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BY HOYT & nULIPHREi'S. ANDERSON COURT HOUSE, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1861. VOLUME l.~jnn?ESs THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER, IS ISSUED EVERT THURSDAY, AT ONE DOLL Alt A YE?Jt, IN .ADVANCE. If delayed six months, 51.60; and $2.00 ?t theycud of the year. HOYT & HlfMPHREYS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS, i t Advertisements inserted i.t moderate rates; liberal ? deductions mado to those .vho wRl advertise by tho yoar. SENTENCED?LI T NOT GUILTY. ? I was travelling through the mountains T>f Pennsylvania, in the latter part of February, 18?. Heavy stage coaches were used for the purpose of drawing the travelers from point to point, and in or? der to make the enterprise pay, enormous prices were charged and as many persons packed into one vehicle as it could pos? sibly accommodate. I was one of those unfortunate travelers, who are always annoyed with inconveniences and never satisfied with anything. I grumbled and scolded much at fie crowded state of our coach, and I don't know but I swore a little. I found fai.lt with the agent for sellingvso many tickets, and more than could be comfortably accommodated.? He answered, with a complacent smile? " There is plenty of room, sir." This ex? pression reminds n.c, now-a-days of our city railroad conductors. I looked at the man with astern face, as much as to say? "Do )'ou think I am a fool, or do }-ou iutend to lie ?" Wellj he merely pushed' the tail of my overcoat in after me and closed the door. The whip cracked and away wo went?now-a-days, the whistle blows and away we fly. "With considerable fuss I nestled myself down in one. corner, and felt as if 1 would not speak tc a human being for the n6xt seventy yeais. I strictly adhered to my morose resolution for a few hours, by keeping my eyes iixed on a small .win? dow by my side, und observing through it tho gloomy aspect of the weather. At length I was startled by a heavy sigh and a suppressed groan issuing from a bunch of overcoats -and blankets at my ?idc. I turned and looked at it, and could just discern the features of a young man, at least he looked so to me. In the course of an hour he removed a portion of his blankets and shawls, and turning a pair of tearful eyes upon me, asked how far it was to tho stopping place. If for a mo? ment I had been affected by the sorrow? ful look of his fa ;e, I now felt my t; dan? der rise " at a question so unreasonable. Did ho take me ft ran editor, that 1 should know everything and everybody's busi? ness, or for a coach driver, who knows by experience aT. the land marks of the road, and can calculate by the supposed distance, how far and how long he must drive beforo ho cm gct'Lis next dram. j "I don't know, sir." replied, cmphat-j ically, as I ga\ c him a look black as J a thunder cloud. "Ah! I mistook yon, sir. I thought you was a stage driver.*: "You impertinent scoundrel! " I cried, making a host.lo demonstration, for no other purpose, however, than merely to vindicate my honor. "When I came scri .onsly to think the matter over, I found my feelings were.not so deeply wounded as I at first imagined. Bat I determined to maintain n:y dignified position and therefore conti med to look as black as possible. The gentleman seemed to take no of fenco at my remark, but by his silence seemed to acquiesce in the opinion I had expressed thai-he was a scouudrcL coach rolled on through the accumulating snow, until iE began to draw toward night, and I had almost forgotten tho in? dividual by my side. ? As we -emerged from the mountain # gorge and entered a vallc}-, with farm houses scattered* in every direction, my spirits seemed to throw off the gloom and I fancied I locked a little pleasant. " Will you loan mo your knife, a mo? ment?" cair.e, in mumbled sentences, from among the blankets, and at the same time they opened like tho mouth of a crater, from which came the strong fumes of brandy and tobacco. rTow, I always have been a hater of brandy and tobacco, and especially the former when in too small quantities, and when theso fumes attacked my smelling apparatus, I was again aroused. But the request was so gentle I cor Id not refuse it, and handed out my knifa. It was a dirk-knife, and if properly used could be made a formidable weapon of self-defence. Ho drew from his pocket a huge piece of tobacco, and with my kaife, and most especially the blade I always used-for paring tipples, cutting cheese, &c.. cut off a chew of to? bacco. I lcokcd in pity on my knife and was about :o remonstrate, but the dam? age was done. But little did I think then that that knife would be to me a source of infinite trouble, and involve me in a terrible and hideous mystery. The stage came near turning over, and in the fright I forgot all about my knife. About an hour after dark we drew up at an old-fashioned German-looking inn. The old creaking sign, the thatched roofs of the houses and barns, gave it an an? tique appearance. "With gaping, groan? ing and grunting, vre stretched our weary and cramped limbs, and dismounted from tho stage. A fire was burning in tho bar-room, and wo gathered round it and thawed ourselves out. When my com? panion emerged from his blankets, lie was a small man and rather good looking. He had a large quantity of monc}- which he took particular pains to exhibit, and made it a theme in his conversation. That I did not like?but as I have always ad? hered to the u. mind your own business" principle, I made no remark one way or the other; but very closely watched the man's conduct, and saw there was some? thing strange and peculiar in it. I re? tired shortly after supper and being weary and tired .1 soon fell into a son mi sleep, from which I did not wake till late next morning. When I raised myself up and looked out the window it was still snowing, and the roads seemed entirely blocked up. Giving vent to a y?wn, I looked about tho and discovered there had been seme some one in the other bed. At tho time I thought but little of it, and made ray toilet in some haste, for the room was cold. 1 was about to leave the apartment when I observed blood on the floor. 1 looked again and there was blood on the bed. 1 must confess I Jelt rather queer about the matter, and a terrible weight seemed to gather about my heart. Some little excited 1 descended to tho bar? room, and in a few minutes was shown the (iining-room to breakfast. In the mean? time, the landlord had gono up to nvy room to wake the man liohadputin there to sleep. But just as f emerged front the dining-room, he came down stairs, burst? ing with excitement and pale as death death on a white horse. 4i There has been niurdcrin that room :" lie exclaimed, turning his eyes towards me", aod his loo.: was so fierce that it made me tremble. " It looks somethdr.g^iko it," I coolly replied \ " but whore is the man who oc? cupied tho bed T " Murdered?J have no doubt of :X. for lie has not beeri seen this morning, and I put him in there to sleep last night.? You must give some account of him," ho said to me. " I can't do it, sir. I know nothing about it. 1 did not know the man was i in the room, nor do I know it was." On inquiry, it turned out to be the man who had set beside me in the coach.? That the man was gone, and that ho had left his baggage was no mistake; hut how or when he went was the query. All the passengers were still there, and among them the opinion was universal that I had murdered the man. A magistrate was sent for, and an officer of the peace, to take me into custody. The old squire was a half-German, and looked about him with a grave and dignified glance; and, 1 have no doubt, felt as if ho were about to try me for murder.? "When a constable arrived, he took me un? der his special care, and he, too, felt an immense responsibility resting upon his shoulders, and guarded me with the strict? est vigilance. In vain i protested against his unnecessary care, and declared I would not run away if ho even desired mC-te. .-Uijiiie, of course, would not be? lieve me. but set me down as a consum? mate, daring villain. Search was made in every direction for the body, but the only trace they could find was at a spot on a little creek, just above the house, where the ice had been broken, and where there was fresh blood found. There wcro tracks of a man about the spot, but they were partially "snowed up; but enough remained to prove that some person had been there and opened tho ico sufficiently large to admit the body of a man. Tho blood? how did that come there ? It was cer? tainly a gravo question, and I severely felt the gravity of it closing around me. 1 made my statement?that I .had slept soundly all night, and knew notitingofthc transaction. But people only shook their heads, and whispered one to the other. " he is :i hardened villain." At length a court of inquiry was form? ed, the landlord making the necessary affi? davit against me. The}" ascended to the room, and found blood on the floor and on the bed, and in one corner my knife, blood}- and opened, just as it had been used; I claimed it, and said that I had loaned it to the man; they laughed at my statement, and thought I had better deny owning it. But I felt innocent of the charge, and therefore did not consider the consequences. The passdngcrs in the 'Coach swore that harsh words passed be? tween us, and that we quarreled. With this array of testimony and bold glaring circumstances against nie, I was bound over court to await my trial. In the mean time, dilligent search was made for the body, but it was nowhere to be found. Spring opened, and court time drew near. When the ice left the creek, a body y was found a few miles below the inn, with a deep stab that penetrated the heart. 2so one could identify the bod}-, but all supposed it was tho man who I was charged with having murdered, and so the coroner's inquest found. The wound corresponded in size with my knife blade, and the physician who made the post mortem examination believed it was done with that weapon. The trial came on, and those circum? stances were clearly proven, to them I had no defence, except my firm denial of their truth, aud my protest of innocence. IB}* the prosecuting attorney they were woven into such a perfect chain of guilt, that while I listened to his argument, I found myself guilty of murder in the first degree. I almost began to believe I had murdered the man, and was in court try? ing to thwart the ends of justice. The theory of the prosecution was. that I had murdered the man for his money, had conveyed the body from the house, made a hole in tho ico, and thrust it under. The trial was over, and the jury, after a few hours' deliberation, found mc guil? ty of murder in the first degree. I be? gan to wonder then whether I was guil? ty or not, and whether I would be sen? tenced to be hung. My neck felt pecu? liar and frequently I put my hand to as? certain its size. I felt as though the whole thing was a farce, or I ?was in-a long and fearful dream. But it now seems to me that reason was leaving me, and I 'could not properly comprehend my per? ilous situation. After the verdict of guilty; I was con? voyed to prison, and in two weeks brought out for sentence. The judge delivered a long and impressive speech, rccomending me (o the mercy of Heaven, and senten? ced me to be hung at about two months from that date, lie was just remanding me to prison to await my terrible doom, when there was a rustling at the door, and a man in tiie highest state of excite? ment rushed up the bar. I looked at tho excited individual a moment, and thought I had seen him before. ] taxed my brain, and. all of a sudden the truth dashed on my mind. JZeicas tiie murdered man ! I sank back in in my seat, exhausted and overcome, and lor a few moments was in? sensible. The man still stood at the bar. pale as death, but could not say a word. There was a commotion in the coart ; house, but no one could tell the cause. Even" one knew there would bo a terri? ble revelation, and because 1 fainted they attributed it to the fact that I knew that he would only add to my guilt. Ho turned and looked mc full in the face, without sayiu<* a word; and when I had properly recovered, I rose up, and signi? fied my desire to speak. Then all was stillj a pin could have been heard drop. "That is the man I am charged with having murdered !" I said, pointing to? ward him. The court started, the lawyer sprung to his feet, and the whole audience was in the greatest consternation. '?I am the man ! " said he; ,iS and you sec I am not murdered. I will explain the mystery. I rode in the coach with tho man in the dock, on such a day; we stopped at a certain inn; he went to bed; I was put to sleep in tho samo room. During our ride in tho coach, I borrowed his knife to cut tobacco, and forgot to re? turn it. I was fleeing from soipc perse? cuting relations, and in the night I thought they had overtaken me, and I determined to escape. I took his knife from my poekot, and in cutting a strap cut my hand severely. The blood flowed; I tlirow the knife in my rage in the corner; I stopped at the creek, made a holo in the ice, to wash my hand, and that is how the blood got thcro." Tho landlord and passengers testified that he was the man, and I was released; but no account could be given of the body found in the creek. -1> What a glorious world this would be if all its inhabitants could say, with Shaks pcarc's shepherd: " Sir, I am a true labo? rer; I earn what I wear; owe no man hate; envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good; content with my farm." -* The Mass Lilly Tyler, who loosed " the impatient folds" of the Southern banner at .Montgomery the other day, is a daugh? ter of ex-President Tyler, and not a grand daughter, as has been reported. -o Tho brightest dreams awaken to the darkest realities. A Wor?I to Young Ladies. We wish to say a word to you, young ladies, about your influence over young men. Did you ever think of it? Did you ever realize that you could have any influence at all over them? "We believe that a young lady, by her constant, consis? tent, Christian example, may exert an un? told power. You do not know tho re? spect, and almost worship, which young men, no matter how wicked thcymay be themselves, pay to a consistent Christian lady, be she young or old. A gentleman once once said to a lady who boarded in the same house with him, that her life was a constant proof of the truth of the Christian religion. Often the simple request of a lady will keep a young man from doing wrong. We have known this to be the case very frequently; and young men have been kept from break? ing the Sabbath, from drinking, from chewing, just because a lad}-, whom they respected, and for whom they had af? fection, requested it. A tract given, an invitation to go to church, a request that your friend would read the Bible daily will often be regarded when more power? ful appeals from other sources would fall unheeded, upon his heart. Many of tho gentlemen whom you mee t in society aro away from the influence of parents and sisters?and the}' will respond to an interest taken in their welfare. We all speak of a young man's danger from evil associates, und tl c very bad influcnce which his dissipated gentlemen compan? ions have over him. We believe it is al true, that a^gentloman's character is formed <o a great extent, by the ladies he associates with before he becomes a complete man of the world. We think,} in other words, that a young man is pret? ty much what his sisters and young lady friends choose to make him. We knew a family where the sisters en? couraged their younger brother to smoke, thinking it was manly to mingle with gay, dissipated fellows, because they thought it "Stuart" and ho did mingle with them until he became just like them; body and soul, and abused the same sis? ters shamefully. The influence began farther back than with this gentleman's companion. It began with his sisters, and was carried on through the forming years of his character. On the otiicr hand, if sisters are watchful and affectionate,they may. in various ways, by entering into any little plan with interest, by introduc i ing their younger brothers to good la? dies' society?lead them along until their characters are formed, and then a high toned respect for ladies, aud a manly self respect will keep them from mingling with low society. If a young man .^e.-i that the religion which in youth ho was taught to vener? ate, is lightly thought of, and perhaps .sneered at by the young ladies with whom he associates, we can hardly expect him to think it is a thing for him. Let none say they have no influence at all. This is not possible You cannot live without hav? ing some sort of an influence any more than you can live without breathing.? One is just as unavoidable as the other. Beware, then, what kind of influence it is that you arc constantly exerting. -An invitation to take a glass of wine, or to play a game of cards, may kindle the flame of intemperance or gambling, which will burn forever. A jest given at the expense of religion, a light, trifling manner in the House of God,' or any of the numerous ways in which }*ou show your disregard for tho souls of others, ma}' be the means of ruining others for time and eternity. -o Arab Proverbs.?When you are the anvil, have patience?when you are the hammer, strike well and straight. A great many human beings dig their graves with their teeth. A generous man will place the benefit he 2onfers beneath his feet?those ho re? ceived; nearest his heart. If you wish to appear agreeable in so? ciety, you must consent to be taught many things that you know already^ To succeed in the world, it is Tauch mere necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever fellow. .Experience teaches us indulgence; the wisest is he who doubts his own judgment with regard to the motives which actuate his fellow-men. A friend that you have to buy will not be worth-what you have to pay for him?no matter how little that may ever be. -cS> A Western Editor is in a bad fix. He dunned a subscriber for his subscription, who refused to pay, and threatened to flog the editor if he stopped the paper. -e A Western paper announcing the death of a gentleman in Iowa, says: "Ho was a great admirer of Horace Grecley, but I otherwise a very respectable man." Eldquent Extract. The following is an extract from tho speech delivered or Hon. John S. Preston. Commissloncrlrom South Carolina, before the Virginia Convention: Gentlemen of Virginia, tho people of these Southern States are no noisy fac? tion, clamoring for place and power; no hungry rabble, answering in blood to ev? ery appeal to brutal passion ; no shouting mob, ready to take for their glittering epigram, or a fustian theory; they are not canting fanatics, festering in the licen? tiousness of abolition and amalgamation; their liberty is not a painted strumpet, straggling through the street.-;; nor does their truth need to baptize itself in'pools ofblcod. They arc a grave, calm, prosper? ous people: the holders of a mosL majes? tic civilization; the inheritors; by right, of the fairest cstato of liberty; fighting for that liberty; fighting forthcir father's graves; standing athwart their hearth? stones, and before their chamber doors. In this fight, for a time, my little State stood alone?that little State, around whose outermost borders tho eruns fired at the capital might almost bo heard; whose scope of sky is scarce large enough for one star to glitter in; so small, so weak, so few?we began this fight alone, against millions; and had millions been piled on millions, under God, in suclr a fight, wo would hare triumphed. But, sir, that God cares for Liberty, Truth, and Eight among His people, and we arc no longer alone. Our own children from Florida and Alabama answered to the maternal call; and our great sister Georgia marshalled forth her giant progeny; the voice of Quitman came up out of his grave on tho Mississippi, and Louisiana proved herself the offspring of the ".Apostle of j Liberty;" and now Young Texas raises her giant form, and takes her place at tho head of this majestic column of Confede? rated Sovereignties. And, sir, wherever Virginia has a son beyond her borders, his voice is known, because he speaks tho ancient tongue of his mother. Mr. Presi? dent, I, one of the humblest of these sons, have told my adopted brethren?I have promised them?that before [the spring grass grows long enough to weave a chap let of triumph, they will hear the stately tramp of a mighty Hlfet of men?a sound ?s if the armies of Destiny were afoot? they will sec floating above that host a banner, whose whole history is a blaze -of glory, and not one blot of shame; and coming up from that host, they will hear I one voice, aye, like their own, one voice only; the resounding echo of that voice which.first thundered into the hearts of your god-like sires : " Give me liberty, or give me death I" and on that banner will be written the unsullied name of Virginia. The world knows her history, and knows no history above it in the niche of fame; and knowing it, none dare doubt where Virginia will be found when her offspring, divine liberty and justice, call her to the fight. Have I promised too much in the name of our mother ? In us the doubt would be worse than blasphemy. She will lake her place in the front ranks. She will be, as she has been for ono hun? dred years, the foremost of the world in the canse of liberty. She will stand here with her uplifted arm, not nobly .as a bar? rier, but the guiding star to an empire, stretching from her feet to the tropics, from the Atlantic to the Pacific?grander in proportions, stronger in power, freer in right, than any which has preceded it; which will divide the rule of the Atlantic; be felt in tho far-heaving waves of the Pacific; and will own the G ulf of Mexico and the Carribcan Sea. She Never Leaves Him.?Look at the career of a man as he passes through the world; a man of misfortunes! How of? ten is he left by his fellow men to sink under the weight of his afflictions unheed? ed and alone. One friend of his own sex forgets him, another abandons him, a third perhaps, betrays him; but woman, faithful woman, follows him m his afflic? tions with unshaken affection; braves the changes of feeling, of his temper embitter? ed by tho disapointmcnts of the world, with, tho highest of all virtue; in resigned patienee--.mjnjstci^to his wants, even when her own are -&fi?4j>rcssingj she ?weeps with him tear for tetu^frr^4^dis trcss, and is the first to catch and reffe* a ray of joy, should but one light upon his countenance in the midst of his suffer? ings: and she never leaves him in his mis cry while there remains one act of love, duty, or compassion, to be performed. And at last, when life and sorrow end to? gether, she follows him to the tomb with an ardor of affection wich death cannot destroy. -<*>-. Always do as the sun does?look at the bright side of everything. For while it is just as cheap, it is three times as good for $ digestion. A Beautify Jj Extract.?The following is from a lecture delivered some fifteen years ago, by Eev. John IS". Maflit: " Phoenix, fabled bird of antiquity, when it felt the chill advances of age, built its own funeral urn, and fired its pyre by means which Nature's instinct taught it. All plumago, and its form of beauty) became ashes; but ever would rise the young?beautiful from the urn of death and chambers of decay would the fledg? ling come, with its eyes turned toward tho sun, and essaying its dark velvet wings, sprinkled with gold and fringed with silver, on tho -baimy air, raising a little higher, until at length, in the fall confidence of flight, it gives a cry of. joy, - and soon becomes a glittering speck in the deep bosom of a?rial ocean. Lovely voyager of earth, bound on its heaven? ward journey to the sun ! So rises tho spirit from thcruins of tho body, the funeral urn which its Maker built, and death frees. So towers away to its home; in the pure elements of spir? ituality, the intellect Phoenix, to dip* its proud wings in the fountain of everlast? ing bliss. j ? ?; ^^jj So shall dear, precious humanity;'sur? vive from the ashes of a burning ^??ft?^; So beautiful shall the unchanged _scf*rajs;'. within thejlisc of Eternity's great lumin? ary with undazzled eye and unscorched wings?tho Phoenix of immortality?ta? ken to its rainbow!homc ar.d cradled oh the beating bosom of Eternal Love."^ --0-~ How to Break Bad. Habits.?Under? stand clearly the reasons, and all the rea? sons, why tho habit is injurious. Study the subject till there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid the places, the persons, tho thoughts that lead to temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge in the thoughts, that lead away from temptation. Keep busy. Idleness is the strength of bad habiis. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, or a thousand times. That only .shows how much more need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think tho matter over, and endeavor to understand why it was you failed, so that you may be on your guard against a rcoccurrencc^of the same circumstance. -5? Memorandum.?The !New York- Ex? press gives the following: " On the 1st of February, 1850, Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, presented two petitions from Isaac Jeffries and other' citizens of Pennsylvania, and John F. Woodward and others, praying that "some plan might bo devised for the dissolution . of the American Union." This petition received three, votes? John P. Hale, of New Hampshire. Wil? liam H. Seward,of New York, Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio. The two last are cabinet officers; -o Flower stems should always be cut with a knife, and never with scissors, as the tubes will not draw up the water if they are bruised and lacerated and partly closed. Two or three drops of camphor in every ounce of milk-warm water, will often restore faded flowers, as it does a fainting person. -e A man whom Dr. Johnson once reprov? ed for following a useless and demoralizing business, said: " You know, doctor, that I must live." The brave old hater of everything mean and hateful, coolly replied that he did not "see the least necessity sor that." ^ -+1- \^ How brightly do little joys beam upon\ a soul which stands on a ground darken? ed by clouds of sorrow! So do stars come forth from an empty sky, when we look up to them from a deep well. -<3> Pretty Fashion.?A new fashion in la? dies' stockings has come out in England. They are of woolen or cotton, but are parti-coloured, as red and black-, mauve and grey. When harmonizing in colour with the dress, tho effect is said to be vciy pretty. -: A husband advertises thus: -My wife Maria has strayed or been stolen. Who? ever returns her will get his head broke. As to trusting her, anybody can do so if ' "tftfcy-S^e^fit; for as I never pay my own debts it's no>ri&ely I'll pay her'n." Neyer compel sTc^d to sit still, nor interfere with its enjoyment, as"it"i^0t*T actually injurious to person or property, or against good morals. - A western editor thinks sewing girls cannot bo expected to compete with sew-. ing machines, for they haven't such iron constitutions. -0? ? What man wants?ail he can get; what woman wants?all she can't get.