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You may roast a man over a slow fire, or plunge him in a river on a cold December night, and leave him there to freeze?but they're nothing, absolutely nothing, to being forced passively to look on younger blades going ofi* with some sweet fairy to a sleighing party, a picnic, a moonlight sail upon the water, or any one of the score of expenses one has for making love, while you are bellow? ing like a bull of Bashaw, with the gout, and dnnkiug barley water as a penance for your sins. But, thank our stars! we've not got quite to that. Flirting, sirs, is the amusement for a man of taste; not quite heartless, reckless, everlasting flirting, but that preparatory play before mar? riage ; it reminds you of the savory smells of viands before dinner, or the wheeling of an ea? gle before he darts on his prey. I love to stand in a ball room and see such flirting going on, especially when both are adepts; and the keen? est observer and most consummate actor is sure to win. Do you doubt it, you heathen ? then let me tell you a story that will convert you lone before"we get ready to rise from nectar such as this. My friend, Harry Vavasour, was a man of a million. Besides being decidedly a good-look? ing fellow, he was a lawyer of high talent, and ?versatile at that. His accomplishments were almost as numerous as the thousand and one nights of the Arabian tales. He sang, played, painted, moulded busts, and had an enthusiasm that burnt like the undying naphtha. He could write poetry, and grand stuff it was ; had, as Scott's humble friend said, "an awful knowl? edge of history;" dabbled in belles leltres until his criticisms were sought for as of value; and could talk German, French, Italian, and, for all I know, Hebrew, Syriac and Chaldee. At a dinner party his jokes were always the best; and in a ball-room few could rival" him if he chose to exert himself. There's no greater mis? take in the world, let me toll you, than to think a man of sense cannot be a courtier. But with all these advantages, Harry had one draw back?and that worse than the seven plagues of Egypt?he was poor! Now to be poor in this country is like being a galley slave in France. It is les majestoe?the highest crime known to the laws. In Boston a man's talents can do much, and in Philadelphia his birth can do more, but in New York, and throughout the country generally, money is the Alladin's lamp $>r us. Harry Vavasour was twenty-five before he fell in love; for young lawyers who, in more senses than one, know' less practically than theoretically of their profession, usually have enough to do to keep off duns and blue devils, without thinking of matrimonv. But he had aot been idle, and practiced love-making on more than oue saucy vixen, both to punish her for fickleness to others and to keep his own hand in. All this time, however, he was wait? ing for the right one to come along; for there's a destiny in these matters; and I believe with the old Piatonist, that the souls are separated in the far recesses of eternity, and that each meets its companion and is reunited to her on earth. At length Harry met the fated one; and an angel she was, too, with eyes brighter than dew drops on the grass, and a voice like the ringing of rain in a wood. She seemed to float when she walked, as Cicre in one of Flaxaman's glorious illustrations?by-the-by, Flaxaman was a far greater man than Canova. But enough of this, for I've no taste for love-sick pictures, and leave those things to old maids, school? boys, and bread-and-butter misses. I must not, however, forget one quality she had, and that was a fortune. She was in every respect suited for Harry; for as it takes oxygen ana hydrogen to make water, so if one of a couple is poor the other, egad, ought to be rich. Ham', however, determined to win her before he knew this, and trust to luck for a maintenance. There was only one thing in his way?Miss Balfaur was a flirt, and a desperate one. But then she couldn't help it. It was all because her name was Kate. I never knew a girl of that name who wasn't a coquette; and I would recommend it to the 'serious attention of the clergy, whether they ought to baptize children with such a fatal cognomen. I don't object to a flirt of a certain kind?every man to his taste, you know, aud Kate was a splendid creature. Yet it was not every one who could tell the se? cret of her charms, but knowing ones?like you and me, Oliver, see these things as readily as La Place saw the rebuke in the heavens. She had heard of Harry often before, and had re? solved to conquer this unconquerable one ; and, to tell the truth, Harry had come to the same conclusion in regard to her. Now, to my mind, as a cycloid, though not the shortest line be? tween any two given points, is the one in which objects move the fastest, so a flirtation of this description is the most rapid road to love. And thus it happened now. It was at a party they first met, and as she was the belle of the evening, and Harry the most desirable of the beaux, what wonder that she should wish to win him to her side ! He appeared at first to yield to her charms, for, sit? ting down beside her, she seemed deeply inter? ested in a conversation which was maintained by both with equal brilliancy, but which he brought to a sudden close on finding how large their audience had grown. Then he rose to offer a seat to an elderly lady, and with a gay remark to one, and a bright sally to another, he had glided away before Kate well knew how it was done, and was chatting with a rival belle in another department. No wonder Kate was piqued. She determined, you may well suppose, to have her revenge. But Harry was not to be caught off his guard. He knew?the rascal!?the mercy he had to expect, and so was cautious. When a crowd pressed her to sing, he was aecidently convers? ing with another lady in a different parlor; when they danced he was at the side of a rival belle whom it was therefore natural for him to lead out: and when Kate, in the coquette quad? rille, would have flirted him, he foresaw it in the wicked glance of her eye. And thus he kept it up. throughout the evening, though a while before they parted he joined her, as if by accident, and made a partial amende for his in? difference, just enough, egad 1 to keep her in a good humor, without altogether removing her pique. He knew then that she would go home and think of him. They met again, and again, and each time Kate grew more interested in Harry; for he dashed his cavalier manners occasionally with j sentiment, and by now piquing and now sooth- j ing her, got her heart at length enlisted in the struggle, until she was?to use a common but' good old Saxon phrase?over head and ears in love. Not that he wholly escaped himself, that he neither could nor wished to avoid; but flat? tering her with occasional triumphs, he won her on to determine on a lasting one. And having done this he was sure of his game. But it was long before he learned his success. Slow? ly her weakness revealed itself. Once, but only once, in a ball-room, when he was flirting with another, he caught her anxiously observing him, though her eye, when he turned, was averted with a quickness that would have de? ceived most people. Once she blushed at meet? ing him unexpectedly in the street, though in an instance her countenance resumed its usual composure. On one occasion he was led to sus? pect that she came to a party because he was to be there ; and once he knew her to wear a certain costume because he had said she looked outre in it; and this last discovery made his heart thrill, for, with a proud character like Kate's, it was an evidence that she was sensi? tive to his opinion. Thus, little by little, he penetrated her secret. And nothing but his profession, whose first maxim is to learn how to conceal your thoughts and feelings, could have prevented him from betraying the passion which made his own heart lava. But he knew the fitting hour had not yet come. Kate thought every man had an eye to her fortune, and it would not do to alarm her too soon. One evening he called and found her alone. She had been pensive before he entered, but at sight of him put on her gayest mood and the conversation rattled away. One of their mu? tual acquaintances had just been married, and this afforded her a scope for her wit. Oh, could vou have heard her ridicule love, you would have little thought her, at that very moment, its victim. Harry joined in her sportive tirade, but when she thanked her stars she had no heart, he said, fixing his eyes searchingly on her,? "No heart?" "None, believe me," she retorted gayly. "Then you could never love ?" "/love I" "Do you plead guiltless to friendships ?" "Friends ? I have none." "You do not think so," be said, meaningly, and her eye wandered before his searching look. "Indeed?and do you question my word?" "Waiving the word, I think?I know you are not what you affect to be." "Why, really, Mr. Impudence!" "You are gay because you have sentiment to conceal, and laugh at love because you feel few can love as deeply as yourself." The color rose to her cheeks. "A pretty notion you have of yourself to think you see this. Oh, the conceit of these men!" "And yet you know I speak the truth." "I am a s?d flirt, on the contrary." "You are very sensitive," said he meaningly. "You are very impudent," she retorted poutingly. "And "when you love it will be with the whole soul." "What nonsense!" she said, affecting to laugh, though her cheek was crimson. "The next thing, you'll tell me I am as tender look? ing as the Lady Edith?a picture we were all laughing at the other night. Have you not seen it ? It is here." She advanced to the table and opend an an? nual lying there, but there was a nervousness in her manner that did not escape her lover's notice. The tissue paper stuck to the plate, nor could she remove it; Harry offered to help her. By accident their hands met; strange to say, hers lingered, as if she had no power to draw it back. He felt the touch thrill both her and himself, and his fingers closed instinctive? ly on that fair hand. It trembled perceptibly. A moment thus passed, during which neither spoke. She was trembling as if she could scarcely stand. Passing his arm around her he gently supported her to the sofa, and drew her toward his breast, still without a word. Her head fell on his shoulder and she burst into tears. She felt that be read her heart?that her weakness was known to him. She sobbed as if her heart would break. "Kate, dear," he whispered, "we have acted very foolishly, for we have long loved each oth? er. We have hearts in unison?let us hereaf? ter be one. Will you, dear Kate, be mine?" She made no resistance to the embrace with which he pressed her to his side, but nestled their like a dove long a stranger from and but just returned to his home. At length he bent his face, and pushing back her curls, softly kissed her. Ivor was the caress unreturned, though timidly and scarcely perceptibly. "Ah! Kate," he said, at length, "we've been two arrant flirts." "But we'll be so no longer," she replied, half tenderly, half archly, as she lifted her dark eyes, still glistening through tears, with a look of ineffable love to his face. Ever}' one of you asleep, egad! excepting Oliver! Well, I don't wonder. There's not one man in a hundred cares to hear a love sto? ry, and for myself I should have been asleep, too, if I hadn't been the narrator. But then, listening to one's own voice is a temptation. Rem auk able Predictions.?The follow? ing extract, which a writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer quotes from page 310 of Mr. Calhoun's works, auu which was written in 1849, reads like history rather than prediction : "If it (emancipation) should ever be effected it will be through the agency of the Federal Government, controlled by the dominant power of the Northern States of the Confederacy against the resistance and struggle of the South? ern. It can then only be effected by the pros? tration of the white race; and that would ne? cessarily engender the bitterest feelings of hos? tility between them and the North. But the reverse would be the case between the blacks of the South and the people of the North.? Owing their emancipation to them, they would regard them as friends, gtrardians and patrons, and centre accordingly all their sympathy in them. The people of the North would not fail to reciprocate and to favor them instead of the whites; under the influence of such feelings, and impelled by fanaticism and love of power, they would not stop at emancipation. Another step would be taken?to raise them to a politi? cal and social equality with their former own? ers by giving them* the right of voting and holding public offices under the Federal Gov? ernment. Wc sec the first step towards it in the Bill already alluded to?to vest the free blacks and slaves with the right to vote on the question of emancipation in the District of Co? lumbia. But when once raised to an equality they would become the fast political associates of the North, acting and voting with them on all questions ; and by this political union be? tween them holding the white race at the South in complete subjection. The blacks, and the profligate whites that might unite with them, would become the principal recipients of the Federal offices and patronage, and would, in consequence, be raised above the whites of the South in the political and social scale. We would, in a word, change conditions with them ?a degradation greater than has vet fallen to the lot of a free and enlightened people, and one from which wc could not escape should emancipation take place (which it certainly will if not prevented) but by fleeing the homes of ourselves and our ancestors, and by aban? doning our country to our former slaves ' to become the permanent abode of disorder'an? archy, poverty, misery and wretchedness."' ? "Sam, what do you suppose is the reason that the sun goes towards the South in the win? ter?" "Well, I don't know massa, unless he no stand the climate of the norf, and so am 'bliged to go to the souf where he 'sperienccs warmer longitude." ? A gentleman says,, to preserve fresh meats for several days, he salts them down in an or? dinary corn-sack. This process keeps off the flies and renders the meats cool and nice. ? Swift at one time proposed to put a tax on female beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms. He said the tax would be cheerfully paid, and would be very productive. Spanish Treatment of Masons in Cuba. The New York Journal of Commerce has re? ceived inquiries from Masons in the United States regarding the treatment of Cuban mem? bers of the fraternity residing within Spanish jurisdiction. The facts have been difficult to obtain ; but, as nearly as that paper can get at them from special sources of information, some months ago a Cuban lodge was meeting in a se? cret place near St. Jago de Cuba, when some of General Valmaseda's troops made a descent up? on them and captured them, eighteen in num? ber. The object of their meeting, the Masons insisted, was only the transaction of ordinary businesss. But Valmaseda had, or professed to have, a belief that they were assembled to promote the cause of Cuban independence. They were, therefore, turned over to one of his lieutenants, Gonzales Boet, and marched off in? to the country, under charge of a detachment of soldiers. On reaching a secluded spot, Boet ordered the captives to be shot down, and they were thus assassinated without trial or prelimi? nary inquiry of any kind. It is believed that Valmaseda had given Boet a verbal order to do this deed of butchery. The murdered Masons were all Cubans, gentlemen of high respecta? bility, and, their friends assert, were innocent of any complicity in the Cuban revolution; though there is no question that their private sympathies, as those of nearly all Cubans-born, living within the Spanish lines, were with their struggling fellow countrymen. The Spanish government in Cuba foresaw that this piece of inhuman slaughter might give rise to demands of explanation from the American or English government, and Gonzales Boet was arrested and detained in some prison unknown to our informant, to be produced in case an inquiry was instituted at the instance of a foreign pow? er. But neither the American nor the English Government meddled in the affair?it is doubt? ed whether either of them were ever accurately advised of the circumstances?and the mur? derer of the eighteen Masons remains unpun? ished and unrebuked by the Spanish authori? ties of Cuba to this day. Whether he is still nominally incarcerated or is free, we are unable to say. Soon after hearing of this horrible oc? currence, a lodge of Cuban Masons met in Ha? vana, to take the usual steps for commemora? ting by a "Lodge of Sorrow" the death of their unfortunate brothere, when they were pounced upon by order of the Captain General and thrown into prison. Among the number seized were several officers of the United States moni? tor Saugus, and these were set free immediately after arrest?the Captain General or his subor? dinates fearing that this Government might exact reparation for any ill-treatment of the officers. Upon the arrival of the Cuban Ma? sons?between thirty and forty of them?at the Erison, they were examined by the Judge who olds court on the premises, and he, finding that they had committed no offence cognizable by him, gave them their liberty. The Spanish local government was much incensed at thus losing its victims, and, by a peremptory order, all the Masons were rearrested and put into a military prison, where they now remain. The just Judge, as a mark of the Captain General's displeasure at his humanity, was exiled to Spain, and in the Epoca, at Madrid, published a justification of his course in the matter. What will be the fate of the Cuban Masons, upon whom the hand of tyranny has fallen so harshly, cannot be surmised. It is given out that they will be tried some time or other by a court martial. They may be shot or sent to Fernando Po, or kept in prison for a term of years, or during the pleasure of the Captain General. It is thought the cxtremest penalty will not be inflicted upon them, as the Captain General hesitates to enrage all the other Ma? sons in Cuba, and to incur the further enmity of that powerful organization throughout the world. The Masons under arrest are men of high character, and some of them of elevated social position, and arc believed to have re? frained studiously from any overt acts of aid and comfort to the revolutionists, although their feelings must naturally be with the strug? gling people in the interior. Other Masonic lodges in Havana, composed of Cubans, have not been disturbed, we are told ; but they earn their exemption ftom De Rodas' persecution only by carefully avoiding the appearance of sympathy with the Cuban cause. Tun Term Rebel.?In the course of an able and lengthy editorial notice of Gen. Hamp? ton's recent address before the Washington Light Infantry in Charleston, the Memphis Sunday Appeal takes occasion to discuss the significance of terms intended to he opprobri? ous : We do not sympathize in that general feeling which repels the name of "rebel." Indeed, we regard the word as consecrated. It has lost its odium. We had as soon be called "rebel" as "truly loil." In spite ol Shakespeare's apothegm, we are inclined to believe that there is a great deal in a name. A rose might still smell very sweet if called dog fennel, but it would certainly cease to he popular. Charles Lamb wrote a farce whose hero, Mr. Hogsflcsh, could induce no fair damsel to marry him until, by Act of Parliament, he became transmitted into Bacon. This principle of human nature, which leads us to look with disfavor upon any person or thing stigmatized by an odious name, is well understood by politicians, and in all ages they have made use of it for crushing their opponents. The partisans of Charles I. characterized their vulgar but iron-nerved ad? versaries as Puritans, in derision of their as? sumed saintlincss and austerity of demeanor, or as Roundheads, in allusion to their ridicu? lous fashion of wearing the hair cropped close ; and they, in their turn, reciprocated the com? pliment by giving the cavaliers the opprobri? ous name of "maglignants." The two great English parties of a latter day received appel? lations of a similar derisive character. 'Tories' was originally the name of certain Irish rob? bers, and the court party took its revenge by applying to their antagonists the name of the Scotch beverage of sour milk, called whigg, whose virtues they considered expressive of their sour disposition. It has not unfrequcntly happened that the nick-named party has finally grown proud of the appellation at first bestow? ed iu derision and intended as a reproach. A memorable instance is that of the early revolu? tionists of Holland, who incurred the contempt ous epithet of 'Lcs Gueux,' or the Beggars. They accepted the title in defiance, and acted upon it. Instead of broaches in their hats, they wore little wooden platters such as beggars used, and foxes' tails instead of feathers ; and their great Admiral scoured the seas with a broom affixed to his masthead instead of a flag. In like manner the term "Huguenots" soon lost all offensive import, although it was originally used as expressive of the secrecy with which the first French Protestants conducted all their proceed? ings, flitting about at night, like King Hugon, the national hobgoblin of French nursery tales. The term "rebel" which the dominant party of the North so freely bestow upon all who differ with them, has pretty much lost all trace of a dishonorable character; and the name which was worn so gloriously and triumphantly and virtuously by him who was 'first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his country? men,' cannot he considered a slanderous appel? lation by those who claim him as the father of their country." -r? Jonah's Grave.?I had almost forgotten, says an Eastern traveler, to say that at the vil? lage of Ninnevah, the spot where the miracu? lous gourd grew is still pointed out. The same spot according to Moslem tradition, is the site of Jonah's grave, and a mosque, not very hand? some, has been erected upon it. We succeeded, after a great deal of trouble, in getting an order frcm the Pacha to view the interior, and greatly to the disgust of the guardian of the Bhnne, he had to let us in, making us, however, take off our boots, and grumbling loudly that never be? fore had a Christian foot defiled the mosque, j But we saw nothing worth describing. The re-1 puted tomb is covered up with rich draperies, which are never removed. The "Fourth of July" all a Myth. Is history, after all, only a record of lies ? Here comes the Philadelphia Ledger, pronoun? cing the Fourth of July all a mistake, affirm? ing that nothing connected with the Declara? tion of Independence ever occurred Upon that date. It asserts that according to indisputable evidence, the Declaration of Independence passed Congress on the second day of July, John Adams, Writing from Philadelphia on Ju? ly 3, 1776, as follows: " Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor never will be decided among men. A rcsolutiou was passed, without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States.' The second day of July, 1766, will be?the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival." According to the same authority, it was first published on July 8. Writing under date of the 9th, he says: "The Declaration was published from that awful stage in the State House yard, on eighth of July. On this occasion, the battalion para? ded on the Common, and gave us the/ue dejoie, notwithstanding the scarcity of powder. The bells rang all day and almost all night. Even the chimes chimed away." As for the signing, it did not tike place until August 2, 1776, as shown by the following ex? tract from the minutes of that date: "Aiigust 2,1776. The Declaration, of Inde? pendence, being engrossed and compared at the table, was signed by the members." There is no mention elsewhere in the minutes of any circumstance connecting the Declaration of Independence with July 4. Jefferson is reported to have stated that'he believed it was signed on July 4, a circumstance McKean sub? sequently proved could not have occurred, be? cause the resolution had not yet been engross? ed. Here we are, then, all at sea, and without a Fourth of July. Who in the future can ever shoot off a fire-cracker or a rocket with any feeling of enthusiasm, knowing the "glorious fourth" to be a ba3e counterfeit ? Who can console headache on the morning of the fifth with the excuse of excessive patriotism ? We feel as though a great light had gone out of history, now that America with its one nation? al holiday is made bankrupt even of that. Recruiting for the Civil Service.?The Washington correspondent of the New York World says: Mr. Grant is still recruiting the Federal civil service from the late Confederate array. Fol? lowing the introduction of Mr. Akerraan, Gen. Toombs' staff officer, into the Attornev-Gener alship, John D. Pope was nominated to the Senate for the position of United States District Attorney in Georgia, made vacant by Aker man's promotion. This nominee (Pope) was a rampant secessionist at the outbreak of the war, became a quartermaster in the Confederate ar? my, and was at Chickamauga. At the close of the war he became ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown's law partner, and remained so till both Brown and himself were made judges under the Bullock regime. Pope's disabilities were re? moved some time since. His nomination is distasteful to the Republicans, who evince a disposition to be more sparing of amnesty since the Executive is giving signs of meaning to throw much patronage in the ranks of white? washed Confederates. It is said not to be out of the question, but that, in the event of Sec? retary Fish's resigning, that portfolio may be tendered to Alexander H. Stephens. Advices from Georgia report Mr. Stephen's health as much improved. It will be remembered that President Grant is highly complimented in the second volume of " The War Between the States," Mr. Stephens' recent work. Seasonable Advice.?The heat especially out of the shade is intense. How to avoid prostration by such weather is trite, but if the telling of an old story saves the life or mitigates the sufferings of one individual, it is worth while to tell it. Therefore we say that while this very warm weather prevails, do not be in a hurry about anything, but walk, cat, drink and work slowly. Keep in the shade as much as possible. Patronize ice-water sparingly, like? wise animal food. Subsist upon the rich, ripe, sound fruits of "the season. Bathe with moder? ation ; do not remain in the water longer than ten minutes. Wear light clothing; wc mean light in weight, but maintain worsted or flan? nel under-garincnts. Do not get angry; anger is a dangerous passion when the mercury has risen above 80?. Do not fret. Avoid worry and anxiety. Sleep at least eight hours out of every twenty-four, and let the hours for sleep be selected from the early part of the nijrht. Above all, avoid intoxicating beverages. They arc no use at this season, even when swallowed temperately; they are damaging in the extreme, if taken in extremely warm weather immode? rately. A couple of drinks of ardent spirits will predispose anybody, the hard working man especially, to sun-stroke, apoplexy or syncope. Be temperate in all things, good-natured and chaste, and fear not. Organizing a League.?A lady in Fair field county, Tenn., sends the following story to the New York Independent, with the assu? rance that it is the simple truth : "At a meet? ing of Republicans, white and colored, for the purpose of forming a union league, it was dis? covered that they had no Bible on which to swear the members. The chairman inquired where one could be procured. A colored man said he had one, and offered to mount his mule and ride to his house, two miles away, for it. As they could not think of swearing in members without one, his offer was accepted, and proceedings were suspended till his return. There were thirty men to be sworn ill, and, as the officers officiating were very particular to sen that each one laid his hands ou the open Bible, the ceremony was quite a lengthy one. After the league had been formed, business transacted, and the meeting broken up, the chairman discovered, to his horror, that the supposed Bible was a copy of Shakespeare. It was too late to remedy the mistake. Mum was the word.'^ So he carefully handed back the 'Bible' to its owner, not even venturing to in? quire if he ever encountered any difficulty in finding his minister's text on his return from meeting." --tp The Right Principle.?Mr. W. P. Pres? ton, of Maryland, having been asked if he was a candidate for Congress, made this cxccllcut reply: "My answer simply is, if the Democratic party choose to select me as the standard-bear? er of the district, I will accept the position, and endeavor to convince those who honor mc with their confidence that they have not mis? placed it; but if I am never to get to Congress until I manipulate my own nomination, I shall never go there. I would rather remain at home than feel that, instead of representing the un? biassed will of the people, I owed my position to cunning contrivances which secured mv nomination. Truly thankful to the kindness of my friends, I owe it to myself to say I am among those who believe the office should seek the mail, and not the man the office.'^ ? An exchange says, a bachelor is a misera? ble, disagreeable, dissatisfied, hated, despised, forgotten, unreasonable, unlawful, unchristain like, uncharitable, unprincipled, ought-to-be ashamed, good-for-nothing, uncombed, unwash? ed, unclcaned, unpatched, uncared-for, off-cast of creation, who ought to eo and marry sonic artistic, musical, smiling, blushing, delightful, charming, social, tasteful, sweet, exquisite, re? ligious, prayerful, conscientious and virtuous old maid ; and raise tin a family of sweet, good looking, loving, laughing, curlcy-hadcd, dim plcd-chcekcd, bright-eyed, cute, frolicking, blissful, cheerful, joyful little children, and thus follow the worthy example of his father before him. Testimonial to Judge Orr?The close of Court, on Saturday last, was made the occa? sion of a very handsome tribute from the Ab? beville Bar to Judge Orr, as a testimonial of their appreciation of the ability and impartial? ity with which he had discharged the duties of the Term; Col. Thomson, on behalf of the .Bar, dis? charged the duty with customary grace and courtesy; He assured his Honor that it was no idle'compliment, but expressed the concurrent sentiments of the Bar and people?a feeble tribute of their appreciation of one who had gained their respect and love by the honest and impartial exercise of all the high qualities of the judicial magistrate. Judge Orr expressed his profound sense of the unexpected honor?the more prized by him, as it came from those whose abilities he respected, and as representatives of a people among whom he numbered some of his best friends. He adverted to the considerations which had iu duced him to accept the additional labor, and paid a merited tribute to Hutson J. Lomax of Abbeville, and Wilson Cook of Greenville, through whose efforts the change was made.? Abbeville Press and Banner. ? Why is a man who has no children invis? ible ? Because he's not a parent. ? The way to treat a man of doubtful credit is to take no note of him. ? Advice is the only sort of vice that some people don't follow. ? Kerosene lamps arc styled "parlor maga? zines" from their explosive tendencies. ? Though men boast of holding the reins, the women generally tell them which way they must drive. ? A man may properly be said to have been drinking like a fish when he finds that he has taken enough to make his head swim. ? Why is a beautiful and fascinating girl like a butcher ? Because she is a "killing crea? ture." ? A young man in Chicago recently opened a clothing-store, and was sent to jail for it.? Reason?the clothing-store belonged to another man. ? A witty Frenchman said there were al? ways two parties in a love affair?the party who loves and the one who consents to be so treated. ? A Georgia editor has had his pistols sto? len. He advertises to give the thief the con? tents, and no questions asked, if he will return it. ? There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any business, and the second that hey have no mind. ? "Aunt Jane," said an exasperated wife, "I wish it was a custom for women to trade husbands as it is for men to trade horses!"? "Why, my dear?" "Because, if it was, I'd cheat some woman before sundown." ?"Bachelors," says Josh Billings, "are al? ways a braggin ov their freedom !* Freedom to darn their own stockings and poultiss their own shins. I had rather be a widdower once in two years, rcglar, than tew be a grunting, old hair dyed bachelor only ninety days." ? A lady of theshoddyocracy at Des Moines found, on returning from a walk, some call cards on her table. She' called a servant in great haste, saying: "John, John, take these and run, quick; them ladies is forgot their tickets." ? A young gentleman in Chicago recently found himself in company with three young ladies, aud generously divided an orange be? tween them. "You will rob yourself," ex? claimed one of the damsels. "Not at all," replied the innocent, "I have three or four more in my pocket!" ? When a girl out West is kissed she looks surprised, and says, "How could you?" To which the swain replies, "It will give me pleas? ure to show you," and proceeds to give a aupli caic. ? A Pennsylvania editor having stated in a paragraph that there was a man in the place who had been drunk thirty-live years, was called upon by twenty different persons, who demand? ed a retraction, each visitor insisting that the item was a personal attack. ? At a recent decoration of graves, a youth in kid gloves, speaking for a genteel party, ad? dressed some ox-soldiers in front: "My dear fellows, you prevent our seeing; you arc standing up there right in front of us." A high private retorted, 'Yes, sir; and we stood in front and covered you all over through the war." ? The fourteenth wonder of the world has been found. It is a man residing in Bullock county, Alabama, who has bought neither com nor bacon in thirty-seven years, and who does not owe a dollar! ? An intellectual young lady?"Oh, mam? ma, I asked Miss Brown what is dew. She says it is the moisture imbibed bv.plants during the nights of the summer months. Now, mamma, dear, dew is the condensation of aquous vapor by a body which has radiated its atomic por? tion of caloric below the atmospheric tempera? ture." ? The editor of an Augusta (Ark.) paper saw Jeff Davis the other day at a hotel in Memphis. He says: "The last time we saw him was down in Georgia, riding thinly by our thin lines, reviewing. And there he sits eating -a grey-headed confederate postage-stamp. He wasn't insuring lives when we belonged to him." ? Boston is credited with the possession of a young lady whose cars were too large to suit her aristocratic notions, and who, to remedy the over-bountiful provision of nature, went to a physician and had a delicate crescent of pink ?Turtle about an inch and a half long removed rom each protuberant. It is generally con? ceded that an aurist in this peculiar line would find ample employment in Boston, if the men were possessed of the same delicate notions as this sensitive young lady. ? The Texas State Press Association, anx? ious to disabuse the public mind of erroneous impressions regarding that State and its people, have issued an invitation to the press of the United States to meet them at Houston on the 15th of November next, to travel with them over the public thoroughfares, visit the towns and cities, view the beautiful country, become acquainted with the people and partake of their hospitalities. Certainly if Texas has been misrepresented, there could be no more effect? ual way devised for setting her right before the world. ? The London Globe is responsible for the item, in which a German gentleman, finding that his wife had eloped with a fast friend of his, pens the following note to the destroyer of his domestic peace: "Sir, I have for some time wished to get rid of my wife. Eight days since she was bitten by a mad dog, and I have been waiting with resignation for the usual results. You will stand by her and help her in her sad plight. Farewell!" Half an hour after re? ceiving the communication the ardent lover eloped again, but quite alone. Persons similar- j ly afflicted please copy. THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, Published at Augusta, Ga. DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY CONTAINS all the latest news by Mail and Telegraph, embracing full Commercial and Financial RMJOT s from all the leading centres, rogether with the latest I olitical and Coneral information upon all subjects which interest the reading public. , ,? The terms of the DAILY arc S.1 for six months, aod?tO for one rear. .. ?_, . ? , .? , The TM-WEEKLTi isf3.u0for fix months, and S6 for ?TO?^WKEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL is a mam? moth paper of thirtv-six columns, filled with Editorials, Telegraphic Dispatches, Communications on home matters, together with Agricultural, Commercial and Financial ar? ticles?making it one of the most desirable and valuable papers in the country to the Planter, Fanner and Mer? chant. The terms are Sa per annum, or 81.50 six months. All subscriptions arc required in advance. Liberal commissions paid responsible agents. Address all letters and communications to the C1IRONICLE A SENTINEL, Augtikta, Us. UTT" Specimen copies sent free. May 'JO, 1870 48 THE POLICY-HOLDEES' LIFE AND TONTINE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTH, 29 Broad Street, Charleston, S. C.t HAVING deposited $50,000 with the Compi troller General for the protection of it? policy-holders, will issue the usual forms of Lift and Endowment Policies. // is ike most liberal Company to tht Assured in the World. The Charter guarantees to the assured the each surrender value of his policy after one anntial pre* mium has been paid, except in ease of fra?d. It is the only purely mutual Company in thi South. It has no Stockholders. All eurplus profits must be divided among the policy-holders. It is thoroughly conservative. Its investments are confined by charter to the most solid securities, and it is under management of men of well established ability and integrity. Persons desiring any information will please ?communicate With any of the officers. WM. MCBURNEY, President. E. P. ALEXANDER, Vice Pres. and Act. GEO. E. BOGGS, Sec. and Gen. Agent. JOHN T. DARBY", M. D., Med. Adviser. JAMES A. HOYT, Local Agent for Andeisofl, and Dr. TIIOS. A. EVINS, Medical Examiner. April 21,1870 43 GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa* par ilia. GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Bucha THESE celebrated preparations, originally in? troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat? ronage of the medical faculty, have been so long extensively used by Physicians aud others, that they are generally known for their intrinsic value, and can be relied on as being most valuable rem? edies in all cases where Sarsaparilla 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 attentiou. GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENSZEY & CO., Wholesale Chemical Warehouse, No. 737 Market street, Philadelphia. For sale by Walters & Baker and W. H. Nardin & Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Moise, Whole? sale Agents, Charleston, S. C. Oct21,1869 17 A. B. MULLIGAN, COTTON FACTOR and General Commisson Merchant, ACCOMMODATION WHARF, CHARLESTON, S .. C. Liberal Advances made on Cotton* ggg3" I will, when placed in funds, purchase and lorward all kinds of Merchandize, Machine ry, Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &c Sept 23, 1709 13 tj Greenville & Columbia Bailroad. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,! Columbia, January 15, 1870. > ON and after WEDNESDAY, Jannary 19, the flowing Schedule will b? rrra daily, Snncmy ex? cepted, connecting with Night Train on South Carolina Road, up and down, and with Nigh Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road srens North: L've Columbia 7.00 a m " Alston 8.40 a n? " Newb'ry 10.10 a m Arr. Abbeville 3.00 p m " Anderson 4.20 p m " Gr'nvillo 5.00 p m L've Greenville 5.45 a d? w Anderson- &.2& a fta " Abbeville 8.00 a m " Newb'ry 12.35 p m " Alston 2.10 p m Arr. Columbia 3.45 p m The Train will return from Belton to Anderson on Monday ami Friday mornings. JAMES 0. MEREDITH, Gen. Sup't Jan 20, 1870 80 n. BtscnoFF. r. wn.nr.nx. j. h. pixpsk.. JOHN McFALL, WITH HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, AND HEALERS IK WINES, LIQUORS, Cigrars, Tobacco, Sco.9 NO. 197 EAST BAY, CiHAMlSSMH, S(D, CA. Not 25, 1869 22 Schedule Blue Bidge Bailroad. ON and after this date the following s abed ale will be observed by the Passenger Trains over this Road : vp. Down. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m " Pcndleton, 5.20 " ii perry villc, G.10 " Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 " L've Walhalla, 8.80am " Perryville,4.10 " " Pendletoo, 5J0 " Arr. Anderson, 6.10" " In cases of detention on the G. and C. R. R., the train on this Road will wait one hour for the train from Belton, except on Saturdays, when it will wait until the arrival of the Belton train. W. H. D. GAILLARD, Sup't. March 10, 1870 87 Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pills I For LiTer Complaint, BilTiousness, &c. Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Queen's Delight, For purifying the blood. Tutt's Expectorant, For Cough's, Cold's, Consumption, &o., . Aa? Tutt's Improved Hair Dye, The best in the world, Are for sale i-n Anderson by W alters & Fajmbv Druggists, and Druggists and Mer?hants generally throughout the United Slates. July 29 1869 6_IJF JAMES H. THORN WELL, Attorney at Lutt, ANDERSON C. H., S, C jggf- Office in the residence immediately opp?? site Dr. Cnter's, on Main street. Feb 3, 1870 32 Scv Flour, Bacon, Corn, &c AFINE lot of Flour, Bacon, Corn, &e., eft hand, and for sale cheap by M. LESSER, Agent. Marek 24, 1870 39 You had better Believe It* ALL persons owing me money had better come forward and pay up, or they will certainly be sued. M. LESSER, Agent. March 24, 1870 89 Groceries. SUGAR, Coffee, Tea, Syrups, and all kind* Groceries can be had, at reduced prices for cash, by going to M. LESSER, Agent. March 24, 1870 89 The Spondulix! HAVING purchased my Goods for cash, I want it strictly understood that I must have cash for them. M. LESSER, Agent. March 24, 1870 39