Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

IStEW TERMS. - BATES Or SUBSCRIPTION. One copy for one year, - - $2.50 " " six montks, - - 1.25 To a copies for one year, - - 20.00 Twenty copies u " . - - 37.50 The clubs of ten and twenty will be sent to any address. Subscriptions will not be received for a less period than six months. BATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of One Dollar per square of one inch space for the 'first insertion and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertiser by the three, Bix or twelve months. Obituary notices exceeding ten lines will be cnarged for at advertising, rates.' For announcing-candidates, Five Dollars in each case, invariably in advance. Mark Twain on "The New Crime." IHie extraordinary increase of insanity among the: dangerous chases of society is so transpa? rent that the well-knowm humorist of the B?f? fel) Express devotas a column to its descrip? tion. He alleges that crime is dying .out, and in iits stead "temporary aberration" is becoming qui te fashionable : This country, during the last thirty or forty ?ears, has produced some of the most remarka? ble cases of insanity of which there is any mention in history. For instance, there was the Baldwin case, in Ohio, twenty-two years ago.. Baldwin, from his boyhood up, had been of a vindictive, malignant, quarrelsome nature. He put a boy's eye out, once, and never was heard: upon"*any occasion to utter a regret for it.. He did many fsuch things. But at last he did something-that was serious. He called at a house just alter dark, one evening, knocked, gn&when the occupant came to the door shot Bim dead, and then tried to escape, but wae 'captured. Two days before, he haa wantonly ins'ilted a helpless cripple, and the man he af? ter vards took swift vengeance upon with an assassin bullet knocked him down. Such was the Baldwin, case. The trial was long and ex? citing; the community was fearfully wrought up. Men said this spiteful, bad-hearted vil? lain had caused grief enough in his time, and now he should satisfy the law. But they were . mistaken. Baldwin was insane when he did the de?d?they had not thought of that. By the arguments of counsel it was shown that at 10: 30 in the morning on the day of the mur? der, Baldwin become insane, and remained so for eleven hours and a half exactly. This just covered the case comfortably, and he was ac? quitted. Thus, if an unthinking and excited community had been listened to instead of the arguments of counsel, a poor, crazy creature ?rouldhave been held to a fearful responsibility for a mere freak of madness. Baldwin went clear, and although his relatives and friends were naturally incensed against the community for their, injurious suspicions and remarks, they said let it go for this time, and did not prose? cute. The Baldwins were very wealthy. This same Baldwin had momentary fits of insanity . twice afterward, and on both occasions killed people he had grudges against. And on both these occasions the circumstances of the killing Vere so aggravated, and the murders so seem? ingly heartless and treacherous, that if Bald? win had not been insane he would have been hanged without the shadow of a doubt. As it was, it required all his political and family in ?uence to get him clear in one of the cases, r and cost him not less than $10,000 to get clear in the other. One of these men he had noto? riously been threatening to kill for twelve years. The poor creature happened, by the merest piev.e of ill-fortune, to come along a dark alley at the very moment that Baldwin's insanity can e upon him, and so he was shot in the back witliA gun loaded with slugs. It was exceed? ingly fortunate for Baldwin that his insanity came on him just when it did. Take the case of Lynoh Hackett, of Penn? sylvania.' Twice, in public, he attacked a German butcher by the name of Bemis Feldner, with a cane, and both times Feldner whipped him with his fists. Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent gentleman, who held his blood and fam? ily In high esteem, and believed that a rev? erent respect was.due his great riches. He brooded over the shame of his chastisement for two weeks, and then, in a momentary fit of in? sanity armed himself to the teeth, rode into i town, waited a -couple- of hours until he saw j ? Fehmer coming down the street with his wife on his arm, and then, as the couple passed the doorway in which he had partially concealed himself, he drove a knife into Feldncr's neck, kilb'ng him instantly. The widow caught the limp form and eased it to the earth. Both were drerched with blood: Hackett jocosely re? marked to her that as a professional butcher's recent wife she- could appreciate the artistic neatness of the job that left her in a condition to marry again, in case she wanted to. This rem irk, and another which he made to a friend, that his position in society made the killing of an obscure citizen simply an "eccentricity" in? stead of a crime, were shown to be evidence of insanity, and so Hackett escaped punishment The jury were hardly inclined: to. accept these * as proofs, at first, inasmuch as the prisoner had never been insane before the murder, and un? der the tranquilizing effect of. the butchering had immediately regained, his-right mind?but ? when, the defence came to show that a third cousin of Hackett's wife's stepfather was in? sane, and not only insane but had a nose the very counterpart of Hackett's, it was plain that snsanity was hereditary in the family, and Hackett had come by it by legitimate inheri? tance. Of course the jury then acquitted him. But it was a merciful providence that Mrs. Hackett's people had been afflicted as shown, else Hackett would certain hp-have been hanged. Howe'ser, it is not possible to recount all the marvellous cases of insanity, that have come, under the pubhc notice in the last thirty or ?>rty years. There was the Durgin case in New Jersey three years ago. The servant girl, Bridget Durgin, at dead of night invaded her mist ress' bedroom and carved the lady literal ly to pieces with a knife. Then she dragged the body to the middle of the floor and beat and " banijed it with chairs and such things. Next she opened the feather beds and strewed the contents around, saturated even-thing with kerosene and set fire to the general wreck.. She now took up the young child of the murdered woman in her blood-smearing hands and walked off Inrough the snow with no shoes on, to a neighbor's house a quarter of a mile off, and told a string of wild, incoherent stories about aom>3 men coming and setting fire to the house; and then she cried piteously, and without seem? ing to think there was anything suggestive about the blood upon her hands, her clothing, and the baby, volunteered the remark that she was afraid, these* men had murdered her mis? tress!' AtfferwanJj by her own confession and ?other testimony, it was proved that the mistress had always been kind, to the girt, consequently then: was no revenge in the murder ? and it was. also shown that the girl took nothing-away from the burning house, not even her own shoes,, and consequently robbery was not the motive. Now the reader says, "Here comes that same old plea of insanity again." But tlie reader has deceived himself this time. No such plea was offered in, her defence. The judge sen? tenced her, nobody persecuted the Governor with petitions for her pardon, and she was. promptly hanged, Thsre was tbat youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published a year ago. It was simply a conglomeration of incoherent %ive\ from begining to end;?and so was his lengthy speech on the scaffold afterward. For a wnole year he was haunted with a desire to disfigure a certain young woman so that no one would marry her. He end not love her himself, Abd i.e did not want to marry her, and yet was opposed to anybody else's escorting tar. Upon one occasion he declined to go to a wedding with her, and when she got other company, lay in wait for the couple by the road, intending to make them go back or kill the escort. After spending sleepiest nights over hi3 ruling de? sire for a full'year, he at last attempted its ex? ecution?that is, attempted to disfigure the young woman. It was a success. It was per? manent. In trying to shoot her cheek (as she sat at the supper table with her parents and brother and sisters) in such a manner as to mar its comeliness, one of his bullets wandered a little out of the course, and she dropped dead. To the very last moment of his life he bewailed the ill luck that made her move her face just at the critical moment. And so he died appa? rently half persuaded, that somehow it was chiefly her own fault that she got killed. This idiot was hanged. The plea of insanity was hot offered. The recent, case of Lady Mordauht, in Eng? land, had proved beyond cavil that the thing we call common prostitution in America is "only insanity in Great Britain. Her husband want? ed a divorce, but as her cheerful peculiarities were the offspring of lunacy, and consequently she could not be neld responsible for them, he had to take her to his bosom again. It is sad to think of a dozen or two of. great Fnglish lords taking advantage of a poor crazy woman. In. this country, if history be worth anything to judge by, the husband would have rented a graveyard and stocked it, and then brought the divorce suit afterward. In which case the jury would have brought him in insane, and not his wife. Insanity, certainly is on the increase in the world, and crime is dying out. There are no longer any murders?none worth mentioning, at any rate. Formerly, if you killed a man, it Was possible that you were insane?but now if you kill a man it is evidence that you are a lu? natic. In these days, too, if a person of good family and high social standing steals anything, they call it kleptomania, and scud him to the lunatic asylum. If a person of high standing squanders his fortune in dissipation and closes his career with strychnine or a bullet, "Tempo? rary Aberration" is what was the matter with him. And, finally, as before noted, the list is capped with a new and curious madness in the shape of wholesale adultery. Is not this iqsanity plea becoming rather common ? Is it not 60 common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? And is it not so cheap, and so common, and often so trivial, that the reader smiles in-de? rision when the'newspaper mentions it? And is it not curious to note how very often it wins acquittal for the prisoner ? Lately it doesi not seem possible for a man to so conduct himself, before killing another man, as not to be mani? festly insane. If he talks about the stars, he is insane. If he appears nervous and uneasy an hour before the killing, he is insane. If he weeps over a great grief, his friends shake their heads and fear that he is "not right." . If, an hour after" the murder; he seems ill at ease, preoccupied and excited, he is unquestionably insane. Reallv, what we want now is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. There is where the true evil lies. And the penalty attached should be impris? onment, not hanging. Then it might be worth the trouble and expense of trying the Genera" Coleses and the General Sickleses, because ju? ries might lock them up for brief terms, in deference to the majesty of the law; but it is not likely that any of us will ever live to see the murderer of a seducer hanged. Perhaps, if the truth were confessed, few of us wish to live that long. If I seem to have wandered from my subject and thrown in some surplusage, what do I care? With these evidences of a wandering mind present to the reader, am I to be debarred from offering the customary plea of insanity ? Mark Twain." Horrible Outrages.?The Macon ^Ga.) I- Telegraph gets off the following capital burles? que upon the pretended outrages in our sister State: The Atlanta Constihition advertises for an en? tire new stock of Georgia outrages?the old ones being worn out in the sen-ice. We can furnish but few and will charge nothing for them. The. dastardly spirit of the Georgia Ku Klux was recently displayed near Vienna, in Dooly county.' George Washington Lafayette Jenkins and Ben Simmons, two loyal Africans included i in the Fifteenth Amendment, were lately shot in the rear with a double barreled gun charged with mustard seed, while walking through George Jones' premises. Jones claims that he heard his chickens "noller" and fired in the dark in the direction of the coop. But such are the stale pretences of the Ku Klux to excuse ! their bloodthirsty assaults on the colored race. How-long will Congress submit to these assaults oir defenceless citizens ? In Murray county Hon. Jim Pepper, while "sarching for aigs," on James Brown's place, lost his little finger in a steel trap. The excite? ment among the colored population of Murray is very'great, and-a fearful and just revenge is threatened. A representation of these facts has been laid before Sumncr by'the Hon. Jim mel Pepper. Few people are aware of the des? perate and murderous state of feelings in Mur? ray county. On Saturday in Decatur, while Pilgarlick Sooty, Esq., a highly respectable colored man and a Justice of the Peace, was procuring some corn from the crib of John Jones, set upon him with dogs, supposed to be of the blood-hound variety, who pursued Mr. Sooty with great fc eocity, and actually tore away the hinder part of his breeches, on the public road. Thus a rc ' spectable man cannot pass on the public high? way in Decatur except on peril of his life, and this under the fifteenth amendment and a re? publican administration. The miserable de? fence set up in this case is tliat Sooty was sur? prised in the act of stealing corn, and Jones called the dogs off as soon as he could: But when was a rebel known to tell the truth. A horrid state of things exist in Lowndes county. A large number of negroes are not now to be found in that county who were known to be living there sonic time ago. Traces of blood have also been detected in various parts of the county. These two circumstances combined, leaves no doubt that murderous work has been going on. The Ku Klux insult our intelligence by stories about beef shooting, but they cannot; quiet the horrid rumors afloat. How long shall tili* bloody work be permitted in Georgia. The Republican Party Insulted.?The Washington Chronicle gives the annexed ac? count of an insult offered to the party of "great moral ideas," perpetrated upon the persons of distinguished lights from this State, in the dis? loyal city of Baltimore. Forney is indignant at this outrage against the representatives of the Union League : ^'Yesterday the Hon. F. L. Cardozo. the Sec? retary of the State for South Carolina, and Hon. A. J. Ransier, Chairman of the State Central Committee of the Republican party of that,State, arrived in Baltimore- to take part in the proceedings of the National Executive Committee of the Union League of America, which met there. The meeting was appointed to be-held; at the Eutnw Houso.. The above named, gentlemen arrived by the morning train, registered themselves, and retired to thcirroom to refresh themselves. They had scarcely sat down before they were waited upon bv the pro? prietor of the-hotels who inJbirined tnem that they must immediately depart^ They demand? ed the reason, and were informed that "no nig fers were allowed to put up at the houso."? 'hey remonstrated, and declined to retire un? less they were forcibly ejected. This they were then informed would be done, and to save fur? ther trouble they departed, after informing the hotel-keeper that they should demand legal re? dress," i Progress of Railroads. THEIR REAL EFFECTS ON THE COUNTRY AND ITS PROSPERITY. Thirty years ago, which is as late as 1840, if any one* could have foreseen the progress and results of railroads in this country, the scene would have been to Human eyes miraculous. It would have seemed impossible, not to make the roads, but to have expended such vast sums of money?to have done such a prodigious work, and to.have reached such results. We think the national debt enormous, and many persons even think we cannot pay it ; but we have paid as much as the national debt?in twenty years, in one branch of indus? try, and that not as end, but as. a means?in merely furnishing facilities for transportation. In the nature of things, this must have been so, for we inhabit a vast continent, full of won? derful resources, and the very*first problem was, how to get at those resources and how to transport its products. This was a physical problem involving no moral or intellectual trandeur; but it did involve an amount of in ustry, and a production of wealth which is really wonderful to look upon. A railroad is a mere machine; but it is the greatest and most costly machine on earth, which has called forth successfully all the en? ergies of men. This country was the proper theatre for its exhibition on a grand scale, and the results are marvelous. The following is the progress of railroads from 1850 to the present time: ' 1830. I860. 1870. Miles of Road. 8,588 30,5098 42,000 Cost of RoadjC.8296,260,128 $1,134,452,909 $2,000,000,000 For 1870, this is, in some degree, an estimate, but based on well known facts, and is not too high. The progress of this work has followed the necessities of the country. Beginning in the commercial ports on short lines, it proceed? ed to the great agricultural States of the Cen? tral West?then to lines connecting the Missis? sippi with the Atlantic, and lastly to the great line across the continent, soon to be followed, we hope, with others to the north and south of that line, connecting the lakes and the Ohio with the great ports of the Pacific. The lar? gest proportion of railroads is in the great ag? ricultural States of the Central West, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and here is precisely where they are mostly useful, as we shall show hereafter. It will be interesting to note some of the re? sults of railroads, compared with the theories formed of them in the beginning : 1. The great virtue, power and grand results of railroads depend wholly upon one principle, the expansive power of steam. It diet not con? sist in the rails, for ratY-roads, literally, had been made two hundred years before in Eng? land. It was steam which made^the rails val? uable. It was not merely steam, it was the expansive power of steam. Why not send a locomotive by electro-magnetic power? It has been tried, and succeeded in small power, but electro-magnetism wants the expansive power of steam, and therefore, in order to raise high powers, is too expensive. ' 2. But, granting the immense power of steam applied to a locomotive, what could a locomo? tive do on a rail ? Here the engineers and the public were at fault in the beginning. Know? ing the force of cohesion, and therefore of fric? tion, the engineers decided, in 1825, that rail? roads can only be used for passengers and light goods. What has been the actual result? Why, that railroads are used for heavy freight more than for anything else! Some of the principal lines of railroad receive two-thirds of their income from heavy freight I The truth is, we have come back to the first principle. The expansive power of steam overcomes fric? tion and all other impediments. It was thought at first, that if a car went at the rate of thirty miles an hour it must meet with an immense obstruction in the column of air displaced; but apparently this obstruction is nothing. The passenger who puts his hand out of the window Eerceives'a strong wind, but that appears to ave no influence at all on the train. 3. The engineers decided, that for the same cause?friction and gravitation?the locomo? tive could not take a train over grades above 50 feet to ? mile. This opinion was so preva? lent, that when in 1836 surveys were made for the Charleston road, the engineer decided that the road to Lexington coula not go direct by Ridge route, because it would require a grade of from 50 to 00 feet, and therefore the road must go up the Licking Valley, which the Cen? tral Kentucky does, and loses 20 miles between Cincinnati and Lexington. Soon after that time, however, it was demonstrated that loaded trains could go over grades of 200 feet per mile; of course this was not desirable or profi? table. After that the Baltimore & Ohio Rail? road was made with 19 miles, on a grade of 120 feet. So ended the obstructive theory of grades. 3. If these errors of theory were in favor of the railroad system, (and they certainly were,) another error was by no means in the same di? rection. The cost of railroads was, until within the last ten years, always assumed at too low a rate. Up to I860, the average cost of a rail? road was always taken to be about $25,000 or $30,000 per mile. Indeed, the latter was as? sumed to be a ve"ry extravagant estimate. But by referring to the above tablo it will be seen, that in 1850 the average cost , of railroads per mile was $37,000, and in 1860 about the same. But if the table for 1870 be correct, railroads have cost ?50,000 per mile, and there is no doubt whatever, that the roads which may be regarded as finished have really cost $50,000 per mile. The fact is, that railroads are put in operation long before they are finished. More locomotives, more cars, more sidings, more depots arc constantly demanded. Hence, for ten years after a railroad is put in opera? tion, its capital, its real cost is constantly in? creasing. The road may be profitable, apd its managers in that case will, probably, pay the additional cost out of the receipts* But the cost is not less real, and not less to be consider? ed as the actual cost of the road. 4. There was another curious result of rail , roads which was not contemplated in the be? ginning. The making of railroads was urged by cities and towns, originally with an idea, that the benefit of railroads occurred chiefly to them: In one sense this was true. Railroads were absolutely necessary to the towns, in or? der that they might continue marts of trade, by bringing the products of the country to them. In one word, railroads were a necessity to them ; but relatively speaking, the great ad? vantages did not accrue to them. For example, flour, occf, pork, butter, etc., instead of falling in price, as many supposed they would, actu? ally rose. If flour was $5 per barrel it rose to $10. The railroad had no effect whatever in cheapening the necessaries of life, but the con? trary. The singular phenomenon was produ? ced, that the whole rise in price enured to the benefit of the farmer.. The result of this has been that- the whole cost of railroads in- the United States has been paid hack in the in? creased value of lands. Although something of this was foreseen, yet it was supposed that the difference in prices produced by railroads would be divided between the citizens of towns and the farmer. But it has not been so. So far as the increase of prices is concerned, the whole of it has enured to the farmer. And we assert, without fear of contradiction, that thero is no section of the country where the farm lands on the route of a proposed road would not be increased in value, by paying the whole cost of the road.?-Cincinnati Railroad Record. ? The art of saying disagreeable things in a pretty way has been brought to great perfection by I'Tchcli women. The other day two "dear? est friends" were in conversation. * "My dear," said the eldest, "do you know that your hus? band told me last night that my cheeks were like roses ?w "Yes, love, I know he did. He spoke of it afterwards, and said it was a pity they were yellow roses." ? The fellow who sings "I would not live al? ways," has modified it by the addition "in a cheap boarding-house," The Foxes and the Bear. Once upon a time some foxes and a hear went into partnership, and occupied the same cave. They lived together peacefully for many years, the foxes finding the bear of great ad? vantage to them, for he contributed more thau the foxes did to the common support, and he did most of the fighting in a great battle they once had with the lion. But at last there arose a family quarrel, and it came about in this way: Wnen the winter came it was the habit of the bear to stop work and spend the whole of the time in the cave sucking his paws, and in this way he enjoyed himself hugely. The foxes seeing how well the bear got on without work, and how he enjoyed himself, commenced suck? ing their paws, but some how or other they found that they could not make a living in that way ?s the bear could, and that on the whole it didn't pay ; so they had to go out in the cold and forage for victuals as usual. Then they, began to envy the bear, because he appeared to enjoy himself and live so much easier than they did, and took a violent hatred to him just be? cause he sucked his paws. They passed a law that the sucking of paws should be abolished forever among loxes, and then they began to remonstrate with the bear upon the impropriety of his conduct, and to petition him to give up his horrible practice. But the bear said he would do no such thing; that it was agreed up? on when they first went into partnership that he should be allowed to suck his paws in peace; that he had a constitutional right to do so; that it was necessary for his comfort and hap? piness, and that paw-suck would he to the end of time, and the foxes had no right to interfere with him. . Then the foxes got up anti-paw-sucking societies, which declared that paw-sucking was the sum of villainies, and preached at the Dear, petitioned him, and even went so far as to pull his paws out of his mouth, at which the bear got into such a violent rage that he declared that he would dissolve partnership with the foxes and leave the cave, and go and set up business for himself. But the foxes said he had no right to leave, and that he shouldn't leave. The bear said he would not ask them any odds; that he could whip a thousand miserable little foxes, and one morning he told the foxes good? bye, and proceeded to walk out of the cave and leave it forever. But he had hardly got out of the cave before the foxes set up a tremendous howl and fell upon him, and there was such a fight as was hardly ever seen before. The bear flung the foxes right and left, slapped thcni over, crushed them, but the more foxes he killed the more they seemed to increase in numbers, for the fo?es finding that the bear was about to fet off, sent out and hired some foreign foxes to elp them, so that as fast as one set of foxes was killed other foxes were put in their place, and the bear had no rest. But he stood at bay and kept the foxes off as fast as they came up. Finally, the foxes finding that they could not whip him in a fair fight, determined to starve him out, so they surrounded him completely, so that he could get nothing to cat or drink. The bear then began ro suffer severely and to grow thin and weak, and in his distress called upon the eagle and the lion to come over and help him, but they told him that he must do his own fighting. At last the bear became so complete? ly exhausted by hunger and fatigue that he could scarcely stand up, and the ioxes think? ing that they might now make a venture, col? lected together in great number and fell upon the bear and wallopped him, so that he stopped fighting and cried 'Enough!' and said he would go back into the cave again and carrry on busi? ness as before. But the foxes told him to await awhile, he must have his abilities removed. So they tied him hand and foot with strong cords, and muz? zled him, and, placed a strong guard around, and began to parley with him and persecute him. They told him before he could go back into the cave again he must take a solemn oath of allegiance to the fox government The bear took the prescribed oath, and said, 'Now let me in.' But the fox said not yet; you must take another oath that paw-sucking is unconstitu? tional, and swear never again to suck your paws. The bear took that oath also, and even went so far as to declare that paw-sucking had been a disadvantage to him, and that he was glad that he had been forced to give up the abominable practice. After taking this oath and making this confession, he said, "Now let me in." But the foxes said, not yet, you must eat a little dirt first. At this the bear was in? dignant?he declared that he had never eaten any dirt in his life, and that it did not agree with him; but the foxes said .no matter, you must eat a little, just a little; and the bear made a wry face, and took a mouthful of dirt and eat it, and said, "Now let me in." But the foxes said not yet ; you must eat more dirt; and the bear eat more dirt, and said, "Now let me in." But the foxes said not yet; you haven't eaten dirt enough. The bear then began to cat dirt ravenously, until his abdomen swelled eut like a Digger Indian's, and said, "Now let me in." But the foxes said-wait awhile longer, vou must become penitent, and learn to bear and forbear. The bear was now in a most miserable plight; he was nearly starved to death, and was cover? ed with wounds and sores from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, and thousands of hungry blue-bellied flies taking advantage of his defenceless condition, had settled upon him, I and were feeding on the sores and fattening on his poverty; and every time the bear attempted to snake off these flies, the foxes said that he was still rebellious, and was trying to get away, and took occasion to tighten his cords and per? secute him. They told him that he must not disturb the flies, but must love them and let them cat. And the bear let the flics alone and let them cat, and said, "Now let me in." But the foxes said,. "Wait a little longer, we are afraid if we let you in, you won't stay in, but will rebel again and leave us and get back to your old practice of paw-sucking; you must give us guarantees of your good behavior."? And so the foxes kept putting off and tantaliz? ing the poor bear, and he is outside of the cave to this da/, and if he complains the foxes make fun of him and call him Old Sore Head.? Richmond Enquirer. Womanly Modesty.?Man loves the mys? terious. A cloudless sky, the full-blown rose, leave him.unmoved, but the violet which hides its blushing beauties behind the bush, and the moon when she emerges from beneath a cloud, are to him sources of inspiration and of pleas? ure. Modesty is to merit what shade is to figures in painting?it gives its boldness and grominencc. Nothing adds more to female eauty than modesty; it sheds around the countenance a halo of light, which is borrowed from virtue. Botanists have given to the rosy hue which tinges the cup of the white rose the name of "Maiden blush." This pure and deli? cate hue is the only paint Christian virgins should use; it is the richest ornament. A wo? man without modesty is like a faded flower, which diffuses an unwholesome odor, and which the gardener will throw from him. Her desti? ny is melancholy, for it .terminates in shame and repentance. Beauty passes like the flower of. the albo, ? which blooms and dies in a few hours; but modesty gives the female character charms which supply the place of this transito? ry freshness of youth. Signs.?When you see the sun rise before you get out of bed, it is a sign that you'd not do for a farmer. When vou see a man yawn and close his eyes during the sermon, it is a sign that he is get? ting sleepy. When you see a man trying to convince a lamp-post that it is impolite to get in the. way. of a gentleman, it is a sign that he has been drinking something?lemonade, perhaps. When you see a hoy throwing stones on the streets and speaking independently to old peo? ple, it is a sign tliat his parents don't care much for him. i When you see young gentlemen and ladies whispering, giggling and writing notes in churches, it is a sign that the man who teaches good manners omitted to give them a call when he came along last time. Toe Growth of Atlanta. A correspondent of the Columbia Guardian racily sketches the growth and prosperity of Atlanta, Ga., in the following communication: Atlanta is a prodigious place, and is very rapidly growing "more so." Bustle and busi? ness with consequent thrift is the order of the day; and every man here, like a tub, stands upon his own bottom. And this leveling prin? ciple is practically illustrated daily in the streets by the hundred of laborers seen digging down this hill and filling up that ravine to cre? ate a street. Fifteen months ago, I was in At? lanta, when I saw an immense gully running through a portion of the city, and apparently threatening to engulf the adjacent vacant lots. To-day, the hill sides that then lay near that gully are levelled, the gully filled up, and upon it runs a "treet firmly solid under foot, and on either side comfortable dwellings and one hand? some mansion. Last year, over 1,200 houses were erected in Atlanta, and to-day over 200 are being built. Dr. Thompson's old hotel, which everybody has seen that ever passed through Atlanta, has been sold with its lot of 180 by 110 feet for $76,000 cash, and now the entire lot is being dug out for a cellar from four to ten feet deep; and while fifty laborers are shoveling out the base? ment and almost as many carts and wagons are hauling off the dirt, the stone masons are rapid? ly building the foundation of a mammoth hotel, that is to cover the entire lot. This building is guaranteed to be ready for the reception of guests at the fair next fall. Thousands of dollars are to be expended up? on the fair grounds, and already hundreds of workmen are employed in one way or another to make the fair a magnificent success. Atlanta has many objects of attraction be? side the mere bustle of a growing city. The rolling mills, where tons of railroad iron are weekly prepared for the track, are worth a day's journey to see; the paper mills, machine shops, and other mechanical enterprises, all contribute to make this city grow daily in wealth and pop? ulation ; and chief amongst its attractive fea? tures is the "skating rink," where old and young, little and big, go to while away a few hours af? ter tea in a most delightful manner. This is an amusement innocent, healthful and attrac? tive. Attended with music, the exercise is beautiful; and a pretty woman skating grace? fully is as captivating a sight as an accomplish? ed female equestrian. The Atlanta "rink"' has another charming feature apart from supplying the public with a very popular amusement?it cost about $8,000, and in six months' time paid for itself. Cannot enough enterprise be mustered up in Columbia to build a skating "rink ?" What is the etymology of the word "rink ?" Atlanta in 1860 had a population of about 12,000. To-day her census calls for over 25,000. Cost of the Late Wae.?A Confederate medical officer has estimated that the whole number of Confederates killed during the war was 53,773, and, including those who died by disease, the number lost was 160,000. He says the whole available force of the Confede? rates from the first to last was 600,000. Mr. Geo. H. Stuart, in a lecture in Philadelphia, stated that the number of men enlisted in the Union army during the war was 2,000,055. The number of commissioned vessels was 731, and the number of colored soldiers 178,975. The total number of men in service when Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant was over a mil? lion. The government spent for the maintain ance of the struggle about three thousand five hundred millions of dollars. The cost of the South cannot be computed. The expense of the slave property and the .crops which were lost are computed at five thousand million dol? lars in gold. Mr. Stuart stated that the pro? portion of the South for the national debt nad now to be paid, and will make a thousand mil? lion dollars, causing the aggregate loss to the South to amount to fully six thousand million dollars. Raising Tomatoes.?It may be worth while for our farmers to read the following account of the French method of raising tomatoes. It is clipped from an exchange : As soon as a cluster of flowers are visible, the stem is topped down to the cluster, so that the flowers terminate the stem. The effect is that the sap is immediately impelled into the two buds next below tlf6 cluster, which soon push strongly and produce another cluster of flowers each. When these are visible, the branch to which they belong is also topped down to their level, and this is done successively. By this means, the plants become stout .dwarf bushes, not above eighteen inches high. In order to prevent their failing over, sticks or strings are stretched horizontally along the rows, so as to keep the plants erect. In audition to this, all the laterals that have not flowers, and after the fifth topping, all laterals whatsoever, are nip? ped oft'. In this way the ripe sap is directed into the fruit, which' acquires a beauty, size and excellence unattained by other means. ? A man who owes his shoemaker can't say his sole is his own. ? A New Jersey grocer, when complained to about selling bad eggs,, said : "At this time of year the hens are sick, and often lay bad eggs." ? "Oh ma," said a little girl who had been to a show, "I have seen the elephant, and he walks backwards and eats with his tail." ? It is a very curious circumstance that no ordinary negro field hand from the South, were he to remove to Massachusetts, could vote? first, because from his poverty he could not pay taxes; and second, because he could not read or write. . ? Mr. Warner, carpet-bag Senator from Al? abama, in his speech on the Georgia bill, ar? gued that the Republican party could only per? petuate its existence in the South by drawing to its support a respectable portion of the. white element. The Republican party in the South, he said, was to-day in more danger from the bad men in its ranks than it was from the reb? els. ? Josh Billings says: There is ever lots of human men loafing about blacksmith-shops and cider-mills all over the country that don't seem to be necessary for anything but to beg plug tobacco, and sware and steal watermelons, but you let the kolery break out once, and then you will see the wisduin of having jist such men laying around; they help count. NOTICE 1 Valuable- Water Powers and Small Im provements for Sale! NO. 1, containing Nincty-threo Acres, known as the Major's Mill Place, seven miles West of Anderson Court House?the best unimproved water-power in the county. NO. 2, known as the Dr. Gnillard Mill Place, near the Railroad, eight miles North of Anderson Court House. Splendid water-power,, plenty wa? ter and can be easily improved?a convenient and pleasant place for machinery operations. Tsbms?One-half oash. For particulars, ad? dress the subscribcx at Perryville, S. C. THOMAS HARPER. March 8, 1870 86 WHOLESALE Tobacco Dealers?! O. H. P. FANT and W. S. KEESE are my au? thorized Agents for the sale of D. R. Leak's Cele? brated TOBACCO, at Anderson, S. C. They keep constantly on hand a large assortment of Tobaoco, at wholesale, to which dealers are invited. They cannot be undei'sold: by any tobacconist selling the same qunlily of tobacco. All the tobacco is warranted sound. O. H. P Fant, Agent, Anderson Depot. W. S. Kkesi, Agent, Southwest Corner Brick Rango. D. R. LEAK, Charlotte, N. C. Jan 20, 1870 . 80 I GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa parilla. GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Buchul THESE celebrated preparations, originally im troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat? ronage of the medical faculty, have been bo long extensively used by PhyBioians and others, that they are generally known for their intrinsio value, and can be relied on as being most valuable rem? edies in all cases where 8arsaparilla or Bucha are applicable,, and cannot be too highly recommend? ed. They are prepared in a highly concentrated form, so as to render the dose small and conven? ient. - Orders by mail or otherwise will receive prompt attention. GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENSZEF & CO., Wholesale Chemical Warehouse, No. 737 Market street, Philadelphia. For sale by Walters & Baker and W. H. Kardia & Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Moise, Whole? sale Agents, Charleston, 8. C. Qct21,1869 v 17 A. B.. MULLIGAN, COTTON FACTOR AND General Commisson Merchant, ACCOMMODATION WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. Oi liberal Advances made on Cotton* 1 will, when placed In funds, purchase and forward all kinds of Merchandize, Machine ry, Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &o. Sept 23, 1769 18 - ' ly J. N. ROBSON, Commission Merchant, Nos. 1 & 2 AUautlc Wharf, CHARLESTON, S. C. HAVING ample means for advances, a business experience of twenty years, and confining himself strictly to a Commission Business, without opera? ting on bis own account, respectfully solicits con? signments of Cotton, Flour, Wheat, Corn, &c. Shippers of Produce to him may, at their option, have their consignments'sold either in Charleston or New York; thus having, the advantage of two markets, without extra commission. BEFEBENCES. Bishop "W M Wightman, SC; Col Wm John? ston, Charlotte, N C; Rev T 0 Sommers, Tean; Hon John King, Augusta, Ga; Messrs George W Williams & Co, Charleston; Messrs Wilhams, Taylor & Co, New York. April 29, 1869 44 ly h. bischoff. c. WULBIBB. j. St. rtttXB. JOHN McFMiL, WITH HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., WHOLESALE GB0CEBS, Ai*D DEALERS IS / INES, LIQU OBS, Cigars, Tobacco, NO. 197 EAST BAY, EHAKLES .T?Na SO. CA. Nov 26,1869 22 G-reenville & Columtia Railroad, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, 1 Columbia, January 15,18*0. > ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 79, the following Schedule will be run daily, Sunday ex? cepted, connecting with Night Train on South, Carolina Road, up and down, and with Night Train on. Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Read j going North: L've Columbia 7.00 a m " Alston 8.40 a m 14 Newb'ry 10.10 a m Arr. Abbeville 3.00 p m Anderson 4.20 p m * Gr'nville 5.00 p m L'Ye Greenville 5.45 a m 44 Anderson 6.25 a mi 44 Abbeville 8.00 a m 44 Newb'ry 12.85 p m 44 Alston 2.10 p n? Arr. Columbia 3.45- p n> The Train will return from Beltonto> Anderson? on Monday and Friday mornings. . JAMES O. MEREDITH, Gen. Snp'fa. Jan 20,1870 80 Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pill? I For Liver Complaint, Billiousness, &c. Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Gueen'g Delight-. For purifying the blood. Tutt's Expectorant, For Cough's, Cold's, Consumption, &c~> &cf Tutt's, Improved Hair Dyey The best in the world, Are for sole in Anderson by Walters & Bakbh? Druggists, and Druggists and Merchants generally throughout the United Stales. July 29 1869 6 ly Schedule Blue Ridge Railroad. ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Fassenger Trains over tliis Road : up? nown. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m 44 Peadleton, 6.20' 44 44 Perryville, 6.10- u Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 44 L've Walhalla, 3.30 am 44 PerryviUe, 4.10 44 i " Pendleton, 6.10 ? Are. Anderson, 6.10 44 In coses of detention on the G. and C. R. R., the train on this Road will wait one hoar for the train from Belton, except on Saturdays, when it will wait until the arrival of the Belfern train. W. H. D. GAILLABO, Bup't* March 10; 1870 . 87 JAMES H. THORNWELL? Attorney at Law, ANDERSON C. H., S. C. J6?? Office in the residence immediately opptH site Dr. Cater's, on Main street. Feb 3, 1870 _82_8m At Prirate Sate ! THAT VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, oa Eighteen Mile Creek and Seneca River,, contain? ing 1770 acres, formerly owned by James Steele The Tract will be divided to euit purchasers! Apply to W. H. D. GAILLARD, Pendleton, 8. C. Jan 6, 187G 28_ The Spondu?x! HAVING purcb&sed my Goods for cash, I want it strictly understood that I must hare cask for them. M. LESSER, Agent Maroh 24, 1870_89_? Flour, Bacon, Corn, &c. AFINE lot of Flour, Bacon, Corn, &c, oa ^ ??* fw ftV, Ag.nl. Maroh 24, 1870 ? _ A You had better Believe It LL persons owing me money had better com4* forward and pay &J**SEg certainly be siied. M. LESSER, Agent. Maroh 24, 1870 89 Groceries. SUGAR, Coffee, Tea, Syrups, and all kinds ef Groceries can be had, at reduoed prices for cash, by going to M. LESSEE, Agent March 24, 1870 39. ' ? ? a- >"