 ' VOL. 14. YORKVILLE, 8. C., THTJE8DAY, OCTOBER 8, 1868. pm* 41. Original For tbe YorkvUle Inquirer. THE DOINGS OF DEATH. BY MRS. 11. W. STRATTON. How still I The soft, sweet evening air Seems loth to move a leaflet there? Or stir the golden ringlets now "Which cluster round the snowy brow. The mock-bird fits from spray to spray And softly warbles foith his lay, Seee he that sad group bending o'er That conch within the vine-wreathed door? Knows he that one life's story's done? And finished ere 'tis well begun? Still he his song once more to hear A childish voice whose accents dear Breathe not farewell ? The coming night Is veiled from Baby's failing sight. Sweet wind! You may stir the golden hair, Bright Bird! You may warble your music there It matters not now?for a life's dream i? done, The world is forsaken, but heaven is won. / The Babv's asleet). and an angel hand Has borne her away to the happy land And agony watched the parting breath For a render of ties is grim old Death. How sad! The morning sun shines clear, But not one ray must enter here, The world's awake, and many a sound Breaks on the solemn stillness round? And pains the heart which would not hear Tha stir of fife when death is near. A stately form?a noble brow On that poor oouch is trembling now, God made a gem and hid it here In that dark home 'mid want and care, No friendly hand?no cheering word The Poet ever clasped, or beard, But, hark! he speaks?reveals the strife? The struggles of a wasted life. In the morn of life I-felt it, 'Twas a burning thirst fbr feme, And the fresh young heart where dwelt it Would have died to win a name. Oft a spell came o'er my spirit, And a fever fired my brain, Then the world, and all within it, Seemed a desert made in vain. And I seemed a wasted being Formed for something yet unfbund, In my whole life nothing seeing But a dull unmeaning round. I have dreamed of future glory? Of a wreath for this poor head, Will men hear the splendid story When my pulse is cold and dead ? But the idle dream is ended And the struggle nearly done, " 1 ' Ll.L VV Qlie UQ6 goal W wuicu uucy kuju*u Is not?never will be won. : . - ' td Bright sun! gay world! you may stream in now, 'Twill bring no flush to that marble brow, You need not speak now that blissful word The poor dead Poet has never heard. Too late! too late! that once restless brain Will never heed praise or blame again, No murmur came forth with the last long breath, A friend to the friendless is kind old Death. Columbia, May 1868. . Original fapfts. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. CAPT. EDWARD O'CONNER, THE HOBTH 0AB0U5A 800UT. Amongst the men whom the war developed, whose deeds of matchless daring outrival the heroes of the olden time, and yet who only achieved a local renown, perhaps none was more remarkable than Captain Edward O'Conner, one of the most accomplished and daring soouts in the Confederate service, and yet totally nnheard of beyond his immediate held of action. In person, Captain O'Conner was superb?tall, lithe and muscular, with almost gigantic strength, and as active as-a wild cat. A superb horseman, swordsman and pistol shot, and a matchless hand tojmanage a boat; he could swim Hke a duck, walk lika a highland deer-stalker, and endure, unflineh ingly, the extremes of privation and fatigue. By birth,. O'Conner was a gentleman and an Irishman, and possessed all the noble traits of his race? frank, generous and warm-hearted?staunch in his friendships, and unforgiving to his foes. He wae highly intelligent and cultivated, and singularly handsome, with fine, clear cut features, a brillia^l complexion, heavy black beard and moustache, milk white teeth, and a profusion of curling dark hair. But it was chiefly in his eyes that the chanr of his appearance lay. Perfect in size and shape and with their marvellous brilliancy shaded by k>n{ silken lashes, there was in their expression a name less charm, that won you to him in an instant Their exact tint I never could determine, nor die I ever hear any three people agree about it. Then color varied with every change of light that fell 01 them. Now a sparkling black, then the riches! brown, or anon, a veiled, dusky violet, so exquisitely tender in depth and expression, so soft anc dreamy, that you would doubt whether these wen the eyes in which you had seen the fire of battle blaze so intensely. His voice was singularly low and sweet; and daring my long and intimate ac quaintance with him, I never heard him utter i low or coarse jest, and never but once heard an oatl upon his lips. Don't fancy, gentle reader, that I am manufac turing a hero "to order." I paint the man exact ly as I knew him, and hundreds of men can testify #to the truth of my picture. He always served ii Eastern Carolina, and every inch of the swamp: and coast was as familiar to him as the light o day. Watchful and tireless as a sleuth hound, h< was ever on the trail of the enemy, going in anc oat of their lines as freely as he did into our own During 1864 and '65, my command was station ed at Kinaton, N. C., and as I frequently served a a scout, I was thrown a great deal with O'Conner and was distinguished by him with peculiar kind ness and regard. Often have I gone with him int< Newberne; and I remember walking down one o: the streets one evening, just before Hoke made hii march down there?that came so near being a tri umph?and selecting a certain corner jewelry'ston . as one I meant to "prowl" when we took the city There was a very beautiful young lady in th< city?a staunch Confederate and a friend of O'Con ?_ n 1 rr> V?P ner s. ureDurni xtxry^ vuc xauecc vvuiiuauu?uv admired this lady greatly, and she patriotically ac cepted his attentions and betrayed his confidences Whenever there was a ball in Newberne, O'Con ner always got wind of it and attended, generally monopolizing the lady, Miss , to the "grind ing torments" of the jealous General. On on? occasion, . hen O'Conner had not absented himsel one moment from the side of his fair friend, Gen eral T. came up to him and abruptly demandec his name and regiment. O'Conner, who was play ing the part of a Yankee captain, coolly gave tb< required information. General Terry, who evi dently suspected something, desired to 6ee his pa pers. O'Conner eyed him for an instant, and sai< very drily: "That is a strange demand, General but if you will accompany me to the door, wher I left my over-coat, I think I can silence you doubts." The strangely blind General went witl him. There were only a few soldiers standing by O'Conner slipped his hand into his pocket, an< saying, "1 hope this will oonvince you, General!' he brought down the heavy barrel of a Navy re volver, with stunning force, across the head of th ?tmmmgmmm??mm dubious General, and dashing at headlong speed through the door aad down the street, he was out ; of reach of pursuit, ahnowbefbrethe panic, caused by his daring action, had subsided. On a subsequent visit to Newberne, 0'Conner's audaeity took a loftier Sight Genera! Terry had a magnificent horee. I don't remember whether it was a present or a purchase, (or as was not imfrequently the case, a theft), but the Genera! valued it highly, and took great care of it 0' Conner saw it, and admired it enough to desire to be the owner thereof, and in all cases where yankee spoils were conoerned, with him, to wish was to obtain. In camp, we all knew that be wanted the horse, and bets ran high as to whether he would get it or not I felt sure be would. The evening O'Connor was to leave the city, a very plain looking old countryman, with a frizzy head and beard, and wearing large bine glasses, presented himself at Terry's, headquarters, and , asked for . a pass to go beyond the lines. To a close examination, he gave such unexceptionable evidence of good faith, soft brains and Bnffalo lqyalty, that the pass was given to him, when General Teny asked him how he meant to travel "On a critter, sir," was the reply. "A horse, I suppose you mean, old man; where is it ?" "Hitched out thar, sir," Said the man, pointing to a small and indescribably wretched looking ani?> * ' 3 'i .i , - Q&l DeiongiDg 10 mat oreea, kuowuou me uuwi, as "banker ponies." The Jittfe beast was miserably poor and weak, and seemed unable to carry itself, much less a rider. "Why, you don't expect to make a journey on that miserable little wretch, do you?" asked Teriy, as the laugh at the little skeleton subsided. "'Thout, if I can swap him off for a better," replied the man, making an awkward bow and withdrawing. About an hour before dawn, a man, mounted on a superb bone, presented himself at the yankee outposts, showed a pass from headquarters, and was permitted to go through without difficulty. When General Terry's hostler went to the stable next morning, to feed and groom his splendid charge, he found, instead, a small and extremely ill looking "banker pony," to whose rope halter was attached a card, inscribed as follows; " lStoapped far a better,' and left for General Terry, with the comphmentoof?dwardO'Conner, scout, C. S. A." It is useless to pain? the General's impotent fury. The horse was gone, and O'Conner, too. A thousand dollars in gold was offered for him, dead or alive; but no one was boldenough to take him. Id tbeeyesofthe superstitious folk, he bore a charmed life, so there was ho use in trying to kill him ; and as to capture?wheW! the quick hand that grasped either bowie or pistol, and used both so fatally, was not so pleasant to encounter, so very little real effort was made to earn the reward. Such are a few out of many equally dariDg adventures of O'Connor?God bless him 1 Stranger that he was, he did servioe that any Southern man > might he proud to own, and that many, alas I too many, of the home-horn, shirked. Often, in a quiet hour, does the memory of the many dangers we have shared together, oome over me, and I can almost see the flashing of his luminous eyes, and hear his musical voice ring out as clear as a bugle call in the stern command, "Charge! and no quarter. " Should this page meet his eye, an old oomrade who slept by his side in Dover Swamp ; rode with him on the Deep Gully march ; fought with him at Street's Ferry, and on the breastworks below Ki list on; and who shared with him the dangers of many a scout for Martin, Hill, Bartow, Hoke 1 and Bragg, offers him a fervent greeting, and the 1 hope that should we ever serve again, it may be : in the same command, and with a more successful ' issue than our last campaign. HAL. M. LEGRANGE, Late Capt C. S. A. ?* * For the Yorkville Enquirer. , THE GARDEN OF EDEN: WHERE SITUATED. What child, we may ask, has not heard of Eden ? ' And what reflecting mind does not desire to ascertain the site of die Terrestrial Paradise ? Planned by the wisdom and furnished by the exuberant goodness of Jehovah, it was the first proof of his i kindness to man after his creation; and although no longer existing, the very name is calculated to ; excite a crowd of reflections in every pious, thinking mind. l The true situation of Paradise is involved in i much obscurity, and perhaps all we can hope to ob, tain from a careful investigation, is but an npproxir mation to the truth. It is hoped, however, that . the difficulties in the way are not entirely insur, mountable. The universal deluge certainly made 1 a deep impression upon the surface of the globe, r but it could not, it is believed, materially change i the great features of nature. It might dissolve t and level some hills and mountains of a softer con sistency; might swallow up the waters of some miI nor streams or change their courses; might buiy ? some extensive tracts of country, with all their in> habitants, in the bottom of the sea, and elevate r some submarine districts and cause them to appear as dry land; but the more solid parts of our earth t must have retained their original status. i It is hardly reasonable to suppose that the deluge, in the space of one hundred and fifty days, - could disintegrate the stupendous range of the Ar - UJUUIUU UI UVtUIODU UIVUUMi11Of vt Ai?v buvui u .... r ferent location. When the flood subsided, the tori rents which, previous to that calamity, descended s from the sides of those mountains to swell the magf DificieDt streams of the Euphrates and the Tigris, ? must have resumed their ancient courseand poured 1 their tributary streams into the same capacious . channels. The language of the sacred historian, in speak3 ing of the Euphrates, seems to confirm this. In , his description of Paradise he observes: "The fourth river is Euphrates." In the 15th chapter > of the same book he mentions it again, but witht out any notice that it was a different stream or that 3 it had ohanged its course. On the contrary, he . uses the definite article, which he could not have 3 done, with propriety, if it were not the same river. , In the 18th verse, he speaks of it again in the mani ner in which we mention a thing already known, . and at other times, when he mentions the Euphra, tes, he uses the same mode of speech. Now if the . antediluvian Euphrates was not the same with "that great river, the river Euphrates," which he . informs us watered the rich fields of Babylonia, r Moses could not have been ignorant of the fact. ? ? ? P p IA. . Hence, we conclude, mat me sunuue ui uur giuue ; has suffered no change by the deluge, which ought f to discourage us from attempting to ascertain the real situation of the terrestrial Paradise. We have 1 only a few brief hints in relation to the seat of pri meval happiness. A more ample detail would i have been of no real advantage, and the reticence - of the sacred "historian may have heen in accord ance with the divine oounsel, and that for reasons 1 that we may not be able to fully understand. The ; concise view, however, that has been given, may e well instruct mankind in the folly of seeking a place r of rest or happiness on earth. That in the exiled a Adam we have a type of the true spiritual condi. tion of his posterity?strangers to purity and holii ness of heart, and consequently to happiness and ' peace. This fact Bhould turn us from the evak nesoenrt enjoyments of time, to the pure and ime perishable pleasures of the heavenly Paradise. The .garden of Eden was: situated, aooording to Moses, "eastward in Eden." Ed on, according to its Hebrew signification, means pleasure or delight The land of Eden, according to our sacred author, lay on the banks .of a large river, which on leaving that country, was divided into four streams called Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Perothy or Euphrates. To ascertain the true situation of Paradise, we must find out and trace theoourse of these four noted streams, one ?f which still retains the name it bore fh the time of Mbses, hnd is familiarly known to both ancient and modern geographers. The first river mentioned by Moses is the Pison, which he informs us "compasseth the whole land of Havalah." It appears, however, from another passage in his writings, that Havalah is & part of the oouutry inhabited by the posterity of Ishmael. "And they dwelt from Havalah unto Shur, that is before Egypt." In the first book of Samuel, it is mentioned again thus: "Saul smote the AmahUnrMtlnk nnfil SAmaol frt IUICO ItVUI iiaVOMU UUVtX lUUU wuavov IV k/UM4 ?MM?I is before Egypt" As Arabia is the ooontiy allotted to Isbmael and his descendants, Havalah must be situate near the Persian Golf; for "8hur, which is before Egypt," is the western extremity of Arabia at the bottom of the Red Sea, as the following passage from the book of Exodus plainly proves: "Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur." Shor is opposed by the sacred writer to Havalab, and, therefore, the latter must be the eastern extremity of Arabia or that part of the country that borders on the Persian Gulf. Moses tells us that Havalah, whioh was refreshed by the waters of the Pison, was distinguished for its fine gold, bdellium and onyx stones. The same valuable products formerly abounded in the eastern extremity of Arabia, and both inspired and profane authors commend the gold of that country. Diodorus, in his works, mentions the gold of this country as being very fine. See also Ezekiel, xxvii: 22. Another distinctive character of this country is its possessing the bdellium. The word is variously translated by intepreters, and is either an aromatic gum or a pearl, both of which are to be found in the land of Havalah. Aocording to the highest authority, the Persian Gulf, and particularly that part which washes the shores of Havalah, produces finer pearls than any other part of the world. The last distinguishing mark of Havalah is the onyx-stone. It cannot be ascertained with certainty what particular stone is here referred to, but it is expressly stated, by both sacred and profane writers, that Arabia abounded in precious stones of various kinds. Hence, we infer that in the eastern extremity of Arabia, was sitnated a country"called Havalah, abounding in fine gold, in pearls, in aromatic gums and in precious stones. Now this country, Moses informs us, was encompassed by the river Pison... On inspecting the maps Of both ancient and modern geographers, we discover a stream washing, in its winding course, one side of that celebrated region, and also communicating < iA Aiwa ntlia* niioM Ko ana anmmnn ftVionfiol yt ltu luitb VVUVl mvig w?j uuv wiu luvii vuwumw.i This gives us all the marks by which the inspired historian distinguished the Pison, and wc conclude that the western channel of the Euprates is the Pison of the sacred scriptures. Hie name of the second river is Gihon: *The same is it which oompassetli the whole land of Cush." As the Gihon cannot be at any great distance from the river Pison, we must look for the land of Cush near the country of Havalah. We find a country here, watered by the eastern branch of the Euphrates, which has borne the name of Cush from the remotest antiquity to the present time, and that the river that washes it must be the Gihon of Moses. The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is generally believed to be the same with the Tigris. The seventy interpreters render the Hebrew word Hiddekel, the Tigris, which is only the original word in a different form. Moses s^ys "that is it which goes before Assyria." Assyria, in the days of Mo9es, was the designation of that single province only of which Ninevah was the capital. A traveler from Egypt or Midian, where Moses wrote, oould not enter Assyria without first crossing the Tigris, and this corresponds exacfiy with the description which the sacred historian gives of the Hiddekel. The last of the four rivers is the Euphrates. This noble stream was familiarly known to the nations for whom the inspired historian wrote, without any mark of distinction. Moses calls this river Perath. The Greeks, adjusting it in their usual manner to their own language, turned it into Euphrates. The sacred text speaks of only one river which watered the land of Eden, whicl), after leaving its boundary, was divided into four streams. This aocount corresponds with the course of these rivers wo have been tracing. The Euphrates and the Tigris unite their waters, and after flowing together in one channel for some distance, separate again into two channels, one of which we have shown to be the Pison, taking a westerly, and the other, which is the Gihon, an easterly direotion. From these data it is easy to ascertain the situation of the land of Eden, where the garden of Paradise was placed. It lay on the single channel, common to all four of these streams; for says the historian: " * * ?A -C T7IJ? "A river wens uui ui xjucu lv> waicr me guucu, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads." Within the limits of Eden the river flowed in only one channel, but from thence it was parted and became four heads. These observations clearly prove that the country of Eden, where the terrestrial Paradise was situated, lay on a single river formed by the united streams of the Tigris and Euphrates, and it necessarily follows that the garden, fitted for the abode of our first parents, lay on the same stream; for it is expressly affirmed that "a river went out of Eden and watered the garden." The primitive idea of the terrestrial Paradise was long present to the imagination of the oriental nations. It furnished the enraptured poets of Greece and Rome with the never-fading verdure, the perpetual bloom and the fruits of burnished gold, with which their glowing imaginations clothed the Fortunate Isles, or enriched the garden of Hesperides. * * * Wonderful Feat of a Dog.?A few nights ago, Mr. Williams, who resides west of Springfield, let a neighbor, Mr. Pettit, have the use of his dog to assist and protect him from the chicken thieves. On the same night a burglar entered the stable of Mr. Williams and stole therefrom ayoung v v ?i i A n_x Day mare, ana was ncnng aiong me roaa past rettit'shouse, when the dog commenced barking, and, breaking his chain, bounded over the fence and dashed after the horseman at full speed. The chase continued for four miles, when the horseman stumbled and fell. The dog rushed up, and immediately attacked, it is supposed, the daring thief, who fired two shots at the animal, but missed him, as no marks were found upon him. Whether the dog closed in upon the thief, or whether the thief took to his heels across the country has not been definitely ascertained, but the dog caught hold of the bridle, lines in his mouth, and led the horse back three miles, where he was met by Mr. Pettit and his man, who were roused by the furious sounds, and were following in the direction whither they went. Mr. Pettit immediately recognized the horse and dog, and at once surmised What had happened. The whole four?the two men, dog and horse?returned to Mr. Williams', whom they found fast asleep, altogether ignorant of what had taken place.?NashvOk Banner. = ' ' 1 ITMw?Haiifi)ui5 fading, " " -? tl From the Colombia Phmnlx. L LETTER FBOM~EX-GQ>. PERRY. . ?* Mr. EditorIt is high time that the press of S. Carolina, and the public speakers of the State, had * turned their attention from the usurpations, tyrrany and corruptions of the radical Congress, to the " wild, extravagant, and attrocious legislation of that ''unlawful assembly," composed of carpet-baggers, negroes and scalawags, recently -sitting in Columbia, and styling themselves "the General Assembly of South Carolina." This heterogeneous and modfy group of wouldbe legislators, really seem disposed to bankrupt the State, and drive the people to acts of violence, or > goad them on to revolution. Never before, in the " history of civilized legislation, was there a specta- ** cle so revolting and disgusftijjf as we now have in ( South Carolina. A greedy swarm of unprincipled 00 adventurers from the North, without fortune and 00 without character?many of them escaped convicts j* from jails and penitentiaries?-hare oome here, un- J" der the protection ofPederal bayonets, arid by pan- J* dering to the ignorance, prejudice and bad passions ' of our/oriper ^Javes, bad themselves elected to the th Legislature, so-caHed, and are filling all the high-j^ offices of the State. ' ' ? It is vain t9 say that some of them may be hon- gc est and worthy. No gentleman, or honest man 01 with the instincts of a gentleman, could be induced by any earthly consideration, to come here as they have, and occupy the plaoes they do, against the ^ wishes of all honest and respectable citizens. Their sole purpose is to get money and to get office, and ? to protect themselves against the possible and des- ~ cried vengeance of an outraged and oppressed peo- ^ pie. Whilst stealing and plundering the public 1X3 treasury, and being bribed for all their pretended bogus legislation, they are trying, like cowards, to guard against personal danger, by tyranny, oppres- ^ sion and despotism. ?l Impoverished and ruined as the people of South ^ Carolina are, this bogus Legislature have not only ^ increased the salaries of all the State officers one 111 third; but have created a multitude of offices, before cr unknown and wholly unnecessary, with extravagant P* salaries and perquisites, for the express purpose of providing for their hungry and worthless persons ^ here and at the North. For former years the most illustrious men of the State, learned and profound m lawyers, were wilHog to accept a seat on the bench, 18 with a salary of $3,000. Now, a parcel of ignor- br ant, low and groveling men, carpet-baggers and ^ scalawags, have been elected to the bench, with p' salaries of four and five thousand dollars. So it is >D with all the other offices of the State. ^ A batch of County offioers have been created, ^ whose salaries will amount to two or three hundred thousand dollars, whose duties were formerly per- h< formed by gentlemen of intelligence and public spirit, without compensation 1 .These offices are tn now filled, in many instances, by the most ignorant ra and unprincipled men in the community, who have h* declared themselves traitors to their race and their 8] countiy. The salaries of the pubjio officers of the di State and counties! will amount to. six or seven hun- P! dred thousand dollars! This is two or three hun- to 1 1 *1 J J-11 OT areu muusanu uuums mure uiau cue nuvic ujmm- -ses of the Suite amoo'nteJtb In former years. Tne expenses of the Legislature, Penitentiary and Jails, (worthy associations,) will cost the State five or six ro hundred thousand more. The free school system, b< for the education of the negroes, will Tequire over ra one million of dollars annually, to put it in opera- ?* tion and keep it up! The police of the State, and the maintenance of a negro force -in each County, y1 provided for by law, will require over a million of cc dollars! The pay of jurors, the support of pan- & pers, and other incidental appropriations, will 00 probably cost the State five or six hundred thous- 8t and dollars more?making an aggregate of four mil- P1 lions of dollars! This enormous sum cannot be paid, and shonld not be paid by the impoverished tr people of South Carolina. It is ten times the tax- ^ ation which wa were required to pay in our days of K wealth and prosperity! But not satisfied with these enormously extrav- pi agant and prodigal expenditures and appropriations tl for a poverty-stricken people, this mongrel, stupid 01 and unprincipled bogus Legislature, have issued in bonds and endorsed bonds for that body, amounting n< to several millions of dollars. They have likewise st been bribed by the bill-holders of the Bank of the of State, to issue bonds for those bills, at their par ca walue, when they were purchased by the holders of for ten cents in the dollar I' w The most alarming feature, however, of this wicked and stupid legislation, so-called, is the bill ^ recently introduced to suspend the writ of habecu ^ ? < ? i i* i or corpus, seize tbe railroads and telegrapn lines, ana call out a standing army of negroes, to protect the P{ cowardly tyrants aod usurpers in their despotism, P' oppression and plunder. This Jiill authorizes the Governor, so-called, and his minions all over the State, to arrest and imprison any one, without 80 charge or accusation, and confine them in dungeons or as long as it may suit their pleasure?no trial to be ^ had. In the meantime, these black troops are to m insult and outrage our families, and plunder and destroy our homos and property. A more infamous, cruel, atrocious and degrading despotism, ac was never established by the Grand Bashaw of in Turkey, or the Imperial Czar of all the Russias! tb If there is nature or manhood left in the white tu race, it will not, cannot be borne. Their vengeance is will fall on the carpet-baggers and scalawags, and w: not on the poor deluded negro. Retributive jus a ooorior evr la tor oror V?aa and fiVfir Will nVHT- dl UVC) OWU*'i U1 IBVW?) VfV* UWU take tyranny and crime. co It is high time, I have said, for the people of S. m Carolina to turn their attention from national poli- m tics to these terrible State wrongs and grievances. tD They must not be overlooked in our present politi- he cal excitement for the time will come, and that hi speedily, when they will crush us to the earth. We th ought to prepare to meet them. Not by violence d< and revolution, but by exposing their atrocity to wi the colored people, whose interest is ours, and who wi have been made the dupes and tools of these vile fe men from the North. They have come here for yc money, and will quit the country when they see re there is no more to be had, or there is personal te danger in their path. Our line of policy is clear, ed patent, manifest We must commit no aggression, "i no act of violence, but be prepared to act on the sh defensive, with spirit and vigor, when action isim- wi perative. Patience and forbearance, in suffering de and oppression, are high and patriotic virtues. of J Let us consider and reflect on our condition. A Pi man from Ohio professes to be our Governor I vu Two of our Associate Judges in the Appeal Court, fri are from New York and Pennsylvania! Two of be our Circuit Judges from New England 1 The At- to torney-General (shown to be an ass of the first wa- foi ter, in an,opinion given the bogus legislature,) is on from some radical clime! The School Commission- de er from the Bame latitude! The Treasurer of the th State is a carpet-bagger, and has been published a of rogue and a forger from his boyhood! One of our United States Senators is from New England, who ps now boasts his great loyalty, but who wished to to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy in ri< 1861! The member of Congress from Charleston vc is from New England or the North-West, with in- hi famous antecedents! The Congressman from the m Pee Dee is from Massachusetts, and said to have a nc bad record in the army, and in Darlington! But ca enough of these carpet-baggers. is Is it likely that these men will long continue ra here, when trouble comes, or that they will be long ri< t istained by the negroes ? X think not?their ex- i ins is at hand. They know that the people hold . lem responsible, with the carpet-bagger in the i egislatux^ for all their wrongs and oppressions, idnred or to be endured in the future. The prom- < ent scamps in this bogus Legislature, black and 1 bite, are all from the North! None of them ] ive property here or are tax-payers, and yet they ' e overwhelming the property holders with taxa- 1 to! . B. F. PEJtRY. i GaoatviLLz, S. C., Sept 25,1868. RAILWAYS IN ENGLAND. ' A correspondent of a Springfield paper gives , me readable jottings of what he saw on the Eng- i ih railways. We make some extracts: i English and American Railroads Contrasted? i s I have undertaken to show what can be learned < om Great Britain concerning economy in horse I ? ' * T .. 5 i!liA A! i. J _ A ssn, peroapa a. can out ao oeuer iiviu uj ur#?? a aiparifiOQ between the railway systems of the two entries. Let me say, then, that in all matters la ting to the construction of railroads and stationnises, we can learn everything; in all matters reting to the operation of roads, absolutely nothing, he American cars are incomparably better than ie English, and the whole system of management ore businesa-like. The English know what a >od road is, and build it. They know nothing of ting round a hill, or swerving from a direct course t amount of any ordinary obstacle. On nearly reiy road that I have passed over, the lamps of >e cars are kept constantly lighted, on account of ie tunnels through which the trains ran. Tun;ls from eighty rods to a mile in length are to be and on all the principal roads. I have passed Hough a dozen of them in a single afternoon, ben, wherever such a thing is possible, the railad jpasses under or over every wagon road, and ery other railroad. Great pains have been taken this particular. If the English had constructed ie Western Railroad, where it passes through pringfield, they would have arrested the grade st of Chestnut-street, and canyiog it high above onnecticut river, permitted Main-street to pass rder it Such a nuisance as you suffer at that ossing would not be attempted by an English corrration, or borne by the English people. All the ads are heayilv ironed, and most of them are hoisted with stoue. . The Station-Houses.?The station-houses are adirable, and they are l>mlt?as everything else ?to last The platforms are always stone or ick, mainly the former, and around all the stajos in the country the moet beautiful flowers are anted. Indeed, there can hardly be anything lagined neater and more thouroughly t M?il an the station houses, and the little parterres tat flank them, or bloom in the door yards of the topers. Then, all the conveniences of a station juse are kept in order. Such, sinks of filth and >ominable n as tineas as are to be found at the stain Tinnooa r\f tVirfHwiiiartprA nf thp American rail ads are never seen in England. We onght to ive a reformation in this matter in the United ates, radical and universal. It is a shame and a sgrace to American railroad management that issengcrs are often?nay, almost always?obliged resort to places more disgusting than a pig sty, 1 suffer pain that often leads to permanent disise. So, let us admit that in the construction of railads and the building and ordering of station )uses, the English are ahead of us. I am not a ilroad man, and cannot go into the small matters ' railway economy. I am aware that these roads ive cost immense sums, and but few of them are elding any profit to their original builders. The ist of the "right of way" in England is something arful; and it is all the more creditable to railway irporations that this item has not been allowed to and in the way of great thoroughness in the deirtments of construction. On the road from Lon)n to Liverpool, even the embankments and cutrigs are graded and turfed, or beautifully walled, here is not a bank of gravel or an uncultivated d to be seen from the car window. Managing Baggage,.?And now, having given raise where praise is due, let me say a word of te operating of these magnificent roads. I can lly say, at starting, that it is childish, "putterg," utterly incompetent. The Englishman has jver yet given up the idea that he is running a age coach. He has divided his cars into a series'1 ' compartments, to imitate a stage coach, and he ills his car a coach. Then he puts the baggage ' his passengers on the top of his coach, or into bat answers for a boot, and spreads a tarpaulin rer it, just as he used to do, I suppose, in Tony ^oiler's time. He gave no check for baggage, hecks were not the fashion in the good old times, < >d he will not adopt them. If I start from any < irt of Great Britain for London, with half a dozen eces of baggage, I am obliged to look after it on rery ohange of cars; and on my arrival at the sta- ' 3n, I mast be on the spot to see and claim it per- 1 naDy. It seems incredible that an improvement 1 i this management, so obvious as the system of * tecks, has not been adopted here; but there is no ' ovement, that I can hear of, toward such a sys- ( m. ' The present rude way of managing luggage is ' companied by some more perplexing evils. Nom- \ ally the guard, brakemen, and station-porter, do eir work at the expense of the corporation. Aoially, they all seek a fee from the passenger. It astonishing what a shilling, or even a six-pence, ill do in the palm of an employee. I have had * whole compartment for my family for two hun- ( ed miles, for a shilling nut into the hands of the >nductor. It needed no words. He wanted the . oney, and understood its language perfectly. I , eantbytbefee to say: "Please put no one in is compartment, if you can help it" He could dp it, and he put no one in. We occupied just . df of the compartment, and, of course, bought e other half for a shilling. The porter, when he ? iposits your trunk on the car or in the van, al- j ays puts his hand into the window in the ? ay that invites a sixpence, and in a very afctionate and assuring voice tells you just where t iu will find your trunks and bundles when you ach your destination. Every man who looks afr you in any way expects a fee, and is disappoint- !1 1 if he does not get one. Men who are dressed c ?-linno'1 will irrflon vnnr / Y It 111 Li ttU lUUU Ui VUUU MIVU IIU4 V illing with a will, and touch their bats to you \ ,th the grateful humility of k boot black. In- t ed I have not seen an Englishman, in any kind t service, who would not take a fee. Conductors e irker and Adams, of Springfield, have silver ser- c ses and gold watches presented to them by their t ends, operating through stately committees; b it what would they say to a man who should hand t them a dime or a quarter as an acknowledgment b r a favor? Think how Carroll's eye would look o i reoeiving a shilling from a gentleman who might s sire to occupy two seats ? Let us be thankful c at nothing of this kind disgraces the operation t American railways. o Compartment Cars.?I am "down on" com- a irtment cars. I do not like them, if anybody, is J: be in them besides myself and mine. If I must s le with strangers, let it be in a long, light, well- d intilated car, rather than a little box. Once I t ive been brought face to face and shut up with a ii ost offensive person, who would have passed un- } >ticed among the half hundred in an American \ r. To be locked into a box with such a person e not pleasant. It is not a month since an out- ? ge was committed upon a helpless woman while y ling through a tunnel I read the account ofli the scoundrel's trial At the time, and such things, [ am told, are not very uncommon. Bah 1 They ire uncanny places. L . Advantage* of the American ar.~The American ear has two or three advantages, which am obvious even to those who do not oppose the compartments. They can be thorougly wanned and reatilated in winter. The compartments are never (vanned^ except by jugs of warm- water; and this warming business gives opportunity for more "sponging" of passengers. A man can undoubtedly keep his feet warm by paying money enough. Again, there is no cabinet in the English oar, a matter of great importance in long trips, and to those traveling with children. Still, again, the whole train most be stopped, and all the compart meat doors opened, in order to collect the tickets jf the passengers. This is a waste of time, Water for drink cannot be carried through an English trainband it ia impnaaihlA mahfl jf a conduct or.as eveiy, strainer ia compelled, to aiake of somebody. The wbolejyfttem Vipefoy ind full of troublesome detail Fare and Speed.?Tbe price of railroad travel in England is very mucfi greafer'tban in the United States?greater, I am assyredy thanin any othir country in tbe world The secdnd-dass passage s higher than the first class in America, and the jars much inferior to tlto ordinary American passenger car. All the policy of the corporation is shaped to drive respectable passengers into-firstslass cars and highest prices. Then is a waitingroom for first-class passengers, and then another or second and third-class passengers. Thetenlency of associating the latter class is obyioos. In regard to speed, there are undoubtedly trains n England that are ran faster than any trains are eeularly run in America, hot much ofthe time of ' he fast trains is gained by saving it There are rains that run long distances without stopping at lIL They take up the water used in the boiler while going the most rapidly. On one train I raveled eighty-six miles without a stop?the longest run I remember making. Now, let the Boston < >xpress train run through to Springfield passing Farmingham, Worcester, Worcester Junction, IVest Brookfield and Palmer, at full speed, and he running will foot up ris well aft the best I have ret seen in Great Britain. English Hotels.?I intended to say something in his letter about English hotels but space ife'get i 1 \ T a I mg snort. i supposed, wuen i roacaea XiOgisua, ;hat I knew something about hotels "kept on the European plan." I had been to the Brevoort, and he Albermarle; but I was not prepared by my exjeriencC there for my necessities here. In the natter of operating a hotel, the English are just as nuch behind the Americans as they are in opening a railroad. The English hotel of today is the >ld English inn of a oentuy ago, jnst as tbe rail, ;ar is the old stage coach. The landlord is a wo nan, the'barkeeper is a maiden; they eat In the )ffice, sell cigars in the pantry, throw the principal " esponaibilityof the establishment on "boots," employ for table-waiters persons who seeer to be delayed clergymen of the Church of England, and < tompel their guest to hire private parlors, or re- ' jeive their visitors in the dining-room. I Cannot possibly get used to them ; if. I ever do, it Will be ' vhen I become insane. . 7 I I it ? ' A Virginia Negro's Opinion op .Union Leagues and Carpet-Baggers.?A corresponient writing to the New York Herald from Lynchburg, Virginia, under date of the 20th ultimo, reates the following interview between himself and i negro, whom he met during his travels. The jorrespondent says: The antagonism formerly existing between the races is nearly extinct, and whites as well as blacks ire beginning to realise that they are mutually dependent on each other, and that - unless they live peaceably and friendly together both will "go to the dogs." Sambo is sensible enough to see all this, and there has consequently been a reaction igainst his pretended friends, the carpet-baggers, many of whom so cruelly deceived him in the mot ter of "forty acres and a mole" to get bis vote, ind now that there is no voting to be done he is iercer in his denunciation of this migratory tribe if office seekers. Meeting quite an intelligent specimen of the Congo, whose name I found to be Greorge Washington, one day recently, I remarked ' to him: "Well, George, how do you get along now?" "Berry well, massa. Got plenty work, plenty to eat, good clothes, comfortable cabin, whar de ole (toman is, and the childer, on' reokon dafc's much isany nigga wants." "Who ao you live with?" "Old Massa Jim Thomson. Been libin wid him since the war, all de time; never lef him 'cept mce, but I soon cum back." f.' "Why did you leave him then, George?" . * "Well, I'se most shamed to tell 'bout dat All )f us niggas turned.fools and jined the League, in' 'tended meetins all ober de country, an' lef 1 (rork an' didn't 'tend to nuffin. So old boss cum < jo me and say: 'George dis ting won't do;'you ' ;ot to stay here to work or quit.' So I takes an' luits an' kep' on rnuuing' 'bout ?fter de speakers; 1 )ut I neber made nuffin dot way, nor neber got no ' an', so I cams back an'stells ole massa I dun tired ! loin nuffiu, an' wants to go to work. So he say: Go to work, George, and stay at it' So I been \ A) work, steady sinoe, sir." j; "Do you belong to the League still, George?" 1 "No, sab. De man what do all de talking dan gone, lef dese diggins. Got no use for him, and ' iberybody gits along better widout him." "Bat you are a Radical still; aia'tyou, George?" ' "I'se a 'publican, but dey say a good many cul- j ed folks are turnin' dimocrats, and I tink I'll go ] ong and see 'bout datr De white folks all dimo- 1 ;rats, an' shu' an' certain dat most' be de most ' spectable, an' I know we gits no lan' less we pays 1 or it" / 1 Such are the sentiments of the negroes in all lo- 1 alities where they are free from the demoralising nfluences of Northern adventurers and Southern ix-rebels, who are devoid of all common self-respect ind who are by no means respected by the simple 1 ninded people they attempt to dupe. Horrible History op a Glutton.?Grenadier | rarare, who died recently at Florence, Italy, was j me of the greatest gluttons of modern times. He ( levoured, in the course of twenty-four hours, j rhole quarter of a beef; a breakfast prepared for g an nr. +nr.>ltra npr?nnq he wonld disDatch in a few oinutes. He ate limestones, corks, and nearly ev- t rything that fell into his hands. A favorite food ( >f his was snakes, which he relished better than ( he fattest eels. He devoured the largest snakes ie got hold of alive, without leaving anything of < hem. When he was once employed as assistant in a j lospital, he seized a large tomcat, and was. already < ccupied in tearing it alive, when Dr. Lorenzi, chief l urgeon of the army was sent for. Tarare held the i at by the neck and tail and tore its belly with his ( eeth, sucking the blood, and soon leaving nothing j f it except the bones; whereupon he knawed, like < i beast of prey, at the skin, to the horror of the | lospital assistants, who witnessed the repulsive ] cene. These assistants said they had seen him j [rink with the utmost avidity the blood of paitients j hat had been bled, and others caught him in eat- t ng pieces out of the corpses at' the charnel house, i Vhen it finally appeared that this cannibal had de- j roured the whole corpse of a child, he was dismiss- ] d from the hospital, where he filled everybody rith unspeakable horror. He died twenty-six ears old, of a putrid diarrhoea, resulting from < nortification of his bowels. < Thx Wats or Jafakesk Fduwxn.?A letter from an American, now traveling in. Japan, tolls bow the Japanese don't pat out fires: 1 "In every towa there are a somber of organised fire companies, Yok&homa having twelve or fifteen, each provided with the Mowing instruments: First, a smaD wooden engine about two feet square, which is carried on theshoofdero of two of the company; a circular paper charm about two feet in diameter, gaudily oofored, and fastened at the top of a long pole; and a bamboo Udder." Besides which t i 1 ?i.j _Ai. w tl Tit : eacn memoer is pruviuea wim a pyre, wiui ?u uvu bode fastened at the end of it, for tearing down the buildings surrounding tho fire. On the bells striking the alarm, the different oompanias start on a fall ran for the scene of action, keeping up at the same time snob a yelling and screaming as would put to blush even the old fire department of New York. Arriving at the fire, the charm-bearer, entirely enveloped in an infiamable coat, takes np his position 6n obe of ttewagMMfaff buildings, and, fceepuighis charin ic constant:motion, has full confidence that the fiames vOI. expire before such a t? rriblo inafcrmnent Believing that "prevention is better than erne,'' the firemen do not attempt to throw water on the . burning building, but, instead, keep up a constant # stream-on their leader, to "keep him oool," while a few of their number attack the nearest building with their pikes; hot before they havegot it half down they ,are. driven ofl^ die fire usually, following them entirely through;the town in this way. Indeed stimsddpm.hraakaout in any of their towns bat what it leaves it in ashes in a few hours. .,tt? I. The inspection of the companies concluded with (ha following perfonpajtcer Each oompany, in passing before the Governor's bouse, who wee standta?i>a the baloouy aunuuaded by his officials, halted, and having rested one end of their ladder on the ground, they clustered around it, and a doten of them thrusting their pikesrilitort about eight feet from the ground, they braced themselves, and in. thia way held it firmly. One of their number, dressed in tight clothes, now wonted to the top, and, at the height of twenty-five feet, went through Bomo of the moet surprising evolntious imaginable, standing on his head, turning himself inside out, and making a sudden jump from the ladder when it seemed as if nothing could save him from a fear ful M, and then being jerked back witb tremendous force by a cord which be had fastened to his leg. Each member vent through these various manoeuvres with slight variatmnfc-ihe performance being kept up &tt the afternoon." Tax Jsws.?We find the following article in the last issae of the Southern Recorder: The Jews are a nation that was never born to die; the purest aristocracy of theworid ;the chosen people of God; .the living.. rains of a nation more ancient and illustrious than Greece or Jtome; the chosen and select nation of antiquity to be the bearer of God's will and teachings to mankind. We see in the Jews of to-day, the counterpart of those who served in Egypt; who made Palestine consecrated ground; who made Jerusalem the glory of the world in the days of Solomon; who gave to the wodd the Bible and a Saviour. The Jew has never been rightly understood or appreciated; and & blind religious real has persecuted him with a bitter malignity that no other nation has ever felt; but true to iiini^lgtipraiMtins'Godrhrlias never forsaken the faith of his fathers. Being no proselyte, he never entered the field of proselytism, but pursued the even tenor of his way, and only resisted aggressions when-aggrieved. The crucifixion of Christ was just and right in their eyes according to their laws, nor are they yet oonvinoed, after eighteen hundred yean of expe rience sod Buffering with their Bible before them, that it was for that sin that they new suffer as a dispersed people. They reason from a different standpoint altogether. It is folly to hate a Jew, simply because he is a Jew, and denies the Christian faith. Oar Saviour was a Jew; the greater portion of the Bible is Jewish; the ten oommaadents which constitute the basis of our morality are Jewish. And what we are to- jay as a Christian people, i^e owe it to the Jew as our spitftoal halfbrother. better day ancfa more enlightened feeling is dawning upon them, and they will take that position in the world that their worth, merit, energy, enterprise and mtefligeooe demands. / Opium Smoking.?'We had an opportunity to , see opium smoking oa steamers during the passage from Singapore, The opium, which, as aD your readers know, wasfbrpod upon China by the East India Company, is first reduced from a solid to a liquid form by boding it in water. When ready for the pipe it is about' the consistency and color of tar. It is prepared and pot up in little tin bosses by the chemist, being brcmghtfrom India in a solid - T> u a.t . u. case, xi la bo puwercui iu iu> cum uu? a uuudredth of aft ounce is sufficient to intoxicate a beginner, though an old smoker can stood a quarter of an ooooe. . If. the drug is need at regular intervals, at a certain hour every day, the smoker, in a short time, cannot get past that hoar Without his pipe. Hebeaoeaes rcstiew, negroes, feverish, irritaMe, out ofsorts, and endues terrible torture. If he obtains a pipe, takes a fowwbifft, he is the happiest of mortals. He pasBeS from Purgatory to Paradise. Onoe get into the habit, and there is no breaking off It is as impossible for a smoker to leave off, as it is for a boat to ascend the rapids of Niagara. The victim is doomed.r ;- It is a costly rice, and the very poor cannot indulge in it It sosts an inveterate smoker about $15 per mouth, ind the vice in a short time leads to lisdeesness, -* ndolenoe,. neglect of business, incapacity, disinclination, for labor, the breakdown of the constitution, Kanee, and horrible death. The Chinese hare a ?UBUJMH! tlik Jin motif SKJiUg Viran Vjjiuiu MUVivio Uftaao inv iuquu rod the bight day, tad those who give themselves ap to the pipe are called "opium devils." Exchange. Bow Pleasant it is to b* an Ewroa.?The . following composition by a boy is in accordance with- the public idea of an editor's life f "The editor is one of the happiest animals in the cnown world. He can go to the circus, afternoon rod evening, without paying a cent; also to invests and hangings. He has free tickets to piclics and strawberry festivals, gets cakes tent him, and sometimes gets a licking, but not ofen, for he can take things buk in the next issue, he which he generally does. I never knew only me editor to get licked. His paper busted that lay, and he oouldn't take nothing back. While other folks have to go to bed early, the amami niak# aml ma all iked'a KAIWT VOU DIV U|/ ?? */ uigu^ wu MV mi ?Ml 0 ping oa. The bethink ft is a big thing to bug jn till tea o'clock. When I am a^maa' I mean to N x> an editor, so I can stay out nights. Then that frill be bully. - The editor don't have to saw wood >r do any chopping, except with his scissors. Railroads get up excuraona Ibr him, knowing if they lidn't he'd make git up and git in politics le don't care mochwho he gees for, if they are on us side.'If they ain't he goes for 'em anyway; joft ampuntato nearly the same thing. There is i great many people tiyiog to be editors who can't, tad some of them have been in the profession for pears. They can't see it though. If I was asked f I had rather have an education or be a circusrider. 1 would say, let me go and be an editor." ' ' IS-The proprietor of a boatrinill advertises that hoee sending their own bones to mill will be attenled to with punctuality and dispatch.