Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 07, 1870, Image 4

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feletted fotitg. WHAT I LIVE FOB. I live for those that love me, Whose hearts are kind and true; For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit, too; For all human ties that bind me; ? For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes left Dehind me, And the good that I can do. I live to learn their story Who've suffered for my sake; To emulate their glory, And follow in their wake; Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages; The noble of all ages; Whose deeds crowd history's pages, And time's great volume make. I live to hold communion With all that is divine; To feel therein is union 'Twixt nature's heart and mine; To profit by affliction, Reap truths from fields of fiction, Grow wiser from conviction, And fulfil each great design. I live to hail that season i By gifted minds foretold, When man shall live bv reason, And not alone by gold! When man to man united, ' And every wrong thing righted, The whole world sbaH be lighted As Eden was of old. I live for those who love me * And fnr tlinsn trhn Irnnw fptlfl. For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit, too. For the cause that lucks assistance; For the wrong that needs resistance; For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. Humorous* parimtttt. A LEGAL. WAG. Judson T. Mills, of South Carolina, was judge of a district court in Northern Texas, fond of a joke, but very decided in his discharge of duty. Thomas Fannin Smith was a practicing lawyer at the bar, and having shamefully misstated the law in his address to the jury, turned to the court, and asked the judge to charge the. jury accordingly. The judge was indignant and replied: "Dqes the counsel take the court to be a fool f Smith was not abashed by the reproof, but instantly responded: "I trust your honor will not insist on an answer to that question, as I might, in answering it truly, be considered guilty of contempt of court." "Fine the counsel ten dollars, Mr. Clerk," said the judge. Smith immediately paid the money, and remarked it was more than the court could show. "Fine the counsel fifty dollars," said the Judge. . The fine was entered by the clerk, and Smith not being ready to respond in that sura, sat aown. 100 next morning, on me opening 01 the court, Smith arose, and with much deference of manner, began: "May it please your honor, the clerk took that little joke of yours yesterday about that fifty dollars as serious, as I perceive from the reading of the minutes. Will your honor be pleased to inform him of his error, and have it erased ?" The coolness of the request, and the implied apology, pleased the Judge, and he remitted the fine. THE MARRIAGE VOW. A marriage ceremony was performed, years ago, in Bossier Parish, La., by a newly elected magistrate. He owned a magistrate's form book, and was in the habit of turning a leaf at important places. Having been called upon to marry a couple, he had recourse to this unfailing fountain of knowledge and information ; but douoting his capacity to repeat the service from memory, down went a leaf. The eventful evening came. The trembling couple stood in the august presence of the'magistrate, who, with book in hand, thought himself equal to any emergency. Opening the volume at a place where a leaf was turned, in solemn and impressive tones he began: "One day afterdate I promise"?confusion! he had opened at the wrong page. Considerably staggered, but still resolved, he turned to another page?"Know all men by these presents"? Here be broke down md stood utterly abashed. Rallying, however, with a mighty effort, he shut the book and sternly demanded: "Do you promise to do unto this woman as other men ao unto their wives, so help you God ?" ^-^.4 The Helena Gazette publishes the following challenge to a spelling match, made by the "Sachem" of Beaverhead county, on behalf of himself and ex-Governor Ashley : "Me and Ashly purpose to spell agin' enny man womin or child in Montanuy for $100 a sied. The wurds to bee celeckted by a committy of litterry gents and the pu'se to be awarded bv the eniDire to the won as misses the fewest wurds. I^nny one who dare to take up this challenge let him pitch in, solus bolas, I'm reddy. N, B. Ashley wants "tounsight" harr'ed out?I sa let it come on." ^ S&&" An inquisitive urchin the other day, while reciting a lesson (says an exchange), from the sermon on the Mount, broke out: "Ma, did Jesus get 82000 a year for preaching "No, my child; he did not get anything." "Why didn't they pay him ?" "Because he refused to preach politics. The devil offered him a big salary to do it, But he would not accept the call." t&" A lady not long since visiting a cemetery, in Gardiner, Me., with her little daughter, observed in one of the stones a neatly cut I figure of a horse. Wondering why such an i emblem should be used, they examined the | inscription closely, but could find no clue to j its appropriateness, when the little girl re-1 marked: "I presume she died erf the night-1 mare." A clergyman went to a hotel to order a dinner for a number of clerical friends. "May ! I ask, sir," demanded the waiter gravely, I "whether the party is high church or low j church ?" "Now, what on earth," cried the ! clergyman, "do my friends'opinions matter to J you ?" "A great deal, sir," rejoined the waiter. "Ifhigh church, I must provide more} wines; if low church, more wittles." I ?. That was a shrewd girl, and not devoid of sense, either, who remarked, when other girls were making fun of her short skirts and pants, and affected to be much shocked at the exhibition thereof at a party: "If you'd only pull up your dresses about your j necks, where they ought to be, they'd be as i short as mine!" She was not troubled any ' more. for "Doctor," said a lady, "I want you to prescribe for me." "There is nothing the matter, madam, you only want rest," said the doctor, after feeling her pulse. "Now, doctor, just look at ray tongue," she persisted. "Just look at it; look at it. Now, say, what does it need ?" "I think that it needs rest too," replied the doctor. l6r"What do you call this?" said Mr. Jones, tapping his breakfast plate with his fork. "Callit?" said the landlady; "why? what do you call it ?" "Well, reallv," said Jones, reflectively ; "I don't know. There is hardly enough hair in it for mortar, but entirely too much for hash." ? ? t&" A lady was examining an applicant for the office of "maid of all work," when she interrogated her as follows: "Well, Mary, can you scour tin ware with alacrity ?" "No, ma'am," replied Mary, "I always scour them with sand." jUjrottttutal f cjrattment. CULTURE AND USE OF ONIONS. An agricultural writer says: "I cannot say, if I were counsel of the realms of Epicurus, I should permit the passport of these habitants of the garden into good society at all; although the proper dressing gives them, as it does human adventurers, considerable assistance in taking desirable positions. But being of the most republican faith, t. e., that the good of the masses should ever be the paramount consideration of the good citizen, I am induced to place onions at the very top of the list of large families' edibles. These bulbs are not only popular, healthy and nutritive, but absolutely medicinal. I "have known inveterate dyspepsia cured by the use of raw onions as a^daily tonic, and on philosophical principles. They have the same exciting influence on the coating of the stomach that they have on the eyes, calling out gastric juices as freely as they do tears from the visual organs. For Doultices thev are invaluable. Onions are multiplied, as all know, by various methods. In this climate, by sowing little black seed very early, they can be raised large enough the first year for table use; these are called rare ripe. But it is usual to pull the products of these little seed, dry them for sets, and plant them in the Fall or ensuing Spring. The top onion is a sure dependence for a general crop. In this climate nny onions will grow, but the red and silver skinned are better keepers, and the last generally attain the finest si2e. Strong ground, shallow planting, and clean culture insure success. JBut the most valuable fact I have leamed concerning onions is that, like potatoes, you mav eat and then plant them. f had a hardy variety called Welsh onions. The top and bottom, being trimmed off in preparation for use, was thrown on a compost heap. One day a child brought me some of these bottoms to show me that the onious I had thrown away were growing again. I took several bunches of these bottoms to the garden, set them out, and they grew as thrifty as if they had been perfect offsets from the old row. Taking the hint, I cut off' the bottoms off other varieties, pieces as large as a silver twenty-five cent piece, with the fibrins roots attached, and set them out They also sprouted, and being satisfied that they would grow, I allowed the thorns of other cares to choke them out of my memory, and so I cannot say what size bulb they would have produced, but record this for the benefit of persons having small gardens, who will be at the pains to plant the bottom of their onions as fast as they use them, thus enjoying two cfrops from the same piece of ground and same seed in one year. A NINE ACRE*LOT OF COTTON. Editors Southern Cultivator: In compliance with your request in the .January number of the Cultivator, I herewith hand you details and results of the cultivation of nine acres of cotton the past season, and trust its plain statement will correct the extravagant reports in circulation, of my "wonderful yield"?also {>rove a satisfactory answer to the numerous etters addressed to me from all parts of the country, as it is impossible for me to reply singly to each. Land on the hill side had been well enriched for many years; plowed an Average depth of ten inches in March, rows laid off four and a half feet apart with Brinly's No. 1, and a mixture of 200 lbs. Peruvian guano, 100 lbs. dissolved bones, 100 lbs. plaster and 100 lbs. salt per acre, strewed in the furrow. The earth was then returned and a small seed furrow opened. In the middle of April, at intervals of twenty inches, the seed (a close selection of Dickson's of my own picking) was dropped and covered with the foot. When the plants were well up, the rows were lightly and carefully scraped with sharp hoes and the alleys kept clean with a handle harrow. As the season progressed, the plants were gradually thinned to one in the drill. The grass and weeds were smothered, as soon as they sprouted, by the constant use of the barrow, so that the cotton got the whole benefit of the land. The crop from the nine acres amounts to seventeen bags, of four hundred and forty Sounds each. The land was not all measured, ut I feel safe in estimating it at nine acres. One field, which was selected as an average of the whole crop, was carefully surveyed by Prof. Rutherford, and contains 3 67-100 acres, yielding 9,652 lbs. seed cotton (or 2,636 lbs. per acre). One portion, say one and oneihalf acre, very thin land, scarcely made one bag per acre, wBile on another portion, heavily dressed for Irish potatoes in 1867, the yield was probably 4,000 lbs. per acre. There were over two hundred bearing fruit trees, from five to ten years old, scattered through the fields, so that it is impossible to arrive at any correct estimate of the actual yield. Good land, deep ploughing, pure fertilizers, carefully selected seed, and shallow, continuous work produced the result.?Cor. Southern Cultivator. ?- + ON FEEDING HORSES. Horses should never be fed within an hour before being put to work, and should then be worked but slowly until the bowels are fully evacuated. Water should never be given to them in large quantities before being put to work, and not at all on their coming off work, while hot, still less when jaded and exhausted. It should be supplied them often and in abundance, not so much in large draughts at a time, which improperly distend the stomach, as in small quantities at frequently recurring intervals. New corn is emphatically dangerous as horse feed, and should never be used as such; being heating, it is very apt to cause colic, and even acute inflammation. Old corn may be allowable, but should only be given sparingly and cautiously, in the ratio of two quarts where you would give three of oats. Moistening both hay and oats is especially beneficial to the wind, and is a good practice. Horses are fond of salt, and small quantities should occasionally bg mixed with their food. The training of horses for racing is, comparatively speaking, limited to a small class of people, and, being of-little general interest, demands but a passing notice under our heading. Herbert says it consists, of course, in getting the horse for a short time into the highest possible state of condition; hardness of flesh, excitement of spirits, bloom of coat, speed of foot and depth of wind, which is effected by combining the most nutritious and stimulating system of feeding, with such constant and severe exercise, and such medical treatment as, while exciting and raising every power of the animal to the utmost, prevents fever, prevents surfeit, and, for the time, preserves an equilibrium?which, however, at best, is only temporary, and cannot possibly be prolonged ad infinitum. It is an abnormal condition ; and while it develops the utmost powers of the creature, it requires the greatest skill and the most constant attention on the i part of the person who undertakes to produce | it?American Stock Journal. Education of the Agriculturist.? Daniel Webster said: "No man is so high as to be independent of the success of this great interest; no man is so low as not to be affected j by its prosperity or decline. The cultivation J of the earth is the most important labor of j man. Man may be civilized, in some degree, without great progress in manufactures, and ; with little commerce with his distant neigh- j bors, but without cultivation of the earth, he 1 is, in all countries, a savage. Until he gives up the chase and fixes himself to some place i and seeks a living from earth, he is a roaming barbarian. When tillage begins, other arts J follow. The farmers, therefore, arc the found-; srs of human civilization." Lierality in Farming.?Liberality in j providing utensils is the saving both of time J and labor. The more perfect his instruments the more profitable are they. So also is it with his working cattle and his stock. The most perfect of tneir kinds are ever the most profitable.?Hon. Jonah Quin-; ry?Journal of the Farm. Ipscettaticiius Articles. THE INVENTOR OF STEEL PENS. No tody who has to pay for his own stationery now thinkB of using the goose quill for writing purposes. The feather, classical and emphatic, only retains its hold in public offices, where the State or some other reckless spender of the people's money provides the furniture. The new members of the Legislature, on making the acquaintance of the State House, generally indulge, for tradition's sake, in a few awkward attempts at writing with the quills that aro still provided at the ancient hostelry, but as soon as they get over their reverence for the dignity of the Commonwealth they return to the harder steel pens, and carve into toothpicks the rejected weapons. The steel pen is now so universal a tool that it is difficult to contemplate it as amoug the things that had to be invented. Nevertheless, it has fought its way up, with the other labor-saving machines of civilization, and has as complete a history as the steam engine or telegraph. James Perry, an English schoolmaster, who drudged at whittling his urchins J _ J quills made tiie nrst steei pen, ana was so gouu a business man that he succeeded in introducing it as the Perryan pen. In 1823 he had fifty men engaged in the business of making pens; but it was left for Jeremiah Mason to make the pen popular. The sai&e man, by the way, who a few months since became a second Peabody by establishing an orphan asylum endowed with $1,200,000. Mason was a Kidderminster carpet-weaver, but went to Birmingham, and manufactured pins, needles, shoe-strings, and other infinitesimal essentials. Here he saw in a shop window a steel pen, priced at sixpence. He bought three, made better and lighter ones at a cost of a penny and a quarter a piece, and sent specimens to Perry. The inventor waB delighted, advanced money to Mason, and the intercourse so honorably commenced, ended in partnership and mutual wealth. Perry has since died, and Mason is now the sole proprietor of the Perryan Pen. The Little People.?A little girl was rebuked by her mother for her fondness of killing flies. The little 'one had acquired great dexterity- in this employment, and was so much occupied in it that the parent found she was Wowing into a state of cruelty. Calling the child to her side one day, she said in a saa tone, "Mary, dear, don't you know that God loves the little flies?" Mary seemed to hear the words as though they suggested a great many new ideas. She stood by her mother's side for some time in thoughtful sadness, and at length walked slowly up to the window where a bewildered fly was humming and buzzing about on the pane. She watched it lovingly for some time, and then, almost too full of grief to spei.1 plainly, she began to utter carressing words, "Doz ee fly know dat Dod luvess oo? Doz oo love Dod?" Here she extended her "hand fondly toward the insect as if to stroke away the terror that she felt she had inspired. "Doz oo want to see Dod ? ?well," in a tone of intense love and pity, at the same time putting her finger on the fly and softly crushing it against the glass, "well, oo shall." Definition of Bible Terms.?A day's journey was thirty-three and one fifth miles. A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile. Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly. A cubit is twenty-two inches nearly. A hand's breadtn is equal to three and five eighth inches. A finger's breadth is equal to one inch. A shekel of silver was about fifty cents. A shekel of gold was $8.09. A talent of silver was $538.32. A talent of gold was $13,809. A piece of silver, or a denny, was thirteen cents. , A farthing was three cents. A gerah was one cent. A mite was one cent. An epha, or bath, contains seven gallons and five pints. A bin was one gallon and two pints. A firkin was seven pints. An omer was six pints. A cab was three pints. j What Slacked Lime Will Do.?A thrifty farmer, who believes in "making old things last iq these times," says: "There is [ one thing that nearly everybody knows, and hardly anybody attends to?that is, to sprinkle | lime on their roofs once a year, either in fall or spring. If the shingles are covered ever so thick with moss, the nme clears it off, leaving the roof clean and white, and good for a dozen years longer. It ought to be put on pretty thick, and a rainy day is best for the work. Strong wood ashes will answer almost as well to keep old roofsin repair, but they will not look as nice. To make shingles last three or foilr times their usual period, they need only to be soaked a few days in a tank half full of thick lime water, which mu^t be stirred up well before the shingles are put in. A Sm a kt Child.?A good story comes from Rome. In preparation for the (Ecumenical Council, the Pope ordered from his architect certain embellishments, the plan of which was brought for his inspection by that gentleman's little boy. Charmed by the plan, the Pope opened a drawer full of gold, and said to the child, "Take a handful of coin as a reward for the beauty of your father's work." "Holy father," replied the child, "take it out for me : your hand is bigger than nine." Pius IX- could not help smiling, and obeyed the child. Live in the Sight of God. ? ThiB is what heaven will be?the eternal presence of God. Do nothing you would not like him to see. Say nothing you would not like him to hear. Write nothing you would not like him to read. Go to no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no books of which you would not like God to say, "Show it me." Never spend your time in such a way you would not like God to say, "What art thou doing ?" S The Shaster, or Hindoo Bible, forbids a I woman to see dancing, hear music, wear jewels, | blacken her eyebrows, eat dainty food, sit at a j window, or view herself in a mirror during the j absence of her husband ; and it allows him to ; divorce her if she has no sons, injures his ' property, scolds him, quarrels with another j woman, or presumes to eat before he has finj ished his meal. Exercise and Temperance.?Exercise | and temperance are God's medicines,and they have this great advantage over all others: that while they promote health and long life, j they secure for all who put trust in them the j means ot independence. ItarTn an exchange the marriage of Mr. Cooper to Miss Staves is announced. The re| suit will probably be barrels. [Not so ; the result will be a lot of little shavers, and if any of them be daughters, it will eventuate in hoops.] Be slow in choosing a friend and slower to change him; courteous to all; intimate with few; slight no man for his poverty, nor esteem any one for his wealth. S&" Napoleon judged people not by their appearance or professions or talk, but by what they did or had done. By this you may know all men. A head properly constituted can accommodate itself to whatever pillows the vicissitudes of fortune may place under it. #6?" There are not half as many great sons of small fathers. Mountains often bring forth I mice?mice seldom bring forth mountains, j + ? + An old gentleman says that all that is j necessary for the enjoyment of love or sausa-1 ges is confidence. War The readiest and best way to find out: what future duty will be is to do present duty. | fUading fut tfee i ? r CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. ' t [Original.] c CHRIST OUR LIFE. The most cursory reader of the Bible must ^ know that the penalty of sin is death, if the teachings of the Bible are true. Neither can ^ it be unknown to any one, at all familiar with j( the teachings of Scripture, that it is taught in,? them in every possible way, and by every j mode of expression, that all are sinners. The ? plain logical conclusion to which we are forced is, that we are dead, if-the Scriptures are true j or if we are not dead, the teachings of the c Scriptures arc palpably false. No doubt this t subject has given many individuals much trou- j ble. The Bible declares in the most emphatic manner, in the most unmistakable language, . that death would be inflicted upon Adam as 1 the penalty of his disobedience on the very ? day he eat of the forbidden truit. i ne uibie most explicahly declares that lie did eat of t the forbidden fruit. The question naturally ^ suggests itself to the mind. Why did he not die ? He did die, and all the difficulties connected with the subject have their origin in an erroneous notion of the word death. c In common conversation, wc are uccustomed . to call that death which is only one of the re- ^ suits or consequences of death, and by no> hieans the most calamitous. The most * ral notion which we have of death is the separation of soul and body, or the suspension of ? the involuntary functions of our nature. The ^ blood ceases to circulate, the lungs and respiratory organs cease to act, and we say the i individual dies. But this is not death, it is . only one of the effects of death. In the true Bible sense of the word death, . Adam died the very moment the forbidden . fruit was tasted. All communion and fellowship between God and him ceased. His na- * ture, which was before spiritual, became carnal and enmity against God.. A fearful state of alienation between God and His creature man , now took place. God became terribly incensed. He cursed with a grievious curse , everything with which man was in any way , connected. The earth was smitten with bar- r renness. Instead of spontaneously bringing c forth supplies for man and beast, it produces .1 i ^ J a_ i_;_ i j morns ana inisues, ana man geus ma uruau iu the sweat of his face. Man became the open foe to God. All the holy affections of His ^ being ceased to exist, and remorse, regret and shame, the badges of guilt, took their place. Man's soul was plunged into a sea of ^ trouble. Anxiety and fear, sorrow and dis-^ appointment are his portion. God frowns , and man fears. He trembles, he dreads, he flees, he hides. Heaven-abandoned and con- ^ science-condemned sinner, he lives in continu- t al agony lest God's justice may overtake him. This is death. A soul deserting, and deserted ! by God, is the worm that never dies and the . fire that is never quenched. Christ is our life in that He restores peace and friendship, union and communion between ? God the creator, and man the creature. He . is appropriately called the King of peace 1! His advent into our world was hailed by the D angelic choir by shouts of "Glory to God in' ? the highest and peace on earth." He is the 1 blessed peace-maker between an insulted God ^ and an insulting sinner. He satisfied, by Hislife of holy obedience, the perceptive demandJ c of God's law, and by His vicarious, death rendered a perfect satisfaction to the claims o! justice against the sinner. Jesus lived for sin c iiers, and Jesus died for sinners. Lived thai f they might not die, and died that they mighl v live forever leaning on the bosom of His Fath- 0 er, and basking eternally in His smiles. Fol P the restless and hopeless sinner, He purchased, ^ by His agonizing death, an endless rest?a n rest not of motion but of harmony?that rest o for which the soul longs. Sin fills the soul h with confusion. Jesus restores order in the g soul by pardoning its guilt Sin defiles the * the soul; Jesus cleanses it by washing us in ^ His cleansing blood. Sin fills the soul with . ?i- : ?J?:? ] j. . vim ptumuuB, cvxi uesues uiiu ucvmsn iusu , i j Jesus gives us new hearts, and new desires' 3 I and heavenly affections. He gives us hearts t of flesh, and writes upon them God's law, and c vouches safe power to obey them. ^ ? [Original.] . ^ JUSTIFICATION. . t I The celebrated reformer, Martin Luther, c said that justification by faith is the article of J a standing or falling church. So far as is'1 known, this sentiment receives the hearty ap-> J proval of all good men in every denomina- ( tion of protestants. Justification by faith, j without the deeds of the law, is protestanism. 3 No doctrine taught in the Bible is so impor- ) tant as justification. It lies at the very foun- 1 dation. It is the pillar by which the whole j fabric of salvation is supported. j The word justification is used, generally, in | the Bible in its ordinary acceptation. L lit- I erally signifies the act of making just. But 1 in order that we may have a clear and cor- ] rect idea of what is meant by "making just," * we must attend to the history of the word. It is clear to any one who has attentively read the Bible, that justification, taken to signify j as stated above, must be carefully distinguish- < ed from sanctification, which means, so far as 3 mere words are concerned, nearly the same ! thing. The ambiguity is in the English word "making" Every one knows that it, like al- x most every other word, is used so as a great mai.y shades of meaning. Sometimes 1 it signifies about the same thing that creating j does; sometimes it clearly imports forcing. I ' can say with propriety, that I made a pen, ! and that I made my enemy surrender. But an attorney can say with propriety, that the j court made his client innocent or guilty. This * we admit would not be the common mode of .1 expression at present; but it would still be 1 - * -r n . t .1 In correct and intelligible, in ract, tnis was tne expression once used. The court by its de- j cision made the accused guilty or innocent T according to the evidence adduced. Making e just and declaring just, were then regarded as s expressions of similar import, This is the t import of justification in the Bible. Whea- 1 ever it is distinguished from sanctificatiou, it * signifies simply to pronounce or declare, as a judge, that the accused is just or righteous, g and sanctificatiou signifies to infuse or create ^ within the individual righteousness. t Justification nmd sanctificatiou, evidently, t are set before us in the Scriptures as different ^ views of the same thing. In justification we c arc declared righteous; in sanctification we are made righteous by the efficacious opera- j tions of God's spirit. The justifier is God. \ "It is God who justifies," is the oft repeated f declaration of the Bible. The individual jus- t tified is the ungodly sinner. Just at this J point it is necessary that we give the subject a j careful investigation. How can God declare an ungodly sinner just? Human courts often pronounce individuals guilty or innocent, from 1 a want of sufficient evidence of a proper kind. r All that a human court requires in order to E pronounce an accused individual iunoce^t or just, is the failure of the accuser to prove his a guilt. Hence, from various causes, it often s happens that the innocent amongst men is v ondemned'and the guilty go free or uncon[emned. Such a state of things necessarily esults from the short-sightedness of human ourts. But such cannot be the ease before he tribunal of an omnicient God. He knows or thoughts as well as our deedsi His omlicience supplies every defect that can exist a human courts. The innocent cannot be ondemned nor the guilty cleared from the rant of ability to get at the evidence. There 3 then a peculiar emphasis in the question, How can God justify the ungodly sinner?" f man was not a sinner there would be no difficulty in the way. God, as judge, would have lothing to do but declare the fact of man's nnocence or righteousness. But since it is onceded that man is a sinner?a rebel against he law and justice of God?how can God leclare that man is just? A little reflection will convince any one that t is absolutely necessary that an obedience oust be rendered to God's law before the jus 1 ?Ml U XT:? itc auu uuui ui uuu wiii j/ciiint iaiui vu utilare an ungodly sinner just. This obedience he sinner cannot render. By an immutable aw of nature, no individual can, iu fact and eality, be a righteous and a wicked person it the same time. No man can both violate nd obey perfectly the law of God. The contusion to which the Apostle Paul comes, s that by the deeds of the law no flesh shall e justified. Not because obedience is not relied, but because the whole of Adam's race sinned; and hence, have no obedience by diich they can be justified. This we believe i the teachings of reason and revelation. A eart-felt knowledge of our moral condition nd the unflinching justice of God, and also f the fact that God positively declares that he wages of sin is death, is eminently calcuited to beget within us feelings of despair. 3ut God made provisions for the sinner. He, nthe plentitude of His wisdom, devised a >Un by which He can justify the ungodly, ml still be just. Nothing is more simple han this plan which God has devised to jusjfy sinners. Jesus, the second person of the Sbdhead, takes upon himself not the nature il angels, but the nature of the seed of Abraum. In the exercise of His omnipotence, he acame really and truly man. In the full1588 of His love and mercy,the Son of God be&me the son of man, and as the sinner's subrttdte, placed himself under the law of God, nd rendered a perfect obedience in thought, rord and deed to this law. He obeyed the aw of God for the sinner. He* placed himelf in the sinner's law, room and stead; and n a/tnminf nf TTio n'mli^Miiignoaa fi-nrl pan ftnri oes declare the sinner just The obedience f Jesus met the preceptal Remands of God's iw upon the sinner, and Jesus died to take way the guilt of sin?the liability to be punshed for sin. The blood of Jesus quenched he fires of Mount Sinai. When he cried upon he <cross "It is finished," the last installment rtiich, as a substitute, he owed to the law and ustice of God was .paid. But it is evident that we must accept of Jeus as our surety before we can be justified by lis righteousness. This accepting of Jesus 3 variously styled in the Scriptures. The aost common, however, and the most simple ppellation by which it is known, is believing a Christ. Blessed, thrice blessed, is the man irho believes in Christ. He cannot be conlemned. Desperate beyon<J conception is the ondition of the unbeliever. So long as he is n unbeliever he can not be saved. Kising in the World.?You should bear onstantly in mind that nine-tenths of us are, rom the very nature and necessities of the ?orld, born to earn our livelihood by the sweat f the brow. What reason have we then to resume that our children are not to do the ame? If they be, as now and then one will ie, endowed with extraordinary powers of aind, those powers may h#ve an opportunity f developing themselves; and, if they never lave that opportunity, the harm is not very reat to us or to thpm. Nor does it hence folow that the descendente of laborers are always to be laborers. The path upward is steep .nd long to be sure. Indifttry, care, skill, exellence in the present parent lay the foundaion of a rise under more favorable circuratances for the children. The children of these ake another rise; and by-and-bye the descendants of the present laborer become gentlemen, [his is the natural progress. It is by attemptng to reach the top at a single leap that so nuch misery is produced in the world; and he propensity to make such attempt has been herished and encouraged by the strange proects that we have witnessed of late years for - ^1-!.. ? 1nk/\MAM ifiMfiiAiia on/1 Knnmr kir UUKliJg Hit; iuuuxcio vutuvsua anva ua^pj uj giving them what is called education. The ducation I speak of consists in bringing up children to labor with steadiness, with care, ind with skill; to show them how to do as amy useful things as possible, to teach them !kw to do them all in the best manner; to set them an example of industry, sobriety, cleanliness, and neatness; to make all these habitual to them, so that they shall never be liable to fa'.l into the contrary; to let them always see a *ood living proceeding from labor, and thus X) remove from them the 'temptation to get at Jit goods of others by violent or fraudulent Beans, and to keep far from their minds all ;h< inducements to hypocrisy and deceit.? William Cobbett. Secret of True Happiness.?Gradually, Jiinking on from point to point, we shall some to perceive that all true happiness and lojleness are near us, and yet neglected by is and that till we have learned how to be iappy and noble we have not much to tell, ivtn to red Indians. The delights of horserating and hunting, of assemblies in the night JlSSKi of the day, of costly and wearisome music, of costly and burdensome dress, of cha;iined contention for place or power, or lie eyes of the multitude; and all the mdless occupation without purpose, and ileness without rest, of our vulgar world, are lot, it seems to me, enjoyments we need be ainlitious to communicate. And all real and vholesome enjoyments possible to man, have ieen just as possible to him, since he was first nade of the earth, as they are now; and they ire possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch he corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw lard breath over ploughshare or spade; to ead, to think, to love,* to hope, to pray?these ire the things that make men happy; they ilways have had the power of doing hese, they never will have the power to do nore. The world's prosperity depends upon >ur knowing and teaching these few things; mt upon iron, or glass, or electricity, or steam, n no wise. And I am Utopian and enthusiistic enough to believe that tne time will come ?hen the world will believe this. It has now nade its experiments in every direction but he right one, and it seems that it must at ast try the right one in a mathematical ne essjiy.?Rmkin. A Child's Reply.?A little boy on ask ng his father to allow him to he baptized, pas told that he was too young, that he might all back when he was only a little boy. To his he made the touching reply: "Jesus has >romiBed to carry the lambs in His arms; as . am only a little boy, it will be easier for Tesus to carry me!" Value no man for his opinion, but esteem lim according as his life corresponds with the ules of piety and justice. A man's actions, lot his conceptions, render him valuable. tUF Talkative persons seldom read. This is mong the few truths which appear the more trangd the more we reflect upon them. For rhat is reading but silent conversation? ffltMle ttufrittt. TERMS?ITST ADVANCE ? 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THIS INFALLIBLE PREPARATION is certain death to rats, mice, beetles, roaches, Ac. Vermin find it a delicious daipty, come from their holes, eat it greedily and die on the spot, thereby causing no disagreeable odor. Sola in packets of 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00 sizes. Sent post n paid on receipt of price. Sold at the Drug Store of ALLISON & BRATTON, Feb 17-3m Yorkville, S. C. f jTi EWTON lewis, j COMMISSION MERCHANT, ' HO WEST PRATT STREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. WILL give particular attention to the sale of ^ Produce, make liberal advances bf Money on Cotton, and will hold the consignment as long as the shipper desires. February 24 4 3m* RAWLINSONSHOT BY JOHN M. EAWLINSON, YORKVILLE. 8. C. ; TIERMANENT and Transient Boarders receiv- i X" etl and accommodated at an times. Junuary 20 3 ly < I. d. wTtherspoojt, ! j Attorney at Law, j YORKVILLE, 8. C. ; i Office in rear of the Court House. ( ' r References furnished when requested."#^ ( j January 13 2 tf j | HART & GAGE, | Attorneys at Law, ROCK HILL, SO. CA. J. F. HART, ) f J. P. GAGE, Yorkville, S. C. j 1 Rock Hill, 8. C. February 24 8 3m j J. K. HART. ' O. W. SADLER. HART & SADLER, Attorneys at Law, ; YORKVILLE S. C. J December 2 48 tf ] ______ j IF it is meet (meat) for all, that are well bred i (bread), to have a SEWING MACHINE, why 1 don't the3' buy one of the New Family Machines, of M. JONES, Agent. WAI MINING AND MAN JOHN R. DUB DIRE< J. D. AIKEN, GEORGE E. GIBBON, F. J. P] THOMAS D. DOTTE factory East End Hasel Street. wjeM?e wm RLC03IMETOED TJT AG1 AS A SPECIAL COTTON, WHEAT, CORN GROUND ASHLEY BIY PHOSPHA FOR SA WILLIAM C. GENERAL NO. 1 SOUTH ATLANTIC WI iffr* B. P. BOYD, Agent, Yorkvllle, S. C.; L January 27 R. HOE &,CO.; MANUFACTURERS OF Warranted Extra Cast Steel, Patent Ground Circular, Mill, Mnlaj and Gang SAWS. ! CIRCULAR SAWS. ' With Movable or Inserted Teeth. V?7E Claim for oar Patent Circular Saw the folYJ lowing advantages Over all others: The Bbanks of the teeth are elastic, and exert a iniform distension in the sockets. The stability of the plate is in no way affected >y inserting new sets of teeth. Each tooth, independently, may be adjusted to he cutting line. No rivets, keys, or other objectionable appliinces, are employed in connection with the teeth, vhich are as simple in construction, and as easily ised, as a nut for a bolt Jn short, all the difficulties heretofore experienced in the use of movable teeth for saws, , are 'ully mef and obviated by this invention. ALSO, TUTTLE PATENT 'CHAMPION" CROSS-CUT SAWS. CROSS-OUT SAWS. OF ALL KINDS. Jaw Mandrels, Gumming Machines, &c., &c. Send for Catalogues and Price Lists. R. HOE <fc CO., Printing Press, Machine and Saw Manufacturers, New York, Boston, Mass., and London, Eng. November 11 v 45 0m OR. 8HALLENBERCER'S , Fever and Ague . ANTIDOTE Always Stop* the Chill*. This Medicine has been before the Public fifteen years, and is still ahead of all other known remedies. It does not purge, does not sicken the stomach, is perfectly safe in any dose and under all circumstances, and is the on It Medicine that will CURE IMMEDIATELY and permanently every form of Fever and Ague, because it is a perfect Antidote to Kalarim* Sold by all Drumrista. , P. P. TOALE, CHARLESTON, 8. C., manufacturer of DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS. HAYING the Largest and Most COMPLETE FACTORY in the Southern States, and keepng always on hand a large and most complete itock of DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, Sash Dixirs, Store Doors, Shutters, Mouldings, <fcc., <frc., I am mabled to sell low and at Manufacturer's prices. N. B.?Strict attention paid to shipping in good irder. April 15 15 ly S THE DISTRICT COUBT OF THE TJ. S. For the District of Soutli Carolina. in the matter of LEROY D. JOHNSON.?In Bankruptcy. .4< Yor/cville, in the said District, on the 17th day of March, 1870. t ) ; VTOTICE is hereby given that a Petition has been ]N filed In the said Court, by L. D. JOHNSOF, of xork County, In the said District, duly declared a Bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bankrupt:.y throughout the United States," Approved 2nd March, 1867, for a discharge and certificate thereof, from all his debts and other claims provable unier said Act; and the 15th day of April, 1870, it 12 o'clock, M., is assigned for the hearing of the *ame, before W. I. Clawson, oijo of the Registers jf said Court, at his office in Yorkville, South Carolina, when and where tho creditors may attend, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said Petition should not be granted. LOUIS E. JOHNSON,U. S. Marshal as Messenger. By T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger. March 17 11. . 3t A NOBLE MAN. tti? Hnmetliinir to discover a new nlaucl in the JL heavens, a new island, a new race, and the Sjybirite offered a prize for the discovery of a newgenloyment. But how immeasurably does evep the best of these achievements fall short of the discovery or invention oftho SEWING MACHINE. This great and good work, as accomplished by I. M. SINGER, has rendered him the foremost man of his time, as far as practical and useful inventive genius is concerned. The loud hurrah that hails tlio successful warrior lord of the stricken field, is worthless in comparison with the grateful pceans of rejoicing multitudes, who have been relieved of one-half the toils of life, by the labor saving of this wonderful Machine. To' be had of M. JONES, Agent. January 20 3 tf jUFACTURING CO., [ES, President. rroRS. Rev. JAMES P. BOYCE, L. D. MOWRY, ELZER. REE, Superintendant 3KzAe on Ashley RIv?r* ^^CiTURAL OHfiMIftTfi--. -- - "V MANURE FOR , AND OTHER GRAINS. 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Connecting with trains for Montgomery, Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans, via. Montgomery and Grand Junction. FOB COLUMBIA. 1 Leave Charleston,.,. ? ..,...-.8.30 a. ni. Arrfvtf at Columbia..; ? .?,...'.?4.40 p. m. Connecting with the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad and Camden train. * FOB CHARLESTON. Leave' Augusta, .8.00 a. m. Arrivaat Charleston..............". 4.00 p. m. Leave Columbia, -7.45 a. m. Arrive at Charleston,... 4.00 p. m. AUGUSTA NIGHT EXPBE&l?(SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) Leave Charleston, ?.7.30 p. m. Arrive at Augusta, 6.10 a. m. Connecting with trains for Memphis, Nashville, and New Orleans, via Grand Junction. Leave Augusta, 4.10 p. m. Arrive at Charleston, - .4.00 a. m. * COLUMBIA NIGHT EXPBES8?(SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) Leave Charleston. :6.06 p. m. Arrive at Columbia,.. 4.46 a. m. Connecting (Sundays excepted) with Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and on Mondays. Wednesday and Fridays with Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad. Lehve 'Columbia, ?.5.50 p. in. Arrive at Charleston, 5.30 a. m. SUMMEKVILLE TRAIN. Leave Charleston,. 'Atriv^at Snmmervflle,...*. ^ 4.10 p. m. Leave Summerville,. -7.10 a. m. Arrive at Charleston, 8.25 a. m. CAMDEN BRANCH. Camden and Columbia Passenger Trains on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and between Camden and Kingsville daily, (Sundays exoepted)connect8 with up and down Day Passenger at Kings ville.. Leave Camden,.. ..." 6.35 a. ni. Arrive at Columbia, .' ..11.00 a. m. Leave Columbia, 1.45 p. m. Arrive at Camden... 6.00 p. m. H. T. PEAKE, General Superintendent. , IN THE DISTRICT COTJTtT OF THE U. S For the District of South Carolina. In.the Matter of ) T_ ,? JOHN H. LIGON, J In BankroPtcJ it Tr?_7 *77? ti.- ?j TV., ,i _ iTii j__. J1L JL Ul A/t CWCj 474 C/4C oU MX X/(? 7XCCj ink UlC 11(74 ilXly of March, 1870. rrjHIS is to give notice that a Petition has been J[ filed in said Court, by JOHN H. LIGON, of Abbeville County, IzLsaia District, duly declared a Bankrupt, u* 'lerme Actof Congress, entitled "An Act to Estal oh a Uniform System ofBankruptcy throughput the United States," Approved March 2d, 1867. for a discharge and certificate thereof, from all his debts and other claims provable under said Act; and the 15th day of April, 1870, at 12 o'clock, M., is assigned for the hearing of the same, before W. I. CLAWSON, one of the Registers in Bankruptcy of said Court, at his office in Yorkville,.South Carolina, when and where the Creditors'ibay attend, and shew cause, if anv they have, why the prayer of the said Petition snbuld not be granted. LOUIS E. JOHNSON,U.S. Marshal as Messenger. By T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger." March 17 11 3t IN THE COURT OF PROBATE, York County. J."Vyhrtar Allison, Administrator and Creditor, v,*. .Amos Reaana others, heirs-at-lavrof Wnliain Rhea, deceased.?Notice to Absent Deftndaias. XT anncarins to mv satisfaction that Silas Res. Elizabeth Rea, Andrew Rea, Robert Rea, Calvin Rea and June Rea?children of James Rea, deceased; and Archibald Rea, Nancy Rea and Elizabeth Rea?children of Abner Rea, deceased, reside without the Unfits of this State, it is, therefore, ordered, that they do appear and oj^ect to the sale or division of the real estate of Wm. Rea, deceased, on'or before the 11th day of April next, or their consent to the same will be entered of record. Given under my hand and seal this 10th day of January, A. D., 1870. FRANK 0. HARRIS, Judge of Probate, January 18 2 8m r^ A