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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C? H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1873. VOLUME IX.?NO. 7. From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. Bill Arp on Female Snierajre?Trial of Soo san Antny, &c Rome, Ga., August, 1873. Mr. EDmJB-:j?)osan Antny aint- nuthin to me?that is nuthin pertikler. No woman ain't exsep Mrs. Arp, but when I heard they was a-tryin her for votin, my feminiue instinks carried me straight to the court house. I was on her side before I got there, and I'm on her Bide yit. Women in genral is my weakness, and espeshually a woman whose name is Soo san. 1 always envied a man who could fondle over his wife or his sweetheart and call her. "Soosy." It sounds so melier and soft. So when I seed Soosan Antny arrained before the judge like a konvict I was mad?mad with the whole Yanky nashun. They raise a helly billoo over the old broken Konstitution, and mend it up so as to let. the black babboons vote in the rebel States, but if a white woman of sense and spunk dares to do it, it shocks their pewritan modesty. The old judge tried to look tierce, and said a woman shouldent undersex herself. I have seen a heap of men who, when they got sorter old, took up a sour-grape spite against good-lookin women. But Soosan looked at the judge as strait ?s &n egul. She stood up square on her paster joints, and remarked that she was free-born aud nativ-born and had prop? erty of her own, aud had. a right to vote for the law-makers of her choice.' She said that wo? men done as much for the country as the men. and if thoy dident fi^ht in a battle, they raised the boys that did. That havin em and nursin em and tendin to em in sikness aud in helth was a harder job than titin, and if the men dident believe it jest let em try it awhile. She sed if the judge could name one good reesun why they shouldent vote, she wanted to know it. Soosan's eyes flashed a little angelic fire when the judge fined her a hundred dollars, and she remarked that every advance in sivili zation had to have its* martyrs, and she was reddy. She throwd a hundred dollar bill over to the clerk, and sed she would bet another hundred that the money never reached the State treasury. She dident mind that old judge no more than if he was a monky. She told ? him that if they would base the votin bisness on morality, or property, or intelligence, or all three put together, the women would be satis tide; out they based it on wearin britches, and drinkiu whisky, and chawin tobakker, and keepin one wife at home and another sum where else. She declared that she had as much rite to Choose her politikul masters as the Suthern niggers or the hethcr. Chinee. That if the women could vote there wouldent be a drunkard, nor a thief, nor a fool on the bench, u?r in any other ofiis, and whiskey would be harder to get than arsenik. An old, red nosed, swell faced man winked one eye at her and hikkuped "the h?he?hell you say." When the court adjourned the crowd cheered Soosey, and one man sed he'd pay the fine; another sed he'd see her a fair fite with the judge; another sed the law dident say whether the britches must be worn outside or inside, and another sed he'd rather risk the women to vote than thousans of them drunken furriners and fools who elected John Morrissey. Now I've been thinkin a heap about this votin bisiness myself and my opinyun ar that Gov. Jinkins is a mity smart man. The first time he run for Govnor they beat him bekaus he sed he dident think that every fool and every vagabond ort to be allowed to vote. He was for drawin in the lines insted of Jetten em out, and the melaukolly sequel hav proved that he were right. If I was a king I wouldent let anybody vote who couldent tell whether Gen? eral Jackson was dead or alive, or who took more than three drinks a day as a regular thing, or who chawd tObaker after he had gone to bed, or who was a meaner man than his daddy, or who beleeved in gosts and witches, or who dident put on a clean shirt oust ? week, or who dident earn 50 cents a day at sum re? spektable bisness, or who shouted at nite meet ins more than two hours on a stretch. I heard a blind freenologist say that the way to test a man's sense was to draw a straight line from the top of his upper lip to his forrerd and an? other from the lower corner of his nose to the hole in his ear, and if the angle between was less than 60 degrees he might be smart for a monky but he was a fool for a man. He sed that this test would rule out nearly all the idiots and Africans from votin, and if it dident their faith in witches would. I wouldn't let a furriner vote until he had lived here and be? haved himself for ten years, and he shouldent vote then unless he had married an amerikan fal or was a raisin children on amerikan soil. wouldent let no unmarried man vote who was over 80 years old; though I would lec all sich justify by swearin that they had tried, but nobody would hav em. I'd make em name the gals in their affidavy. I would let every married man and his wife and every widder vote if they wasent cut off by the foregoin*exseptions. They should have one vote apiece for themselves and one for every child they had. This last would elevate the Arpian family about elektion times, shore. Akkording to Solomon, all sich ought to hav a heap of privileges, for it aint no picayune biBi ness to raise a big drove of children. Jest let any Jade-bound bachelor try it and see. I look upon respektable children a? the hope of the State, and if I had my way these stagnant old rips who wont marry, but prowl around and live easy and die rich and leave no sign, at least none to speak of, should be taxed heavy and the money appropriated to the orfins' fund. What's a man worth to the State who leaves it no defenders after he's ded and gone; who pat? ronizes no Suudy-schools or Mundy-schools? buys no caudy, or baby clothes, or balls, or barlow knives, or long stockius, or jackonet muslin, or hoop skirts, or galluses. What in? trust has he got in perpetuatin great principles ? Why, a chronick old bachelor can just turn over in his one-horse bed and die and not keer a darn if the world cums to an end in 15 min? utes. He wouldent keer if the devil was to break loose and eat up the women and children alive. Now I'm not sayin a word agin them mar? ried foaks who sumhow or sumhow else haint aksidentally been blessed with offsprings. By no means. They showd a willingness to hav em, and thats enuf for me. I've always apolo? gized for peopul who done the best they could, whether they suckseeded or not. I ain't jio Bonyparte to chop a mans head off for losin a battle whether he was to blame or not I'm a friend to married foaks, children or no chil? dren. Lawful wedlock is sonietys main spring ?its back bone?its life inshoorance. I'vo no patience with these stingy old stags who wont marry without they git a pile of pensbun money, who want to be hired to do it, who hang "around a town, waitin for sum rich gal to turn up, while there's lots of poor ones, purty and clever, jest waitin-to take shoogar in them. Now I don't want tobe misundcrstoo'd about this votin bisiness. I ain't in favor of women mixin up with scalawags and trash at the polls. By no means. I want the moral strength and influence of their votes bekaus they are better and purer and honcster than the men', but I would hav cm stay at home and let their bus bans or their fathers or their next friend vote for them as the case may be. If a man fooled his wife out of her vote it wouldent be exactly the clean thing, but it would be a family mat? ter, and nobody's bisiness. It wouldent be the only thiag that some men fool em about.? There's sirong minded women and weak minded men, and in such cases I would let the longest pole knock down the persimmon. The time used to was when a married woman dident hav no voice in nuthin?cxsep makin baby clothes. She couident own any property?she had no 8ivil existence. If anybody give her anything the law lequired a man to keep it for her. If she coulcent liv with a drunken husban, and quit him, the law giv him all the children. But as the world grows older she keeps a step pin u'ojhigher. Sum of em are studyin medisin and mak? the best sort of doctors for women, and for children a half hour old and under They de clerkin and book-keepin- and tele. graph in and printin, and can keep a postoffis euer than a man and never steal a sent. If they do peep into other women's letters its only out of kuriosity, and they always seal em up again. Take it altogether, it looks to me like the time has mity nigh cum when the men have got to admit that a woman is just as good as a man, if not better, in most everything that requires more sense than mussel. I wont say she ort to vote if she dont want to, but I do say that no politishun could by her vote with a drink. Bill Aep. Overt-ork axd Waxt of Sleep.?Over? work causes a great deal of ill health in farm? ing communities. Very many farmers/ in their efforts to avoid idleness, which they consider a sin and a shame, go to the other extreme and and lose both health and happiness thereby. While industry tends to health, overwork breaks down the constitution and shortens life. It injures both the body and mind, and if long continued, results either in death or premature old age. For this sin, and sin it is to over? work, there is not nearly the excuse oh the part of firmere which there was twenty years ago. Now, one has machines to take, in a great degree, the place of hand labor, and the farmer who will use them need not break down his health by working too hard. But it is not the farmer who is most liable to overwork. The farmer's wife is generally the greatest sufferer. Every day in the year, Sunday not excepted, she has much to do. Often there is as much required of her as two women ought to peri.brr 1. As the result of her overwork, health Ulost; and she either dies long before her time or lives only to suffer the penalties of the law she has transgressed. For this course there is no justification. No vornan ought to work herself to death, and no man is justified in requiring or allowing his wife to do so. He ought to f irnish.her.with household machines, and if her health is poor, either help her him? self or hire a girl to help her. This killing himself or his wife, which so many farmers do, for the sake of laying up a few dollars which they never expect to use, and which they can? not carry with them when they die, is a miser? able speculation as far as profit and loss are concerned, and a sinful, shameful thing, for any man to do. Want of sleep is one of the chief causes of much of the physical and mental trouble of farmers ar d their families. During the busy season, when the farmer rises at four in the morning r nd works until six or seven in the evening, then eats hie supper, does his chores, and sits i p an hour or two later, to read his paper or mat with his neighbor, he does not obtain sleep, enough to keep either body or mind in perfect health and vigor. The evil consequences of his course may not be apparent for many years, but sooner or later they will come. The waste of the brain is not fully made up. Little by little it decays and insan? ity or incurable disease is the final, result of using the hours which should be devoted to sleep, for o^her purposes. Farmers' wives, who are often k jpt awake at night by the exhaus? tion feaused by overwork or by the crying and fretting of children, are the greatest suffer? ers, and year by year, a vast number of this class go to ;he insane asvlum or the grave. It is slow but certain suicide to curtail the hours of sleep, and no man, woman or child need expect to long continue in good health without taking the oiliest amount of quiet rest.? Work? ing Farmer. Noah'8 Ark.?The venerable subject of .the size and model of the Ark is again discussed by a writer in the Nautical Gazette, who re? views both :he Bible account and that recently discussed in Assyria. Certainly Noah built no small ship when he proposed to ride out the waves of the flood. Beckoning the cubit at eighteen inches, the Ark was 4-50 feet long, 75 feet wide, aad 45 feet deep, and would register about 15,000 tons, if measured as a sailing ship, or about 12,000 tons if measured as a steamer, by British r ales. It was thus smaller than the Great Eastern. It had three decks, and was* divided into numerous compartments by longi? tudinal and transverse bulkheads for the safety and order of its occupants. It was built of gopher wocd, a species of evergreen timber resembling -he pine in length and strength of trunk, and the white cedar in tightness. In model, says the writer, it was all that a great carrier could be, chest like, with lines straight and angles square; but* the bottom and top were eliptic;.! in outline, presenting convexity to the earth and to the sky. After giving the dimensions and the mode of construction of the several parts, this authority tells us, as if he were equally certain on this point, that the Ark "is now in a good state of preservation, but lying ruder an eternal mautle of snow, hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude of 17,500 feet above the level of the sea. Ever since the Flood dried up, the climate of America has been colder, and snow always covers the top of Ararat, rendering it impossible for any of Noah's deceudanjs to go up and find the Ark." Perpetual Ice.?The Poughkeepsie Tele? graph says that there Is a pass in the Catskill Mountains, between Shandakin Centre and Westkill, Ulster County, where snow and ice can be found at all seasons of the year. A road runs so ne five miles up a deep hollow, bounded on she two sides by high mountains, with a clear, ice-cold stream of water running down its cenire. Strotchiug across the head of thMMpllow is another mountain somewhat higrrer than ihe others, that makes one think the passage way had suddenly terminated in a sort of cut do sac, but upon arriving at its base the road turr s directly to the right and enters a narrow pas3, hardly fifty feet in width. On each side the mountains tower upward a thou? sand feet from the roadway, not perpendicular, but so steep that when the trees have shed their foilage the top can be seen by a person standing at the foot. There is snow and ice during the hottest days of summer a few feet from the roadway. There are large masses of solid ice in some caves not further than five feet from the road. Strange as it may seem, the growth o.i' vegetation is very rank, the lich? ens especially covering the rocks profusely, though anirrals are very scarce, it being too cold for their comfort. The Choice of a President. Senator Morton, chairman of the Senate Com? mittee on Privileges and Elections, has ap? pointed a meeting of his committee for October to consider certain proposed amendments to the Constitution changing the mode of electing the President of th 3 United States. The practicability of a fair and peaceable election of the ohief executive of a great na? tion has always been a question of doubt in the minds of many of the nest political writers, and it was one of the most difficult problems presented to tie convention'that framed the Constitution of the United States. The expe? rience of the world has been that it was im? possible to guard such elections from the mis? chiefs of foreign intrigue and domestic turbu? lence, and that the only escape from these dan? gers was In having a hereditary Chief Magis? trate. The framers of our Constitution, however, determined to have an elective Executive, and to guard against the dangers most imminent in such election they devised a mode of referrir g the selection of the President to a small body of electors appointed in each St?te under the direction of its Legislature, and.to shut out as far as possible all intrigue they declared that Congress should fix the day for the election of the electors, and' that the day should be the same in all the States. The mode thus provided for the selection of a Pres? ident was declared by Mr. Hamilton in-"The Federalist" to bo "if not perfect, at least ex? cellent," and it tvas the only important part of the system of government devised by the con? vention that escaped the censure or received any mark of approbation from the opponents of the proposed Constitution. Notwithstand? ing this contemporaneous approval, no part of our system has, perhaps, given so little satis? faction, and Chancellor Kent, after many years' observation of its operation, declared it to be "the question which is to try the strength of the Constitution." "If we are able for half a century hereafter," says this eminent jurist in the first edition of his commentaries, "to elect the Chief Magistrate of the Union with dis? cretion, moderation and integrity, we shall un? doubtedly stamp the highest value on our na? tional character, and recommend our republi? can institutions, if not to the imitation.fyet certainly to the esteem and admiration of man? kind." The original Constitution provided that when the electors chosen by the people should meet within their respective States they should pro? ceed to ballot for two persons without designa? ting which of tho two they voted for a3- Presi? dent aud which for Vice President. It merely declared that the person having the greater number of votes should be President, if such number were a majority of the whole number of electors chosen; and if there were more than one having such majority and an equal number of votes, the House of Representatives were to choose, by ballot, one of them for President, and if no one had a majority, then, from tho five highest on the list, the House were, in the same manner, to choose the Presi? dent. This provision was put to a severe test in 1801, when, in consequence of an equality in the electoral votes between Jefferson and Burr, the selection was thrown into the House of Representatives, and resulted in much riot? ous and violeur, conduct. In consequence of this disturbance the Constitution wds amended so as to require the electors to name in distinct ballots the persons voted for respectively as President ana Vice President, and the precau? tions thus taken will probably prevent a repe 1 tition of the dangerous occurrences referred to. . In order to obtr.in the sense of the people in the choice of a President, the power of selec? tion is committed by the Constitution not to any body already established, but to mene lect ed by the people lor the special purpose. The idea of having an intermediate body to make the final selection is that a small number of }>ersons, selected by the people, would be most ikely to possess the information and discern? ment necessary to make a judicious choice, and would in addition preclude the possibility of tumult and disorder. The framers of the Con? stitution hoped ab 0 through this machinery to divest the election of a President of all party and personal prejudice by referring it to a hody of electors who should be unfettered by previ? ous commitment and influenced only by the' exercise of their own judgment and considera? tion of the public good. The theory is excellent, but it has never been realized in its practical operations. In fact the entire theory has been subverted in practice, and the el ectors, instead of assembling to exercise their own judgment in making choice of a President, meet only to give a for? mal constitutional sanction to the choice pre? viously made by oue or other of the political parties through a political convention. [ It is reported that the Senate committee, which will assemble in New York in October, will hold public sessions and will invite a num? ber of leading cons titutional lawyers and wri? ters on this special subject to address them. No doubt much valuable and interesting informa J tioii will be thus elicited and many important suggestions made. The. precedent of giving full public investigation to proposed amend? ments to the Constitution, and inviting discus? sion and co-operation from those learned in such matters, but not holding public office, is an exceedingly good oue and ought to become well established. As to some of the alterations to which we have alluded, we presume there will be not much difference of opinion, but as to the mode of counting the popular vote, whether by taking the consolidated vote of the whole country, or the majorities by States, much may be said on both sides and we may expect some diversity of opinion.?Louisville Courier-Journal. Southern Manufacturers.?Commenting upon the growth of tho manufacturing inter? ests in the South, the Philadelphia Gazette sayB: And yet, while we apprehend that eventually the Southern mills will be devoted almost ex? clusively to the fabrication of yarns, it is cer? tain that they have done far more than seemed possible a few years since in the whole manu? facture. They secure the staplo fresh, unin? jured by baling and compressing, and free from the cost of bagging, hooping and transporta? tion. They have coal and they have water. Some of their cotton mills have paid fifty per cent, profit, and many twenty-five per cent., and consequently a very great interest has been awakened. This hts flowed over into the pro? duction of cotton. Last year's crop was the largest raised since the war aud the most valu? able ever gathered. It was so, indeed, in great measure because tho colored people have found that they must earn their own living, and at? tempting this, have ascertained that eflVit will, secure property in addition to bread ; and bn cause both tho white employer and colored laborer have learned that it is to their mutual interest to keep the contracts into which they enter. But this discovery was not weakened by having other interests near that demanded peace and industry, and the mills were aud arc apostles of conciliation between the races, and have done much, as they will continue to do, iu increasing production. Account of what a Newly Invented Press Can Bo. The New York Journal of Commerce says : A remarkable exhibition of inventive skill took place, on Wednesday, at the Standard Compress Cotton Company's works in Morton street. Here is an immense press, weighing 100 tons, with 1,600 tons pressure, costing $80, 000, calculated to squeeze a bale of cotton or hay almost out of existence. Through the desire of Mr. George McKenzie, agent of the French Transatlantic line of steamers, to test it, twenty bales of cotton that had been once compressed in the South, and averaging 480 pounds weight each, were rolled to the press. They stood averaging in width 33 inches, and in a few minutes emerged one by one from the compress, hooped and tied, in a width aver? aging 18 inches. Mr. McKenzie had them thrown into the hold of the Vi He de Havre, and found that such pressing had saved to the company 3* tons measurement of space in the 20 bales. This being the experiment with new machinery, 175 tons per 1,000 bales as shown is considered good, but it is believed that the practical business working will save 200 tons admeasurement per 1,000 bales. A description of the working of this machine is interesting, because it is an immense affair, and has never been tried before, the patent having been granted to G. W. Grader as late as September 28, 1871. It is a new application of the double cylinder of the class of cotton press in which a steam piston is made to act upon a rack working between cog segments connected with rods to the platen, or follower of the press, in such manner that the leverage will be increased when the follower is drawn up. A bale of 'cotton or hay is rolled in front of the machiue and all but one hoop cut? It is then thrown on a cog-edged bed-plate called the platen, or follower, weighing ten tons. Another station? ary plate weighing ten tons, and faced like the other sets about six feet above the follower. Both plates are concaved, so as to make the bale highest in the centre when pressed.? Above the stationary bed-plate is a 48 inch cylinder, containing a piston which operates a ratchetted post so as to throw two immense cog segments or quarter circular pieces up al? most to the end of th'eir stroke. To the best leverage points of these cog segments are at? tached the upper ends of immense rods that connected the follower. And when it gets to this point an automatic clutch seizes the piston post and holds it. Then steam is run in from properly adjusted and peculiarly valved pipes, under another piston in another and larger steam cylinder. This is fifty-six inches in diameter, and gives five times the power of the lower cylinder. By the operation of this pow? er, enough pressure is brought to carry the cog segments to the end of the stroke, and to squeeze the bale, regardless of .size, into a nine inch compass. The beauty of the thing, in an economical phase, is that a bale of cotton may be pressed without expending more steam than is used, because by peculiar valve arrangements the slack of the piston does not prevent the expansive use of steam left in either cylinder, and the steam may be used simultaneously in both cylinders. The machine will press cotton j or hay to any size required or desired, to 9J i inches for an ordinary bale of cotton of 500 lbs., or two ordinary bales of hay of 250 lbs. each. In applying the iron tics, it is almost impossible to get them tight, and the result is that the bale expands some six inches measured at the thickest part, after withdrawal from the f>ress. But once it expands the ties to their imit, the size is fixed not to exceed eighteen inches. This press has a great advantage by reason of the uniformity in size of the bales after they have been pressed. Iu railroad packing, it has been found that a twenty-eight foot car is entirely filled with 16,000 pounds of cotton, while its capacity for weight is 22,000 pounds. If cotton can be pressed in this way, care will employ all their capacity when they carry cotton or hay, and be enabled to do it cheaper than now. In regard to ocean for? warding the custom is to pack cotton as light bulky freight. By crowding it into half the space the carrying capacity is doubled, and the result will probably be a greater amount of such forwarding across the ocean by steam vessels instead of the slower method of for? warding by sail. Two bales of bay, measuring in width on top of each other six feet and two inches, were unhooped and thrown together in the compress. In a moment they were hooped and taken out as one bale, and the whole mass, after expansion of the ties, measured only twenty inches at the thickest part. Cotton or hay may be thus compressed at the rate of a bale a minute, and put in such shape that a sailing vessel, instead of ballasting, may with perfect safety carry her full complement of cargo in cotton or hay. The Standard Cotton Compress Company is a joint stock association. Mr. James L. Harway, President of the New York Dyewood, Extract and Chemical Compa? ny of Greenpoint, is also president of this compauy. The New Party Movement.?Panaceas for the healing of our political ills are quite abundant. Scarcely have the merits of the uni? fication scheme ceased to be discussed when the political atmosphere vibrates with the echoes of another remedy. This last conies from the brain of the Hon. Mr. Groesbeck, of Ohio. While the unification scheme has its beginning and ending in the darkey, free trade is the soul of the Groesbeck remedy. The Ohio statesman accepts the situation iu regard to the present status of the negro, being, of the opinion that while tho right of suffrage was granted him prematurely, any attempt to deny or curtail that right would be unwise and inexpedient. The wholesale voting of the ignorant Southern negroes he evidently disapproves of, yet in despair of any escape he is disposed to accept it as a necessary evil. The protective policy of the government is a measure that ho does not accept, and one upon which he takes issue and calls earnestly upon the members of the new party to take issue. He claims that it is in direct conflict with the fundamental princi? ple that should prevail in republican govern? ments?that of according equal rights to all the people. In other words, in his judgment, protection is?a discrimination in favor of. cer? tain privileged classes to the serious injury of tho masses. Free trade will doubtless bo" re? garded with great favor in the West. The popularity in that section of the grange move? ment, whose cardinal doctrine is death to mo? nopolies and privileged classes, is good evi? dence upon which to establish an opinion. The Western farmers arc determined to creak down the protective system, which has worked great detriment to their interests. Mr. Groesbeck suggests that the proposed new party be styled the Liberal Democratic party, and invites into ranks all opponents of the party in power. If free trade becomes the prominent issue at the next Presidential election the South will hold tho balanco of power, for while tho West will approve the Eastern- and Middle States will oppose. If the contingency arises there cannot be much doubt with what section the South will cast hor destinies. She is decidedly in fa? vor of free trado, for her interests will be great? ly promoted by the carrying out of this policy. ?Chester Reporter, Safeguards to Pnrity. There are many parents who fancy that they can bring up ttieir children, and especially their daughters; in a large degree ignorant of the evil tyat is in the world. As the king in the fairy tale banished all spinning wheels from his dominions, that his daughter might not wound her fingers with a spindle, and real? ize the prophecy of the spiteful fairy at her christening, even so mothers withhold useful and necessary knowledge from their daughters, lest with it may be mingled something leading to harm. And even as this charming princess, notwithstanding every precaution, as by acci? dent came upon the only spinning wheel in the realm, was wounded by the spindle, and fell in? to her hundred years' slumber, so often does the young lady unawares, stumble upon expe? riences of whose possible existence she never dreamed and which are far more disastrous to her than those that befell the sleeping beauty. Boys and girls as they grow will learn the ins and outs of this wicked world. If their parents do not give them this knowledge, some? body else will, and the manner in which the information is given is in all moral respects vastly more important than the matter. The parent may instruct the child in everything it should know, satisfy its curiosity within proper limits, and thus preoccupy the ground that otherwise would be sown by chance cultivators more wfth tares of vice than with the wheat of knowledge. It is simply astonishing how soon young children pick up slang words, vile words, pro? fane words, and attach?to them meanings. It is equally surprising how instinctively they conceal all this knowledge from their parents, and while the mother thinks her little girl a model of innocence and purity, her neighbor may know that such is very far from being the case. Therefore it is not possible for the mother to cultivate too great an intimacy with her child. She should have the juvenile heart spread out before her as a mirror, reflecting ev? ery thought, every feeling, every passion of the child. Thus she will be able judiciously toad minister antidotes to vice and build up safe? guards to virtue. Girls are as a general rule brought up in ig? norance of very much which it most concerns them to know. Many a. young lady dances on the verge of a precipice, not knowing her dan? ger, and many fall from virtue because their mothers had not the courage to warn them of the pitfalls in their pathway and the steps lead? ing thitherward. The love of purity, like the love of knowledge and the love of fame, grows by what it feeds on, and dies if it have not suitable nutriment. The girl and boy who have steadily held up before their eyes an ideal of high and pure womanhood and manhood, who are taught from early childhood that their souls are alike sacred to purity, will hardly fail to realize in maturity the highest wishes of their parents in these respects. Heroic virtue is never the result of ignorance in man or wo? man. We who know the shoals along the en? trance to mature life should build lighthouses ou sunken reefs, plant buoys in dangerous places, and build life-boats for the rescue of the shipwrecked. In his prayer for his disciples, Christ said, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." Purity is not inconsistent with knowledge of evil, and as soon as a child is old enough to wander from the right way, he should be instructed in the dangers that are most likely to befall him, and the way in which they can be avoided. When there is a perfect understanding be? tween parents and children; when the daugh? ter feels that she can confide every thought and desire of her heart to her mother, and the son is in full sympathy and counsel with his father, .tnere is little danger that the happiness of the parents will bo wrecked by the profligacy of their children. Many grown people seem to think there is no harm done in evading ques? tions asked by children, or in giving such answers as totally mislead and confuse them. This is a woful mistake, and most~disastrous consequences follow it. Truth never injures anybody, and though it may be diluted, so to speak, when given to children, any falsehood mingled with it is deadly poison. The ranks of fallen women in our great city are largely recruited from the country. Barely does any young woman knowing her danger become identified with this unfortunate class, and young men who have been forewarned by judi? cious parents of the alluring temptations which seek them out on every hand are too wise to wander far from the paths of virtue. Handling a Snapping Turtle by the Wrong End.?A man named Grisley, who by strict economy and severe industry has suc? ceeded in getting his family a little place, free from encumbrance, was fishing in Still River, near the Beaver Creek Mills, on Sunday after? noon. After sitting on the bank for a couple of hours, without catching anything, he was gratified to see, on a flat stone in the water, a snapping turtle sunning itself. The butt-end of the turtle was toward him, aud he thought he wolud capture it; but while he was looking for a place to stop, the turtle gravely turned around without his knowledge, and when he got in reaching distance, and stooped down to take hold of what nature designed should be f taken hold of while handling a snapping tur? tle, that sociable animal just reached out and took hold of Mr. Grislcy's hand with a grasp that left no doubt of its sincerity. The shrieks of the unfortunate man aroused some of the neighbors, but when they arrived it was too late to do anything for him; for they just caught a glimpse of a bare-headed man tearing over the hill, swingiug a small carpet-bag in one hand, and they at once concluded it was a narrow escape from highway robbery. How? ever, it was not a carpet-bag he was swinging; it was the turtle, and it was clung to him until he reached the White street bridge, when it let go; but the frightened man did not stop until he got home. When he reached the house, the ludicrousness of the affair burst upon him, and when his wife looked at his pale face and bare head, and dust begrimmed clothes, and asked what was the matter, he said: "Nothing was the matter, only he was afraid he would be too late for church," and appeared to be much re? lieved to find that he wasn't.?Danbury News. The Month of August.?In the old Roman calendar, August bore the name of Scxtilia as the sixth month of the series, and consisted of but twenty-nine days. Julius Ca?sar, in reform? ing the calendar of his nation, extended it to thirty days. When, not long after, Augustus conferred upon it his own name, he took one day from FcbruKry and added it to August, which has consequently ever since consisted of thirty-one days. This great ruler was born in September, and it might have been expected that he would take that month under his pat? ronage ; but a number of lucky things had hap? pened in August, which moreover stood next to the month of his illustrious predecessor, Julius, so he preferred Scxtilis as the month which should be honored by bearing his name, and August it ha3 ever since been among all nations deriving their civilization from the Romans. 1 Important to Distillers. We have never believed that the people of this portion of our State were more iuclined to violations of law than those of any other sec? tion of our country. Yet at every session of the United States court in Greenville it has to consider a very large nutnber of complaints for real or alleged violation of Internal Revenue laws. The present term of court is no excep? tion to the general rule. Most of these cases arise from fraudulent distillation, or "making blockade whiskey." We do not propose here to urge, in palliation of these offenses, the very great and peculiar temptations to which our ?eople have been subjected in this particular, he greatest occasion, and the only excuse, which any one has had for these violations, we are very glad to say, is now removed. It has been the universal impression of all classes of our citizeus that the laws and regula? tions thrown about the manufacture of whiskey were of such a charactor as to entirely prohibit ?so complicated and strenuous in their re? quirements that no copper distillery could comply with them. We now learn, from what we believe is good authority, that under the latest laws and regulations upon this subject any distiller can comply with all the require? ments and manufacture whiskey profitably; provided, of course, as in every business, he manages with proper care and discretion. In other words: it is now possible for any man who desires to make corn whiskey in a copper distillery to do so legally, and to enter into and prosecute the business legitimately. Even now quite a number of copper distilleries, similar to those our citizens would establish, mashing from ten to forty bushels of grain and making from twenty to a hundred gallons of whiskey per day, are in successful operation under this system in another State. It requires a small additional expense in fitting up a good distil? lery, but nothing worthy of a moment's con? sideration by any man with capital enough to run a distillery successfully. In actual expe? rience it is found that compliance with the re? quirements of the government works a decided advantage to the distillers over the plan in use before the war. ? This is peculiarly a country of distillers, and we are glad to know that the requirements of the law are now such that' honest men can prosecute the business legally. We hope to see some of our distillers of olden time enter this . field of industry the coming season. We know their product will meet with ready sale at good prices; and we have no doubt but when our people come to understand that whiskey can be made in compliance with law, the com? plaints of officers and prosecutions in courts on account of "blockading" will cease, because that business will be abandoned for the legiti? mate manufacture. Such would be very ad? vantageous. It would renew what was once a considerable business and produce a financial improvement over the present condition, by giving labor to our citizens and a better home market for our corn. But more than that: it would relieve our people of what is every day proving an extremely unpleasant experience, government officers of an unpleasant duty, and this section of the State of a very undesirable reputation. We hope our exchanges will aid us in giving publicity to these facts.?Greenville Republican. Docs, Socially Considered.?Dr. John Brown, Edinburg, of all the prose writers, has written with the most hearty and delightful appreciation of dogs. He says: "I think every family should have a dog. It is like having a perpetual baby ; it is the play? thing and crony of the whole house; and then, he tells no tales, betrays no secret, neyer sulks, asks no troublesome questions, never gets into debt, never comes down late to breakfast, is al? ways ready for a bit of fun, lies in wait for it, and you may, if choleric, to your relief, kick him instead of some one else who would not take it so meekly, and, moreover, would cer? tainly not. as he does, ask your pardon for be? ing kicked. "Next to a merry child, we do not know so good and healthful a companion for a melan? cholic man as a dog. He does not call* over tLe rolls of your ails, with dolorous intonation, nursing and petting them by recital, nor does he anger you by combatting your sponetic fancies. He just ignores them so innocently that you ignore them too.- If, after a convivial evening, you awake with a pound of lead in the epigastric regions, spiders in your eyes, and mephitic vapors coiling through your brain; if the day looks dark, cold and dreary, and you feel half inclined to try the 'bark bodkin' rem? edy, rather than grunt and sweat under a weary life, just draw on your clothes and open the door to your dog. See what a delicious good morning he has for you. How he leaps upon you. and sprinkles you all over with cool, fragrant new, which he has brushed from lilacs and violet borders. How his eyes flash, and his tail wags like an excited pendulum, as he winds up his welcome with a series of miscel? laneous acrobatic performances." That is one side of the question. Now let us look at the other. How many valuable lives have been sacrificed bv mad dogs ? It is esti? mated that several millions of sheep are anuu ally destroyed in this country by worthless dogs. How many "nice" ladies adopt lap-dogs instead of orphan children ? How mauy poor people keep and feed useless dogs who cannot afford to? How very pleasant to encounter half a dozen yelping curs when calling on a neighbor, or when quietly driving along a pub? lic road. How pleasant on a midsummer night to be kept awake for hours by yelding curs be? longing to our "civilized" neighbors. Then there are the cross, snapping, snarling, biting creatures, which are alike pest to owner and to stranger?"Get out 1" Death of Mr. Johx Heart.?This gentle? man, who was well known in this city in former years, as counected with the Charleston Mercurg, died lately on board the Steamship Charleston, on her passage from this city to New York, land was buried on Staten Is'ard. Mr. Heart was a native of Pennsylvania, and by trade a printer, but removed when young to Washington City, where he was employed first as a compositor, and afterwards as reporter and editor. About 1845, he came to Charleston, and was associated for some time with Colonel John E. Carew in the conduct of the Mercury, and after the retirement of Colonel Carew, he became associated with Mr. W. R. Taber, and later with Colonel R. B. Rhetc, jr., and con? tinued his connection with that prominent journal until 1858, when, having received the appointment of Superintendent of Public Printing, be returned to Washington. During the war, Mr. Heart served as special agent of Confederate Post Office Department. Since 1865, he has been engaged in journalism in Memphis; was Private-Secretary to Governor Scott, in Columbia, and more recently, has been an employee of the Government Printing Office, at Washington. During his recent visit to Charleston, the terribly shattered condition of his health was a subject of sad and general comment among his friends. His age was about sixty-hvo?Charleston fVeu-s and Couri? er.