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VOLUMK XIV.
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O. F. TOWN E8.
EDITOR.
t. 0. BAILEY, Pro'r. and iimltU Editor.
A?va?Tia*?B!tT* Inverted at tb? raUt or
s nao dollar per equara of twelro Minion line*
?! (thla alted type) or laao for the fret ineertion,'
eonte eaoh for the oeeond and third laeor- .
tiona, and twaoty.firo centa for aubeequent
' iaeertton*. Yearly contraota will he made.
v ill adrertiaemente moat bare tbe number . <
; nf intertlona marked on them, or they will bo !
* Inverted till ordered oat, ond charged for.
Unlet# ordered othorwlao, Advertisement*
Will Inrariably b# "dlaplayod." ;
.xV Obituary notleev, and all jaaUera Innrin* to I
to the benefit of any oao. are regarded aa
. "i Jtdrartiavrnentk-.. j ' . '< .
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8ong of the Camp.
A Crimtam laeidtnt, by fiaynrd Taylor. 1 i
44 OKi.il a ?r.|," tb* aeldlor cried,
Ttie outer trcnohea pirdlng, 1 1
'When tli* hMt*l pin or the ramp nllied
tlfew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redan In atlent ecoff,
Ray grim and threatening under,
And lb* tawny mound of the Malakog
5o longer belched Ita (bonder.
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There waa a panac?a guarda-man raid, '
We atonn the forta to-morrow, .'I
Sing while we may, another day
' T, WilJ bring enough of torroW.
They lay along the battery'* aide,
' ,1/ Below tb* rmoklng cannon t
t Brave heart* from Severn and from Clyde
And flrotn the banka of Sbaonon.
, >>? They aang of love and not of fame,
-v- Forgot waa DritUln'* glory? % i I
J5nrh heart recalled a different nam*
lint all nana Annie Lanrle. , I
rote# after rolao ?-aght up the song,
Until if* tender passion
IRom Ilk* an anthem quick and strong,
Their battl* era confession.
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Dear girl har name lie dared not speak, (
Wet as Ska sang grow loader,
Something upon the soldier's cheak
Washed off the stains of powder.
Qtoyond the darkening ocean burned
The bloody sunset's embers,
$ "While the'Crimean ralleys learned
HoiTBnglith lore remembers.
And onea again a Ore of hall,
v Rained from the Russian quarters,
With scream of shot and bnrst of shell,
And bellowing of snorters.
And Irish Nora's eyes are dim,
ffor a singer grim and gory,
And Knglish Mar/ mourns for him
Who sang of Annie Laurie.
'fjo, soldiers, to yonr honored rest,
Tour truth and ralor bearing)
Iks bravest arc the tendorest,
: . i The loving are the daring.
' .r ORIOIIAL'
?ou rus srvTBsss SMTaaraiss.
The Republican Party.
Ann. Editor*?The eondition of our pub*
* lie affairs are truly distressing.
We bare no constitutional rights, baring
aurrendersd them to General Grant. The
only bill of rights, we, as individuals, or the
State of South CaroHna, as a corporate body, i
hare, Is contained in the parol* of Grant'*?
prisoners of war?that is, that they shall not
b* molested as long as they obey the laws of
ths laud. Rather than suffer annihilation, In
our extremity, we aguard to this bargaia. Ths
Democratic party, which had died deHng the
war, after betraying us to our ruin, saw a
<ebaac* of reriring Itself by holding out terms
mors congenial (a oar prejudices than those
offered for our rceonetruetion by the party U
. power?the Gorernment. Tble party* now ie
lead by the President. It becomes us ihcre*
f*M ta ssaildcr what wo are to do In the
premise*.
As a li?l>?r of sheer honesty, It behooves
?u U the terms of' ear surrender, and
sarrjr out the laws of the (Jurcrnmsnt. Becmm
we hero other temptations to allure us>
it la no reason now why we should foreswear
ourselves, end repudiate the promises made In
the hour of our necessity. To attempt such a
thing la In bad faith, aad unworthy of tha
?, noble spirit with which wa carried on the war.
As a matter of policy, we should repudiats
the Democratic party. Bsperlenoo has provM
that wo can not depend upon It; and hleto.
ry shows us olearly that rerul-Himis like that
which killed this party now go baokwnrd ;
tlie spirit of the ago Is humanitarian; and ns
purely ne the negro la human, so surely will
*? Infraoehlsemant continue. There can be
jae doubt of hie being human, aad with his
( 4 wonderful disparity of aambers, aad eomparpilrc
enlightenment to the white race, there
, ' should be no fears of hla supremacy. We
have but one dag for our Nation, and it flouts
over twenty-seran millions of whites, aad
only four of blacks. Can any sound minded
man fear that tbia elaaa, so- recently rescued
front the Ignorenee?aye! nonentity of servilode,?be
Bums U?o rulsrs of a majority, six
times as. large ? ?.
There pay bo'lfteulUles in which the negro
pill controls the white; but these are so tbw
that the? nsrar eon form a national or leading
party; and these national pertios will always
carry the local elections, as they hays heretofore
done.
Besides If the intelligent white people
would try it influence tbia negro majority,
(bey might offset It. They can not do it, by
offprlag them thn Democratic ticket, for that
U written nil over with a hlatory so hostile to
Ihslr raffs that I key would dot be bumau if
thoy Voted It. They wfll rote only far that
pasty which has hasp their friend, and We can
fM Mama them for It. ^hai the
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of war bare bees removed, the some
humanity wtaioh dictated the interposition
epoo the pert of the aegro, will- interfere In
behalf of theee who keep their promises, end
obey the laws.
Beside*, these black people are the labor- *
Ing elaeses of oar country and oar population j
Is so sparse^|bat we need all we can foster ami ,
keep, retber than to drire them away. No '
sountry ander the son, not eren slave holding j
BratUe, tnakos any distinction on aeooant of
color, and it ill becomes as, who bare professed
friendship for the negro, and who need
hies to much, to set oar judgment dgainst the
world. Oar palpit, in former days, need to
teach this dootrlne. How often bare we
beard It say, " It made no difleranoe what was
the color of the akin, to long aa the boert was j
right." . I
Consistence, therefore, at well as right and j
Interest, arge as to off?.r the Republican ballot
to the negro, as the ollre branch of poaoe. Let
ail who can, assist In making the Southern
wing of the great purty of progress, respectable.
Oar Lord's disciples were bat poor fishermen,
and working men, and if the crowds
wbo became Christians, had stood aloof from i
tbcm as such, Christ'anity itself woald bare ;
rank into an early grare. ;
Very truly, j
WM. M. T.
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Patriotic Letter from Ex-Governor
Perry. 3
The following letter was addressed to the
Committee of Arrangements of the Banquet '
betd in Washington to eelebrate the 9th of .
January :
Onittxrii.LB, 8. C., Jan. 3,1868. ,
J. D. Hvoerr, E'7., Ckairmnn, Ac., dr., I , j
Your kind inrltation to a banquet giren at '
tbe Metropolitan Hotel, celebrating tbe fifty,
third anniversary of tbe battle of New Orleans
was received yesterday morning.
Would to G??d it were in my power lo he
with you and the generous patriots who will
assemble on that occasion to do honor to n
" Southern hero and Southern soldiery," and
" re-arouse a notde sympathy for tbe descendants
of those wbo so nobly illustrated the ,
patriotUm and proweaa of tho American cili*
ten."
Tho Southern heart, cruehed and broken lij
terrific ealamitiea, a octal and political, appeal*
at thia time to er?rjr generous and manly feeling
of tho North. Never before in tho history
of a Chriatian and eiviliaed people have
aueh Infamy and ruin, wide apraad and uni ctobI,
been inflicted on a whole aeetion of the
country, without diatinetiou between the guilty
and the innocent. It ia well known that a
large portion of the Southern people were
oppoord to the aeeeaaion of the Statoa from
the Federal Union, and did all they could do i
for yeara to prevent the happening of ao dire
a calamity to tba republic. They ha*e euflered
the doatruetion of their properly, Ihe loaa
of their hmaee, and the death of their aona
and linahanda; and now, aa a reward for their
llfe'a devotion to the Uuiou, they are doomed
to negro aupretnacy and the barbaric rule of
their former alnvce, atoeped in ignorance and
vice. Virtue and innocence, refinement'
wealth and intelligence ar* dlafranehieod and
aul'Jeetod to the government of ignorauce>
pauperiara and aolfleh cruelty.
The future of the Southern States ia frightfully
appalling. Experience, for the part two
yeara, haa proved that the treedmon will not
work, and that they expeet to live by the
Iniunty of the tiovernmeut, or by depredation
on the induvtry of othera! All over the
country, etarvation threaten! them, aud they
are stealing, robbing and murdering. The
prisona and penitentiariea are tilled with
them, till it has become impoaaiMe to provide
for their eupport in priaon. Soon they will
have tke government of the Statea in thoir
hand*) Sclt-dofonco and self preservation
wili force a war of race*?tlie most cruel, unnatural,
and horrible war that evor desolated
the face of the earth !
Yeu have welt said, in your letter of invitation,
that we are " bone of your hone and
flesh of your flesh," and entitled to a nation's
sympathy In our distress. We are all, North
and South, the descendants ol a common ancestry,
the sons and grandsons ol Revolutionary
sires, who achieved Auiericao indepen
denes, aad established the Union and the
Constitution " to ensure domestic tranquility
and secure the blessings of liberty " to themselves
and their poelerity. How little did
those heroic, noble patriot# suppose that they
were eeeurtng domestic tranquility and the
blesainge of liberty to tlieir descendants by
providing the meaas, within less than a century,
of their descendants being disfranchised
and placed under a government of negroes |
If there is a eenee of Justice or a manly sentiment
of honor left in the Northern heart, it
must revolt at this horrible Iniquity.
A Southern man led our armlee to victory
and independence in the Revolutionary war;
a Southern man drew the Declaration of In*
dependence; a Southern men has the reputa*
tion of being the father of our National Constitution.
lie was a Southern man who gained
the glorious victory, whose anniversary
you are to celebrate on the tth of January,
which you eay " confirmed our national lad*
pondewoe and free Republican institutions iu
a Union of law and liberty." Tho Chief duetide
of tho United Stale* who interpreted and
c*tel>li?fiOd jhe principle* of the Federal Con titatlon
*M addputbern man. Fur more
than a half o*ntury\ha^dmliii*tratioo of our
national affair* era* conhnll?<l by Southern
1 men, under who** viae *tate?n?aa*bip the
' American Republic ha* *pre*d orer a whole
continent, and heeotn* one of the greeted
i power* of the world. During the war of 1813
the Southern people were not surpassed by
any section, in patrintltm and gallantry, and
In the war with Meiieo their eon* rushed, a*
volunteer*, to the defence of their country,
honor aad glory, liar* tbey apt a claim,
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GREENVILLE. SOUTH (
h.n, to lb.tr country'. iympatliy In tbolr <
It.(re., and deaolatlon T Shall it b? recorded
n blatory that *ueh a people were, by tb?lr (
wn brethren and blood, dl.francbiaed and ,
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/wi Huuor vnc viuci Rnu inmmnui uu?|?u j (
ism of their fotmer *l*ve?, an Inferior and
>arharou* raee of pauper* T
The Southern people are powerless and (
letple** at tht* time, and their only hope I* In
t returning eenee of Justice on the part of
heir Northern and Wee tern brethren. They
xpeet nothing, and hope for nothing from the ' 1
>re*ent Congreee. The leader* of the Radical ,
>arty bare ahown themselves ln*cn*il>le to 1
u*tlee, honor and patrioti*m. Their vol* pur- 1
>o*e I* to perpetuate their own power by the 1
lestructioo of the Constitution and all tho I
>rlorlple* of republicanism. Liberty l? first I
o be cruvhed out of the Southern State*, and |
hon with thoee Afrlcauixed rotton borough* |
hey hope to oontrol the white raee North !? ,
They will hold in their hande twenty-four ,
>laek Senators suid eighty blaek members of
Congress, with a Presilient elected by negroesIrs
tbe Northern people willing to submit to
luch a government, and be controlled by each
tu Africanixed Soath t
I pray to Qod to avert such calamities, and |
[ bar* not yet loat hope and faith in the
forth, the Rait, and the West.
With sentiment* of profound respect, I am
rour* truly, Ae. B. F. PEBRY*. '
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Friendships of Wives and Husbands.
It I* fitting, in the next place, to *ay 1
tomrthir-g of the disappointment and '
a retched ti em which so many married men
tnd women noloriously experience In their
relation* with each other. It m ?y l>e U*?- 1
Tul to state the principal cauac* of this unappinew,
and to give *ame definite direc
liona in the way of tetnedy. Alwence ol j
love, abaenec of reason. absence of juatiee, ;
khaenee of taste?in other words, harshnea* 1 1
?nd neoleet, silUnen* and frivolity, vlee and ' 1
trim*, vulgarity and slovenlinem? are the , 1
leading and inevitable creator* of alien# - ! i
Ion, dielike and misery in marriage ?
Whatever tends to increitit lhet? lends to i
null i|>ly separation* and divorces between i
;Iiom who canniii endure far It other; and i
-o multiply irritation*, quarr?la, sorrow* 1
ind agonies lirt ween I hote who may *?dur*t i
mil cannot enjoy each other. In marriage
-he intimacy is to great and cooftant that the I
t'iglttetl friction eaally becomesgalling. No i
irhera betide it there audi need of magnani lout
forbearance in one, or elee of equality j
)l worth and refinement in both. " Lore
ioet not se:u.a happiness In marriage? i
iften the contrary: reaton it necessary."?
k?iJ the wite Jean Paul, lie alto raid: j
'The beat m.m j doed witn tlie wor?t wo- i (
uan ha? a greater hell than the bett wo.
nan joined with lite worn man." Thit it. j
no doubt, true at a general role, beeaote ,
wom.tn it to much more capable than man
ut self-abnegation, ailent patience, meek
nhnti'tion and fl-xible ndjoatment to inevitable
circumstance*. Probably the women
who keenly and chronically ttiffer from unhappy
marriage* are far more nunieroua
than the Irindred sufferers of the olher tex.
ritia I* because they are more deeply susseplihle
to cru-llv and indifference and Jo
til the repulsive trails of character; are
lew capable of ignoring melt thing*; have
Icm of absorbing occupation of their own to
? .sswss Ml V*|?< IWH, Milts q-c irps IIUIC IU
lie ilitarUd in thing* beyond the personal
ind domestic *|>here. There nre unquestionably
thousands of marsh d women who**
-xp erience is made s living martyrdom hv
the infidelity, the tyrrsnny. the coarseness
I he general odion*ne*s and weei Isom-ness
;>f the'r husbands. In most esses, even
where s divorce ii wished, the shocking
public scandal and disgrace are too muoh ;
snd they wear on to the end What misery
delicate and conscientious women, ol dedl
cated souls and polished manners, who love
everything that i* pure and beautiful, are
compelled to undergo in their bondage to
husbands, ignorant, uninlen sting, ignoble,
relentlessly domineering, is not to lie expr-'ss<-d.
Their beat weapons, in aueh cases,
if they knew IK ars gentleness, patience,
pervasion, and the skillful use of every
means to improvs and uplift th-ir unequal
eompaniona to their own level. The Persian
poet expressed a rich tiuth wheu he
wrote, " Gentleness is the salt on the table
of morals" It is a tragedy that the good
wife of a had hush ind is so blent ifled with
him that the penalties of his offences fall on
her heed, often more terribly lhau on hie.
A puie woman loving a wicked man mu t
expect to have her affections ravaged by
hie line; does not the lightn.ng drawn by
the red blast the innoeent ivy entwining
itf What lacerating woes the gambler,the
drunkard, the forger, the adulterer, infliete
on hie wifet
And yet, profound at is the misfortune,
sherp as is the suffering of suoh. it may be
doubted whether a noble, sensitive, oulti
veted men, with a yearning heart of aoftneee
end pence, e capacious mind full of
grand aspirations, married, by some fatal
ohanee, to a woman with a petty tout, a
teasing and tyrannical tamper, a mendacious
and rasping tongu*. whose taste Is for
small gossip and seandal, whose ambition
ie for fashionable show end noise, wipe
life Is oka ineeaeant fret and sling?it may
he doubted if tbie man'e lot is not severer
with bia ill matohed consort than her* would
be with the worst husband la Uia world.
He had !>etter marry a vinegar ernet then
aueh a Taftar. When weary and seek
Ing to rest, to be routed up by a
scolding; when searching (or truth, or ^
.flir, Mykyi o'v"'
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CAROLINA. JANUARY 22
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contemplating beauty, or communing
with God, or aspiring to perflation, or
scheming worn* mat good for mankfad,
lo be aggravated by abuse, insulted by false
charges, dragged down to p/tty interests
which he despiser, and mixed np with
wronga and passions whieh he loathes^?
lhe-e drgiading injuries, theae wastefnl
rtitlioni, are wjiat he must endure. No
wonder If he vehemently reeenle n treatment
so ineongrnous with hU worth. No
wonder if, Tescd, linrl, goaded half to mtfdneee,
he get* enraged, and nnaeemly eontent
ions en?ue, followed hv painful depreslion
and remorseful grief. No wonder if he
Rods it hard indeed to lorget- or to forgive
Lhe infliction of an evil eo incomparably
profound and frightful. There is, to a
liigh-routed man, no wrong more hurtful or
more difficult to pardon than to have mean
motives falsely ascribed to him, to be
placet by misinterpretation on a lower
ptana tban that where he belonga. Kvery
soeh exp. tience stalia the morel aonr<*e of
life, and draw* blood from the aoul iteeif.
Husband and wife powerfully tend to a
common level and iikoneas. The higher
must redeem and lift the unequal mate, of
live in strife and misery. If the lower
Uk<-s pattern afler the rnpeiior one, the
petty, fiivolotis, false, and fretful becoming
magnanimous, dedicated, truthful, and se*
rene, it Is a divine triumpli of grace, and
thej-esult will be fall of blessedness. But
otherwise a wearing unhappinees is inevlta
ble, however carefully it be bidden, liowev
er bravely it be borne.?" From lhe Fnendthipe
of ii'owm," by Alger.
The Killing of Captain Culver
Tha Corsicana (Texas) Observer gives
Ihs following psrtlcnlars of tha killing ot
Captain Culver, bureau Agent in Limestone
County, and a eolJier; some orroneoos
statements having gone abroad :
An eye-wiine** accompanied Mr. 8tewart
snd son a short distance from hie house to
hoot a beef, Mr. Stewart carrying his rifle,
and the boy a double-barreled gun, one
barrel of which was a rifle. When Culver
and the soldier came upon them, he asked
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he (Culver) hftd assessed upon him. The
reply wen he had Appealed to a higher official
lo have the fine remitted, ae lie had
already paid him one fine. Culvtr told
him there wai no appeal from hie judgment*,
and to give up hie gun.
S< ear Art raid that he was on his own
premise! for the purpose of killing a heef.
and did uot like to give up hi* gun, hut he
would go to the house and put up the gun
in the rack over his door, and then, if he
saw fit, he might take it. They all started
toward the hou<e, and when Mr. Stewart
wna in the act of reaching up to put his
gun in the rack, he was shot l>y both Culv*r
and the soldier. Mi s 8>ewart was in
the rear of the house at the wash tub, and,
hearing the shooting, made some noise,
which attracted the attention of the caplain,
and they started in the direction of
the old lady, and shot her in the forehead,
the ball striking a whale-bone in her hon.
net, glanced and passed under the skin,
from Ilie front ta the hack part of liar
head, leaving her apparently dead for eome
time.
Rlpti'gH'a Tilllit tAn ?? twlitn*! iK* nartv
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who first reached the house. When he
reached the gate, and mw what he aup
posed was hla dead mother, and Ida father
writhing in the ngoniea of death, and two
armed aaanilanta brandishing their eix
ahootera, he turned loose the rifle barrel of
hie gun, sending ita contents through the
body of Captain Culver. The soldier
turned nnd fired two ahota, but the hoy,
protected by the fence, was unharmed, and
sent Ilia load of ahot into the soldier, who,
l?adly crippled, beat a retreat; hut the enraged
boy was not done with him. He
seised the pistol of Captain Culver, and followed
a abort dirtance and ahot him again,
to make Ids work sure Not yet appessed,
and seeing some aigns^if struggling life in
Culver he aeized an axe and tent ita blade
Into the akull.
Toia ia not the worst feature of this nf.
fair. Culver waa packed for leaving the
country. He had with Idm aeveral changes
of oiothing and a large sum of money ; and
had summoned all the negroes of the surrounding
country to meet him in Springfield.
What for, we do not prefeod to say,
hut there waa no necessity for it. Culver
is the man who rode a negro on a rail for
refusing to pay a voluntary subscription,
shot a woman, old enougli for hia grandmother,
at the wash tub, and her unoffend
ing husband near sixty yaara old. Had he
lived a few hours longer, moat likely the
town of Hprlnglield would have been reduced
to ashes, and many other outrages
committed.
? ? -leae
Josh Billixiis says: " Marrying for love
may be a little risky; but it ia so honest
that Ood ean't but smile at It."
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" Turn tough aioak makes ma think of a
famous old English poet," "That's queer.
What poet does it make you think of?"?
" ClIAU OBB."
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Disoovtkxt.?The chief source of human
diaeonteat is to be looked for, not in real,
but ta our fictitious wants; not hi the demands
ef nature, but io the artifioial cravings
of desire.
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. 1868.
Til* Chariest oh Mereurv, in speaking of
the .prospects in llie Suulh-rn Sister, i?y?
the Reconstruction act* are the greatest of
evils in tlie South, because they are not
only economical hot political in their ef
feels, and break down all hope of future re
ctiperntinn ; bill lber? aVe othef evils tinder
which llie South labors, which irt by nn
nicini inconsiderable. Foremost amongst
lliem, it the nil pervading destitution.?
This destitution is greater, exactly where
there are tfie most negtoe* 5 thus showing
its origin?1 lie emancipation of the negroes
from slavery. Mississippi and South Carolina
were the richest of the Southern Stairs,
and possessed, therefore, more slave*, if
the negroes were the ettioient and faithful
laborers depleted in the reports of the
Frecdrnen'a Bureau to the government, they
ought to he the moat exempt from destitu
Hon. A country Will thrive, Just In pro.
poflion to the abundance and efficiency of
its labor. For want Iff b* greater, where
there it the most efficient and abundant,
labor, and the richest lands,- h Sprite nn im
possibility. The statement refutes itself.?
Wherever while labor most prevails, there
is the most plenty. Wlierowr negro labor
?the most want. This is the true state of
things in the S nth
In tlie cultivation of the earth, (he Merenry
further remarks, where the white man
had taught the negro, nnd feft him in j?os*
session?what utter poverty and desolation
prevails, sate wfisfethe white ma.-i atill has
him under hie control, and compels him to
work bf (he etem mandates oi necessity.?
I In Barbados* ard a few other islands, well
stocked with negroes or cooites? the competition
for employment has induced a pwrtinl
success ^ birt not ffn fofty acre lots ; hot
| on plantation*, with I he plantation nynlein
I fully kept in op*ration. Cotton, sugar, and
rice, can be produced by no other system of
labor. Tliey require a careful preparation,
and a atendy, continuous, and combined
cultivation, which Isolated labor cannot
produce. And, *ven if the negfo was capable
of a separate. suece<sfiri cultivation of
the earth, He neVet Cafr produce tliese great
tropical productions, wrifiout the direction
nnd control oi the white man. The combination
of labor and forethought rr quired
to produce (hem, he is incapable of exer
cisiug.?AbbenUle Banner,
rihisntik to mi: l.vffV ?It lias been long
observed by tnedieal writers that denth is
frequently preceded by insanity, a fact
which lias occasioned tlie remark liiat it
was not astonishing, for everybody know
that when folks get madder, they were
nhout to die. This reminds us of a ca*e
which occurred many years ago in a Philn.
delphia court, wherein a pr- try young
widow w.n In danger ol losing two third8
of her husband's estate?bis relatives
grounding their claim on the alleged insanity
of the defunct It may he as well to
premise that the presiding judge was not
only convivial, hut also very gallant.
" What were your husband's last words ?'
inquired the attorney.
The pretty widow hlushed, and looking
down replied, " I'd rather not tell "
"Put, indeed, you must, ma'am. Your
claim may be decided by it."
Still blushing, the widow declined to tell.
At last a direct appeal from the bciicli elicited
the information.
" He aaid, ' kiss me Polly, and open that
other bottle of champagne.'"
We know no*, whether it was admiration
for the deceased husband or the living wife
that inspired the judge at this instant, but
he at once cried with all the enthusiasm of
conviction, "Sensible to the last? -Btackstone."
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From the Yorkville Enquirer.
Brazil Emigration.
Yokkvii lk. S. C , January 4. 1868.
Editor of Enquirer: Will yon allow me
room in the Enquirer, to mako a statement
of facte, am) a request, of those whom these
facta may concern f
.An agency has been established, Hi $Vw
Orleans to aid emigrants to ltrnr.il, upon the
following terms, sit j The emigrant, on em'
baiking, will pay |40, The government of
Iiratil arill pay $80; that i^ two thirds of
the passage money ; and the emigrant will
not have this ft80 to r< fund, provided he
settles permanently in that Country, Arrangements
are being made (and it is believed
will bo effected) to allow emigrants
to board themselves on the toy age ; and
then they will not pay anything on embarking.
The Vessel will make Charleston
a point of call, provided eighty or one hun
dred emigrants can be obtained.
Now, I desire those who expect to leave
for Braxll, and who desire to embark at
Charleston, to report to me, at Yorkville,
8. C., as soon as practicable, staling the
number of persons, and to what point in
Brazil, they wish to go, in order that I may
k. kl.J !_ -1 .1 ?- ? ? > ' - 1
wc cumnru, iu ?ut lilim, 10 W* llliormft
lion to the agency at New Orleans, and to
arrange for a veaael to call at Charleston.
Yonra, <to.
J. R. RA1RD.
P. R.?All persona desiring reliable Information
from R: ar.i), can obtain it by subscribing
for the Brazilian Emigrant, pub>
liahed in Rio de Janeiro, by Rev. "W. C.
| Emereon, and C. ft Cencir, at g5, which
ahotild be sent to P. II. Kmrrson, Meridian,
Mississippi, at lie attcn a to the entire in tercet
of the paper in the United Slates.
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Manors n>r Ibimi Potatoes.?For ona
err, lake 8 hatlieh of *Vo?d tih, tf btlrtbet*
Of quick lime, (oyiteMlifll lima should
have th? pwftrtiee, If il can be obtained,)1
4 buehela of piaster, and 2 bushels of sab,
making 20 bushels in all j mix thoTofrghty
together,- and apply in the hill, at a rata
which will carry 20 bushels over aa Aafe.Tlte
above supplies the essentia! ingredients
for a lnrgo growth of potatoetf, a (lit
something tnore, provided the Soil be not
eaoesflvety meagre ; and if thefe be a# <-*.
cess of these ingredient* over Lh? requirements
tor the present erop, It will be trety
si:re to remain in the soil for the befrtfff of
future Crops. Especially will It be eo,- ff
Uij succeeding crop* be potatoe*. and if fhe'
tops be left each year to rot on the ground,eo
that the potash they contain, (this befog
the moat important Ingredient* In the mixture,)
may go to the benefit of the succeeding
crop. I will here *ay, that from aoluaf
experiment I hare learned that,- although
ro'ation in crops ie undoubtedly benefioial,
generally, the potato may be made an exception,
if treated to the foregoing compost.
[Jtforrit' Practical Parmrr.
Tiix Petersburg (Va.) Index of the 23thf
nit.,- t* the authority for the following
sfnterrteffi i " A Urge eagle, of the bald'
head species, was caught by a negro boy,
near Prince OefogS Couit House, c#ay hie.
fore yesterday, and exhibited! to crowds of
interested spectators on the old MarketSquare
yesterday morning. The boy say*
he saw the bird silting upon the lforb a
a treo as lie was coming along the rowd.?3
He clapped his hapds to make it fly off, instead
of doing which the eagle swooped
and attacked him. He seised the bird by
the wfng ns the laffcf seised Mm by the
breeches leg, and in the contest he earns
off conqueror, and Hie eagle missed tie
Christinas dimv-r. Front tip to tip, the
Idrd measured fully six feef, and in an af<
tack upon a child would no donbt hare
been successful. As it was, the boy, arlw
is two thirds gfotSn. wa* mote tliafi A
match for it. It rmisf have been severe
hanger that induced the attack upon a person
to large?that is, W the negro's statement
is true.*
Important About the Bankrupt Law.
There is said to bo diversity of opinion
among lawyers and commissioners in bankruptcy
as to when the fifty per cent, clanks of
the bankrupt law wont or will go into effect*
and fbat the question Kill probably bo stfbrrrtlted
to Chiof Justice Chase for dei'taion. A
glmtce ut the law itself will show th-.t there h
no ground upon wbicli to base such a doabt.
In auction 33 it ia provided : " And id all
proceedings in bankruptcy commenced ono
year from the time thia act ahall go into ope?
ration, no dischargo ahall be granted to a
debtor whose assets do not pay fifty per cent Ota
of the claims against his estate, unions the
assent, in writing, of a majority in namber
and value of hia creditors who have proved
their claims ia filed in the ease at or before the
time of application fof discharge,"
The act went Into operation Jane 1, 1Sfi7,
[Edgefield Adstriittn
F/ttfu.t We always like to give
onr readers the benefit of knowing any eg.
trnordinaiy family names that thfn up.?
One of our exchanges states that (hefe is a
family in the town of Colon, Branch Co.,
Mich,, tthevc surname was Thurston. They
have twelve children, finmed as follaVts;
Ulysses Ilhicus, I.eodis Ipliigcnia, Chrysotliemns
Andronioa, Epaminondas Kpuphrodntus,
Achilles J,jeuigii?, Miltisdes ArUtides,
Cassins Brnlus, Solon Kossnth, Agamemnon
llilnnd, Dulcena CulceVndf, Patroclus
Antilacus, and Wendell Phillips.?
The eldest ot iheae classical Miohiganders,
upon going to school for the first time,
I -
iiui^u ? |'i rcuciuua nine youin, eonio not
speak plain, and when the teacher asked
him his name, after much lisping and hesitalion,
he announced himself as " Useless
little on*."
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PrrRenva Ntfuitioa.?-Prevention (s Heller
than cure. A vast number of deaths
are due to diseases which Owe their origin ,
to defective nutrition. Consumption in Its
many forma and disguises appears to ba
connected in the main with want of food.
What has been observed as to the marvellons
power of the nutritive treatment In
arresting its progress enables Us confidently
to expect that, applied earlier, the disease
might bo preven'ed. It is in ohildhood
and youth that the changes in the tfosnea
are most rapid, that growth is most evident
and it it at that time that materia) is required
in greatest quantity. Disastrous
results must sooner or Inter ftdlow if during
this period of rapid growth food is intufiieient.?Proftttor
Orailti //tteiU, M. D.
" I do not say/* remarked Mrs. Brown,
.1 iV.I 1 i- - ?
mm nuiiin is It llllttl J l?Ul 1 dO MV
that if his farm joined mine, I would
nol try to keep aheap/*
TitE youtig ladiea of this day End generation
appear anEioua 10 emulate the
fate of Cleopatra?by putting "addera n
to their boauttla.
Tiiin is a fast age of oura, antfc Ifi>w
York a fast city. They make- forty.
soven year old brandy over there in
three days trom Jamaica rum.
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A neal but suggestive bridal p rear at
was an illustrated copy t?f Dknte't, Ua?
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