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lewis m. grist, proprietor. | labtpntbtnt Jamilg ttttospajjcr: Jbr t|t Cremation of % political, Social, ^griraltural anb Cant inertia! fnierafs of t|e |5irat{|. |terms?$3.00 a year, in advance. VOL. 31. YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JUHE 17, 1875. N"0. 34. JVtt Anginal J^orn. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. THE SEVEN SISTERS OF YORK. CHAPTER. V. "Do look at Dolly," exclaimed Jennie, as the little party assembled in the parlor previous to setting out for the Curtises, on the evening of the lecture. She is bent on completing poor Henry Curtis' destruction. I feel quite thrown into the shade by her magnificence." Dolly merely raised her eyebrows, and turned herself slowly around before a mirror to contemplate the effect of her toilette. "I don't know what you call magnificence, Jennie," she presently remarked. "I have only my blue silk on." "And your Valenciennes set, and your coral uiuuuu iiuu cai-iiuga?tiiuoo wiais yvu c?j you only wear on special occasions. Oh! Dorothea, Dorothea, how can you practice such wicked arts ?" "Is ray hair all right, Edna ?" calmly asked Dolly. "It looks very nice, ray dear," said Edna, in her matronly tone; and then she turned to give a final touch to Claribel's dress. "White is the prettiest, after all," she remarked. "Do you think so ?" asked Dorothea, a little anxiously. "I thought, as it was a cool evening?" "And blue suits your complexion so well," put in Jennie. "As to that, Clarie's complexion and mine are exactly alike; but this silk is so light, it doesn't look inappropriate, does it ?" "It looks lovely, Dolly," said Claribel; and Dolly, satisfied with this dictum, asked no more questions, but went into the garden to gather the finest red rose she could find, wherewith to adorn her flaxen braids ; tor, in spite of Jennie's badinage, she was resolved to appear to the very best advantage on this occasion. At length the light wagon, which was the most suitable vehicle for the accotn raodation of so large a party, drove up to the door, and all, except Edmonia, who had decided to remain at home, took their places in it, and were driven off. Virgilia wondered, on the way, whether she would again meet her acquaintance of the previous afternoon. As he had then been on his way to Dr. Curtis', she thought it not unlikely that he might be among the guests of this evening. When they reached their destination they found quite a number of guests already assembled. Dr. Curtis' two large parlors, which opened with wide doors into each other, had been emptied of their ordinary furniture, and were occupied instead by school-benches placed iu rows. At the farthest end of one room was a clear space for the Professor. Here stood a small table with a pitcher of water and a glass, and a couple of arm-chairs one for the mesraerizer and the other for whoever chose to place themselves in his hands, for the purpose of demonstrating his skill to the audience. "How formidable it looks," said Jennie, mtin Viorl ccoiail kcpsalf' ,,ovf tn T.nr?\r Courtis. the doctor's youngest daughter. "I suppose the Professor is a solemn-looking individual with melaucholy eyes and a cavernous face, ' and a long black beard, like those necromancers we see in pictures." "Not at all," said Lucy. "He is a pleasant, mild-looking individual with a fair complexion and a light-brown moustache, and no beard at all; and the only remarkable things about him are his eyes, which seem to look you through and through." "I knew there must be something remarkable about him," responded Jennie. "Hush ! here he comes now," whispered Mary Carroll, who sat just back of thera. "Lucy, will he be introduced to any body first ?" "Of course ; there is papa going round with him now." v lrgilia, to her surprise, recognized in the Professor the gentleman to whom she had acted as guide. The recognition was mutual, and he accosted her with a look of great pleasure, when the doctor presented them to each other. "Miss Vaughan, I am delighted to meet you again ! Now I can more fitly express ray gratitude for the service you rendered me yesterday." "Oh ! was it you, Miss Virgilia?" said the doctor. "My friend here informed me that he was indebted to Miss Vaughan for rescuing him from a difficulty, but of course could not tell me which Miss Vaughan it was." "What on earth is all that about ?" asked Jennie of her neighbor. "Virgilia never told us she had met the Professor." "How animated Virgilia looks," said Lucy. "She is much prettier than usual this evening." Such was indeed the case. Virgilia, though her features were good, usually lacked coloring, and her habitual expression was too cold and serious to be attractive ; but now she had a brilliant color. Her dark eyes sparkled with vivacity, and she laughed and chatted gaily, first for a few moments with the professor, and afterward with some friends who were sitting near her, while Dr. Curtis conducted his distinguished guest rouud among the rest of the company. Presently eight o'clock struck ; and without auy preamble the professor at once moved to the place assigned to hira, and commenced his lecture. He spoke in a calm, measured voice, and with great distinctness, often repeating such of his senteuces as he thought might not be sufficiently explicit, or not clearly understood by his hearers. He spoke of the slights which were cast upon mesmerism, aud the general iucredulity with which the world regarded that which it could not explain or comprehend, and condemned the folly of disbelieving simply because a fact was beyond the actual grasp of the understanding. In that case, be said, what became of the mysteries of religion ? Did not the Bible contain much that was incomprehensible ; yet was not the world charged to receive its teachings with faith? There were few thiugs in Nature that could be actually explained ; there was mystery in every germ of creation, in every springing leaf, in every floating cloud, in the earth they trod on and the air they breathed. There was mystery in the beating of their hearts,in their thoughts and in their dreams. Who could explain these things? Yet they believed in them because they were common and well-established facts. They saw them in others and felt them in themselves, and so they ceased to be mysteries. But let a man j profess to demonstrate a principle or a theory ' ! out of the common order of things, and they j cried him down as an impostor, or laughed at him as a fool. Mesmer was neither an im-! ; postornor a fool; but he had been a very unI wise man, who had by his conduct brought an j | odium upon his noble and wonderful discove- ; ; ry. Then he proceeded to demoustrate scien-j tifically the principle of this discovery, and ! the rapport which existed between certain j minds, causing one to act in perfect unison ; with the other and blindly obey its behests, i He spoke, he said, in the simplest language | at his command, that all might fully under-! stand him. He believed that many persons j were willing to be convinced of the truths he ; was trying to elucidate, if they could only i j have them brought within their reach, and j proved to them by certain experiments, with : I which he would presently illustrate his rel marks. Having spoken at some length, and in a i very interesting and earnest style, the Profes- J . sor then inquired if there was any one among ! ... . . : j his hearers desirous of coming forward and , j submitting themselves to a trial of his powers. There was a little hesitation and some laugh- j 1 ter, and then a young man gathered up his ; courage and went forward. The professor I j placed him in a chair opposite to himself, and j j commenced his operations, his subject, in the j I meanwhile, glancing frequently with an incredulous smile toward his friends, and main- j taining a very resolute and wide-awake ex' pression of countenance, which seemed to asj sert the utter impracticability of ever making I him so much as wink his eyes against his will, j Gradually, however, this determined look be! gan to waver. There was a suspicious droopJ iug of the eyelids, and his glance ceased to j revert to the audience, and rested steadily on j the face of the operator. The eyes of the j I latter remained fixed with equal steadiness j upon his, and he slightly changed the order of | his manipulations, drawing his hands slowly downward along the arms of the patient, though without touching him, until at length he seemed to yield irresistibly to the magnetic influence, though not without occasional spas- i modic efforts to maintain his self-command. Even these presently ceased, his eyes closed completely, bis chin dropped upon his breast, and he was, to all appearance, sound asleep. "I wonder if he isn't 'making believe,' " suggested a little boy in the front row. I The professor turned toward him with a I smile. "I am quite willing," said he, pleasantly, "that any of you should put that to the test. You may come and try to waken him, if you like." This proposition was readily taken advantage of, and various were the efforts made by several persons to arouse the sleeper, but in vain. They pushed him, they pinched him, they shouted in his ear, they pulled his hair, but he remained immovable, nor was there the slightest indication in his face that he was conscious of their not very gentle attempts ; ! and they were all forced to admit that it was impossible to doubt the reality of his slumber. "He's as deaf as a post?a cannon fired j over his head wouldn't wake him now," said j one. "Pour some cold water down the back of | his neck," said another, laughing. "Oh ! no. No use to make him angry, and | ! he would be, wheu he fouud it out." "But it might wake him." "He would not even feel it, in his present condition," said the mesmerizer. "But he I would be rather uncomfortable afterward, and i I don't care to have him endure unnecessary discomfort in the cause of scieuce. Now I , will address him, aud you will perceive that he will hear me without difficulty." Here the sleeper, without moving, said in a j low, but distinct tone? "I heard you speak just now, but I did not j j catch the sense of what you said." "I was assuring these gentlemen that I : j would find no trouble in making you uuder- , 1 stand what I say." "Certainly, I understand you now." "Are you comfortable? Do you like to , sleep in this way ?" j "Not particularly?I would rather wake i nn " "I will waken you presently. Now rest j your head upon ray haud aud see if that will make you easier." The professor, as he spoke, extended his j haud, and although it did not come within ; half-a-footof the patient's head, the latter im-1 ! mediately inclined forward to meet it, and rested upon it, his neck being stretched out in a ludicrous aud apparently very uncomforta-. hie position. "Isthat better?" asked the operator. "Oh ! much better. Now I can sleep." i There was a general laugh. J "Now," said the professor, "I wish you to ; walk with me to the other end of the room." "No, please let me be quiet," was the an- j . awer, in au entreating tone. "I would rather you took a little walk, just ! for exercise. Come!" j As he spoke, he withdrew his supporting hand, and moved a few steps off. The patient shifted uneasily in his chair, and made an effort to rise, but sank back again.V "I can't come," he muttered. If I get up I shall fall." "You will not fall. Come! Try!" "Do let me stay where I am," was the some- j what impatient response; but the professor was inexorable, and on his repeating his com- J mand in a resolute tone, the sleeper rose, though with much apparent reluctance, and endeavored to move toward him ; but he failed iu the attempt, aud after an unsteady step or two he staggered and would have fallen, . had not the professor caught hi m aad replaced him in his chair. "Oh! dear, it looks terrible, doesn't it?" murmured an old lady, nervously. "I wish he'd wake him up." The mesmerizer made one or two more efforts to accomplish his object, but with no better success than at 6rst, and his subject manifested so much unwillingness to repeat the experiment, that he gave it up. "Would you like to be awakened now?" he asked. I "I don't care?yes, I believe I should." The professor then made the requisite passes, and after a short time the sleeper opened his eyes, and look arouud hitu with a confused air. He was greeted, of course, with sundry ; ; jokes from his friends, who rallied him on the ease with which he had been overcome, and assured him that he had performed various ridiculous feats while in his somnambulistic state, none of which had really taken place. ! He turned with an incredulous look to the i professor. I "Have I actually been asleep ?" he asked. "You certainly have. You recollect look- | ing at your watch when you sat down, doycu : not ?" "Yes, it was then nine o'clock." "Look at it now." He obeyed, and found that it wanted a quarter to ten. "And did I actually do what these fellows say I did ?" "No. I am sorry to say that you did not do half as much as I was desirous you should. You answered my questions, and that was all. I could not even make you walk." "How did you feel when you tried to walk?" j asked one of his friends. "You toddled like ; a baby." "I have not the slightest recollection of it." "I am sorry to say that I consider this ex periment a comparative failure," said the professor, turniug to the audience. "It is extremely probable, however, that the next time this youug gentleman allows me to try my powers upon him, I shall succeed far better j in making him obey my orders. It is seldom ; that a mesmerizer can obtain complete control over his subject on the very first trial; though, there are cases where he does succeed perfectly in doing so. I myself, have had such a case; though only one, as far as I remember, in the whole course of my experience. The subject I allude to was a young French lad, who was peculiarly susceptible to the magnetic influence. He had never been mesmerized before?had never even heard of the science, and was quite uncertain what was going to be done to him when he was placed in ray hands; so of course there was no room for imposition?and yet I succeeded so perfectly in subjecting him to my will, that he moved, spoke and acted like an automaton, at my bidding, and even answered my unspomen thoughts, with the utmost accuracy." "Oh ! I wish there was some equally susceptible person here, now," exclaimed Lucy Curtis. "Perhaps there may be," said the professor. "I shall be glad to make another trial presently ; but I must rest for a short while first." Dr. Curtis brought him some wine and a biscuit, of which he partook, resting meanwhile in his arm-chair with a slightly fatigued air. "Does that operation tire you much ?" inquired his host. "Sometimes, when the subject is difficult to operate on, it is quite fatiguing. Where there is no difficulty, I do not feel any particular effect from it." At the end of a quarter of an hour he declared himself quite ready to make a second trial. "Come, my friends," said the doctor, "which of you will place yourselves now in the professor's hands ?" At this moment Virgilia caught the eye of the mesmerizer; he smiled slightly, with an encouraging look. "Try it yourself, doctor," said the youDg man who had already been operated upon. "Oh! no, I am too old for such experiments ; and besides, I am not willing to forego the pleasure of being a spectator." "I am awaiting your pleasure, ladies and gentlemen," said the professor, as no one came forward. "Unless," he added, "none of you care about a second trial being made." "Will you try me ?" asked Virgilia, rising j with a sudden impulse from her seat. "I shall be delighted," was the quick reply, and he hastened to arrange her chair for her as she came forward. "Oh! I am sure Edna would not like it," murmured Claribel. "What does that matter?" asked JeDnie. "She is not here to see. I think it will be fun. I wonder if Virgilia's mind is en rapport with the professor's ?" "I wish she would not do it," said Claribel. "I should like to do it. I've a great mind to try when she gets through, if it is not too late," responded Jennie. a ril-iol ohnnlr hpr tlPnd hilt lUSt then I the professor looked around and requested silence, as he was about to commence. Virgilia wore a somewhat nervous and embarrassed look, but kept her eyes concentrated on his face, and it soon became evident that she was very susceptible to the influence that he was exercising over her. In a much short-; er time than it had taken to overcome the re- i sistance of the first subject, she was fast asleep, I and now the most Interesting part of the ex-j periraent commenced. The professor said that he desired to prove j to the spectators how completely the will of the patient was in conformity with his. He then turned his back toward her, and made j various gestures which, even had she been 1 awake, she could not have seen from the posi- j tion she occupied, and she made precisely the ! same gestures, not omitting the slightest mo tion of a hand or finger. He then, in the I same manner, conveyed a glass of water to his lips, and she immediately imitated the act of drinking. "What is this I am drinking?" he asked. "Water," was the unhesitating reply. He quietly took some lumps of sugar which | he had had brought to him, and slipped them into the water. After waiting sufficiently long for them to melt, he drank again. "What is this, now ?" She paused a moment, then replied, "I think it is eau sucrt'e; but it is not very sweet." j He tasted wine, and then some lemonade,! in the same manner ; and each time she gave ! a correct reply to his questions. He then j approached the door as if to leave the room, when she cried out quickly? "Oh ! you must not go away ! Please come back." Without regarding the request, he slipped into the passage, closing the door noiselessly after him. Virgilia stretched out her hands in an imploring manner ; a look of great distress came over her face, and in a tone of passionate entreaty she exclaimed? "I am frightened ! I am frightened ! Come, and help me." Claribel involuntarily started forward, and would have clasped her outstretched hands, but Virgilia suddenly withdrew them as she | approached, and turned from her with a re- j pulsing gesture. As the professor re-entered and came toward her chair, a happy and sat-! isfied smile lit up her face, and taking his hand as he offered to it to her, she held it closely between hers as if to prevent the pos- j sibility of his leaving her a second time. "A mesmerized person," he explained to the lookers-on, "invariably turns for support toward the mesmerizer, and experiences a helpless feeling when he goes away." I "Why did she repulse me?" asked Claribel. j "It is often the case that they disliks any |1 one else to come near them." < He then looked at his watch, holding it be-j hind her back, and asked what o'clock it was, and she gave him the correct time. Here Dr. Curtis wrote on a slip of paper, I "Wish, without saj ing it, that she shall walk | across the room," and tossed it to the pro-1 fessor, who smiled and nodded in reply, at the | same time moving to a little distance from j her chair. Almost immediately, she said with a trou-! bled look? "No, I had rather not;" then again, as if | in answer to his thoughts, "yes, but I shall; fall if I do." After a moment she added in j | a reluctant tone, "I suppose, if you say so, I ; mustand rising as she spoke, she moved in 1 a hesitating manner forward. When she had taken one or two steps she seemed to gather 1 courage, and walked more boldly ; and soon, |1 encouraged by the professor, she acted just as ; he desired her to do, without any fear or dif- J ficulty. Taking up a book of poetry, he read j for a short time in silence, and then in a dis- | tinct voice she repeated " 'I knew no more?my latest dream Is .something of a lovely star Which fixed my dull eyes from afar, And wentand came with wandering beam?'" hesitating only a liitle at the third Hue, as if < the sense had escaped her. In the same way i he made her repeat a verse of Latin ; then he wrote on a piece of paper, which he handed to the doctor, "Now I shall go over in my own mind the melody of "Robin Adair which he did, and she directly hummed the ; air, though without repeating any of the words. "Are you tired ?" he asked her, when she ----- -Jr had finished. "Yes, a little." "Oblige nie in one thing more, and I will i not trouble you farther." "What is it?" "Tell me what is the most earnest wish which I constantly bear in ray mind, and ' which constitutes the object of my life." She paused, and then slowly and with emphasis replied? "To meet an old friend and recompense j him as he deserves." "Right," was his reply, while a peculiar look came over his face. It almost iastantly gave place to his accustomed expression, however, and turning to the audience ho asked them, with a smile, if they were satisfied. They replied unanimously in the affi -mative, and reseating Virgilia in her chair, he soon restored her to consciousness. Like his first subject, she recollected nothing that had happened during her mesmeric sleep, and was surprised to hear of the various performances she had accomplished. When told of having hummed the air of "Robin Adair," she assured them that she did not remember ever having heard the song, and that in her ordioUa nAfTAH nlaim/) r\r? can cr Ka it. limj' UUUUlblUII DUG iievei |/1?JVU u? auug) umv~ iug very little ear for music?a statement which her sisters confirmed. "I declare it's the oddest thing I ever saw," . said Jennie. "Henceforth I am a complete j convert to mesmerism. I wonder if 7could mesmerize anybody?" "No one knows their power until they try," said the professor. "Well, we have had a charming time," said Jennie. "I am so glad we came." "Yes, indeed," murmured Dolly, in whose ear Henry Curtis had been saying soft nothings the whole eveniug. i "Girls," said Mrs. Curtis taking them aside, "we want some of you to stay with us, and I'll send over for your tilings early to-morrow ; my nieces, the Holbrooks, are going to stop here for a week, and I'd like some young company for them besides Lucy, to make ( their time pass pleasantly. Which of you < will stay ?" . i "Which of us do you want, Mrs. Curtis?" , laughed Jennie. "Any two of you, my dear?not less than two ; I don't ask all of you, because I know 1 it would be an empty compliment, and be- ' sides, my house is rather full just now, with nrnfpotirtr ami nil Just make un vour minds which it will be; the girls will be de- ] lighted to have a real good frolicand away ! ' bustled the hospitable lady to exchange parting compliments with some of her guests, leaving the sisters to decide among themselves who would accept her invitation. "I know you'd like it, Dolly," said Jennie, ' with a mischievous look. I "The tempation was great, but Dolly was magnauimous. "No, you and Clarie must J stay," she replied. "You are the two I youngest." "And Lucy is your especial friend," said 1 May. 1 "I don't care about it, particularly," said i Claribel. But it was unanimously voted that j 110 better arrangement than this could be made, and so those two remained, and sent the others off, with very particular injunctions regarding the contents of their hat-boxes, ' which were to be sent to them on the follow- 1 ing day. Virgilia was particularly silent and ab-1 sorbed during the drive home; but silent fits 11 were so habitual to her that no one took any j notice of her abstraction. (to be continued next week.) How. to Find Out Whom Any Given J Pj:k30N Will Marry.?It don't require an astrologer, a medium or a gypsy with a dirty ! pack of cards. It is very simple?lies in a ; nut-shell, and can be expressed in a very few words. They are these : The last person you would think of. If a girl expresses her fond- J ness for a majestic men with large whiskers, ' make up your mind that she will marry a very small man with none. If she declares that "mind" is all she looks for, expect to see ( her stand before the altar with a very pretty . fellow who has just sense enough to tie a cravat bow. If, on the contrary, she declares 1 she must have a handsome husband, look i ' about you for the plainest person in the circle : 1 of her acquaintance and declare "that is the ! j man," for it will be. Men are almost as bad. ; ] The gentleman who desires a wife with a mind j ( and a mission, marries a lisping baby who j . ? - 4 *1- ~ I* *" aT n niAiioo anrl lu/loc ! sCr^milS Ub tuc ai^Ub UI a uiuuou, uuu muvo i her face when she hears a sudden knock at I the door. And the gentleman who dreaded J' anything like strong-mindedness exults in the J | fact that his wife is everything he detested. |' If a girl says of one, "Marry him ? I'd rather j, die," look upon the affair as settled, and ex-1 feet cards to the wedding of these two people. ! j f a man remarks of a lady, "Not my style ' at all," await patiently the appearance of his 1 name in the matrimonial column in connection i with that lady's. And if any two people de- 1 clare themselves "friends and nothing more," j you may know what will come next. There is no hypocrisy in all this, and such marriages are invariably the happiest. People do not ( know themselves, and make great mistakes 1 about their iutentions. Love is terribly per- 1 plexing when he first begins to upset one's i theories, and when his arrow first pierces the j heart there is such a fluttering there that it is t hard to guess the cause. Besides, man pro- . poses and God disposes, and it is the "I don't 1 know what," with which people fall in love, { and not their peculiarities which could be ' given in a passport. j pstarg of j?. !; .. g Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. j g HISTORICAL SKETCHES I P OK the |11 Early Settlement of South Carolina. J BY BEV. BOBEBT LATHAN. a j n (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.) 1 h Thomas Smith, the successor of Philip Lud- j t] well, was amongst the first settlers of South n Carolina. He was a native of Devonshire, h England. On account of the religious intolerance and persecutions which existed in Eng- j j{ land at that time, he, with his brother James, t( came to South Carolina in the year 1671. ?j They were amongst the first individuals who p settled on Oyster Point, the present site of the r( city of Charleston. The lots owned by them j u were, on the laying out of the city at first, j j{ numbered 41 and 57. They were living I where Charleston is now situated as early as ! ^ 1672. James Smith left Carolina and went p to Boston. j Thomas Smith was a man of property and ^ highly respected by the people and proprie- tj tors. On the removal of Colleton, he was chosen Governor, but Sothell coming into the j colony previous to his being formally inducted ^ into office, Sothell asserted his priority and ^ was, as we have seen, to the injury of all parties, made Governor. At different times the ? proprietors had made grants of land to Smith, and he had purchased a large amount besides. ^ He also married the widow of John D'Arsens, to whom the proprietors had made a grant of w twelvg thousand acres of land. In 1691 he ^ was made a landgrave, which, by the regulatio?e-ofthe proprietors, entitled him to the f( enormous amount of forty-eight thousand ^ acres of land. The whole, summed up, must have made Thomas Smith the owner of not a much less than one hundred thousand acres of land. He had held several offices in the colony before he was chosen Uoveruor. lie r( had been a deputy of the proprietors, sheriff of Berkley county, and honored and respected generally. We may safely conclude that Thomas Smith was a good man. In 1693, after the departure of Ludwell, Smith entered | upon the duties of his office as Governor of South Carolina. His long and intimate connection with the colony, led both proprietors acd people, to look upon his induction into office as the dawn of a new and prosperous era j in the history of the colony. ^ The instructions which were given to Ludwell, were repeated to Smith. The difficulties which had sprung up between the people and proprietors still continued?not, however, so threatening in their aspect. From the out- ^ set, the Fundamental Constitutions, and generally the instructions given by the proprie- ^ tors to the Governors, were stubbornly, and sometimes violently, resisted by the people. ^ The charter given by the King was not objected to, and both proprietors and people ap- ^ pealed to it. The former claimed that the ^ charter gave them all the powers and prerogatives that they had inserted in the Fundamental Constitutions, and in the instructions which, at various times, they had sent to the different Governors of the Province. This 0 was deuied by the people, and giving this in- ? terpretation to the charter, they persistently 11 opposed everything that seemed to them to be s' an encroachment upon their chartered privi- ? Ipcps At different times, concessions were _ ?? ? made and liberties granted by the proprietors, . but the people had become irritated, and " either could not or would not see that the T changes made in the Fundamental Constitu- * tious were for their good. One of the instances in which the proprietors yielded to the 0 clamors, among the people for more liberty, is TJ contained in the changes which they were "prevailed upon" to make, in 1682, on the a Fundamental Constitutions of 1669. The ^ following is the fifty-first law of what, by the c' proprietors, was honored with the high sound- P ing title of Fundamental Constitutions, and P which they unhesitatingly said were to "re- & main the sacred and unalterable form and rule of government of Carolina forever:" S "The Grand Council shall prepare all matters G to bs proposed in Parliament. Nor shall any a matter whatsoever be proposed in Parliament, n but what hath first passed the Grand Council; h which, after having been read three several ? rlavs in the Parliament, shall, by a majority ^ of votes, be passed or rejected." The Grand a Council was composed of the Governor, five c< individuals chosen by the people, and five b deputies appointed by the proprietors. The 0 deputies were generally men of illiberal views, G and opposed and thwarted every effort of the ^ Governors in conducting the government of C the colony on Democratic principles. The powers granted them by the Fundamental w Constitutions were very great. The Parlia- d ment could do but little more than approve of what was done by the Grand Council. 19 Whether for the interest of the colony, or tl whether from necessity, we will not undertake n to say, but in 1682 the fifty-first law of the w Fundamental Constitutions was so altered as ^ to grant the "juryes of the countyes" to pro- P pose laws to the Parliament. It was also granted by the same instructions of 1682, ei that in the event the Grand Council had w made no arrangement for the proposing of a fi law likely to benefit the colony, any member oi of the Parliament might take cognizance of p; it aud propose it to the house." This was a T great concession on the part of the proprietors, w but the people seem not to have seen it, or to k have been too much irritated in feeling, to ri give the proprietors due credit for the privilege. This practice continued in the colony, I and the Colonial Parliament began to reseua-1 ti ble, more closely, that of England. ! gi Notwithstanding the character of Thomas j hi Smith, he found it no easy task to discharge j ti the duties of Governor of South Carolina. | tl The difficulties aud fsuds existing between i ic the English and Freuoh colonists had. been ol partially adjusted by Sothell, but still the w line of demarkation which separated the two 1' nationalities was clearly visible. Sothell did j di many bad things, but he did some good thiugs.! b< Whilst he was Governor of the colony, in \ pi May, 1691, an act was "passed and ratified in 1 so )pen Parliament for the better encourageraeut b< )f the settlement of South Carolina." In this pi ictit was declared, "for the sake of the Protes- Ir ant religion and for the advancement of the wi nterests of the lords proprietors, aud for the as ^reservation of justice and equity, that all lii ind every French Protestant or person born tb u Switzerland, at present in South Carolina, i A >r who shall be in it in the year 1692, shall so je adjudged free born to all intents and pur- bi poses as if born in the province." The Eng sh portion of the inhabitants complained tl >udly on account of these and other equally ri reat privileges granted to the French and ti wiss immigrants. By a special favor of the o roprietors, the county of Craven, the section c 1 which the Huguenots had settled, was en- e, tied to six representatives in the Colonial p 'arliaraent. This sometimes this section was tl llowed to enjoy, and at other times it was a ot. This bad state of feeling, or perhaps we * ad better say this species of persecution, 1 iwarted the efforts of Thomas Smith to pro- o lote the interest of the colony and unnerved e is energies. a Smith was strictly charged to enforce, by " iw, the collection of the unpaid quitrents and ) supervise the collector of these quitrents. 'his was an onerous task. The people had reviously determined not to pay these quitants, and every effort to collect them stirred j p the embers of opposition which the popu- n ir breeze soon kindled into a flame. The 1 roprietors threatened to dispossess the land- t olders in the event the q"Urents were not K aid. On the other hand, the people, led by * ames Moore, a bold spirit, defiantly replied tieir title was worthless, since the deeds which jj aey had made out were only signed by a j| n,nnfiotn? fto far did t.hfi ODDO- r ttl L U1 IIJC IVUVIO* ?VW m*mm ? ? v. ition to paying the quitreots go, that a num- n er of individuals, rather than be, as they 0 bought, trampled in the dust, left the colony, ^ ud others made preparations to leave. The ^ Governor himself concluded that harmony Y ould not be established in the colony between q be proprietors and people, and amongst the eople themselves. In October, 1694, he a rrote to the proprietors that he had conclued, with others, to leave Carolina and go to 1 )me other section of the New World. Be- j )re he had time to hear from the proprietors, p e resigned his charge, and Joseph Blake was ii sleeted to act as temporary Governor until c nother would be commissioned by the pro- J rietors. Thomas Smith did not, as he inti t mted to the proprietors, leave the colony, but emained and became the founder of an hon- 0 rable and useful family. a It was during the administration of Smith, 8 r possibly during that of Ludwell, that the lode of drawing jurors, so long practiced in ? be State, was inaugurated. It has, without ufficient evidence, been regarded as the ? esult of the profound meditations of the im- p lortal John Locke. It is not to be found in I ither the charter of King Charles, or in the t fundamental Constitutions of the proprietors. 1 .'he process was simply this: The names 01 ~ 11 the free men in the colony or precinct, t /ere written on slips of paper of the same v ize and appearance, and placed in a box pre- t ared for the purpose. From this box a 1) hild which could not read, drew the requisite umber of persons. The idea seems to have ^ een suggested by the ancient statues and ^ aintings of the goddess of justice. Truth /as painted naked, and justice blind. It latters not who originated the process of s rawing jurors in South Carolina, it was an onor to the originator and a blessing to those /ho were permitted to practice it. 0 It has been customary to date the introducion of rice into South Carolina, at the time j, fSmith's administration. The circumstances a f the introduction of this staple commodity t lto the State may be briefly related thus. A ^ hip, on her voyage from the island of Madaascar, on the coast of Africa, to England, juched near Charleston and anchored off w ulli van's island. The captain of the vessel ii ivited Thomas Smith to visit him, which he id. The captain gave Smith a bag of rice, il 'hisseed he distributed amongst some friends, * tephen Bull and Joseph Woodward being P f the number. Smith planted the portion ^ aserved by himself in his garden. It was >und that the soil about Charleston was " dapted to the culture of rice, and it ultimate- ii r became an important article of food in the olony and a source of great wealth to the lanters. The period at which this took * lace has, without sufficient reason, been rearded as the time that Smith was Governor, p In 1691, during the administration ofSeth o othell, the Parliament granted Peter Jacob luerard what might, with propriety, be called ^ patent for a "Pendulum Engine, which doth t| tuch better, and in lesse time and labour, D uske rice, than any other heretofore hath h eeu in use within this Province." Statutes at <arge, No. 72. From the wording of this si ct, it is clear that rice was cultivated in the d f alony prior to 1691, and that other "engines" 11 ad been invented for husking it before the ^ ne "brought to perfection" by Peter Jacob t ruerard. It may be that Thomas Smith in- t -oduced the cultivation of rice into South laroliua, but if he did?aud it is not certain t lat he did?it was several years before he p as Governor. In a fragment of an early 8 escription of South Carolina, the following j inguage is found : "A brigantine from the i land of Madagascar, happened to put into | * ? ? - J - j l.A I i_ lat colony ; iney naa a nine seeu nee jeit., u ot exceeding a peck, or quarter of a bushel, fi hich the captain offered and gave to a genemau by the name of Woodward ; from a P u art of this he had a very good crop." e This extract makes it difficult to say whothrrice was first introduced by Joseph Woodard or Thomas Smith. Some years after the h ret introduction, a gentleman by the name ^ f Du Bois, treasurer of the East India Com- j any, sent a bag of rice to South Carolina, his gave rise, it is said, to the distinction p hich was made in the kinds of rice. One t< ind was called red rice, and the other white ce. It is probable that the bag of rice sent by tl >u Bois arrived during Smith's administra- ^ on, and, as is reasonable to suppose, was iven to him since he was Governor; and a ence some were led to contlude that the cul- 0 trntirm nfrira in t.hfi cnlonv commenced at 81 >at period. With the introduction of rice is o: itimately connected the rapid introduction h r African slaves into the colony. Africans n ere first brought into the colony by John * eamans from Barbadoes; but the number j a id not increase rapidly until rice began to u j cultivated extensively. Rice was first ti anted on what we call up land ; but it was tc on discovered that low damp lands were jtter adapted to its growth. These places roved unhealthy to the English servantsand fc idian slaves, but not so to the Africans. It y( as not long until the negro population was, gi i it is yet, greater than the white. Sir Wil- ei am Berkley, Governor of Virginia, sowed r( ie first rice that was ever sown in North merica. This was in the year 1677. He ' wed one half bushel and made sixteen ishels. ju For a number of years after the settlement, pi lie staple productions of South Carolina were ice, indigo, tar, pitch and turpentine. In ime, the indigo gave place to cotton. At ne time an effort was made to introduce the ultivation of silk into the province. The ggs which were sent over from France to ropagate the silk worms, were hatched whilst be vessel which was conveying them was still t sea, and the young silk worms died for rant of food. This was as early as the year 681, during the reign of Charles the Second f England. Afterward, silk was, to a limitd extent, produced in South Carolina, and royal belle of Europe once wore a silk dress rhich was the production of South Carolina. [to be continued next week.] REMINISCENCE OF NED KENDALL. News has been received of the death of amesR. Kendall, the once celebrated Boston lusician, in San Francisco. Jim and Ned " 1 " -Ml 1. 11 1 A Rnc. Lenaail wiu Da weu reuieiuucicu ujr viu i/w onians as the founders of the old Boston BriadeBaud, the rival of the no less celebrated Joston Brass Band. James Kendall was noted as a clarionet layer, while Ned was celebrated as a perarmer on the bugle. His execution of favor;e airs, with extra touches, variations, deliate shades and sweet tones was something larvellous in those days, and on the occasion fthe visit of the Prince de Joinville to Bos3n and the grand ball given to that scion of obility at Faneuil Hall, one of the great matures announced was the grand orchestra rhich would discourse sweet harmony, with otes from "Kendall's bugle floating over all," s a poet of the day expressed it. An old story told of Ned Kendall, when at he height of his popularity, nearly forty ears ago, will be new to many at this time, t appears that a celebrated New York buglelayer had heard so much of Kendall's play3g, and had had comparison of his own exeution so frequently made with that of the lostonian, and to the favor of the latter, that e naturally had a great desire to meet the 1 ? V lval performer, ana accoramgiy visitea .doson for that purpose. On the very first day f his arrival, which was at the height of the leighing season, he was invited to join a leighing party, which he did. Arriving, after a glorious ride, at one of the hen popularout-of-town resorts, "The PunchiowI," old "Phoenix," or "Brighton," the tarty found that the ball-room of the place ras lighted up, and a grand dance was to take tlace by a large party who had arrived from Boston. Our New York musician, finding be bar-room crammed with gentlemen parakingof various warm and stimulating fluids, tepped into a side parlor to wait a better hance to do likewise, and to warm himself at he fire, before which sat three individuals, ?ho courteously made room for him. On the able near by lay a bugle, evidently just ta;en from its case, which laid near. "A h!" said the New Yorker, having warmed lis fingers into flexibility, as he leaned his land opon the table and toyed with the keys if the instrument. "Any one of you play m this?" " Yes, I do a little," said a somewhat thicket, dark-complexioned man at the fire. "Play for parties, I suppose ?" "Now and then, when I get a job," said the Iiuer, UlO cjrco gniuanu^ I UV J vu "0,1 do a little in my way," said the New forker, with assumed indifference, and seizng the bugle he ran over the scale, gave half , dozen strains and pretty snatches of melody hat brought a dozen or two listeners toilm lalf-open door- ~ The dark man opened his eyes wider. "You re an excellent player," said he. "0, only so so," was the gratified and somewhat pompous reply; "I suppose you don't go ato much except dance music?" "Well, yes, a little; I'm pretty good at instating anything that I hear played once or wice;" and he took up the instrument, and layed the same strains the other had perarmed, awkwardly, and with half-a-dozen itches and omissions. "Pretty good." said the New York bugler ; but you want practice and accent, especially l solo playing." "No doubt of it," said the dark man. "Now even in dance music there can be a ast deal of ornamentation," said the New Torker, warming up with a desire to show off is skill before what he thought an inferior layer, and the gathering group that the notes f the instrument had already attracted. Now the 'Fisher's Hornpipe' is a lively tune, ut see whp' can be done with itand he aok up the bugle and put the country dance brough a series of variations that made the erves of every foot, whose owner was within earing, tingle with electric thrills. "You can hardly follow that as well as the sales, I suppose ?" said the performer, laying own the instrument amid a buzz of applause rum Xi 10 liUW augujcuicu auuivu^vi "Well, I don't know about following anylody, but I may give you my idea of it," said be dark-complexioned man, as be took up be instrument. If the first bar made the other player start, be succeeding ones transfixed him, as the lerformer executed strains with a correctness, kill and beauty that he never heard extracted rom a bugle before. The variations, trills, ones and melody of the familiar pld dance /ere rendered into electric poetry as never efore dreamed of, as they flowed from the ell of the instrument, and beneath the skilul manipulations and never-failing wind of he performer, who at the conclusion of his erformance, amid a roar of applause, relarked, with thesame sly twinkle in his dark ye. "What do you think now?" "Think !" said the other, as he stood with is eyes distended with astonisment. "Think! Vhy, that no living man could have done bat; you must be either the devil or Ned Lendall." "Ned Kendall, aud no devil," said the ^ ? h - ? vioris3 ay. layer, as uc giaopcu uic uiuu a uuuu v^. Bnded to him.? Commercial Bulletin. Saving is Wealth.?One great cause of be present day, wisely says an exchange, is a lilure of our common people to appreciate mall things. They do not realize how a daily ddition, be it ever so small, will soon make large pile. If the young men and women f to-day will only begin, and begin now, to ive a little from their earnings, and weekly r monthly add their mite, they will wear a appy smile of competence when they reach liddle life. Not only the desire but the bility to increase it will also grow. Let lerk and tradesmeu, laborer and artisan, lake, now and at once, a beginning. Store p some of your youthful force for future conngency. Let parents teach their children > begin early to save. Begin at the fountain ead to control the stream of extravagance? i choose between poverty and riches. Let nr youth go on in the habits of extravagance >r fifty years to come as they have for fifty sars past, and we shall have a nation of beg- ' ars, with a moneyed aristocracy. Let a gen ation of such as save in small sums be ;ared, and we shall be free from want Do ot be ambitious for extravagant fortunes, at seek that which it is the duty of every ie to obtain?independence and a comfortale home. Wealth, and enougbof it, is with- . i the reach of all. It is obtained rocess, and one ?