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?? ? ? ???????????? ... ... A. KEFLEX OF POPULAR 3S"VE]SrTB. * 1 11 1 1 II. ' in I IT?t ill , .t nilM * A1* C ^ ? - i ? " * " <' *j ? ** 1 * ' \i. t- < ,, . _> ti t % .i) t i - . . > u >?.? ._ ^ ? *.* , *' T < ," * >. *r - ?... ? VOLUME XV. . GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. FEBRUARY 17. 1869. NO. 39. ?;? C*. F. TOWN E?, EDITOR. 9.0. BAILTY, h?V u4 AuMUuUltor. Brescnimo* Two Dollar* ptr inmn. AaraaTiaaNBirva Inserted at tb* fete* ef on* dollar pw quae* of twelve list; <thU <i**d type) or I*** tor tb* first lurrtlon, bit; Nflla each for U>* second aod third insertion*, and twenty-Are e*at* tor nSMqnnt Insertion*. Yearly mtnteti will bo mod*. All a<tv*rtl**ueat? mast bora tb* number of insertion* marked on them, or they will be inserted till ordered oat, end charged for. Unlet* ordered otherwise. Advertisements Will invariably be * displayed." Obituary notice*, and all matters inuring to la the benefit af any owe, are regarded a* Advertisements. From the Presbyterian and Index. The Colored People. " "We have ttie Greeks at home." The colored people are of great importance. We do not duly ap}>reciate tlieir importance, in the aniilv. State, and Church. Our tempers often blind our judgments upon tliis subject. Tlie relation between them and ourselves has been cruelljr, unjustly, sinfully ruptured. What should have been tho work of years, has been done in an instant?they were unprepared for it, and so were we. It lias worked wrath, evil in every respect. It has inlured them and ourselves. They have been deluded and estranged from us ; and we, smarting under our wrongs, have cast them, to a great extent, out of our confidence and regards. Bnt we cannot do without them, and they cannot do without ns. They are 111 our families, and they cannot be there as heathen. The malaria of the heathen world would breed pestilence the most deadly; it would be insupportable. Theft, falsehood, unchastity, every blight of superstition, would fasten on ns. We must have them in our families, nnd we cannot havo them but as Christians. We have no choice; necessity is laid on ns, and woe to ?8 if we neglect their religious culture. Our families will catch the con tagion of their ignoranco, viciousticsa, and fanaticism, and be burnt tip in one general conflagration, as the beautiful and magnificent city <>f Columbia was by the ruffian hand of a cruel warrior. They are in the State, and will, to a great extent, remain; and they have now great power to do evil: and if disregarded and led to hostile influences, will, like Samson, bury us and thcmsvlves in one common ruin. The beet pclioc* the best judiciary, the best legislature the State can have, Is a pure gospel preach4*1 everywhere to its people, white and colored. Chancellor Johnson often said to the writer of this: The best police we have is the ministers or the jeospel." The Judiciary, the Legislature, the Executive, could do nothing in regulating And restraining a heathen population,?a pagan people. There must be a moral element, and that one of power and purity, or free governments perish and a worse than military despotism takes their place. We must, as good citizens, be np and doing, or soon we will pass trom our present very bad to a still worse civil condition. But the colored people, like the rest of the world, have been bought by the blood of Christ, and to them the gospel must be preachod: and we who have been born ana raised with them are the persons especially and providentially called to this work. Their present estrangement, their prejudices, their demoralization, their delu* sions as to their trne friends; our own mortifications and wrongs, and the ingratitude we have been treated with by many?all constitute barriers in our way. Hat no harrier is insurmount aUe where Qod goes before us.? If tlie white Christians ot every name and denomination?if all our white cburclwes would look after them, be kind to them, teach them ot Christ, anon flmt wmihl lift, nnr heavy tordens, illuminate our darkness, and we should be a liappr and proaperuas people; for Uod't smile would be onr light and life. E. T. if. A smart e<>!ored boy from the country is in New Orleans looking up his old mistress, who, he has learned, is in need of assistance, fihe has always to>k go?*d care of me," he says, " and she shall ttjver w ant if 1 can help it," Filly Yean Hence. The London Spectator, in some speculations on the change* that may possibly occur in the next half century in consequence of new discoveries, regards emigration as one of the things which is quite as likely to be affected as any other. Should a new impetus be given to this the consequences to Kurort** wnnlil 1w? I". *TV??tw W * VIJ ov? IVMP. The writer says: "Suppose it true, as so many men ot mark in science believe, that the next great step may be in sea going steamers, that international communication may Ik? accelerated, as internal cotnmnni cation lias been, that we may yet see New York brought within two days journey of Liverpool, the probability is that in ten years every social condition now existing in Europe would have ceased to exist; thai the millions who toil for others, and on whose toil modern society is built, would choose to 'oil for themselves, would precipitate themselves in a rusli to which all the movements of mankind have been trifles upon the New World. Suppose the population of Britain and Germany reduced to 10,000,000 each?a change less in magnitude than that f which has occurred in many conntries?and those 10,000,000 only retained by advantages as great as the New World could offer, what would all the changes of the past half century be to that ? This may , happen, even without nnv anniim. t ion of Stephenson's great idea, the ono idea he never worked ont, that if engineer?, instead of trying to increase the power applicable to dtiving ships, were to reduce the friction which retards Bhips, the world would speedily be one great parish. This writer, who has seen many countries and lived among ninny races, seriously believes that of all the dangers to which Europe and European society are exposed none is so formidable as the passion for emigration, seriously doubts whether, it education 1 spreads in Europe, it will be possible to retain its population cooped up in their narrow and half exliausted corner of the world. Wo tlmtk, we English, that we know what emigration is ; but we know nothing about it; have no idea of the changes it would involve it aided bv the whole force of the masses tiien in possession of the sujweme political power. Suppose those five-sixths of Englishmen who now work for others choose to go elsewhere and work for themselves. The change be tween Waterloo and Sadowa would be very slight compared with the ehangtf between 1863 and 1818, and there is not a sensible man in England who will declare that alteration beyond the reach of thought. Why should not emigration in England and Germany at fnin tll? lioiitlit It tioo roanliiul in Ireland, and the mosses insist on aiding it through tlie national fleets ? The .Irish would, if they had the jiower, and the British have this year the power conferred on them. We say nothing of a discovery which, if it is ever made, will remould all human society, slowly pulverize all differences among nations, fusing the world into one people, and immediately destroy all existing political arrangements?the discovery of a means of maintaining and guiding a* raft ten feet or so in the air, for we cannot resist a totally unreasonable impression that the discovery will not be made, that progress will not, in onr time, make that astounding lead. Apart altogether from that, there are physical forces now at work strong enoncli to change the whole face of the "world by whiffing its population." East to Thy.?It is said that a small piece of resin, dipped in the water which is placed in a vessel in the stove, will add a peculiar property to the atmosphere of the room, which will give great relief to persona troubled with cough. The heat of the water is sufficient to throw off the aroma of reein. A Chicago papsr easts up tha item* of aapsnoa of so ordinary wedding in thai locality, nnd finds that thav amount to about $10,000. Under these cireurostaoee*, wa do aot wonder that the institution of marriage is decaying is Chicago; hot we do wonder thai dtvusass ate ao frequent. * A Du Chaillu Furnishes another Gorilla story. He says: 44 We had corae to country where we knew that gorillas wero sure to be found, for tbere grew a pulpy peer shaped fruit, the tonda, of which the animal ie very focd. It growa almost upon a level with the ground, and is ol a splendid red color. Not only were gorillas food of the tonda, but I myeetl likpd it very much, as did also the ne< groea. I am very focd of the subdued and grateful aciJ of tbia fruit. The kind that growa on tbe sandy prairie* of the sea shore is not fit to eat. Many and many times I wou'd have starved in tbe forest without tonda. We were not mistaken, for we found everywhere gorilla marks and now and then we could see tbe huge footprint! of some old monster, which probably would have come and offered us bailie if he had been near at band ; at othei places we saw where they had seated themselves and been eating the tonda At another place near a little stream we discovered that a female gorilla and her baby had been drinking; for 1 could see the tinv fee: of the little one 44 There must be gorillas not far off,' whispered Mnlaouon into my ears, anc at the same time he locked carefnlly a his gun. Querlaonen and Gambo gav< a rllurkU anrt lonlrml >< ? ? % iij niiviucil anv At me. We nil listened in silence; wi weie then in one of the thickest an< densest parts of tiie forest; nil was np parent I v still, hut the quick ear of Ms laouen hnd detected something, hat heard a noise, and he wanted to kno? the cau^e of it. We were so excited that our breath ing was Icud and distinctly audible. We at once cooked our guns, fur wi heard the moving of branches jus ahead of us, when to I the forest re aounded with the terrific roar of thi gorilla which made the very earth fair ly shake under our f.-et. As soon at the gnrifia saw us he stood up, and bes his chest with his powerful hands unti U resounded like an immense bast dram, llts intensely black face wa something horrid to behold ; his stinkei deep gray eyes looked like the eyes o a demon, and he opened his mouth an? gave vent to roar after roar, tbowinj bia powerful canine teeih. Ilow big they were, thev were fright ful to look upon; the inside of hi mouth wa? so red. It was a male gorilla, a real fightin) fellow, and was not afraid of us. Hos horrid he looked * the hair cn top o hie heed twitched up end down, end a he made the wooda ring with hie nwfu roar until the forert wae full of the din We stood in silence, gun in hand and i waa ready to Are, when Malouen who is a cool fellow, said, ** Not yet.1 The monster, according to them, wai not near enough, lie stopped for i i minute or so, and then rented bitn self, for his legs did not seem adapt** i to support bis huge body. The gorilli looked at us with his e?il gray eye* then beat his breast with his long, pow erful and gigantic arm*, giving anothe howl of defiance, llow a* fid waa tha howl I lie then advanced upon u?? Now, he slopped, and though not fa off, they all said ** Not yet." I tour own to having been somewbAt accur tomed to see gorilla*. 1 was terribl] excited, for I always felt, that if tin animal wna not killed, some one of i* would be. I now judged be waa not more that ten or twelve yards from no, and could see plainly the ferociouf an< fiendish face of the monstrous ape. I was working with rage ; his huge leeti were ground against each other, so ths we could hear the round ; the ?kin o the forehead wa? moved rapidly bac) and for b, bringing a truly devilish ex preasion upon the hideous face; tbei once more be opened his mouth an; gave a roar which seemed to shake th woods like thunder, and looking us ii the eyes, and beating hia breast, ad vanced again. This time he was with in eight yards from us before he stop ped again. My breath was growing short with excitement as I watched tb( huge beast. Malouen said " Steady,' aa he came up. When he stopped Ma louen said " Now and before he coulc utter the roar for which he was open ing his mouth, three musket balls vert in his body, and he fell dead almost without a struggle. Gainbo had not fired; he had kept his gun in reserv< i. !J -? o ?v 111 t??j m Rcciaem. " i/o noi nre lor soon. If you do no! kifl him he will kill Jou,H said fiiend Malaoiten to mt ?n piece of advice which 1 found afterward to be literally true. It wee ? huge beast, and a eery old one indeed Gorilla* vary in height like men. 1 hi* one was over 6 feet 0 inches. Its hare huge, brawny chest measured 00 inciter round ; and the big toe or thittnh ol its foot measured nearly 0 inahes in circumference. It* arm seemed only like an immense bunch of muscle, and its legs and claw like feet were so well fitted for grabbing and holding on that I did not wooder that the negroes believed that this animal concealed itseU in trees, and pulled up with his foot any liviug tiling, leopard, o* or JPAB. ihm passed beneath. There is no 1 t doubt that the gorilla could do this, but that he does, I do not believe.? , They are ferocious and mischievous, but n , not carnivorous. o i A Good Garden. ? Now is the proper time to lay the * r foundation of a good garden. This eon " ' sists in giting a liberal allowance of ma ' uure and deep working. Deep digging * cannot be dispensed with. A good I garden must be good in July and Au- 0 ' g??-.t as well as in April and May.? e ? How few really good gardens are r found during mid summer ! Whenever c one is known you may be sure that ' deep working at the start Is the origin ' of it. j 1 It ia impw-lb'e to expect a shallow ^ worKeu sou 10 produce succulent veg- j etables during (lie dry rummer month*. ^ ' The general practice is to hasten the * burning up process, instead of reined* ^ ing it. Some gardens, we Rdmit, re- ^ ' ceive a fair allowanca of manure, but ^ 1 by being improperly worked in the . ground it causes the crop to be hasten- ? ckJ to its destruction whenever the dry * summer commence-. If the same . quantity of manure has been worked in the grOund to tbe depth of eighteen in 1 ches, and well incorporated with the . ? soil, the result would be entirely differ- ^ enl from the usual scarcity of vegela' bles in mid summer. Deep trenching ( and manuring will allow vegetables to ( draw moisture for a long period. Try ( ' it : now is the time to perform tbe ( work, and our word for it, your teward f v will consist in greatly ircreased ciops i of vegetables, as well as lengthened bar vest.? Chronicle dc Sentinel. I ? 1 1 ~ i Usk or Lkmons.?When oersons ' aro feverish and thirsty beyond * what is natural, indicated in some \ cases by a tnetaiic taste in the f , mouth, especially after d inking ( i water, or by a whitish appearance < I of the tongue, one of the beet I i 41 coolers," internal or external, is I? * to tnkfl ft. lonrnin out /-.ft* iKo ?- - I -- ? ? WUV V?4 vug n sprinkle over it some l<>af sugar, 1 f working it down into the lemon ' 1 with n spoon, and then suck it . ? slowly, squeezing the lemon and f adding more sugar as the acidity ( ' increases from a lower point. In- i 8 valids with foverishncss may take , two or three lemons a day in this i t manner with the most remarked ( ' benefit; manifested by a sense of , coolness, comfort and invigoration. < * A leinon or two thus taken at tea time, as an entire substitute for the J ordinary supper of summer, would ( ' give many a man a comfortable * * night's sleep, and an awakening of i rest and invigoration with an ap- ( i petite for breakfast, to which they ^ are strangers who will have their ? 1 cup of tea or supper, or relish and % cake, and tarries or peaches and cream.?Journal of Jjealtk. , l RltrLICCTIONI by AN Old BaCHKLor c . ?Domestic love may be very sweet, c r but when I look at my brother's family, t t it strike* me that il is also very dear. ( The complexion of a girl of the peri- < f od differ* from a railway season ticket i e ?the one i?, and the other u not, trans- i t ferable. I I love to see little children eating tin- ' i accustomed delicacies, and my heart re 1 I joices as I think of the Nemesis of the ' | family ductor awaiting them, t Mistrust the woman who, when a i glass of w ne is spilt over her dress, *' t ftmiUt Utul it rloo-n't f The ta?te for sweet* prevails in all of t us long afer childhood?nay even in - old age, every one wishes to be worth a n plum. ? Curious how this life resembles bib ( liards?kisses and misses are generally ( 1 found near together. , A eramptd waist generally betokens < brains in a similar condition. ^ When I look upon a party of young ? people, I console myself with the it thought that, after all, my skull is as t . good-looking as any of their'*, and that's I I what it must resolve itself in at la?l! s } Trkkiblr Death.?A colored J | tnan met with art awful death in 8 f the neighlx>rhood of New Paris, * , Ky.? a few nights since. A neigh d I Ik* hi* <1 luhl^U ntQit Is sari b: 11 ?1 I iifiu AIII^U HIS 11 , hogs ami left them out at night.? r . The negro undertook to steal one, " i and was in such a hurry to secure ? the pork that he torgot to remove * 1 the gnmbrel stick. To reach his n . home it was necessary to cross a ' fence. In doing so he placed the ^ hog on the top rail, and it is sup- * | posed that it slipped?at any rate, ^ tho negro's heaa was caught in the ( I opening of the hind legs, and his neck was broken by the stick. He [, was found next morning dead, the H > lu?g on one"side of tho fence and | tie on the other, with his head last, i. as described, * A * " 1 ' '""-I' fortk Carolina Doped by a ConfL denoe Kan and Sbarpfef. Late on Tuesday evening a gentlenan named Hough, formerly a resident f North Carolina arrived in this city n hit way with bis family, consisting f liia wife and several children, and rhile standing at the Caraden station waiting the departure of the western rain, which leaves at 8 : 45 P. M. he raa accosted by an individual who irtrod need himself favorably to l-.is inten ,ed victim by representing himself as ngaged in business in the State of fllfiois, having previous!? discovered by onversa'ion with Mr. Ilougb that sucii vas his destination. The latter after a ong conversation with the sharper doing which he promised employment to ilr. Hough upon reaching Illinois, inluced him to accompany him to a rasurant in the vicinity, where they both Irank several times together, the stranger enlarging on the advantages to be ihtnined by the employment be intenled giving to bis unsuspecting dupe.? I'be sliarDer then exibited a mirwK?. cold pieces, remarking that his trunk rati not yet arrived at the depot, in vhh-h. he stated, he had deposited his >ank?bilU and greenbacks, and req-esed the loan of tsllfr until the arrival >f the baggage-wagon with his trunk.? ilr. Hough, being favorably impressed with the tnan, unhesitatingly handed ov ?r the sum required, with which the thirst once made his departure, promising lo return in lime to take passage or the train, and return the money. It ii needless to say that he was seen no more snd the credulous victim, after waiting until the departure of the next train a1 10:15; took passage in it with hit Family, a sadder and no doubt a wisei nan.?Baltimore Gazette 28th, ult. Tiik following is a comple'e list, litherto unpublished, of the indictments or treason now on file in the office of the Jle>k of the United States Circuit Uourt for the District of Virgina : JefF.rson Davis, John C. Dreckonridge, lodge Henry W. Thomas, ex Oovernot William Smith, General Wade Hamp len, General Benjamin linger, ex-Govsrnor Henry A. Wine. General Samite Dooper,-General G W. C. Lee, Gen R B Lee, Gen. \V. 11 F. Lee, Secretary S ft Mallory. Gen. Win. Mahone, Gener?l James Long?treet, General Fitxugli Lee, William E. Taylor. Oscar F. Bex !er, George W. Alexander. Genera Bpps llunloti, R. ||. Booker, M. 1) 3orse, John R. DeBree, General Rogei \. I'rvor, Major D. B. Bridgford, General Jubal A. Early, General ltich< trd Ewell, Thomas P. Turner, William i. Winder. Ilnn. Jnma? A 1.1 George Booker, William II. Payne Cornelius Bavlea. Richard S. Andrews William B. Richards, Hon. J. Faulkner I. II. l)ulaney, W. N. McVeigh and I. B. Tyler. Nolle prosequi* have teen entered in the cases of lluo. Thos, ?. Bocock and Judge Robert Ould. DcsVr Cultivate OaniKARY Land Without Manure.?Recollect, it costr ,ou, on our average soils, ten dollars >r more to make and gather an acre ol cotton. If you do not look closely afer your bands, it trill cost you a good leal more than that. Now, every acre cultivated, that will not yield crops vorth at least the above amounts, will tot only be no profit, but run in debt. Larger crops still are required to obtain t profit on bired lalor. Lands, then, which will not yield such crops we nust let rest, or manure them suffi? cientlv, or we lose money. At east half of our poorest soils hitherto levoted to corn and cotton, should he brown out to rest and the balance en iched. I low will it take us to exhaust vital little capi'Hl we have left, if for every acre on which we can make a net trofit of ten dollars we continue to culivate five which lack from three to ten lollars each of meeting the actual cost >f cultivation. There are few land? which wilt not yield h profit if commer :ial manure* are judiciously applied. ^ [Southern Cultivator. A Rkmakkablic Tkanck Cark.?A turnher of the Milwaukee physician* lave Keen examining a remarkable caac >t Burlington, Iowa?that of Mina Hon che. On the 8ih of J tnuary a he call <1 her father to her bedside and told lim aba waa going to aleep, and that ha abould aleep a long time. She aid aha ahould look aa though aha waa lend, but ahe should not be dead ; and riade her lather promise that be would iot hnry her. She then sank away, nd haa laid in that state since the 8th f January. On Monday last a v?in rat lapped, and llie Mood flowed a? Hturally as it would in a living perton. ' ? An Oliio editor is getting particular bout whit lie eats. Hear him: "The roinan who made the butter which we ought last week, is respectfully rrquesed to exercise more judgment in pro orlioning the ingredients. The last atcli had too much hair in for butter, nd not quite enough for a wa'erfall.? tiers is no .tense in making yourself aid bended, if butler is thirty-tit e cents pound," ll ; [.x-u-lji-i "iwk TflK latest novelty ia M hair album Drawimo from life?Opening a vein Thr Memphis street rail tray Is rtf* ported to be failure. Tub " lynching " done out West aver* ages one case a day. Tti? $few York female ck?b now I wants to get Incorporated. H Ottar of Cabbage " is the newest perfume announced. CfttciSNATi is making a raid xtpott milk dealers who water the ffafd. A Niw Yorkkr has been swindled by a jewelry lottery and none cr*y*. A railway in Mississippi is rawing fund* through tbe agency of ladies* fair*# A Boston paper wants a 44 female bank and insurance company " established. An Engli-h paper has discovered that the United States eontnia* 103# r 500 000 hens. Trfie handsomest men fn Congre** are ssid to be Gen. Logan and Samuel i J. Randall. ' To ?ave freight, fruit is now shipped ' from New York to Chicago by way of j New Orleans. At New Haven recently, a poor f*mf ily were discovered making a dinner on , boiled dog. i Tiik Newport News puts its announce * ments of births under the head of , New Music." | In Mississippi preparations forhnild( ing cotton factories are being made in r seventeen towns. Tub New York sportsmen want a Uw passed to prevent the extermina* lion of deer in tbe forests of that Slate. 1 A ONiwwuitKL velocipede has been 1 invented, and Yankee genius is trying to make one without any wheels. A rfjbctvd l?>ver in Ohio, cut the throat of his crnel divinity the other day?and exclaimed, 44 now kick.!" Bkigiiam Yovno has 23 actual wives I and 51 *4 spritual." Aunio FoLom ia the favorite. Tub hopping around of a Grecian' ( bend in a bathroom reminds one ro forcibly of a kangaroo trying to escape I the attacks of sand flies. Tiik Chicago Legal News is said to r be edited by a lady, aho gets her law , knowledge by beii g the wife of a Judge. 1 A PKruoi-Ri'M well has been found in ' ihe cella? of a Connecticut tavern. Its ' owner thinks oil will pay as well as whi-key. Tiik Springfield Republican says it , would like to see some of the " splendid ( raili'.ary talent of the Sbulh " back in the army. A citikkn of Portage county, Ohio, i has been tapped forty times in eight i months, and yielded nearly seven bari reU of water. r A San Franoi^co newspaper publishes along with its marriage and death notices a well patronized column of "di1 vorces." I Tiik Ohio legislature, at the present session, it is said, will probably pass a law submitting woman suffrage to a popular vote. Manpiif.bter, N. II., has been mulcted in $616 damages for injuiies sustained by one of its citizens, growing out of a defect in a sidewalk. A saving woman is the very best savings bank a man can have, and such should he most respectfully invited to change their names and become wives. An Indiana youth put bis Christmas candy and torpedoes in the same pocket ? ..! V.I -II Li- * ? l nnu uiow uui mi uis teem *n?n lie i tried to masticate one of the latter. A fEvr yean ago, Now York received forty times as much cotton a a Baltimore. Last year, it baa receiied only nine limes as much. , At sixteen, a woman prefers the best , dancer in the room; at two-am'-twenty, the best talker, and at thirty, the richest man. A man of sixty, who was sentenced in a French Court to twenty years hard labor, thanked the Judge with great fervor, lie had not expected, he ?aid, to live so long. Tiik best way to affix labels on plan's or trees, is said to be to write the words with a lead pencil on zinc. The writing pioves more distinct with age, and cannot be effaced. In New York city, the neighhoihood ?r .1 ? i !_?.- ? in inr: jfifj?m is hniu 10 i>e in qiienirM hv boys, who well postage Mump at re <1 need rate*, which they have MoUo frein their employer*. A weli. known physician n?ed to sny that roast I eet, serenity of mind, cold water hatha, and an amiable and pretty wife, would mako almost ?any man Leulthy, wealthy and wise.