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* 8 | @11 m?tt?- ?* * mmmiL&mwB to Afcfc." VOL. 3. GREENVILLE, S C.: THURSDAY HORSING, NOVEMBER 13, 1856. NO. 27; J &tje ^nntjjern (IMerprist, A REFLEX OF POPULAR EVENT8* wjZTMLa&sa g?0 s>aaoia. Editor and proprietor. 81 |d| payable la ftJvancc ; t2 if delayed. LUH3 of FIVE and upwards *1, the money II ovary Instance to aeoompany the order. ADvERTlSKMEJTTS inserted conspicuously at tho rates of 75 cents per square of 13 lines, and 15 cents for eaeh subsequent insertion. Contracts for yearly advertising made reasonable. AQKNT8. R W. Cask, N. W. cor. of Walnut and Third-st, 1 Philadelphia, is our authorized Agent. w. W. Walker, Jr., Columbia, 8. C. Pete* Stradley, Esq., Flat Rock, N. C. A. M. Peden, Fairview P. O., Greenville Dist * William C. Bailet, Pleasant Grovs, Greenville Cut. R. Q. Anderson, Cedar Falls, Greenville. ielectrt ^nctrq. fl IHfUng Sift. A trifling gift?ono little rose, Jast bursting into oloom ! For such the stranger was, ?. Which came with sweet perfume, To cheer me in my loneliness, And drive sad thoughts away ; A foretaste of those gardens fair, Whose flow'rets ne'er decay. One little rose 1 and yet how much Th? welcome gift I prise 1 No golden treasure ever seemed So beauteous in my eyes. The kindly tone and look it bore To other charms gave birth ; Enhancing as they clustered there, Its own intrinsic worth. How oft one kind nnd gentle word Will jxjace and joy impart, And make the warmest sunshine glow Upon the saddest heart. IIow oft one trifling gift will speak, Where words are needed not! rrl ? Ortrtn li-nrn* the thourrht to read AIIU - - o That seeks to soothe its lot. Sweet memories linger round each flower, Which friendship ever gave; A holy incense floating o'er Each little perfumed grave. From every withered lenf and bud Flows fortli a touching strain, Till voice and luto in memory's car Echo the toft refrain. I dearly love such chosen gifts, For in them all I find A welcomo bahn most sweet and pure, To cheer the lonely mind. And nestling 'mid the velvet leaves, There seems some fairy fair, In perfumed whispers breathing forth The kind thoughts written there. Still come to in all yonr pride, Ye blushing roses bright! Each petal can a page unfold, My spirit to delight. I joy to feel your presence near, Surrounding me with love, Like holy angels freely sent, With blessings from above. ,i i A "Woman's Smile.?One of our exchanges?the editor of which has evidently been warming himself in tho sunshine of a pretty lace?baa the following :? "A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face, and redeems an ugly one.? A smile, however, should not become habitual, or insipidity is the result; nor should the month break into a amile on one side, the other remaining passive and unmoved, for this imparts an air of deceitful grotescjueness to the face. A disagreeable smiledistorts the line of beauty, and is more repulsivo than a frown. There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinctive character?some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten it by their ? brilliant and spiritual vivacity. Gazing and p^lng over a mirrow cannot aid in acquiring beautiful smiles half so well as to tgrn the gaze inward, to watch that the heart Keeps unsullied from the reflection of evil, and is illumed and beautified by all tweet throbs." fir ffal-fing dJDo lrd3. The farewell hours are sad, oven though they may be hopeful. Parents and children i separate in the vicissitudes of life, friends i exchange the cordial pressure of hands in t parting for a season, lovers sepcrato with I fond adieus, renewed vows, and happy hopes I of future. There is much for memory in < the gentle pressuro of the hand, in the soul < touching glance of tho eye. in tho soft tone of the voice, but words which fall upon the t ear and reach the heart with the significance ; - r t _ 1 * 1 ? . i oi love nna irienusnip give memory lis ricnest, sweetest, dearest treasures. The son leaves his parental roof to seek his fortune in the wide world. He leaves behind him the past, filled as it is with the inanv happy recollections of his joyous boyhood days, before the cares, perplexities and responsibilities of manhood have been stamped upon his brow. (Jo where he may, these recollections will follow him, and he will often muse upon his youthful, halcyon days. At times he may forget those, but the last words uttered by his loving parents are never forgotten. If ho is disposed to depart from the path of duty, and enter into the vortex of vice aikI dissipation, the last prayer uttered by his kind and loving mother will chide hirn for his conduct. Tho last anxious look, tho tear drops upon her motherly cheek will thrill him anew, and strengthen him to resist the insidious wiles of the tempter. The daughter may leave her home to make the home of him, whom alio has cho- , sen for a life companion, happy. Through all the changes of life, even in her deepest troubles or in her happiest moments, she is blessed by the sad, sweet memory of the long fond embrace, the whispering spirit of her parents love. Tho soldier, too, when ainid the roar of cannon, tho rattle of musketry, and the cries and groans of the woun- , ded when shot tly as thick as hail, will think , of the last parting words of his kindred, at , home, and it will stimulate and renew his hand to win honors that may be horahled back to his friends at home. In all the different characters of life wo may assume, still the last fond words of those we havo parted with, fall like gentlo murmurs upon the car of memory. We will turn away, and muse as we pass along life's rugged journey over the parting scene. The last words sink deep into our inmost soul, and e*pccially so, if much lime and distance intervene between the hour of ^operation and hope of meeting again. The brief futuro may bo big with fate, and it is this then, why parting words become impressed so indelibly on tbe mind. D..? !t si.- _i DUt It 19 IIie UUMIIIY til IIXUIimMlU |Mil, uwt for a few days, or a wcelc, or h inontli, or a I year, but for all earthly time, when the spir-1 it takes its fl'ght to eternity?to another and j a mysterious world. We part then to meet I no more on earth. We may cling to this dear companion, or that dear friend as the light and joy of our life, but death will tlnp his funeral wing, and leave usonly the memory of the past and abovo all, the parting words of the lost one. Jo Jhe DJoles qi)0 lo Ibc Some time ago an English Christian was travelling in the south of India, and in the course of his joarney he passed by many deserted temples. At length he came near to one of these temples, which was very large, where in former years, thousands of people from all parts of the country worshipped a great idol, which was thought to bo very holy and very powerful. As he had heard a great deal about this building, he went to see it. lie found it was now quite a ruin. The roof had fallen in, the walls were crumbling down, an-J grass and weeds and shrubs were growing from the floor of this onco sacred spot. Having looked around him for a little while, he saw the passage which led to the place where the idol was, and he went towards it; but no sooner had ho entered than a large number of bats Hew out Against bitn. As he did not much like his company, and found that many of these creatures were still clinging to the roof and walls, he went back, got a light, and having set fire to some drv gross, lie flung it into tbe place. Immediately u flock of bats came flying out. Ilis way was cleared, and he walked through the passage. But on entering the sacred spot within, the first thing ho saw was the great idoi fallen from ii? pedestal, and lying upon the ground covered with filth. As he looked upon the object, in the presence of which so many thousands of poor blinded heathen had trembled and worshipped, ho rejoiced greatly ; and you may suppose that, as it called to mind the prophecy, "They shall cast their idols to the moles and to the bats," he thanked God that be had seen his word so strikingly fulfilled." Enk.roy.?"The longer I lire," says a great writer, "the more certain that I am that the great difference between men, tbe great and the insignificant, is energy?invincible determination?an honest purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talont, no circumstances, no opportunity, will make a two legged creature a rr.au without it." 8i1 SJpHgbf. "Sit upright! sit upright, my son !'* said a lady to hei son George, who had formed * wretched habit of bcuding whenever he >at down to rend. His mother had told liim that he could not breathe right unions ie sat upright. Dut it was of no use ; bend >vor ho would in spite of nil his mother :ould say. "Sit upright; Master George!" cried his eachcr, as George bent over uis copy book it school. "If you don't sit upright, like Master Charles, you will ruin you health, uid possibly die of consumption." This startled Master George, lie dhl not vaut to die, and ho felt alarmed. So after ichool he said to his teacher: "Please, sir, explain to nio how bending >ver when I sit can causo me to have the jonsumption." "That I will, George," replied his teneiicr, .vith a cordial smile. "There is an element n tho air allied the oxygen, which is necessary to mako your blood circulate, and to lelp it purify itself by throwing off what is i ?vi? ;?iiiu cHi ui'ii. ?? iien you stoop you cannot ake in sufficient quantity of a:r to accoin* dish these purposes; hence, the blood remains bad, and the air ceils in your lungs nfhune. The cough comes on; next, the ungs ulcerate, and then you die. Give tlto tings room to inspire plenty of air, and you sill not be injured by study. Do you unierstand the matter now, Goorgo ?" "I think I do, sir, and I will try to sit upright hereafter," snid George. if oir 3 e3 shoiilO be Exelrci^cd fiojjjj. Ilorses require daily exercise in the open iir, and can no more be expected to exist without it, than their owners. Exercise is an essential featuro in stable management, and liko well opportuned food lends alike to preserve the health of the horses. ' ( Daily exerciso is necessary for all horses, | unless they are sick ; it assists and promotes a free circulation of the blood, determines morbific matter to the surface, developed the muscular structure, creates an appetite, improves the wind, and finally invigorates the whole system. We cannot expect much of a horse that has not been habituated to daily exercise; while such as have been daily exercised and well managed are capable not only of great exertion and fatigue, but arc ready and willing to do our bidding at any season. When an animal is overworked, it renders the system very susceptible to whatever tnorhid influences may be present, ami imparts to the disease they may labor under an unusual degree of severity. The exhaustion produced by want of rest is equally dan gerous; such horses aro always among the tirst victims of disease, and when attacked their treatment is embarrassing and unsalis factory.? Vclterinary Journal. 33c 5<j si cln qt i c. It will add much more to your convenience than you can imagine. It caves liine, saves temper, saves patience, and saves money. For a lime it may be a little troublesome, but you will soon find it easier to do right than wrong, that it is easier to act by rule than without one. Be systematic in everything ; let it extend to most minute trifles, it is not beneath you. Whitfield could not go to sleep at night if after retiring, ho remembered that his glove* j and riding whip were not in their usual place, where ho could lay his hand on litem in the dark in any emergency : nnd such inen arc the men who leave their mark on tbe world's history. Systcmetic men arc the only reliable men; they are those who comply with their engagements. They are minute men. The mail who has nothing to do is (he man who does nothing. The man of system is soon known to do what lie engages to do; to do it well, and to do at the same time promised consequently ho has his hands full. Powkii of tim Hi ole.?The mother of a family was married to an infidel; who made a jest of religion in the presence of his own children, yet she succeeded in bringing them al! up in the fear of the Lord. 1 one day asked Iter how she preserved them from the influence of a father whose sentiments were so opposed to her own. This was her answer : "Becauso to the authority of a father I did not oppose the authority of a mother, but that of G<xl. From their earliest years iny children have always seen the Biblo upon my table. This holy book has constituted the whole of their religious instruction. I was silent, that I might allow it to speak. Did they propose a question, did they commit any fault, did they perform Any good action, 1 opened the Bible, and the Bible answered, reproved, or encouraged them. The constant rending of the Scripturea has alone wrought the prodigy which surprises you.?Adolphe Afniod. ??Blessed are tho young girls who have no beaux to plague them, for they shall not bo kept awake Sunday nights. ? The fact wo arc about to relate lias the very rare merit of truth combined 1 with the pleasant excitement ot the wonderful. Some time ago a iriend of ours pur- l chased a number of picture frame?, tastefully made of acorns and hand- < soinely stained and varnished, which 1 he placed in his library at his country house, The ensuing season he and < his family departed on a richer distant ; tour, and for some months The country < house remained closed aixbrintenant- < ed. The season was an unusually i damp oue during their absence, and s upon their return it was deemed advi- I sable to have their rural homestead i well aired and dried by constant lires in all the rooms before inhabiting it. 1 _ 0 again. Orders to this effect were there < fore despatched, and the opening be- 1 gun under the direction of the old 1 housekeeper. Window and door were flung wide open one after another, letting in the sunshine to mildewed walls and hangings, until the "household I corps" arrived at the library, when, a6 i the first pair of shutters swung back, i the breeze fluttered in and played on < the walls with a sound as of rustling < foliage, causing a universal and rather 1 startled movements of eyes in tho di rection of tho mysterious sound. That tho astonishment of the gazers was by no means lessened when they beheld the cause of the rustling our readers will easily credit, when we inform them that several acorns on each picture frame had sprouted, and a'grove of miniatue oaks were gently waving their tiny boughs and fluttering their dark green leaflets around the majestic brows of Washington, and Franklin, and Adams, and a half dozen others of our venerable fathers of the Republic. Nature herself has broken through her accustomed laws to crown these patriot heroes with her own wreaths of honor, and offer, even in her dying struggles, this beautiful tribute to their memory. Now, is not this fact worth all the ; fabcls of Scherrade or Swift a hundred id times over? {Phil. Evening Journal. Red Fi.annkl Shirts.?Put it on at once, winter or summer, nothing better can be worn next the skin than a loose, red woolen shirt ; "loose," for it has room to move on the skin, thus causing a (dilution which draws the bloiul to the surface and keeps I it there; and when that is the case no one | can ihkc com ; -reel,' lor while llannel till up. routs together, and becomes tight, stiff, heavy and impervious. Cotton wool merely absorbs the moisture from the surface, while woolen flannel conveys it from the skin and deposits it in drops on the outside of the shirt, from which the ordinary cotton shirt absorbs it, and by its nearer exposure to the air, it is soon dried without injury to the body. Having these properties, red woolen flannel is worn by sailors even in midsummer of tho hottest countries. Wear a thinner material in summer.?Hunt's Journal of Health. A Goon Siiot.?A corresj ondent of Tor1 tor's Spirit of the Times tells the following | good story : A friend of inine somewhat f.?nd of star ' gazing, whs enjoying the magnificent 'meteoric shower,' as the sage of Brooklyn do| scribes it, on the night of the 15th August, brought, out on his front piazza, his telescope, to enable him more clearly to witness the interesting phenomenon. lie had pointed the instrument towards the northwestern potion of the firmament; when the motion arrested the attention of a rustic then passing, who followed with his eyes the motion of my friend. At this moment a hiillinnt meteor shot across the sky, my friend unconsciously gave utterance to his delight, when what was his astonishment to hear from the lips of the aforesaid rustic, the followincr remark : "Devil! but you've hit him, a light smarj shot, at that distance." iscitttasii or Jews.?An intelligent writer in the North American Review supposes that no class of immigrants has increased more rapidly in this country than the Hebrew.? In 1850 a man might count upon his fingers all the synagogues in the land ; now there are at least u quarter of a million Jews, from eighty to ninety synagogue*, and a multitude of smaller communities where a nucleus exists which will soon grow into a synagogue. The city of New York alone has twenty synagogues and thirty thousand Jews?about one-twentieth part of the population being such. There are synagogues in all the chief ciliea of the scabbard 'T two in Uoston, five in Baltimore, three in New Orleans, two in Charleston, and four iu Cincinnati, Arc. "Waiting for (10.0(1 men's shoos ia, in nv?st measures, a bootless affair. ir ?| x Dkciof.dly Cool.?Tho editor of the t. Pottsville (Ph) Miners' Jouin.nl recently viois ) te.l Philadelphia, and while there Ml room 2 at the hotel was entered one night by n light fingered rascal, who stole from his clothing a valuable watch and some money. The editor subsequently received a communication from the "chevalier," together with a locket J which was attached to the watch, lie said he returned the locket, "thinking it might 1 probably be valued on account of aasocia* i tions," and would have returned the watch, , but there was such a small amount of enpii til in the parse that it wotjhl not par for tho | trouble he look, so the watch had to be sold . to "pay the expenses." He says he likes . editors, ar.it if lie makes nuy money soon, will buy the watch back and return it, and winds up by advising the knight of the quiii not to sleep so sound the next time ho visits the Quaker city?and all of which must be very consoling to that gentleman. a bundle of edoprmvvto?th? , r~ of (he world, as if all lines should meet i thein and iheir fortunes, without regari ing in storms what become of the ship < State, if they can save themselves in tt cock boat of their own fortunes.'*?Lor Bacon. . , Tub Royal Child.?The young Princes of England is a little headstrong, as this at ecilote will show : "Mr. lirown, a medical practitioner in v cinage of Windsor's Meads, is a frequent vi itor, a kind of daily purveyor of domest medicine at the palace, and the Princess c ten addressed him tlitifft "Good inoruir Brown," omitting the 'Mr.' This came i the ears of the royal Ma,' who forbade i recurrence, and threatened that 011 its bein repeated, she would send Miss Guclph I I?ed. On Mr. Brown's next visit, and in tl presence of Victoria the royal Princess sail ted him as usual, with 'Good mornin Brown,' and 'Good night, Brown,' for I ai sent to bed, Brown.' The Queen kept lit woid." Mkmoky.?"When I reflected," ol serves Pope, in a letter to Addisoi "what an inconsiderable atom ever single man is, with respect to the wliol i/iuanvu, iiiciiiiii&s H 19 it suiiiue 10 u concerned at the removal of such trivial animal as I am. The morn in after my exit the sun will rise as brigli as ever?the flowers smell as sweetthe plants springs as green?the worl will proceed in its course, and the pec pie will laugh as heartily, and marr as fast as they were used to do. Th memory of a man passeth away as th rcmemberance of a gust that terriet! but one day. "1 was amused," says the biogvapli or of Montgomery, "with the poet1 ftffttemunt tin tl?A tKal tlialimma ; which Montgomery was born is now whisky shop; that Burns' native eo tage is a public honse ; the Rpot wher Scott was born occupied by a buildinj used for a similar purpose; and evei Coleridge's residence at Neithe Stowcy, the very house in which th poet, composed the sweet 'Ode to th Nightingale,' is now an ordinary bee house." Goon Advtck.?Don't get in a flu ter and go or a buster, nor allow you self to terrified bo ; but keep a col hoad, and never b? lcdr to join in hurrah and spree. Model Cerrificate.?The following certificate speaks for itself. It is go ing the rounds, and wo should liko t< have it "located," in order to advisi the owner to take out a "patent": Dear Doctor:?I will bo one hnn tired and seventy-five years old nex October. For ninety-four years I hav< been an invalid, unable to move ex Lsept when stirred with a lever; nut i year ago last Tuesday, I heard of tin Grranicular Syrup. I bought a bottle >melt of the cork, and found myself ? ic>v man. 1 can now run twelve anc i half miles an hour, and throw nine :ecn double-suminersets without stop ing. P. S.?A little of your Alicumstont urn Salvo applied to a wooden leg reduced a compound fracture in littecn minutes, and is now covering the limb with a fresh cuticlo of white gum pine bark. Overworking the Brain.?An intelligent writer iu one of our large cit i-i les gives a note warning which many, in the present excitement and rush ol lur country, would do well to heed: "Ir ine of our lunatic asylums," he sayt "there are now several gentlemen, all o whom were, one j'car ago, in full healtl and active business, and in each o these case3 mental aberration is tracen ble directly to overworking th< brain. They are incn of wealth ant social eminence, and until their sad at diction wero distinguished for useful ncss in the church- and the communi ty. But to these we must add pcrhap thousands of cases in which premc ture old age, or permanent ill healtl and mental imbecility, have arson fror similar causes." Pcnuc Morals.?u Learning gives men true sense of their frailly, the oasuxlty < fortune, and the dignity of the soul and il office; whence they cannot think any greni ness of fortune a worthey end of their living and, therefore, live so ns to give n clear an acceptable account to God and their supci ors?whilst the corrupter sort of polilican who aro not by learning and virtue estel lished in a love of duty nor ever look abroa into universality, refer all tilings to then selvi'S- nn<l thrust thoir noMfuis inln llin/wmi, Buffalo Jixpress gives tlie following chapter oil domestic difficulties: Mrs King, near Kingston, was recently taken sick, and her husband seized the ' opportunity to elope with a handsome servant girl named Martin. On 1 their arrival in Albany, Miss Martin ' eloped with a yonrg man named Cor1 nelius, taking Mr. King's money.? # ' King being penitent, returned home and found that his wife had eloped '* with a dry goods clerk named Jefters, ? with all the moveable articles in the ? house?Whereupon King started off in pursuit, considering himself a deeply in juried man. - - ? ... Flattkuy.?"You flatter me," said t a thin exquisite the other day, to a n young ladpr who was praising tlie beauty of lus moustache. "For heaven's sake, irmYuu," iuier^ posed an old skipper, don't make that ^ inoiiKcy any flatter tlian lie is now!" In *** " l. Tlie lieroic Sir Charles Napier wrote 5, very beautifully and touch 111 gly to a <1 lady 011 the eve of his great victory i at Meance?"If I survive I shall soon ?, be with those I love; if I fail I shall bo i>- with those I have loved. ,d | 1- ??? re A 1.At) came in great haste into a drug |n store, the other morning, and half out of I l> read) exclaimed :?"Mother ihent me down " to tlie hopotliecaiy p?>p to get a thimble )e full of pallcgolic; Bubb's as thick as the dickenth, not exthpected to live from one end to the tollier," s Disunion*.?"II." one of the Editors 4 of the Duo West Telescope, a religious paper, in a lengthy article declares for j. the Union under any and all circums. stances, lie Bays he is " Dead down ic against disunion." Tolerably cmphat>f ie, that! to 'Xever i?o critical to laides,' was I8 the maxin of an old Irish peer, re k markable for bis homage to the sex, 10 the only way a true gentleman ever ,e will attempt to look at the faults of a ^ pretty woman is, to shut his eyes P n ^ ... >r Life, wc are told, is a journey?and to 6ee the way in which some people eat, you would imagine they were j taking in provision? to last them the 1 whole length of the journey. )' Pmiv.?A lloston woman has writc ten a very brief letter to a member of 0 Congress from Massachusetts. It a reads as follows: P 'Balaam's ass spoke once?can't you ? - Badi.y Beates.?The Hon. J. Scott Har(1 rison, of Ohio, who voled against the expuly sion of Preston S. Brook?, Esq., ban been y boaten bv 0501 majority. He was elected g two years ago by a majority of 3000 votes. e A Toast to thk Punas.?Tlie stay and " leaver of popular government. May it unlock tbe bars of ignorance and oppression and cast abroad the rays of truth and toleravion, 6 Ladies generally shop in couples.? n When a bid;- hns any money to spend, ft sho dearly ioves taking a friend with her to see her spend it. e g Did you ever want an omnibne in * 11 paricular hurry without finding them -11 r an running in the opposite direction 0 to where you wished to go. e Dad words, like bad shillings, arc 1 often brought home to the person who has uttered them. The number of poor poets is, if any* 8' thing, greater than tho number of p<* (j cts who are poor. a Stray Shot.?There is no adh^fcfra 'jabel like a nickname. Jm . ^