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%\x |nkgttttet lottntal?Drbofca fa ^altfe, literature, ftefes, Prals, Agriculture, Srieitre anb |rt. BY IIOYT & HUMPHREYS. ANDERSON COURT HOUSE, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, F. BRUARY 21, 1861. VOLUME 1.?NUMBER -27. THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER, IS ISSUED EVERT THURSDAY, AT ONE EOLLAE A YEAR, IN- ADVANCE. gg" If delayed six months, $1-50; and $2.00 at the cml of the year. IIOYT & HUMPHREYS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Advertisements inserted at moderate rates; liberal deductions uiado to those who will advertise by the year. " Happy Land of Canaan." THE CEOKGIA VEKSIOX. Thro* the North of the land, there has arose a band Who drill under Black Republican training. They call them Wide-Awakes, but we will show that their cakes Will get burnt on the.Georgia end of Canaan. Chorus.?Oh, me! Oh, my! The sun of secession is shining ; Never mind old Lincoln, He's got into double trouble, While we are safe in the Southern end of Canaan. Som2 people saiJ our State wouldn't dare to meet her fate, And that under Lincoln she would be remaining. But the news we got by steam, by one hundred and nineteen She went whizzing to the other side of Canaan. W^'vc beat co-operation and now are a free nation, And by force of arms our cause will be maintain? ing, And if there's traitors here, for the North they'd better clear, Or we'll hang them as high as Hainan hung in Canaan. Old Gen. Wiuficld Scott thought he'd aid the Sum ter fort, And by doing so, the North would be gaining, But when the little "Star" went to cross the Char? leston bar, They blowod Iter to the oilier side of Canaan. The Star of the West, she came, she Suw, she left, A position she could not be maintaing, And General Scott's troops took a " hasty plate of soup," And sailed for the Yankee part of Canaan. Down at Savannah is the first secession banner, And the military are all under training; And Governor Brown thought he'd take Pulaski fort, So he moved it to our side of Canaan. Down at Augusta, some arms were getting rusty, And the Governor thought they needed a little cleaning, lie enquired* what to pay, gave a note at thirty days,' And bought then for the Georgia boys of Canaan. We hear that down in Camdcn, old John Brown's son was landing, With three hundred men to sustain him ; But if he tries that game, he'll immortalize bis name. For we'll hang him with his daddy up in Canaan. There :uc eight thousand muskets of the best Min? nie brand, In the different Georgia arsenals remaining, We'll give l ilies to the women and revolvers to the boys, And I think we'll keep the " Happy Land of Ca Our Turn Must Come.?Generation after generation, says a fine writer, " havo felt as wc now fool, and their lives were as active as our own. They passed like a vapor, while nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Creator commanded her to be. The- heavens shall be as bright over our graves as they arc now around our paths. The world will havo the same attraction for our off? spring unborn that she had once for us as children. ' Yet a little while, and all will have happened. The throbbing heart will bo stifled and avo shall be at rest. Our funeral will find its way, and pray? ers will be said, and then we shall be left alone in silence and in darkness for the worms. And it may be for a short, lime wo shall be spoken of, but the things of life will creep in, and our names will soon be forgotten. Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will be heard in the*room in which wo died, and the eye that mourned for us will be dried, and glisten again with joy : and even our children*will cease to thinly of us, and will not remember to lisp our names." Gen. Scott and his Widowed Sister.? A sister of Gen. Winfield Scott, now a widow, and in reduced circumstances, is in Itawamba county7 Miss., dependent on a son-in-law for support. The editor of the Mississippi Baptist says that he conversed with her concerning her illustrious brother, when she informed him that Gen. Scott had long since disowned her by neglect, and that he refused to answer her letters, asking for aid in her poverty. -*-: Patuiotic Tender.?Joel E. Matthews, of Dallas county. Ala., has offered thescr %vices of two hundred negroes to the Gov? ernor of Alabama. In addition to this, the same gentleman deposited in the bank of Mobile, on the 23d of January, 815.000 to the credit of Alabama for State defence. There will be no Spring Term of Court held for Lexington this year. The President. A sketch of the prominent man who is to share in North America the honors of tho Presidential chair with Abraham Lin? coln for the next four years is at the pre? sent moment especially apropos". Hon. Jeff. Davis, President.?Few men have led a life more filled with stir? ring or eventful incidents than Jefferson Davis. A native of Kentucky, born about 1806, he went in early youth with his father to,Mississippi, then a Territory, and was appointed by President Monroe, in 1822, to be a cadet at "West Point, lie graduated with the first honors in 182S as Brevet 2d Lieutenant, and at his own re? quest was placed in active service, being assigned to the command of General (then Colonel) Zachary Taylor, who was sta? tioned in the West. In the frontier wars of the time young Davis distinguished himself in so marked a manner, that when a new regiment of dragoons was formed he at once obtained a commission as first Lieutenant. During this time a romantic attachment sprang up between him and his prisoner, the famous chief Black Hawk, in which the latter forgot his animosity to the people of the United States in his admiration for Lieut. Davis, and not until his death was the bond of amity severed between the two brans men. In 1885 he settled quietly down upon a cotton plantation, devoting himself to a thorough and systematic course of politi? cal and scientific education. He was mar? ried to a daughter of Gen. Taylor. In 1843 he took tho stump for Polk, and in 184o, having attracted no little at? tention in his State by his vigor and abil? ity he was elected to Congress. Ten days after he made; his maiden speech. Soon the Mexican war broke out, and a regi? ment of volunteers having been formed iu Mississippi, and himself'chosen Colonel, bo resigned Iiis post in Congress, and instant? ly repaired with his com man i to join the corps d'armee under General Taylor. AI Monterey and Bucna Vista be and his no? ble regiment achieved the soldier's high? est fame. Twice'by Iiis coolness be saved the day at Bucna Vista. Wherever fire was hottest or danger to !>o encountered, there Colonel Davis ami the Mississippi Rifles were to be found. He was badly wounded in the early part of the action, but sat his horse steadily till the day was won. and refused to delegate ev i a por? tion of his duties to his subordinate officers. In 1848 he was appointed to fill the va? cancy in the Senate of the United Stales occasioned by the death of'Gcneral Speight, and in 1850 was elected to that body al? most unanimously for the term of six years. In 1851 he resigned his scat in the Senate to become the State-Bights candi? date for Governor, but was defeated by Governor Footc. In 1853 he was called to a seat in the Cabinet of President Pierce, and was Sec? retary of War during his administration, in 1S?7 he was elected United States Senator for Mississippi for t he term of six years, which office he held until his resig? nation, on the secession of Mississippi from the Union. Personally, he is the last man who would be selected as a fire-eater.'' He is a prim, smooth-looking man, with a pre? cise manner, a stiff, soldierly carriage, and an austerity that is at first forbidden. He has naturally, however, a genial temper, companionable qualities, and a disposition that endears him to all by whom he may be surrounded. 1 As a speaker, he is clear, forcible, and argumentative : his voice is clear and firm, without tremor; and he is one in every way fitted for the distin? guished post to which he has been called. - Lieutenant-Gen eral Scott.?When Lieut. Scott had resigned from the Uni? ted Slates Army, from a promotion over hin, and commenced the law in Columbia, one of our distinguished Revolutionary officers induced him to return to the ar? my, and through his influence procured him a commission ! "When Gen. Scott was elected Lieuten? ant-General, it was by the vote of Judge Butier, of South Carolina, then in the Senate. The General said he could nev? er repay South Carolina for the noble act which placed him above his enemies. He has ungratefully repaid her by forgetting that he was born in a Southern State,and: taking command of the enemies of the South wno are now plotting its intended sulj ugation.?Carolinian. - The election recently held for field offi? cers of the Third Regiment Volunteers, resulted as follows : General James H. Williams, Colonel; General B. B. Foster. Lieutenant-Colonel; Major James M. Baxter, Major. - It is said that Edgefield. S. C, is the rightful claimant of the nativity of Jeff. Davis, Provisional President of the South? ern Confederate States. Lincoln at Indianapolis. We republish the speech of Mr. Lincoln at Indianapolis, as wc find it in the Phila? delphia papers: Indianapolis, February 11.?The ap? proach of the train bearing the President elect and his party was announced by firing a salute of thirty-four guns. The President elect was received at the depot by Governor Hunter, and escorted in a carriage drawn by four white horses. A large procession was formed and great [ enthusiasm manifested along the line of I march. Mr. Lincoln stood erect in his carriage, acknowledging the welcome of the sur? rounding thousands. On reaching the Richard Bates House the procession halted, and Mr. Lincoln was escorted to the bal? cony, where he addressed the throng of people as follows: He said became here to thank them for (he support given by Indiana to the true and just cause. Coercion and invasion are terms much used now with temper and hut blood. Let us not misunderstand their meaning?nor the meaning of those who use them. s Lot us get their moaning from the men who deprecate the things they would rep? resent by their use. What is the meaning of these words ? Would marching an ar? my into South Carolina with hostile in? tent be an invasion ? I think it would, and it would be coercion also, if South Carolina was forced to submit. But if the United States should merely hold and re? take its own forts, collect duties or withhold mails,twhcre liabitually violated, would any or all of those things be invasion or coer? cion '{ Do professional Union-lovers when the}- resolve to resist coercion understand such things on the part of the United States to be coercion or invasion ! If they do, their idea of preserving the Union is exceedingly thin and airy. In their view, the Union as a family relation would seem to bo no regular marriage, but a sort of free-love arrangement, to bo maintained by passional attraction. Now, in what consists the special sacredness of a Slate? I speak not of the position as? signed to a State in the Union by the Constitution, for by that bond we all re? cognize that position. However a State cannot carry out that position. If a State and Territory possesses equal rights in a Territory and its inhabitants, in what, as a matter of principle, is a State better than a country ? Would an exchange of names be tin exchange of rights, upon that principle? Upon what rightful prin? ciple; by what rightful principle, may a State, being not more than one-fiftieth part of a nation in soil and population, break up a nation and then coerce a larger division of itself? What mysterious right to play the tyrant is confined in a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State? Mr. Lincoln, in conclusion, said he was not asserting anything, but merely asking questions for them to consider and decide in their own minds what was right and what was wrong. -o Admiuaw.e Advice prom tiir Pope. ?When Frederika Bremer was in Rome not long ago. she visited the Pope, and conversed with him. As *hc left, Pius IX?she tells us in her recent book? gave her this advice : "I will tell you something. Pray! pray for light from the Lord for grace to acknowledge the truth; because this is the only means of attaining to it. Con? troversy will do no good. In controver? sy is pride and self-love. People in con? troversy make a parade of their knowl? edge, of their aeutencss. and, after all, ev? ery one continues to hold its own views. Prayer alone gives light and strength for the acquirement of truth and grace.? Pray every day every and night before you go to rest?and I hope that grace and light may be given to you. For God wishes that wo should humble ourselves, and he gives his grace to the humble. And now, God bless you, for time and eternity!" This pure priestly and fatherly admo? nition was so beautifully and fervently expressed that it went to heart, and hum? bly and with my heart I pressed the hand paternally extended towards me. That it was the hand of the Pope did not embarrass me in the slightest degree; for he was to mc really at this moment the representative of the Teacher who in life and doctrine preached humility, not before men, but before God, and taught mankind to pray to Him. The Pope's words were entirely true and evangelical. I thanked him from my entire heart and departed more satisfied with him than myself. I had stood before him in my Protestant pride; he had listened with kindness, and finally exhorted me, not j with Papal arrogance, but as a true Gos ' pel teacher. I parted with him with j inoro humility of spirit than I had come." Hardee's Tactics. As this manual of military drill has su? perseded all ethers, the following card from Col. J. II. Piion, an accomplished of? ficer, will at this time be interesting to the volunteer companies throughout the State: At the request of some of my brother officers of the volunteer service, I publish my general rules for Hardec's lacing, whether from a halt or while marching. These rules are without exceptions, and ap? ply to the eight different facings, (three right, three left, two front.) Thai; they are correct in. their result may be proven by a reference to Hardco, Nos. 352, 360, 365 and 306, school of the soldier, and Kos. 136 and 140, school of the company. In these rules, by ' the head of the com? pany,' is meant that the end composed of the taller men; and by 1 the foot of the company,' that end composed of the shorter men. By the rear rank, is meant, of course, that rank which is behind the other, according as the company is faced to the front or rear. Rules fordoubling, [after facing to either flank.] 1st. The rear rank takes a side step from the front rank. / 2d. If the head of the company is in front, Nos. 1 stand fast, and Nos. 2 take an oblique step in the same direction in which the rear rank has taken the side sfep. But if the foot of the company is in front Nos. 2 stand fast, and Nos. 1 take an oblique step in the same direction in which the roar rank has taken the side step. Bales for undoubling, [after lacing to either front ] 1st. If Nos. 1 are behind Nos. 2, Nos. 1 undouble by taking an oblique step to? wards the head of the company. But if Nos. 2 are behind Nos. 1. Nos. 2 undouble by taking an oblique step to? wards the foot of the company. 2. The rear rank closes up on the front rank. By the rales above given all perplexity arising from the same Nos. having to step to the right at one time, and to the left at another, if. obviated. By experience 1 havo found that the men readily compre? hend these rules. In forming fours, the fours .should al? ways dressj-y the man on the side where the last front was. JAMES H. RION. -^-;? A Scrap op History.?There hwc been ten specific attempts to defy he authority of the Federal Government since its formation. The first time was in 17S2, find was a conspiracy of some of the officers of the Federal army to consolidate the thirteen States into one, and confer the supreme power on "Washington. The second was in 1.787, called" Shay's insurrection," in Massachusetts. The third was in 17i>4. populsrly called "The Whiskey Insurrection of Pennsyl? vania." The fourth instance was in 1814, by the Hartford Convention Federalists. The fiiilh, on which occasion the differ? ent sections of the Union came into collis? ion, was in 1820, under the Administra? tion of President Monroe, occurred on the question of the admission of Missouri into the Union. The sixth was a collision between the LciWslal.ure of Georgia and the Federal Government, in regard to ecrtaki lands .given by the latter to Creek Indians. The seventh, was in 18o0, wth the Cherokces in Georgia. The eighth was the memorable Nulli? fying Ordinance of South Carolina in 1832. The ninth was in 1842, and occurred in Rhode Island between the " Suffrage Association" and the State authorities. The tenth was in 1856, on the port or the Mormons, who resisted the Federal authority. - A story is told of Dick, a darkey, in Kentucky, who was a notorious thief, so vicious in this respect that all the theft in the neighborhood was charged on him; on one occasion, Mr. Jones, a neighbor of Dick's master, called and said Dick must be sold out of that part of the country, for he had stolen all of his (Mr. Jones) turkeys. Dick's master could not think so. The two, however, went into the field where Dick was at work and accus? ed him of the theft. " You stole Mr. Jones' turkeys," said the n'.aster. " No, I didn't, massa," responded Dick. The master persisted. " Well," at length said Dick, " I'll tell you, massa; I didn't steal dem turkeys; but lust night when I went across Mr. Jones' paster I saw one of our rails on de fence , so I brought home de rail, and con? found it, when I come to look, dar was , nine turkeys on de rail 1 The Social Horror.?An u?tidy wo? man ! Little soap and much perfume. Plenty of jewelry and lack of strings and buttons. Silks und laces, and tattered un der-clothes. Diamond rings and' soiled collars. Feathers and flowers and bat? tered cap frill. Siik stockings and shabby boots. Who has not seen her? If you are a person of courage enter her dressing room. Make your way over the darpct through mis-mated sliupers, tippets, belt ribbons, hair pins, pictorials, magazines, fashion prints and unpaid bills, and look vainly around for a chair that is sullicient ly free from dust to sit down upon. Look at the dingy muslin window curtains, the questionable bed quilt and pillow cases, the uufrcshness of everything your eye falls upon. Open the closet door, and see the piles of dresses, all wanting" the stitch in time'' heaped pell mell upon their pegs; sec the baud-boxes without covers, and all the horrible paraphernalia of a lazy, vapid, inefficient, vacant, idea less female mon? strosity, who will of course be chosen out of a bevy of practical, good, common sense girls, by some man who prides him? self on ;- his knowledge of woman," as his li help-meet " for life! I use the word ?: monstrosity " advisedly; for even in the cell of a prison J have seen wretched fe? males trying, with women's beautiful in? stinct, to brighten and beautify the bare walls with some rude colored print.? Thank Heaven ! the untidy woman is the exception, not the rule. "Would we could say the same of the untidy man. Fanny Pern. -o Slanders.?Yes. pass it along, whether you believe it or not; that one-sided whisper against the character of a virtu? ous female. You say yon don't believe it. but you will use your influence to bear tip the false report, and pass it on the current. Strange creatures are man? kind ! How many reputations are lost by surmise ! How many hearts have bled by a whisper ! How many benevolent deeds are chilled by the shrug of a shoul? der! How mauy?individuals have been shunned by a gentle, mysterious hint ! How many chaste bosoms have been wrung with grief by a single nod ! How many graves have been dug by a false re? port ! Yes, you will pass the slander along: yon will keep it above the water by a wag of your tongue, when you might sink it forever. Destroy the passion for telling a tale, we pray. Lisp not a word that may injure the character ofrinother. He determined to listen to no stoiy that is repeated to the injury of another, and, as far as you are concerned, that slander will die. But tell it once ami it may go on the wings of the wind, increasing with each breath, til it has circulated through the State, and has brought to the grave one who might have been a blessing to the world. ftrl?" A distinguished gentleman, ex-Gov? ernor of an Atlantic State, was employed for the defence on a trial for murder.? The Governor found it ncccss>???y. in the course of his speech, to comment wul. some severity on the testimony of a wit? ness for the prosecution. In the midst of a most; searching and logical sentence, wherein he was convincing the jury that the witness had sworn to more than the truth, he was interrupted by a juryman ?a tall, lank fellow, who. rising, address? ed the Governor: " See here, Mr. Lawyer, I don't want yer to go on that way abusing me; I won't stand it; I'll break up the Court if you do; I didn't come to be abused." "My dear sir." replied the Governor.in his politest manner, "1 was alluding to the witness, not to you; my remarks were not intended to any of the jurors." ;: Well, then," said the juror, '-just quit a pinting your fingers at me when you talk that way." -1-+ Affection in Men and' Women.?Wo? men are said to have stronger attach? ments than men. It is not so. Strength of attachment is evinced in little things. A man is often attached to an old hat; but did you ever know of a woman hav? ing an attachment for an old bonnet?? Punch. -*~ The following note, says the Marion (Ala.) Commonwealth, was lately received by a gentleman in this place, from his overseer: Dear Doctor: Please send me by the boy, a pair of trace chains, and two door hinges. Jane had twins last night?also two padlocks Yours, &c. --*? fiST He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your old, dissem? bling hypocrite of whom you should be ware. There's no deception in a bull do?" it is only the cur that sneaks up and bites you when your back is turned. Mournful Hilarity.?The Petersburg Express very appropriately thus head a notice of the rauch-talked-of inauguration ball at Washington. After briefly refer? ring to the wonted gay and festive inau? guration observances in Washington, to the pleasurable fruitions of which, it just? ly remarks, Southerners contributed most, it adds: " But now a change has come over tho spirit of the times. The approaching in? auguration of a sectionally elected Presi? dent, instead of inspiring gladness and mirth?instead of attracting crowds from all quarters of the Union to the Federal metropolis?instead of being greeted with the customary rejoicings of a happy peo? ple?will be but a ghastly demonstration. It will awake* no emotion of national, pride and satisfaction?'twill call forth no enthusiastic responses from the public bo? som?it will excite no.acclamations liko those which have marked all previous pa? geants of the kind?but it will stir up tho most melancholy reflections in every gen? j erous breast?it will wear the sad insigmi of a nation's woe. A disunited Confedera? cy?a once flourishing and mighty govern? ment, now hovering on the very verge of destruction, will rise up like appalling visions before the Black Republican revel- ' lei's, and chill them in the-midst of their carousals. What a gloomy phantom of an inauguration it will be!" - The New York Express, referring to the same anticipated revel, so out of time and out of tune, says: " A penitential wail over a corrupt gov; eminent, the decay of public virtue, and the sapped foundations of the great edi? fice of popular liberty, would be far more grateful to their cars than any ball-room strains, however hijru or fostal." AN ACT to increase the Powers of Com? missioners of Public Buildings. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same. That if at any time the Court House of any District in this-State shall be in course of reconstruc? tion or repair, or from any other cause shall not be in condition to he occupied, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of .Public Buildings for such District to furnish suitable rooms for the accommo? dation of the Courts and public officers. II. That it shall be the duty of tho Commissioners of Public Buildings in this State to furnish, at all times, blank? ets and such other bedding as shall bo necessary for prisoners confined in jail in their respective Districts, and for tho purpose of enabling the Commissioners of Public Buildings of the several Districts to execute the provisions of this Act, they arc hereby authorized and empowered to le\y such assessments on the general tax of the District, as may be necessary to pay for the same. jgQf A real jolly good old fellow was Dr. S. I was introduced to him just as the steamer Star was leaving her Dock at N. Y. for Europe. For the first twen fottr hours, :? Richard was himself again," but that fell destroyer, who neither spares *n^v sex or condition?sea sickness?seiz? ed him, nothing more was se?n of the jolly old Dr. e_ several day8 , W& had left the Banks and learning along beautifully, when *one- mon^^r saw the Doctor's head emerging from tho~*> lower regions. But what a face! long, lugubrious, distressed, his hair not cared for. dress untidy, eyes blood shot. I could scarce believe this apparation was the jolly old doctor who had kept us all in a roan the first day out. 'Well, my dear doctor, how do you feel by this time V* 'Feel " said he?and there was an un? mistakable earnestness in his eye?'feel! why I feel as though I had but two ob? jects in life now: one is to put my feet once more on terra firma; and the other, to find out and whip the fellow who wrote ?Life on the Ocean Wave !' Major John P. Heiss, formerly of Ten? nessee, has returned to Nicaragua to set? tle there permanently. So satisfied is he with the cotton raising experiments made upon the high and healthy interior lands of that region, that it was his purpose immediately to put" a hundred acres un? der cultivation for that staple. ?.-o-. A young man in New Orleans named Thomas Uhlhorn attempted to cowhide another, named Eugene H. Levy, when the latter drew a pistol and shot his as? sailant dead. Both were cotton factors' clerks. ?-*--? A difficulty occurred at Milton, Fla., on the 6th inst., between Mr. James Wall and Dr. Holly, in which revolvers were used. Wall was badly shot. -o fiSf Low as the grave is, you cannot climb high enough to see beyond it.