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VOLUME XVI. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. JUNE 9. 18G9. NO. 3.
What but thou given for me 7
' ( epent long yeara for the# t
In wearlneee end woe,
'That one eternity
Of Joy tlxm mlgbteet knew?
T epent long yeara for thee;
Heat thou epent one for me 7
i My Vother' heuae -of light,
My rainbow circled throne,
J left for earthly night
for wandering* ead and lone?
.', I left it all for tbee ;
11 net thou left aught for me 7
1 coffered much for thee,
Mora then fby tongue canted,
Of hitter agony
Te rescue tbee from hell?
' I eufferod much for tbee;
Iff hat doejt thou bear far me?
Jlnd I brought down 'to thee,
Down from my bouae above,
Ealretion full and free,
My spirit and my love?
Greet gifte I brought to thee ;
What baat thou brought te me 7
Oh! let thy life bo given,
Tby yeara for me be epent,
World rettore all be riven
And joy with suffering blent?
tlivo then thyself to me,
Gladly, I'll welcome thee.
It ie said that Count Linaendorf, (Patriarch
?f the Moravian Brethren,) wae "first taught to
lovo the Saviour by reading thia motto.
The Siamese Twins, again. ? Can
they be 8ep?rated and Live t?The
r Keinlt of a 8nrgical Examination.
Sir James Simpson, the Professor
of Medicine and Midwifery in
the University of Edinburgh, has
?inminnH vorv miiintnlw ?nd frnm
every point of scientific interest
these twins, and has delivered a
lecture to the students of the University
class on tlieee and other recorded
cases of united twins, of
. whom thoy are in many respents
the most remarkable on record.
In this lecture, which he publishes
in the British Medical Journal, he
gives first their history and description.
Chang and Eng, or as
thev now sign themselves, Chang
and Eng Hunker, are now fifty eight
years of age. They were two
ot several children, the rest being
naturally formed. When infants
they were attached face to face,
but instinctive efforts from tlie earliest
age have so far elongated the
band as to enable them to adopt
an imperfect lateral relation to each
other. They are short but wirylooking
men ; Eng, the taller of tho
two. buinff onlv five lent turn #nd
a balf ineCes?Chang an inch shorter.
They nee the outer legs more
than tbe inner, by standing, and
these are the larger in circumference.
There is no inversion of
, position of the heart and other organs,
as Professor Allen Thompson,
of Glasgow, has shown to l>e
the general law in relation to united
twins. Neither of the respirations
nor circulations of the twin
brothers are synchronous. Examined
in Edinburgh by Dr. Aitken,
when they were suffering from influenza,
the pulse of one was twenty-four
beats to the minute qnicker
titan tbe other. Examined this
weak In Twnffnn ku ft.- ti??
Vf K/>> IIVHI J
Thompson and Mr. Earnest Heart,
there was lose difference?fonr pnl ations
in the minute. In their
chemical as well as their organic
functions, they are shown by Sir
- James Siinpeon to be two separate
and distinct individuals. They
can walk, swim and rnn; they are
keen sportsmen, and good shots;
intelligent, well informed, and good
men of business. They are^ naturally
much accustomed to join in
the same conversation, but can
each easily carry on a conversation
with two different iudividnsls.
Theysometimes read separately',
^ ^ O. F. TOWN ES.
^ EDITOR.
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This I Did for Thee; What Doe?t
Thou for Me V'
fitorro nici* rr.vnicn a rntirr or ennm in
tmb itudt ob a obrmab div1mk.
I gay* my tor thee.
My pntlwi blnod I ibed,
That lbo? 9i|ht'it r?n?oni?d be,
And quickened from the dead?
I gave my lift for tbee ;
each to himself, more often one
aloud to the other. Their minds,
indeed, are more dual than their
bodies; the latter are united together,
but the former are dot.
The band of union is formed partly
by the extension of the cartilages
of the breast bone : it is four
inches and a halt long and eight
inches and n half in circumlereuce.
When the twins have suffered
from blood diseases, as sinall-pox,
measles, ague, tbey bave been af
fected simultaneously. Nevertheless,
from experiments which Sir
James Simpson has made with
drugs, ho concludes that the vascular
connection between the two
brothers is comparatively very
small. On the question of the surgical
separation of the Siamese
Twins, " Chang and Eng," 6ay8
Sir James Simpson, " have themselves
no desire to be surgically
divided from cnch other. But
somo of their relativea and families
have become anxious that tlicy
should be separated, if it were possible
to do so. The operation is
certainly possible, and would be
attended with little, or indeed, no
difficulty, but it would lie so perilous
in ita character, that tbe twins
could not, in my opinion, be justified
in submitting to it, or any surgeon
be justified in performing it."
He then enters into details to justify
this opinion. Chang and Eng
arc married to two sisters, the
daughters of ati American clergyman.
Each brother has nine children.
The family of Eng consists
ot six 6ons and three daughters ;
the family of Chang consists of
three sons and six daughters.
Their first children were born
within three or four days of each
other ; the others at irregular intervals.
Chang's ninth child was
born three months ago.
Sir W. Ferguson has carefully
examined the twins, and, we understood,
concurs in the general
opinion of surgeons that any surgical
separation would be most
likely attended with fatal consequences,
not so much on account
of any obstacle presented by the
structure of the uniting band of
flesh as the moral effect of the disunion
on tho two brothers.
Grekly on the Future of
True {Southern Radicals.?Horace
Greoly has written to tho editor of
tho Wheeling Intelligencer a letter,
in which lie gives the Southern
radicals gonerally a bit of advice.
The letter is as follows:
New York, Nov. 18, 1808.
My Dear Sir: I have yours
* - < t T. 1
oi rue iuin. us leading positions
have long l>cen understood and npEreciated
iu this quarter. Now
ear ine.
Every 3*car 1,000 of your rebels
die, and 1,000 (or more) of
tlieir sons became of ago. You
can't disfranchise them. You have
now 5,000 majority. Six years at
furthest will convert this into a
rebel maiority of 1,000. Then the
rebels will be enfranchised in spite
of you, and the blacks will be left
under foot and you under estimate
these at 2,000. Go your own way,
and see if the rebels can't have yon
under foot in less than six years.
I speak from a wide experience
when I tell you that your house is
built on the sand. It ^auuot stand.
Every year will see the passions of
the war cool and the demand for
amnesty strengthened. Now you
can amnesty the rebels. Soon the
question will be. shall they amnesty
you ? Look at Kentucky and
read your certain fate in theirs.
Yours,
HORACE GREELY.
TnKEE has been a great" slumn "
in Michigan. A piece of ground,
abont seventy feet in diameter,
sunk to a depth of about eighty
feet, leaving an opening in the
centre through which a sound
comes up as of the rushing of
mighty water*. At least such is
the story told by a local papor.
A Paris correspondent says:
" Of all the Bourbon Princes and
Princesses now in Paris there is
only one who if suddenly deprived
of his fortune, could make a good
living by his own efforts. It is
| uon r>enastian, the Infante, who is
' a capital portrait painter."
Lrrrr.a things shonld not be des
pisen, for many threads will bind
aa elephant, and many drops will
n.ake a river.
s
Murder Will Out.
A gilted legal friend ot this town
save us the following account of a
heartless murder, and its final revelation,
that took place in this
State many years ago. A man by
the name of J?, of Wayne County,
N. O., sold a free negro (whom
ho had cheated into the belief that
he was but hiring) to a gentleman
whom we will call Brown, in one
of the adjacent Districts of South
Carolina. Sometime afterwards
Brown discovered the fraud, and
immediately wrote to J?, from
whom ho had purchased him in
Wayne County, that if he paid
back the money ho had paid hi in
for tho free negro, he would not
prosecute him, and besides keen it
a profound secret. To this, Mr.
J? replied he would gladly do so,
and urged Mr. Brown to come for
it immediately ; and closed by as
suriughim of his gratitude that ho
had Bpared his family tho humiliation
of a public disclosure.
Mr. Brown, therefore, left his
hflmn on linrnolm/il/ f..?
x-.. ??VI M\,V'WVI\ |VM? ?T ?J lie
County, and. upon reaching the
residence of Mr. J?. he was kindly
received and sumptuously entertained.
TUe money was paid over
to him, and he was pre * ailed on
to spend several days with the family
and enjoy thesports of the country.
After a very pleasant sojourn
of a week, he started for his home
in South Carolina, with tho best
wishes of Ids host and futnily that
he might have a safe journey, and
return to enjoy their hospitalities.
Several weeks after his departure
letters were received from Mr.
Brown's family, making inquiry
tor him, and stating that he had
not retimed to his home. Search
and inquiry, however, proved fruitless.
Mr. Brown never returned.
Mr. J?, who had sold the free negro,
never appeared at his ease
afterwards ; nut it was thought to
be owing to the unaccountable and
mysterious disappearance of Mr.
Brown, who hud been his guest.
Years afterwards, and not long
ago, Mr. J , on his death bed,
urged his family and friends not
to bury him iu the family graveyard.
lie war very vehement in
this request, but it was presumed
to be but a vagary of his diseased
brain, and his dying wishes were,
-i: i J *>
mv-isimu, uiBrvnruuu. ins remains
were carried to the family
burying ground, and the gravedigger
commenced his work, but,
when be bad readied a certain
depth, his spade struck a solid object?obstructions
which, upon
their removal, proved to bo the
skeletons of a man and horse, with
the irons of a saddle ; the iron buttons,
too, upon the skeleton were
found to be the same that Mr.
Brown had worn.
Thus, even at the grave, before
the clods of the valley had shut
him ont forever from the light of
day, surrounded by those who had
met to do honor to his memory,
without judge or jury, these eileiit
witnesses, his own dread of the
flll/lf tliO -? - * I
vuv ^Iinovijr rM'ICUMI, Willi
grinning teeth and sightless eyes,
tho buttons, the saddle irons, pro
nonnced hiin, to the judgment of
all present, a heartless, fiendish
murder. There was no appeal
from this decision. Of a truth,
M murder will out 1"
[ Wadenlurg Argus.
Thirty years ago South Carolina
grew tea, and it was demonstrated
beyond tho possibility of
doubt that South Carolina conld
grow tea as well aasChina. It has
not been dono, because it requires
small and cheap labor ; but it will
sooner or later, bo grown in the
South in large quantities. They
fired a broadside, in Chicago, a
few days ago, 011 the reception of j
the first tea recuived by the Pacif I
ic Railroad. It will not be more
than a generation before wo will
fire a broadside in glorification
over the first car load of tea received
over the Cincinnati SonthArn
IteilrfiA/t frftm Hmitk
vmv> van kj\ji< in vaiuuuii*
Tcr is now mannfnctnred in
New Orleans bo abundantly that it
can bo afforded to families all over
the city at one cent per pound, and
to large consumers at three quarters
of a cent. It has been tested
with ice from Boston, and is found
to l>e more compact and slower in
melting. Made from filtered water,
it is clear as crystal, and pnrer
than ice naturally formed is apt
to be.
Carter of a Guerilla's Bride.
"Nearly every pleasant day pedestrians
on our principal avenues
passed a dark eyed brunette, of
medium size, a plump figure, and
richly dressed. In the early spring
of 1801 Sue Kiterage, a lovely girl,
just returned irom boarding school,
lived upon her father's plantation
in one of the rural districts of Kentucky.,
that hung in a balance, uncertain
whether to risk her fate
witli the new " Confederacy " or
lmng back. Sue was seventeen,
and a frequent visitor at the adjoining
plantation of Mr. Mundy,
an old gentleman, whose wile and
son, a young man, composed a
happy family. Ono day a company
of Union cavalry rode down
UD'Mi the nbip.e. rilmiflwwd tho
premises, carried off i he valuables,
burned the residence, and finally
slaughtered the parents, who were
defending their own firesides^ laying
waste the country in their
track, and leaving young Mundy
and Sue orphans indeed. Young
Mundy was at last aroused, and
while being carried off a prisoner
no word escaped his lips hut
41 Sue." When asked his name,
he repeated " Sue," probably the
effect of a disordered brain. II is
linen being examined, the indeli
hie name of41 Mundy " was found,
and ever after he was known as
44 Sne Mundy," the constant ter
ror of Union citizens and soldiers
in that section. Released on parole,
he immediately returned and [
interred the remains of his own
parents, as well as the body of Mr.
Kitcrage. Taking a solemn and
fearful oath o! vengeance, and, accompanied
by Sue, who was now
without home or friends in the
wide world, he started for n neighboring
camp of bushwhackers or
guerillas, where ho was received
with open arms and was soon pro
moted to the office of commander
of the force, while Sue, disguised
and passing by the name ot uKit,"
an abbreviation of Kiterogc, proved
invaluabio as a spy, a fearless
rider, and of undoubted bravery.
Kit, after serving nearly two years
as a spy and general planner for
the band, found her hetilth failing.
Disguised and armed with the
hiirhest testimonials, she succeeded
in securing a position on the
Stat) of General Claiborne, the
hardest fighting Irishman in the
rebel army. This position 6he
lu Id, doing her duty like a man,
until the battle of Atlanta, July,
12, 18fi4, in which Pat Claiborne
was killed. Returning to her
youthful hero and his band, she
again revelled iu the carnival of
blood, and though her evil spirit
was willing, the flesh was weak,
and Kit was again transferred to
guard duty at Andersonville. Prisoners
who have shared the hospitality
of the celebrated camp will
perhaps remember a short, stont,
ami muscular young lieutenant.
with flushing black eves, a face
smooth as a maiden's and cruel, as
though a fiend incarnate lurked
within. This was Sue Kiteradge,
the amiable young boarding-school
miss, the cheerful companion, the
onee wealthy heiress, the beautiful
maiden and firm friend of young
Mundy, whose life to her was dearer
thau her own.
Suo Mundy and a part of his
band were captured and tried by
a court-martial. Kit was present
during the whole trial, and used
her greatest influence, but of no
avail. Sue Mundy was convicted
and hung at Louibvillo, Ky., in
March, 18C5. The flowing hair
still hung about his shoulders, and
when his youthful corpse was taken
down and laid away in his ? arrow
bod, tho bleeding and broken
heart of Sue Kiterago was buried
with it; and now, a wanderer on
the face of the earth, homeless and
| friendless, she lives without hope
nf Itofl t/on f\y mor/iit 4. ^A
v.. W. iiiwi VJ ) nil Prtix^jii AIIU
| dishonored, and can away. i
[Detroit Pot>t.
Carl1 ton says there is no harder
riding than that of a Chinese ;
cart. The wheels arc clumsy, the ,
body nailed to the axle, and there \
is no seat, spring or cushion. The ,
mules are harnessed tan<lein> and j
the carters charge one dollar per ,
day for a cart and one inule, and j
two dollars for a cart and two t
mules. The road is worn by eon- 1
stant travel, and there are deep
rnts, sloughs and mirey places
which tho driver is not oarcfol to i
eroid. \
A New Discovery.
The Kew York Sun save: Mr.
James A. Spur lock, oi' Versailles,
a member oi the bar of Missouri,
has made an important ecientitic
discovery of another kind. His
revelations are perhaps best set
forth in hi& own language, as follows
:
"I claim the honor of discovering
the centrifugul powers of nature
that sustain and spread out the
starry heavens, and cause them to
revolve around the sun and other
fixed planets or suns. I will publish
a book this coming Spring en?
t.itlpfl ' A PliildAAiiliv
A M *? J V? WW 1 j
Earth,.and the Millennium,' in
which 1 will demoustrato in a
scientific way that the Heavens are
built by a master architect, and so
set in working order that symmetry,
harmony, firmness, and eternity
are the results. That no calamity
or collision ever did or can
occur among the heavenly bodies.
Take any pluuet?this earth for instance?hundreds
of millions ol
miles away from its present position
in itsorbit, and it will instantly
return. Gather the whole ol
our 9olar system into a group, and
they will resume their present posi
tioii. Bring, if possible, the wholt
created heavens together, and
when released they will 6proad oul
and stand and revolve in systematic
order, as now. I will show
what catises the moon to go around
primary planets, and why collisions
cannot occur. I refer skeptics
to the professors of lite Smith
sonian Insl.tutc. 1 made my discovery
by reading the Bible in u
philosophical view, and I consider
it fully demonstrates Christ's di
viuity, and proves the resurrection
of the dead to every intelligent
thinker.
Mr. Spurlock requests the edi
tors of the public journals to cal
attention to bis discover}*, and wk
have done it accordingly. Ill
suj s i iiui ne wouiu not nsK tins la
vor if lie hail money. Wo roplj
that this fact makes no diilercnc<
to us. Wo had rather dissominati
such news without price than not
\C1nonicle it Sentinel.
Why "Twinki.ktu " the Stars 1
About the twinkling ot stars tnucli
has been written not merely by
nursery rhymsters, but by true
philosophers ; for the subject, simple
enough at first thought, bocomes
puzzling when it is close
ly studied. The raomentarv
changes of color, and the flashing
intervals of obscurit}*, arc not sus
ceptible of rough and ready ex
planation. Arago invoked tlit
principle known as interference tc
account for the phenomenon. Lighl
being a wave motion, if tbecleva
tioti of one wave meet the depres
sion of another, destruction ot both
ensues, and darkness comes of tin
interference, lie held that tin
different strata of air encountered
by a star's light c tmiug to the
earth refracted the component rave
vflri.Hitdr sitwt tliruw il.mn
~'j i ?v,t r,v,u 1,1
contusion, making them clash and
become extinct. But a Roman
astronomer, Professor Rcspighi,
has lately overthrown this theory,
and shown that the scintillations
aro to be referred to momentary
deviations from their straight path
of certain of the colored i aye which
unite to form a beam of star light
Our atmosphere tirst disjrerses or
separates tne colors, and then, for
an instant, turns the course ol
some of them, leaving the others
to come to the eye. The curious
part ot Profeseor Rcspighi *b announcement
is, that tho rotation of
the earth has rn influence on the
twinkling, for, by spreading out
star's images into long spectra, ho
has noticed that these luminous
streaks are rapidly traversed by
dark furrows which sometimes
pass in ono direction and totno
times in another. These shadowy
streamings we doubtless the
sprcad-oul scintillations, and their
varying directions across tho sj>cctrmn,
upward* for stars in the
West, downwards for stars in the
East, and obliquely for thoeo in
other parts ot tho sky, show them
to be, to some extent, caused by
atmospheric fluctuations depending
upou, or connected will), the
earth's rotation. The professor
finds that not direction only, but
>peed of passage also, is coincident
with the terreetiul motion.
An old woman ha* been presented
by a Koutucky grand jury
is a witoh.
Tea Swindlers.
Appletou's Journal makes the
following charge against certain
New York tea houses:
W itliin a few years a large number
of tea companies have sprung
up in this city, which claim to import
direct from China, to furnish
a superior article at reduced rates,
and which advertise largely all over
the country. One street is fairly
lined for a considerable disI
tance with them. We are assured
| by those claiming to know that
several of these tea establishments
are organized frauds upon the people;
that they use the leaves at the
Cainelia, which so closely resemble
gemuno tea that tbey are frequently
mistaken for them by botanists
; that they largely import
and paltn off upon purchasers
Chinese tv he teathat they use
the leaves of ash plum, and other
trees, and minglo them with cooit
tea ; and, furthermore, that they
redry and color genuine tea leave*
that have once been used, or have
beeu damaged by water, Ac.
There is one of these companies
F which, we are told, does nothing
1 else but purchase damaged cargoes
or chests of tea, and then dries it on
5 the roofs of'certain buildings not a
I thousand miles from where wo are
i now sitting. The drying process
having been completed, a small
' quantity ot a superior article is
added to tho damaged iu order to
give llavor ; and it is then dono up
iu packages for distribution all over
the country. Those who are
accustomed to patronize these tea
i establishments would certainly do
well to analyizo end test the qual
itv of the article which is dispensi
cd to them.
The Old World EiinitAcixG nttt
" New.?Our correspondent on the
' gronnd says that tho scene of the
5 laying of "the last rail" on the
5 Pacific Railroad 44 was a grassy
' valley on a mountain which dir
vides tho north cud of tho Oreat
J Salt Lake into two bays, far away
' from all signs of civilization ex
cept such as surround the two
railroad camps. A chosen party
of skilled Chinese levelled the
t ground and laid the last few ties,
i and the last pair of rails were
' placed and spiked to all but tho
> nisi ne,' reserved lor me tinul ceremony
of the junction of two ends
of the mighty road. Here, then,
at the Great Salt Lake, the Dead
' Sea of America, in the heart ot
\ tho Continent, (the City of the
Latter Day Saint* being at tho
other end of the Lake,) here wo
> have, in the joint labors of Chi>
neso and American workmen, Asia
L and America hand in hand, or tho
Old World embracing the New?
a most interesting and suggestivo
i incident*
i
> A FrIKND TO TIIK CoNFKORltACY.
?It is not generally known that
i Spain was a strong sympathizer
t with tho 44 Lost Cause," and espe?
cially that she at one time ordered
I steps to be taken for active hostilities
againrt the North ; yet Mr.
C a- * '
oevieiary l erry, or the American
, Legation at Madrid, 00 states in a
1 recent letter. He says: "The
desire of Spain to divide this conn1
try was so great in 1863 t.iat the
1 government of that country order.
ed hostilities to commence on onr
Southern border." Perry inti
mates that it was through his ncf
tivc interpoeition and efforts that
i countermanding orders were subi
scqnently scut out.
Ministkk Bnrlingnmc rebuked
the foreigners wlio thonght they
" outranked " him in Paris, in the
following style : "We Americans
do not mis? the qnestion of rank.
Wo receive all gentlemen as occupying
a common level. But if von
raise the qneetion of position, we
outrank yon. You are nothing
hut Dukes, Marquises nnd Counts.
Wo belong to the royal family.
We are the equal of our President.
Wo are all heir apparents to the
throne. We stand up for our order,
and, if ueed be, we fight for
order.'*
RrviTnto Riipnmio Koo
, ?^..v iiixi irorn III"
vitcd t<? address tho Augusta La
bor Union, but owing to pressing
engagements he will bo forced to
postpone it until next fall.
Why is a one dollar greenback
better than a silver dollar ? Wluq
you fold it yon double it. and when
you open it 70c find it ii-orea**.