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t I ?? . . & TTTT- . , . , A. REFLEX OF POPULAR JSVRNI^, V ill n?<MBeaaii i i?i?-tMW-1 i m i ifir, i jssifiassaaf JOHN C. BA1I.LY, I'RO'R. J A GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. SKlTEMldflfr: '/' ; ' ftoL Q. F* TO WN ES. EDITOR. . Ihawnrriw Two DolUn f?? o?bwm. 5 . Adt**tiii?uti insert?* at Ita nlM of ?> dollar per square of twolva Mima Haw la stood typo) ?r 1?m for tfc? Ira* Insert!??, IAj omU seek for th? moa< Ml third lM*rUoh, wl twenty-tr? e?nU for Nba^unt insertions. Yearly contracts will be tan da. AM idnrtiNwnU nut bm the iiabw at Insertions Marked ?a them, or they will h? inserted UU ordered out* aad charged for. Unless. ordered otherwise, Advert issues ts Will laverUbly be " displayed." OMtuary boilers, wad all matters Inuring to to the benelt or ahy m% ar? regarded as Advertisement*. hi* s*. IV* moo many a girl, Who would marry a churl, Providing he'd plenty of gold, And woeld lire to repent When the money ?u apent, When the found (hat her heart had been eold. It ie no! It la eo! Ton may emHe, if yon like, Bat It'a eo t I've known many n laaa Who wen Id thenghtleeely pan Whole honra promenading the atreet, While her mother woald acruh AU the while at the tnh, , Never minding the eold or the heat. , ' It ia eo I It la eo! Ton may amile, If yon like, Bnt it'a ao I i ' irf 1 There li many a afka Who will " dreea " If he eaa. No matter hew empty hie pane, And hia tailor may took, When be eettlea hie hook, Bat hU patron haa vamoeed or worae. It ia ao I It ia ao! Ton may amile, if yon like. Bat it'a eo 1 I know people ao nlee '7 They will taint in a trteo, If yon mention hard labor to them, Tet their parenta were poor And were forood to endure Maij hardship! Ufa'a current to atom. It la to! It la aol Ton may smile, If yon like, Bat it'a ao! Thara are many about With a faea " long drawn oat," Who will prate for tha barm of a laugh, Yet they'll cheat all tha weak, Though Sandaya quite meek. To my mind they're too pioua by half. It ia ao! It ia ao! You may amila, if you like, Bat it'a ao! Tar tha Southern Bntarprira. Messrs. Editors?As it has beeji decided that the next Scholastic Year of the Furman University and of the Greenville Female College, shall consist of One Term of Fortyone Weeks, with one vacation of about three months, occurring altogether in the Summer, instead of Two Terms of Twenty Weeks each as heretofore; and as the expediency of this change is questioned by some, it may not be amiss to present a few considerations which Send to show its propriety. It is a subject of some importance, and as its discussion need not arouse the passions at all, it can be considered camly and deliberately: In the first place, then, it is a fact, that nearly all of our more prominent institutions of learning have abandoned tbe plan of Laving two terms with a short vacation following each?one in Summer, and one in Winter?and have adopted the other plan, and it is reasonable to infer that they have done so from experience of tbe disadvantages attending the former. There a/rt such disadvantages, and some of them are of d very serious nature. Those who have had any experience in teaching, know that the two most trying periods in every school, are the opening and closing?the first weclc or two, and the last week or two. The lamentable lsok of punctuality, of being "up to time," which is so prevalent, and which works so rancn mischief in other things, is perhaps no where more pernicious than as it afeets the commencement and process of a school. This evil, and im uvuoequenCQI, UIO MWDer DM to encounter at the beginning of erory session. Parents think?or rather their ehildreo tell them ao, and unfortunately they yield the point?that IKtle or nothing will ' do dona for the Drat week or ten Ith# children) might m well stay at home and wait nntil every thing gala under way. Did it ever oocnr to them, that the vary reaeon why nothing is doue, ia that there ie nobody to do any thing with, or ao few, that vary little ean be dona 9 Of oonrse, if the acbolara are not there, it ia I.. I 'I . I, I". '! r VttSBBQBC*impossible to classify them, Md t equally impossible to arrange the c schedule ol recitations. The exer- I cises of the school are thus greatly 1 retarded* and the lew parents who 1 dp send at the proper tiuie become impatient, because their children i are so slow in entering upon their studies, and the poor teacher is i unmercifully censured, not with- 1 standing he has earnestly requested, in his advertisement, the prompt 1 and punctual attendance oi all the i scholars. Again. The restlessness which i is apt to pervade a school as the session draws to its close?aggro- i vated in the case of those who have been away from their families 1 for several months, and in some < who are anxious to escape the final examinations, culminating in i their actnal departure before the proper time; this is an evil which i is dreaded by every teacher.' The 1 student has scarcely recovered from the depressing effects of home-sickness and become inter- 1 ested in his studies, when the pros- < pect of returning to the u loved ones far away," moms up to divert his mind from books and fill it with images of uliome, sweet ] home." This may not be an evil exactly, but every one who has ever felt it, (and what youth at school has not!) knows that it interferes very materially with study ; and the writer ean testify, from some observation, that its chief victims are to be found * among the inmates of a female college. Now the recurrence of 1 these things is avoided by having 1 one long, instead of two short terms. There are other evils and disadvantages ii.cident to the l&t ter plan, many of which will occur to tiie thoughtful mind, and 1 thcreforo need not be mentioned. If no abler pen can be induced to pursue this subject, it is proposed to present, very briefly, in your next issue, some of the advantages of the other plan. ran THE HOUTHEUW KITlirRKI. Snakes. Mefttrg. Editort?On Tuesday, the 10th instant, Mr. Edward King's dog bayed a rattlesnake not far from his house, wnen Mr. King's son, Lorenzo, hearing the barking of the dog, went to the 6cene, and beheld a rattlesnake. Mr. King dispatched the snake at once but in the meantime it had bitten the dog, of which he died that night. It had only six rattles, but was large for its age, and the only fat snake I ever saw. It was apparently from three to four feet long. A neighbor procured it, and I helped skiu it, and a portion was rendered into oil which is said to be a specific for piles and rheumatism. Some weeks back Mr. Lorenzo King killed still another only a few hundred yards from where the last was killed, and a freed man abont the same time killed still at f_ at f-il .1 1 uuutur iu uie same noigiiDoruooa, very large and containing nine rattles. One ot these snakes was killed immediately in the Batesville road, the other two not a hundred yards from said road; all in half a mile of eaoh other, ar.d between the four and five mile poets. I hear of one being found on a gentleman1* bed-rail, and another bo tween the bed clothes. Oan any other township beat us In the way of rattlesnakes t Wouldn't it be well enough to go armed with a vial of hartshorn or a bottle of whisky duly stamped I Of course the whisky without the stamps, such as is generally kept about Qreenville, would be worse than the snake bite. Good whisky is said to be a sovereign remedy, to be taken in large doeee, even as much as a pink If. Iw tfcs fiiftin Satsrsrtss. grant till*, 8. 0.,) Augnat 14th, 1860. \ Maura. Editort?I ?u so mnch amused at the following colloquy between a lady friend of the senior editor, and Daddy 8am, his faithful servant, that I am tempted to send it for your column ot items, as an original specimen of negro hnmor. The ladr a night or two sinoe, was roused from her si ambers at a rather late hour, by a rap at the door. Daddy Sam bad come to say, u be would list be sore and fob fil bit promise (so often neglected) to morrowand as an after S ' 1 '." I'll ?j.t". ' 1 | 1 I li 9 MM hough t, remarked, that 14 a little Irani wouldn't hurt." A douceur S to often received at the ladjr's land, and of which he ia moderate- t< y fond. The old man passing next morn- I ng was hailed thus? a: Lady ? ? Well Daddy 8am, I vhere are the pony and calf, did'nt V ceep your promise after all, eh 1" fc 8am-On ! mistis, good monsm; I low's all the family Y Fine mornin' I nam." Lady?44 Old man, I am sorry cj 'or yoo, Tory sorry indeed." u Sara?44 What von sorrv tnr mm h rar,m\t> T * ' " * Lady?H Wei! Daddy Sam, last J light in a dream, I saw you in a Ireadful hot place." Sam (thoughtfully) ? " Mist is 8 vhar was yon 'bout aem times ?" n Lady (hesitatingly)?44 Me flu Bras On 1 I was in Abraham's U ixraom." Sam (gravely shaking his head) \ ?M-i-g n t-y nice place ma'am, I n Kinder t'ought you bin heap closer p io, to ha' seen me so good. A Sam had another dream. LYS t _ d Proceedings of the United States ' District Court, for the Western District of Bonth Carolina?An- I gnat Tern, 1889. a Tuesday, Ang. 18. \ ITon. Geo. S. Bryan presiding. The Ooart was opened at 10 " o'clock, A. M. ^ The Grand, Petit and Pleas Jo- L rors answered as on preceding days. * c Criminal Docket, ' United States vs. Marion Ilamet. Violation ot Internal Revenue ? Laws?distiller without paying special tax, section 5 and 6, Act J 20 July, 1868. The defendant plead gnilty and < was sentenced to a fine ot one tlion. 1> sand dollars, and six months imprisonment. < The Grand Jnry retnrned iuto * Court with the following hills and 1 findings as follows, to wit: True Bill*. c United States vs. R. J. W. * Hitt Peddler of distilled spirits, without paying tax. ^ United States vs. John Chapman. Distilling without paying tax. United States vs. Andrew J. * Patterson. Removing distilled 1 spirits contrary to law, section 3, 1 6, Act 186S. 1 United States vs. John Chaproan. Distilling without paying tax. United States vs. R. J. W. Hitt 1 Peddler of distilled sp rits, without . paving special tax. True bills having been fonnd 1 in the above cases, ordered, that * bench warrants do issue for arrest of Defendants. In Bankruptcy. Ex nartft W\ F RpHH In cr rif Charleston. Petition for finai discharge. R. Chisolm, Jr., pro pet. Petition referred to J. O. Carpenter, Register, and final hearing order* ed, to take place before the Court at Charleston, on 4tli day of October next. Ex parto Wm. N. Hall of Abbeville. Petition for final discharge. S. McGowan, pro pet. Ex parte John R. Moore of Ab* beville. Petition for final discharge. T. 0. Perrin, pro pet. Ex parte Jeptha Qwinn, of York. Petition for final discharge. Hart, pro pet. Register, Olawson, reporting favoramy in each of the above cases, the Judge on motion, signed certificate and orders discharge. Ex parte Dennis McOninnis, of i iff v tk.ifiJ m?t -? _ jnewiwrrj. jtwuiod ior DDtl discharge. 8. "W, Melton, pro pet. Register. 0. G. Jaegor, reported i in lav or of discharge, (on the re- I port of the late Register, Summer,) ? wee read and the Court, oa motion ; of 8. W. Melton, timed under teal i the certificate ancf order of diecharge Thttmdat, 26th An gust. Court opened at 10 o'efook A. i M. Grand and Petit Jorora answered to their namea. |, The Grand Jury returned into Court with the following bills and findings i No Bills. i United States ?. Isaiah Murphy. Distilling without paying tax, sections 6, 6, 7 end 44, "Act 80th July, 1866. United States ts. Wm. Lore and Jams* Lore. The same as the preceding. !' 4 K f rt -- ' I ? United States vs. James Moore, ame. United States ve. John W, Car jr. Same. United States ts. 20 Barrels )istllled Spirits, One Distillery nd Appurtenances; found at Licbland County in possession ot V, II. Stack. Information for >rieitnre for violation Internal tevenna Laws. D. T. Corbin )istrict Attorney. Jury No. X charged with tliis , use on Monday and the argument 'as closed to-day, and the further earing continued till to morrow, 'hen the Judge will charge the ury. Friday, An grist 27. Conrt opened at 10 o'clock A. i. Petit Jurors answered to their ames; the Grand J (fry were dislissed until Wednesday, lstSepamber. United States vs. John P. Vynn. Violation Internal Reveue Laws. Distilling without aying tax. D. T. Cor Bin District Lttorney. Defendant plead guiltv and sen anced to pay a fine of eleven Uunred dollars .and seven months7 mprisonmcnt. ^ , United States vs. 20 Barrels distilled Spirits, One Distillery ,nd Appurtenances; found at tichlanu County in possession of Y- H. Stack. Information for forditnre for violation Internal Reveiue Laws. D. T. Corbin District Attorney; W. K. Easley ana Samtel W. Melton for claimant. Jury No. 1 charged with this ase, returned into Conrt with a erdict of 44 Not Guiltv." D. T. Corbin; District Attorney, noved for a new trial. United StAtes vs. John Bcvis.? Distilling without paying tax. Jury No. 2, charged with this ?se, relnrned into Conrt with a ^erdict of 44 Not Guilty." United States vs. Thos. A. Holtx :Iaw. Violation Internal Revalue Law. Indictment ae retail iquor dealer without paying tax. On hearing argument in this :aae, on motion of ?. P. Jones, irdered that the judment be set iside and a new trialgranted. United States vs. Frank Arnim. Oppression in office. The above named Defendant laving been called, and failing to inswer, on motion of District Atornoy, ordered that a bench war-ant do forthwith issue for his ar-est for trial. 7n Bankruptcy. Ex parte M. Lesser. Petition ror final discharge. W. E. Earle, pro Pet. ' w^ Register, C. G. Jaeger, reportng favorably, the Judge signed in order and certificate of discharge under seal of Coart. CorrMposdMBM ColatnbU Pkaaix. The ChinamenMr. Editor : As tlie question of a supply of labor by means of au sxtcnsive importation of Chinese is it present uppermost in the tuinds >f many of our citiaens, who claim X) hare the future welfare of the tanth at heart, it may not be out >f place to give a short account of the character, the habits and the industrial capacity of these people whom we propose to bring into onr midst. A celebrated German landscape painted, Edward Hildebrandt, lately deceased at Berlin, has left an account of bis recent journey around the world, which ia not only highly amusing and instructive, bnt also entirely trustworthy, on account of the high character of its author. He says: 14 The Chinese are more cleanly and more industrious than the Hindoos; bnt tbey are fearfully perverse and immoral. I saw on my journey, (through the 4 celes uai empire,) numerous corpses ot children floating in the rivers. In Hong Kong, my friends bad already prepared me for these horrible symptoms of Chinese immorality, bat when I saw the fact before my eyea, I alrooet loet my self-oontrol. Infanticide is the order of the day, owing to the crowded poplation and the difficulty of gaiuteg the neeessary subsistence for the family. The new born girls generally fall victims to this horrible practice?especially when they nave a weak constitution and nilattractive features. The unnatural parents throw their children into the river, or expose them alive, a prey to dogn ana hogs. In the larger towns, which are not situa I, II ' ' I ted on the rivers, tbe corpses af& thrown intp pits^ yhicb, from time gr tQ time,' are flue4 tip with duick m lime.' The afctifitj t.of European fiu missionaries is powerless against ah tliis practice; in fad* their efforts e* are entirely without tee alt." Still, 8r in spite of this moral degradation, So the author stye, the Chinese are, in m some respects, a very interesting hs people. Their shop# offer to the sp foreign visitors innumerable ob- no jecte of attraction. . j St u Their phantasticallp gotte&tip m tea services, their carvings in Sbo 8c ny wood, their chairs, sofas, tables pr and bedsteads, made of the costliest to woods and inlaid with a cnriotVs y< mosaic, composed of small pieces St of white ana red marble, cannot la be too mnch admired. In their rfri agricultural pursuits they excel tit any other nation in eoonomy. Ev- of erv third man carries manure on Rr bis back from tbe towns; even the or shavings of tbo beards and tlie at trimmings of the finger nails are T1 bought up and turned to account hi by the gardeners and farmers in A tbe neighborhood of tbo cities. In- Ui teresting is a dinner at tbe house tb of a * Mandarin.' Tbe 4Tschan- 3 Tschsu' c< n sis ted of at least thirty 01 or thirty-five courses. Hard-boil- vi ed eggs, which had been preservod fcj four or five years under gronnd, li< Indian bird's nests, shark fins, pick - Si led and dried rain-worms swim- si ming in a bluish sauce, tiaeheee of to large and small caterpillars were, at with many others, the dishes with &i which the travelers were regaled, tb Our thirst was quenched with a & light lake-warm wine. A qnanti- &< ty of confectionery, composed of sugar, almonds and bog's lard, constituted tbo desert. 1 tie rat is tiio favorite game of tbe Chinese. ^ Gourmands know bow to appreciate tbe difference between land ai and water rats more that zoologists tc can do. Tbe former are said to be " superior in flavor, and bring oonsequcntly a higher price. They are in such demand as to form an article of trade, so that tbe newspapers of Hong Kong habitually TT quote their market price in their 01 price currents. Tbe literary and " scientific knowledge of the Chinese a is of the lowest order; their judi- j* cial proceedings are barbarous, '( their punishments inconceivably ^ cruel and loathsome. Nor is there, a i 2? . tl.^s si-i cr ib bvviiid, ?njr uujiv iiiu iuu jmiiuii " will ever attain to a higher degree n of mental cnltnre, owing to the 9 strange 4 stability * of Chinese * character and customs." b With ench accounts before as, it o: behooves those among as, who do i n?>t look merely to the immediate " advantages of an increase of man n ual labor, to consider well before ?' they act whether, by bringing in 11 such a set of man amongst us, they J* are not preparing a worse curse |] for our children and children's children, than African importa- ? tions have proved to bs, and whether it is not well to weigh the truth ? of the maxim, that a bad citizen is <3 worse than no citizen at all, and ? that a base, low and immoral inhabitant will eventually prove a curso and not a blessing to the y community in which he lives, 'c whatever his capacity for physical ? labor or the cheapness of obtaining C it may bo. A. 8. * A Bawtot is Tknnubkb.?The * Banner Bays: "William Hill, a promiuent citizen ot Tennessee, was kidnapped last week by Bndd 0 Carter, and carried into the moon- n tains, from whence word was sent J that he wonld be hnng or shot it * not ransomed by the payment of $2,000. Hill sent word to raise 1 the money, and it was raised and ^ sent to the point designated." c ,,,,, I Chops is Flokio a.? Accounts c during the past week from this 1 State are decidedly cheering, and a show that the Florida planters 1 were far worse scared than hurt. c Having lost every crop since the war, they may be exoased for beinn a littla rlantinralim<) K.r m im mm ' bowers Mid the appearance of a ! caterpillar here ana there. g ^ t Stamp Rbvbmub.?A compare- , tive statement of the salo of reve- j nne stamps from March to July, i inclusive, 1668 and I860, shows 1 that the receipts from that source for those months in 1868 was $6,- J 105,145,37, while in 1860 it was $7,050,830,65, a gain of $861,665,. 95, or 1ft 010 per cent, in five t months of 1860 over the cor res- ( ponding period in 1868? i , , ^ *faiSiifrk Fa Star'?Dr. Snodass, in tbe Northern Monthly^ tiraates tbe number of the Sinitb mily in the United . States at out half & tail! ion. But k ems there are Smiths and nyths. la tbe effort to maintain me degree of individuality, the embers of this nniversal family ive adopted different modes of. elling their names. There, are it only the English variations of b^th and Smythe, but the Geran forms* As Schmidt, Schmit,' :hmid, Smlt and Schmitz. It is. obdbTy owing to this same desire tfiiilntiun m. )/>'. that the nnmber of Jobs fifth's fc pSrclDtlblJ diminishing' i New Kork city Qiero has been, ithitf a fovfr years a falling off of irty-five per oent. in tbQ ?TohnaJ the family. Sinitjh cymes from nite, and therefore inoicsfths the igin ot the name to hWye been nong the workers of metal.? nose skilled artisans were held in' gh repute in early times.? mbhg tjio Scottish ijf iglilanders ie smith ranked pot less tfrarf iird in d^nitv to the chief of fUe an, ahd. m Wales smithcraft was' ?e of the threo sciences which a illalg or, tenant could not teach is 6wh' ihild without an express cenrfe trtreft. hie ford. So the miths may hold ftp' fb'&ir heads nong the " first fam'fliea." As" i their great number, one writer tfibutta ft .to the fact that they 'e direct descendants of Shorn,' ie son of Noah, the name being ius derived: Shem, Shemit,sbriiiC, Smith*. . bold for Cotton. ,, The Np^Tcrk Herald, of Monny, in its financial article, says i Now that the Southern Statep re about to commence a new cot>n year, they ought to transact ie whole of their cotton bnsinees n a gold basis, just as the foreign buhiv uarc Mwavg uuiiu ill lueir calings in billsoi exchange. In lis way the vrholo Southern States* tight gradually place themsefvee' n a gold currency basis precisely 10 same as practiced in Califoria, thus ignoring the Legal-Ten* er Act of Congress, just as the >yal State of California always as done, from the beginning until ow. The Southern States, by illowing the example.6f Cajiforia in buying and selling only for, old, would then accumulate a gold; ud silver currency, Whhih would ring abont a practical resumption f specie payments and protect jein from danger of loss from any uctuations that may arise in tho larket value of the greenback; urrency. Cotton commands gold i every market, at home and broad, and h ia a better basis for je practical immediate reeumpon of specie payments in tho onthem States than the gold and ilver mines of California. Evdfy outhcrner is interested in tbo uestion, and every journal h) tho' outh ought to exert its influen6o > bring about this result without clay. Let the South sell its proucts for gold, and gold only, and' :t them keep their surplus in gold s the only currency to use, just as lalifornia always has done. ThiaT rill be some progress on the road > specie payments, and it will and to keep gold in the country.' Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, late' f the Confederate Cabinet, but iow of England, has, after two 'cars appearance at the British >ar, been made Queen's Counsel, in honor almost without precedent n the promptitude of its bestowal1.; kside from making him sonior ounsel in whatever cases he may * employed, the promotion will onsiderably add to his emolu^ nents. Being on the Liverpool ind Manchester circuit, he will be etained in commercial litigations* Ft iiupui imice. Thk Odd Fxllows and tub! Pa-; tiviq Railroad.?It it announced bat the wives of representatives to the Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Order of Ddd Fellows, which meets in $enember next at San FranCired, Vhlr m posted ever the Uhioli Pacific Railroad at one and one-fifth ot the -egular charge, with a free return massage, and at half fare either vaj on the Central Pacific. Dantxt. Wkbbtkr used to hat the word M would," in RnfUtf 2hoate's handwriting, resembled a urall gridiroii ttruck by lightnih^ ' - m ~ ? *