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An Independent Family Journal?Dcvoted'to Poliics, Literature and General Intelligence. HOTT & CO., Proprietors. ' ANDERSON, S. 0. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1869. VOLUME 5.-N0. 11 AN ADVENTURE ON THE CARS. There were five of us?five- as happy fellows as were ever let loose from col? lege. It was "vacation," and we had concluded to take a trip to the Falls. We got aboard tho cars at N-, and were soon traveling rapidly to our desti? nation. We had just seated ourselves and pre? pared for a comfortable smoke when in came the conductor, and who should it be but our old friend Melville. After the common salutations, "how are you, old fellow," etc., had passed, Melville said he bad some business for us to do. "Out with it, old chum," said we; "any thing at all will be acceptable, so let's have it." "Well, .boys," said Melville, in a very Confidential tone, "in that next car there is as lovinga pair as it was e ver my lot to see. Theyare going down to H to-get married, and now if you can have tra-over it-just pitch in. They must be cared, for, and 1 don't know who can do it better than you." In a moment Melville was gone, and we set our beads together to form a plan for taking care of the lovers. "I have it, boys," said Harry Living? ston; "we must make that girl believe that her lover is married?n ""That's it, Harry?that's it," said wo, not giving him time to finish his sentence "That he is a married man, and th father of children," said Harry. "That5 the gamo, boys?now let us play it." It devolved upon me to commence op? erations. Accordingly, I entered the car in which we were informed tho lovers were. Sure enough, there they wero, in real, soft lovers' style. All this I gather ^cd at a glance. Stepping up to them, said : "?Why, Jones, what in the deuce are you doing with this girl ?" "See here, stranger," said the fellow "you're mistaken?my name ain't Jones.' "Why, Jones," said I, "you certainly hav'nt left your wife and children, and tried to palm yourself off for a single man, have you." "I tell you. my name ain't Jones?its Harper. It never was Jones?'taint goin to be nuther." I merely shook my head and passed on to another seat io see the rest of the fun. The girl looked wild after I sat down; but Jones, alias Harper, soon convinced her that I was mistaken. About the time they got to feeling right well again, in came Clarence Mc? Dowell. Walking up to Harper, he ac? costed him with? "Why, Jones, you here? How did you leave your wife and babies ?" "Now, see here, stranger, you ain't the fust man that's called me Jones to-day, and I reckon I must look awfully like him; but I ain't Jones, and more'n that, you musn't call me Jones. I haint got a wife, nor babies nuther ; but this 'ere gal and J. is agoing to splice, an' then you can talk about my wife, but you musn't call me Jones, no how." This retort brought forth vociferous laughter from the spectators, and brought blushes to tho face of the "gal that was going to bo spliced." "Ah ! Jones," said Clarence, "you will regret this some day. I pity your wife and children, and this poor girl." "Soj Mr; Harper, your real name is Jones, is it, and you've been foolin' me, have you? Well, we aint spliced yet, and I don't think we will be scon," said the girl, and her eyes fairly flashed fire. "Jane, Jane!" said Harper, "don't you know I'm Bill Harper ? Thar ain't a dan.ed drop of Jones' blood in me, and FI! prove" it." At this moment Will Duval, Harry Livingston and Horace Guy entered, and of oourse their attention was called to Harper by his loud talking and excited manner. They stepped up 1:0 him and said: Why, Jones, what is all this fuss about ?" This was more than Harper could stand. He leaped upon his seat. "Now," said he, "ray name aint Jones, and I can lick the fellow that says it is." ? By this time wo had arrived at H-, and our friend Melville camo into tho car and made Harper keep quiet. Tho S'rl that wouldn't be spliced requosted elville to keep her on tho train that was going back to N-, which ho drd, and the iurious Jones, alias Harper, followed nw\ . We learned after wards that ho proved himself to be Bill Harper instead of jenes, and he and his gal Jane got spliced. -,-j-4P-*? "'Twas in the lovely month of June, I 'courted Lizzie Leo; the crossed wavo lete murui?T^u', and the moon-beams kiss? ed the sea; I whispsred in her ear soft -words, her hands in mine I prest; and as I drew her nearer still?well, nev? er mind the rest! Wo wandered slowly, hand in hand, with heads togethor bowed; our words were low and softly said, our sighs wero long and loud; I asked her if she loved me, and her head drooped on my breast, I listened, and the answer was ?well, never mind the rest! Tho even? ing rieepeued into night, and tho stars lit up the sky; again I whispered, and her answer was a sigh. At that fair shrino I humbly knelt, my hope and love confess? ed ; J was absolved; a day was named? and, never mind the rest! The happy mo? ment passed away, the day at length ar? rived, my bliss was so ecstatic, 'tin a won? der I survived. Of course she was with lace enrobed, with orango-blossoms drest; and in a copy of?you'll surely find the rest." --o-? ? "Jack, your wife is not so pensive as she used to be V "Xo she Ikih left that off, and turned ox-pensive," A Distinctive Literature. A people's literature is the imperisha? ble monument upon which their history is written. Blocks of chiseled marble and monuments of everlasting granite may. ri?e up like the pyramids in Egypt, so may the glittering armor of trium? phant conquorors flash and blaze like the lightning of the elements, but th#se can never make a people great, nor will they last to tell their history. Nor can vast empire accomplish, it. Many nations, great iii conquest, great in the resources of wealth have passed away from the re? membrance of posterity, simply because they have loft no distinctive literature to tell of their existence. Many nations, on the other hand, have been crushed by .the heel of tho conquer? or, ruined, almost blotted from existence, and yet their literaturo remains, tho nn crumbled monument, to tell the story of their lite and glory. Greece, under the crush of tho Mace? donian phalanx, and the charge of.the JPraetorian.cohort, basjjeen shattered to pieces, the fragments of her glory have become the play tliingd of the Moslem and Turk. The Colossus of Rome has toppled from its^dizzy height. But the voice of Athenian :and""Uoman eloquence lingers and is heard in the classic shades of learning. 'T^eirpoetry: arid philoso? phy will kindle thoughts that burn witB enthusiasm, in the heart of man, after the story of their overthrow has been forgot? ten. The Jews arc scattered, a nation- of wanderers over the broad earth, no holy city, no temple, no home; but Hebrew literature, a part even of* Holy Writ, will tell their grand history, despite the sweeping whirlwind of time itself. So, too. of us must it bo'written and told by our own distinctive literature. The Anathema?vce victis?can have no power to blot our existence, if we have a literature rich and rare, replete with those principles and ideas that glow upon the page of history. Without this; the Southern people will be as complete and hopeless a ruin as was Carthage. The reaction after the stunning and stupendous reality of our defeat passed away was to repair, like men, onr rains, to restore our material wealth. A fur? ther and deeper reaction must bo to re-, store the cause of letters, which were 9ilent amid tho clash of arms, to recall the voice of literaturo, which was hushed amid the roaring reverberations of war. 'ru?jjj-? .*j-^u *ulas: m?de by t|ie_. ivar, is that of the shrine of thlJ^oliseTr; tl>o cause that has suffered, most is that jf educution. Tho memory of that loved homestead will serve as the model to rear i new one, dearer for being erected near the graves of the loved and fallen; piety wrill co isecrate new shrines, and rctraco their.obliterated ascriptions. Commerce, with its own reactive ener? gy, will rebuild its ruined marts, and people them again with bus}* life. Labor upon a basis more in accordance with the voico of civilization, shall again cause our fields to grow for green-coming har? vests, and'future industry restore the healthful currency of trade. These ruins have alreadjyto a groat degree, been re stored. In their material restoration there is danger of our forgetting tho oth? er, sadder ruin. The requiem wailing over our land for tho countless slain be? neath her bosom acquires its saddest tre? ble of despair, as it echoes mournfully within the deserted halls of letters. Tho eagor desiro to repair our lost wealth, is apt to render us too material, too utilitarian, too forgetful of our intel? lectual and moral necessities. Let us bo warned, lest it happens to us that we restore all the other ruins of tho war, and leave the cause of education, of literature, neglected and unet.red for. Our defeat^ then, will Have become tftter and;.completo: The Southorn peoplo are not known, not understood now, because they have no literaturo of their own; let us beware lest our "Lost Cause" porish utterly from the face of the earth, and wo ourselves bocome merged. in the. rapid progress of events, and no memorial remain of either. Tho reaction from despair was action, industry, energy; now tho reaction must be from tho running this economy into an extreme of matoriality. This must be done, but the other not left undone and neglected. Let this re? action be as deep and thorough as the first lias been, and methinks a grand and gloriou? literature will arise among our people, pure and lofty as some towering monument of Parian marble, a beauteous ornament to tho nation, an unfading me? morial of our history, And ?5 its gleam? ing summit seems to rest among tho clouds, upon its sides will bo emblazonod in characters of immortal life and light, the record of our past! 'Tis in the cause of education at last, that we are speaking again. 'Tis now tho duty of patriotism to givo a mighty impetus to this always holy cause. The genius of the South must bo aroused. The State has need of her sons to vindi? cate her past, to act her future; to re? cord her past glory for tho guidance and pride of hor posterity, and to make her future as bright. Our own literature must bo tho monument to tell our history. Let us to work, then, and give tho cause of education such a start that wo may noon have a literature worthy to record that past, which is all glory, and to re? flect its brightness adown the stream of time. Tho Illiad of our woes is replete with its warriors, its Hectors; we want now but tho Homer, the immortal bard, to render it immortal. Our" newspapers teem with accounts of heroic industry and energy displayed in the effort to ubuild ruined homesteads, and restore our prostrate agriculture liven women, the best and fairest of om land, have proved themselves heroines in ? this our material restoration. With their own hands they are tilling the soil i and making cotton, Now when the in? tellectual reaction comes, these our wo? men will alike distinguish themselves in the fields of literature. Oh ! noble wo man ! always ready to act her own heroi' part in whatever field her petty mastee choose ! Man goes to war, and she d prives herself of her jewels, her comforfi, to pay its cost; she becomes the mas? tering angel in the hospital and upon ho groaning battlefield. Is ho victorious, her radiant smile is the brightest meot of the conqueror. Tis 6ho who twines the laurel wreath. Is he defeated, her ttars of holy and thrilling sympathy wash away the bitter memory. Amid the scenes of peace, when he would rear again the altar of his home and restore his wealth, see her, with her own taper fingers, toiling for him whom she was made to bless! Let us turn our thoughts to roaring a distinctive Southern literature. The South has its own distinctive history, its own idyls, its own suggestive poetry, its own habits-of thoughts. She wants her own literature to be the medium of their expression, tho archivo of their deposit. The intellectual -reaction muit come. Lot us seo to it that out of its enthusiasm a pure and noble literature of our own shall be inaugurated.?Orangeburg News. Blue Ridge Scenery. ' A writer^n the Winnsboro Neus gives . tho following description of one of tho most picturesque regions of tho Carolinas: Leaving Morganton' about two weeks since wo crossed tho Blue Ridge on foot, that we might slowly drink tho solemu grandeur. Tho 6tago road through the Swanahoa Gap.is'too narrow to admit of more than a single vehicle. On the one hand rises a range of mountains, some? times perpendicularly like a solid wall, and then slopeing off their .rock-ribbed and rugged sides toward their summits. On the other lies a deep, wild ravine, the, !depth of which is often concealed by overhanging rocks and foliage, beneath which, flows the Catawba?here a shallow stream?murmuring, like some troubled !beast in his fair* Beyond rises'another range of irregular peaks, covered with .wild, picturesque 6cenory. Dark clouds gathering overhead and the shadow of twilight thickon the forest gloom; a storm is muttering around the distant moun? tains, and the lightening flashes across -^.^?^i^^ ?^ tll? s?l>tary pedestrian, from the fountain head of the Calawba. Mountains are still on every hand, but they are scarcely visible through the thick veil of mist and clouds. The storm is approaching. The crashing thunder leaps ''From peak io peak the rattling crags among." Lifting the veil, the lightening favors the beholder with a momcntarj' glimpso of them from base to summit in distant out? line. -Thus the curtain rises and falls at brief intervals, until ho reaches a friendly habitation, just in season to cscapo a de? luge of rain. There was only one thing which disturbed the poetic flow of our emotions as we admired tho sublimity of the storm, and that was the recollection of the parched and withered fields of Pairfield. The view from tho top of '-Beau Catch? er Knob," tho loftiest of the peaks around Ashevillo, is a scene of surpassing gran dour and loveliness. Tho quiet village reposes apparently in a valley, but it is a valley ot gently sloping hills, whose smooth green surfaces are crowned with charming groves and neat residences par tiaHy visible, among tho trees. Tho French Broad River winds about the.outskirts of the town, breaking out here and there into view, and indicating its serpentine courso by the dense trees crowding upon its banks. Mountains stretch away on overy hand, range be? yond range, as far as the eyo can roach. The Balsam Mountains in Haygoodcoun? ty, forty-five miles distant, can bo dis? tinctly seen. The landscape in the light of the setting sun is beyond all descrip? tion and all imagination to one who has never witnessed a similar sceno. The scene along Davidson and Mills Rivers is, if possible, more sublime and enchanting. A now sceno bursts upon tho astouishod vision at every turn of tho road, like tho 6uccessivo pictures of a moving pano? rama. Wo can only daub a feeble speci? men with our unsWIful pen. We aro riding along the course' of a beautiful river, reflecting tho changing and picturosquo scenery upon its banks. Before and around us rises an amphithe? atre ol mountains, a field of corn or an orchard of fruit is. growing hero and there upon their slopes, and tho cleared land shows that a harvest is waving upon a bald summit, or has been already reap? ed. This is a singular phenomenon, ind wo wonder what enticed tho industry of man to thoso apparently inaccessible re? gions, until wo learn that natnro Ins crowned tho mountain with a fertility equal to its grandour. There is more than poetry in tho Psalmist's language, when he says, "Thero shall bo a handfull ot corn upon the mountains and tho fruit shall shake like Lebano^i." It Costs too Much.?What father, or what man who has a heart inftido of him, can havo tho face to complain that his county paper costs too much. It is the cheapest article that goes in a man's house, it carries more wealth with it for the cost of it than any luxury or comfort that is ?.ransient, can carry. It's a humbug, this talk about cost?own up and tell tho truth?say that you aro so stingy and mean as to rob your mind of tho plonsuro of reading or to keep from your children that which tho mere possession of green? backs cannot give?intellectual dclfght. ( "Accepting the Situation." The difference between the Republic of Washington and Jefferson, and the cen? tralized despotism of the present day, is not greater than the difference between tho Radical and Anti-Radical significance ot the well-worn phrase?"Accepting the Situation." As a solemn warning it is al? ways on the lips of Radical orators, and rts'a panacea for all our ills it is the theme of daily disquisitions in the Radical party journals. Morn, noon and night, with monotonous sameness, the words are dinned in Southern ears. There is but one variation in tho ghastly psalmody. At one moment the South is cursed and reviled because it does not "accept the situation;" a moment later, and long ages of fhiitfulness and abundance are promis? ed ti tho South if it only will do what Radcali8m desire9. And yet, in the face of alternate wheedling and denunciation, wo mow, and the Radicals know, that, our people do "accept the situation," and havedonoso ever since tho fatal morn whe? the ruddy cross and gleaming stars fade! from tho Banner of th<? South, and I nothing remained to us oat the pallid j Spaniard which heralded the advent of a ! hollcw truce?^of a poaco more hideous ithan war. Tto Southern people fought and were defeated, and they submit to tho inevita? ble consequences of their defeat. They acknowledge that slavery is dead. They acknowledge that the reconstruction gov? ernannte of the Southern States are valid governments. They acknowledge, with? out reservation, that the reforms wo need roost be obtained by peaceful agencies alone?by the ballot, and not by the bul? let. In a word, tho Southern people take things as they aro and make tho best of them, and in this sense do "accept the situation." This, however, will not satisfy tho Radi? cals in any Southern State; and still less will it satisfy them in South Carolina, where they ravo and fret as though no hour of reckoning would come. They demand that we hug the chains with which our limbs aro sore ; that we brand ourselvos traitors and rebels; that we shame the living and dishonor the dead ; that we cringe and kneel and lick the dust?only too happy if allowed to un? loose the latchct of a Radical shoe. Nor is this all. They demand that in accep? ting the State governmor.t as a legal gov? ernment, we accept, as models of purity and ability, its every official, from the highest to tho lowest; that wo accept, cHJ6 iy* A KAq^l^tV^T, afsrVfd&g ma}' be pleased to pass; that wo accept every decision of an ignorant and incom? petent judge as final and irrevocable; that we refrain from murmuring under the load of local taxation; that we accept as perfect every part of tho machinery of our government; that wo do not criticise or change any existing law, or attempt to oust from his seat any of the corrupt and rapacious office holders who grow fat and insolont at the expenso of our strug? gling people. They demand that we Bwallow Southern Radicalism, with all its crimes and follies on its head; and, until this is done, they continually will cry that the South is rebellious and will not "ac? cept the situation." And the Southern Radioals may hoot and yell until they arc hoarse. Our peo? ple yield a ready obedienco to the Con sti?tion of the State and tho law of tho land. The}' trust to time to remove tho evils which restrain their growth and ro tard their progress. But they never will call black white, tho unclean clean, the corrupt pure; and nover, as it is undo'r ?tood by the Southern Radical, will they "accept tho situation."?Charleston News. -o The Fair.?The Slate Agricultural and Mechanical Fair, to be held here in No veniber, promises to be a complete success. From nearly every portion of th? State, we learn that the farmers are preparing to exhibit specimens of the various products of the soil?besides horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs and fine stock in general.? The mechanical department will doubtless be well filled with every description of machinery, embracing steam engines, cot? ton gins, presses, sugar mills and every vcriety of castings. The ladies and little misses are preparing to exhibit specimens of their skill in the preparations ot pre? serves, canned fruits, catsup, pickles, etc; together with embroidery, quilts, patch? work and other tasty articles. The florists will also contribute to the varied attrac? tions. The buildings are rapidly approach? ing completion. A. Y. Lee, Esq., is the architect; and lt. W. Johnson, Esq., the builder. The main building is two stories high, seventy-five by fifty feet, with two wings forty by seventy-five feet. In the centre of this building is an aquarium, fourteen by six feet, and* four feet deep, in which will be placed a variety of plants and different kinds of fish found in our streams and ponds. Stalls will be erected near the main building,- for stock of every description. An excellent road is also be? ing constructed for exhibiting horses, *fcc. [n front of the main building an amphi theatre will be erected, capable of seating about 2,000 pcrsous; in the centre will be Vhe judges' stand and a gallery for the or? chestra. The machinery *ill be run by a porttblc steam engine Obi* country friends need have no ap prihensiouR as to accommodations in Co luubia during the fair, as many of our cit? izens are making arrangements to stow a^ay all who cannot be provided for at tie various hotels and private boarding hcuses.?Phoenix. -o ? "You ought to acquire the faculty of burg at homo in tho bost society," said a fashionable aunt to an honest nephew.? "I manage that oasily enough," responded tl:o nephew, "by staying at home with my wifo and children." Air Line Railroad. The people of Lanrens, after their ex? periences of tho Laurens Railroad, will, aptly remember the stories of the Syrens, and an ancient maxim about "fearing the -, when gifts are brought," upon an allusion to railroad enterprises for their benefit. They may well retort that the village of Clinton is a village still; that Laurensvillo is a town of petite growth, notwithstanding a railroad of twenty year's existence touching both and termi? nating at one of these points. We are even told that administrators, for years, have ignored the scrip of the Laurens Railroad Company m selling and settling the estates of intestates; and that real estate along its lino commands no higher figures than lands lying far without tho rumbling sound of its revolving wheels and never-failing blast of its morning and evening engine. But we now beg to re? mind our readers or Laurens, mournfully, but firmly, that-the"Laurens Railroad has been an unfortunately managed institu? tion for all concerned; that it might, have been better, and may be yet, and that this fact does not prove a tithe against rail? road enterprises in general, or that rail? roads aro not an important element in the civilization, wealth ?nd power of these times. Because ourcommunication with Newberry for travel and trade is .-neither cheap nor always up to time, does not prove that wo are to take no p?rt or interest in the great enterprise in pro? gress for the benefit of commerce and the development of the resources of the coun? try around us and immediately on our frontiers. Notwithstanding this stale joke ?the proverbial languid and languishing airs ot the .Laurens Railroad?the- niuiq will show Laurens a District of very re spectlbae tax-paying capacity; and-the figures at which real estate is held, in ev? ery nook and cerner within her boundary, will put all her citizens in good opinion of their locality, and cause them to stick > the closer to her friendly soil. But let us awaken to what's going on around us. The Air Line Railroad is moving Eastward from Atlanta, and the question of its location, after passing the Eastern boundary of Anderson, vastly concerns us. -We are all interested in the matter, but more especially that part of the District North-West and North-East of the Court House. The splendid water power of Reedy, Rabun and Enoree streams, tho rich marble' quarries, golden and iron deposits, broad forests lying in these sections of Laurens, are only to be YiJ^lisccLanii.advanced, to a.neal .va?ia..bv and commercial values of the world out? side of them. Tho proposed railroad riiay be located so as to pass via Greenville C. II., or it may pass via Anderson, thenco along the Southern border of Greenville, near Fairview, touching the Laurens line, thenco via Woodruff's in Spartanbnrg, Eastward. Remember, it was our own supineness and self-satisfaction that lost us tho line of the Greenville Railroad via this point from Newberry?the natural route; and remember that if the Air Line Railroad is located so as to pass along the Southern border of Greenville, wo havo a depot within twenty miles, communica? ting directly with Atlanta and the West, and somo point on tho Charlotte Road, and the East. In viow of the fact that tho Laurens Railroad has a doubtful fu? ture, let us wako up to this connection. In money and real estate, the people of Laurens, along the proposed line, should subscribe at least $100,000. The mer? chants of this viilage, and every man en? gaged in business here, should take tho matter earnestly into consideration, and, if possible, secure a branch to connect with this point.?Laurensville Herold. -4P A Bridal Bath.?In her clever corres? pondence with the San Francisco Chroni? cle, Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie writes from London tho following account of a bridal bath : "A young couple recently married whose names the public have nothing to do with, though the amusing incident is too ludicrous to be suppressed, arrived, on the evening of their wedding day, at a certain town in Switzerland, where they expected to lodge. They learned, to their dismay, that a sndden influx of visitors had filled to overflow every botel, inn nnd lodging house in the place. They literally could not find a place to lay their heads. Tho bridegroom, after making a strong appeal, accompanied by his bride, to the landlord of tho principal hotel, obtained tho gratifying information that there was one nnoccupied room in tho house, the bath-room and that a couple of beds might bo made in the two baths which it con? tained. The youthful couplo were well ploasod to secure even this shelter, after a fatiguing journey, and retired to rest. An hour or two later the stillness of tho night was suddenly broken by shrieks of distress issuing lronv tho bath-room. First a female voice could be distinguish? ed, then that of a male, calling for help, j The lady, wishing to summon a servant, had pulled what she presumed was a bell rope suspended over her bed in the bath, when suddenly, sho was inundated t>y a shower of cold wator. The gentleman aroused by her cries, and not quite com? prehending the position, pulled a supposed bell-rope which ho felt dangling over his bath-bed, to bring him a-domestic, but brought, instead, a shower of hot water over himself. It was quito dark, and nei? ther bride nor bridegroom could group their way to the door. By the time suc? cor came they were up to their knees in water." ? "Bridget, what havo you done with tho cream? Those children cannot eat skimmed milk for breakfast." "Shure, inarm, an it isn't meseif that would be af? ter givin tho skum to yees. I tuk that off and gave it to the cats." Gaipet-iiaggers vs Settiers. Daring the last political canvass inthid State, most of the candidates for office on theJiepubliean ticket were Northern raenj who had come here, it was believed, only to take part in the scuffle for office - and who would immediately go back to the North in the event of their defeat They were appropriately denominated carped baggers. They were not Carolinians: and felt no interest in the Stute; they only cared for themselves. They Were not bonnfide settlers; they had no idea of be? coming Identified with us. -. Tho white people of tfie State did not welcome them, nor did they even conceal their displeasure at the advent of these" strangers; for it was noticed, that abuse" of South Carolinians past and present, was the burden of their political address sea. Nor did these same white people* fail to express their indignation on all 0C-? casions against these men, whose presence with us depended entirely upon the re". suit ot a single election. But our political opponents tortured this feeling into one of antagonism to Northern settlers^ and do still insist that there is suoh a eentiment with the white freeholders of South Carolina. We deny the charge. In Union County (we Un? hesitatingly affirm) there is a" desire for settlers from the North. The desire is not unaninious, we admit; many persons will say they want none from the North to come here. But this class is small end composed almost exclusively of men.over. fifty years of age. The sentiment of the " country, however, is in favor of tbe immi? gration of Northern settlers. We Want no mere office seekers. ,S.uch persons inay "CUIIIU, l 1 r i n t'tttt iii" 11 m ,WJ1y )M molested ; but they will not be welcomed, nor will they cross the threshold of many houses. But the actual, bona fide ecttlef froffl the North, we invite. Upon his arrival', we will show; him our lands, tell him of our soil dhd climate1, the natural advnirta> ges of our country, and' the mineral de? posits and manufacturing inducements on every side. If his manners and his deportment indicate the gentleman, we will carry him to'our homes, and ex? tend to him. the. rites of hospitality/ And ul! this we will do, wit hout any refer? ence to his political feelings. We will sell him lands at low,prices; at prices that will enable him to realize per ann?tn*, from fifty to hundred per. cent on his in? vestment. And above all, we will let him experience a climate, which, take the Knft,,^o?^d.li'?u'rnRi/ry)Wjd. jn.,ihe world thing.? Union Times. '??_??,?i-:?. A Discrimination.?We see that the carpet-baggers are seeking to make them? selves respectable by claiming all the Northern men in the State- as of their class. There never was a grea t er mistake. We are proud to know that we have ? numerous body of Northern men who have come among us, and become identi? fied with the country, that are gentlemen;' who rank bigh in tfie esteem and respect of the people ot the State; who have as great contempt for a carpet-bagger as if to the manor born ; who spurn their piti' ful attempts at affiliation with them.? Now, the carpet bagger is an animal in the shape of man, who, finding that the South was crushed and humiliated under radical rale, and that Beast Butler had not stolen quite all the spoons, have/pulled up their stakes at tho North, put their es* tates in a carpot-bag, or some other small thing, and 'left their country for their country's good,' and have dropped down upon us, and united with the negroes and a few degraded scalawags to get them? selves into office. Whereby they mean to glean the South of what little she. has left, that they may join the Beast when tliey return, (for they have no idea of remaining with us longer than the gleaning time ia over.) With all such a true Northern gentleman never did and never will have anything to do.?Spartan* burg Spartan. -;-*> Compromising Spirit.?Yesterday tit sable Adonis, named Edward Chandler was up as a witness in a ease of assault [ ahd battery. The pugilists were two fe? males of the same ebon hue of Edward himself, and a little inquiry into the cause* of tho disturbance revealed the fact thafr ! they both claimed the dusky Lothario ?s i thei ? husband. Both asserted that they were lawfully married to him, and these iverest cross-examination failed to disclose" any flaw in the statements of either. "Why, you rascal, you'mast be a biga? mist!" said tho Jndgo, turning wrath fully toward Edward. I "Sar!" .'?You've married both these women." ''Yes, sar, but day needn't fight 'bout it dough!'' "Don't 5*ou know this is a criminal of? fence of yours ?" _ ' Sar,'' n'cplied Edward, the whites of hiff eyes enlarging, and looking earnestly into the Judge's face. "I'M Kavo to have yon arrested for big amv." "Dat so?"" "Yes." . "Den don't say no mo* 'bout it. and Tit live wid 1cm 60/;" rejoined ihe com placenta Edward, adjusting his hat- and walking! leisurely from tlw court voom.?N. 0. Picayune, * ? A little boy ivnu ? ;: from Sabbath? School s.-iid t<? his im :: : "Ai>ri Kitty chism for little boy*-' I da ?? . e chism is too hard." ? A little girl, on hearing her mother say that she intended to go to :i ball at) I ' have her dress trimmed in -hiigb s.' > ? cently inquired if tin b??gl^. ? up" while she d.-m.I ' mother: "your lath' 1 he discovers I have bought them" ?