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.A. RETnLlEX-3?^^^)P'TJIuAIi ETV^EIN'TS. JOHN C. BAltKV,'i>RO'R. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. SRPTEKB-R~29. 1869. \' VOL. XVI.--NO. 19. ? ?.? ~ . I> Jwj^fafcjyiit >t Mairtiil? 1 II li I *BMiiJillll?W t-j-J ?'?? ?-** &'.-*F . I^OW N>. Sr; EDITOR. la?tnd the rate* of one dollar pot fcptaro of twolro Minion Unoo (this aMM typo) or Iom Iter tbo ft rat insortion, fifty cedts each tor the second and third insertion*, and twenty-fire cents tor subsequent insertion*. Tnatty esMiwts aHI haiada, All advayitoeuMuta Must hare the number nf Insertions marked on them, or they will ha Inserted till ordered on* sad eharftod lot. Unlets cordoned Otberwteo, AdverUsetnents will inrhrthhly U ^displayed." * * Obitenry notices, and all matters insuring to to tbe be not* of any one, are regarded as Advertisements. The " Now I lay R? "?any It darltng j " Lay mo,* Ikpod the tiny lips t Of my danghtef, kneeling, bonding, O'er her folded fingtftlps. " Down ta sleep "?"to sloep;w she mnrtnnrod, And Iks eorly head dropped low ) a r .1 t ?i " r .1 J> , Cl-V "T> ? " " Vdu (ig nj ll *31, I know." " Priiy the Lord'V-tbe word* came faintly, Fainter still?* My soul Jo lteep f Thou iuv tiiw um fs!r!y redded. And the child wm fast asleep. i * "' <' < v .... But the dewy eyes half opened, When I clasped her to my breast, , And the dear voice softly whispered, " Mamma, God kaoits all the rest."' ' ' ' 0, the.trustin*. sweet cMfldltf' ' 11 ' 4 | Of the child heart ! Would that I Thus might trust my Heavenly Father, lie who beers my fcebleet try. Extract ftrom a Private Letter. Consulate of the United: States at1 l*ort Stanley, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Oceant South America, May 20th, 1869. 2o ?Ze Governor B. F. Perry, Greenville C. II., <N. C. My Pear Sir?It line occurred to niy mind, that some account of this aide of the globe might be interesting to you, as I am now oi> the opposite side of the sun and moon troin you. When it is Summer at Greenville, Sonth Carolina, if ia W itifot* Qt tin* To. 1 amis; it ie noon-day with us when you are shrouded in your midnight slumbers. While I am writing?May 20tb, 1809?the snow is three inches deep at Falkland Islands, white, in the United States, you are having your early potatoes. I must iirst give you a brief account of my long voyage at sea.? I left New Yoik on the 21st of December last, on board the American Bark "Wheatland\ bound for Buenoe Ayrcs, South America, and after forty-fonr days?outright of land?on the morning of February 4th, wo entered the mouth of the Rio de-la-plata, (one of the largest river's on the globe.) At its junction with the sea, it is one hundred and fifty miles wide.? Soon after?sixty miles distant? the high neake of the naked mountains of the Republic of Uruguay, were seen in South Amorica? welcome sight 1 the first land seen in seven thousand five hundred tniles 1 A dove came on board at this point. I will now recur to my voyage from New York to this point, from notes which 1 lake from my diary. We sailed east until we came near the coast of Africa, and thence south towards Fayal and Santiago, Portugal, and the Capo-de^verd Island!*, leaving Brazil to the right. We crossed theeqoator on Sunday, the 17th of January. Becalmed on that day. The sea was smooth and fbone like glass. Several whales came near the vessel this day?one very large one ; he stood np ont of the eea with bis head, back and fcdl, and spoated water six or eight feet upwards. He imade our vessel look small, t was pleased to soe him disappear. We had two gales, and lost some elf on board in both storm and calm, and with marine philosophy ?that if our ship was no! lost* we wortld reach the land. .1 raustjnow return to the River Platej (nirfliey call it here,) and ' !?W7W account of ji|?ntevideo and Rnenos Ayres. The former eity to afar^r writes from the sea. on the right bank of the Biod*fa>pla?, (U|??iird. W..UM1,) btt Ml OOtC||, tllOft Wf 'twv 10 Iheaa hundred vessels io port? fltauj from the United States. The ?I> built up, and the public Delldingi are spacious and well arranged, and some of u?c private nianeiona art decant European capital controls tne commerce oi South America, and it is very well th?t it does. The Datives, Spaniards, make no progress in the art! Commerce ? wool, hides, dried beof, hoXs, bones, tallages** tea. Wool is very well put uj in bales, Kke cotton lh -the United States. One man in the Argentine liepublic owns a millien ot cattle, and many Wool-growers frbttf lOff, 000 to 200,000 sheep. Foitgf three thousand beef cattle wW( driven to Montevideo by the large cattle owner above mentioned, tc be bntcbered at one time, This will give rou some idea ot mdivid 01 wealth in South America.? These wealthy gentlemen, howev er, nave, sense enough to make their rMidnnnA in P.ncrlond My limits will not allow me tc give von * full detail ot many mat tcrs tfiatr come under my notice in South America. It is a country of unbounded natural resources, which itobeingt!nveloped,'tiysome extent, by English enterprise.? Brazil % a rich country in the precious ores?diamonds a staple pro duct. A coffee field in Bread, ie as handsomely laid out and col tivated as a flower garden. The nobility are hard to approach.? The Emperor is par excellence : hi* presence can only be reached by those who stand nearest the throne: still, 1 do not look on Mfteil as being half civilised, if the Eoglieli were not among them. The war witn Lopez is slid going on. IIo has falien^baek from his Capitol six hundred miles: but in a fight he whips the Brazilians badly. As a commander-in-chief, he is much in character like Santa Anna. I saw some of his men? prisoners?at Montevideo; they are a mixed race?halt Spaniards, half Indians, with a portion of the negro; a specimen of what the population of the United States will be by-audby under the equal ity of races. A struggle for the .existence of an Empire or a Republic, is an issue in which I feel a deep interest?more particularly MfltAM r? ? 4 .. r? ^ L. k? ? ?" ?B wiiqu im wuivai ib oviwmi oivnized nations; because, upon the result trfay depend the welfare ol the whole human race. Not bo with barbarians at war, which al ways results in making room tor a better population. I have no.news from the Uuitxd States whatever. When the pub lie debt is paid, and the Federal Constitution is recognised as the paramount law of the land, and the Angjo Saxon race maintains thei.e Appropriate statu* iu society and Government, I shall be glad to hear from my native land?not sooner. Falkland Islands.?East Falkland (Port Stanley, rmy -? Consulate,) has an area ' as ' large as Greenville, Piokene and Anderson Districts, in South Carolina. It ii in latitude 51, 40p> S"nlh ; longi* tude 5(, 49<> West; two hum red and fifty miles southwest of Caj>c Horn, and seven thousand five hundred miles from New York? beyond this, n6 vessel ever sails.? It is one endless space <?f ice from here to the South Pole. Ihe Falk i j t_? i_ ? i ? Juno isianas are naaef or trees bosh or sHrub of the wood kind the landscape is picturesque,. pre sentingan ex tonal ve view of big! And' rugged monntains and hilh covered with rock, and with peaki shooting up several thousand feel above the sea. The more leve parts of the Islands is pasture foi wild cattle and wild horses thai exist in great numbers. This is a British Colony. TV Governor resides * here, and th< whole inale population (adults) an officials, except those persons con nectfld with two imnortimr houses and. all supplies come from Lon doto; no commerce from the Unfte< States. Goldf add silver1 ctirrdric; it abundant?no paper money.? and highly accomplished, andkaej 3> fhsnionable life all tbe timo.reat efforts at display by botl exes. I am reticent, ana resolved if they can show more dignitynati&nal or personal?or sit fai tber back in the Chair of Stat thai* the Consul of the Unit? Statea, it aball coat tbora an effori i least. My health is robnsi weight 175 pounds. If I Ihr* t return to the United States, I she take an rout* the other half of th glob<- ** Tm&tL. Consul United States. A ft tint tiffin Iff ii nffT i Mr?. Harriet Beecber fctowe has i giro the true canee of the separa, tion of Lord and Lady Byron. We have sat some tor* publicaI tion of tbiee boast ly Charge*, but give, in lieu thereof, such com, menta of the preaa aa throw light ? on the alleged inydery. and develt op fe*ac(Ty the worth and infamy ! of the evidence. The Missouri t Republican says: .' 4* This mystery?if we are to bei licve' Ifw.' Btowels account?is now cleared away by the revelation of Hlich awful ornilt tliat tliA tragic story of Beatrice Ceuci is as i nothing in comparison. ,u The following words c ntain \ the essence of the charge preferred against Lord Bvrou by his wile, speaking throngU-her friend *. "*JPronvtheXeight t$ which he , might have been happy as thv i hneband of a noble woman, he fell into the depths of a secret adulter i ous intrigne with a blood relation, so near in consanguinity, that dis i covery must have heen utter rnin and expulsion from civilized socie11 The person here alluded fco can i be no other than Lord Byrou's halff sister, the Honorable August* r Maria Leigh. It will be reinemi be red thai the father of the poet, i 4 Mad Jack Byron/ as be was called, was a confirmed roue, so utterly infamous in his wickedness > that he wtp virtually banished 1] Irom decerit society. In his twen> ty-seventh year, he eloped with the , ftl archioness of Carmarthen, whose > husband shortly after procured a divorce, when Byron married her. She died in 1784, a victim of his , neglect and ill-treatment. One i daughter, Augusta, was the sole i fruit of this wretched union. The i following year Byron married Miss Catherine Gordon, the mother of > the anthor of 4 Childe Harold.' Augusta, then, must have been at I least two or three years the pernor ' of her half-brother, but a strong - affection existed between them, the i records o f which are scattered through both bis poetry and correspondence. 8 he was lira last to 1 leave him previous to his final de* partore from England ; her name was amorrg the last that lingered I' on his lips when he lav dying at Miseolonghi, and he bequeathed L to her all the property he possessi ed, except what was already settled upon Lady Byron and Ada. It was Augusta's hand which placed over Byron's torub. in Hucknall Church, the tablet which bears a i name that needs no sculptured marble to make it immortal. 44 Augusta died a number of y years since, and, up to this time, i no breatli of slander from any i quarter has ever stained her reptiI tat ion. 44 The world is now asked to be1 lieva that this lady formed, and coni tinned through several years at i least, an incestuous connection with her brother, and that a child - was born of the unnatural alliance, i But this is not all; we are asked - to believe that Lady Byron knew , of the connection immediately after l littr inirriairo an/t ?Ko? #?? - - , w?v? imwi| <i vui n rie of duty to her husband, and tbe sake of* tbe angel that was ? in him,' she tacitly sanctioned it i by permitting the partner of bis t crime to remain under her roof 1 while she herself continued to hold r the position of a wife. More than t this even; we are told that she did L not leave Lord Byron of her own * free will, hat was driven away hy ? him; (hat tbe offspring of tbe iu 9 trigue was protected and cared for - by her until its death, and that the * same kind offices Were afterward extended to the mother. The 1 world shrinks back involuntarily f from the o oaten plation of the Jtor rible theme, and nothing but Mrs. 1 Stowe's high character for iitterrb i, ty and truthfulness prevents the P story from being at onco consign ed to oblivion as a slander too vile h ior criticism, much less oontradicl? tion. Bat there can be no doubt - on one point?what Mrs. Stowe ' says was derived from converse* ? tions with and memoranda snbmittod to her by Lady Byroo herself!. t? The whole fabric, then, must stand or fall upon the veracity of Lady, o Byron; tbero is no other proof, '1 nor does Mrs Stowe claim that | ? there is any. "Now, while we are willing to concede all the admirable qualities to Lady Byron which it is possible BiiSSiilS erf deliberate!? HWfied mr 'vrae cheated into beltertnfc as real what was only a monstroas ballocUiat ion of the brain. Byron's open immorality has long been acknowledged, even the' moef enthusiastic admirers of ills genius, bat we contend that there it nothing in hia recorded words or actions which wiH jostlff such allegations as these. Reckless. defiant sinner he may have been, Wt that he ever steeped himself in such beastly criminality as is hare sea forth, we do hot belive. Nor if he did, do wo imagine for a morn cut that a woman of Lady Jjyton's pnrlty and principle wonld liavO consented, from any motive however high and noble, to bare not only cloaked his infamy witb ber own unspotted garmente, but accepted him as her husband and the father of her child." The Republican then refers to an article.trom Blackwood, on the other side of the question, and thus continues s "The article from Blackwood will be fonnd exceedingly interea ting, in connection with Mrs Stowe's statement, and is a fait companion-piece to it. To oni mind it utterly disproves Lady Byron's story as told to Mrs. Stowe, but it shows, moreover, that Mrs. Stowe was uot the first who had beard of it As yet there is an utter absence of fact or circumstance to sustain the horrible charge, and the verdict of the world, upon the case as it stands now. will be that it rests wholly upon.the unsupported assertion oi a woman who was forced to give some extraordinary explanation of her unforgiving conduct towards her husband." . The Ooorior-Jonrnnl pursues the theme with indignation and pours the seven vials of wrath upon the perpetrator of this scandal and the publisher of it. It says: 44 A mystery has hung over the subject for halt a century, and Mrs. 8towe professes to reveal it. The professed revelation is most revolting. The illustrious poet, we are asked to believe, was guilty of habitual and long-continned incest with his sister, aud had a child by her, who died in Lady Byrou's arms years afterward when Byron was a wanderer in self exile from his country. But this, even if true, is not, as it purports to be, an explanation of tlie separation of Lord and Lady Byron. According to the statement, Lady Byron was anxious to the last to live with her husband, and it was he who rudely rent the conjugal ties asunder. " Now it she knew him to be guilty of the horrible prime of incest, it was reason enough wby she QIIASIM uKunrlrwn Uim Kwf no reason at ail why be should abandon her, and seek to make her his enemy, especially if, as is represented, he was terribly anxious for the concealment of his guilt, and she was the only person who had the power to reveal it. We do not believe that, if she had known him to be living in the commission of incestuous acts, she would have been so unwomanly as to remain with him for years, ae she is said to have done, or even for a single day. The woman wh( lives with an incestuous husbanc seems not many degrees removed from incest. The very thought it revolting to hnman nature. " Mrs Stowe says, that, when she was in Europe she made the ac quaintanceof Lady Byron, and, that the latter confided to her the whole story of the relatione be tween herself and Lord Byron witli permission to publish it at some after period if events should ren aer tbe punuoation necessary Unwilling to qoestion Mr*.Stowe'i personal veracity, we shall no dwell npon the intrinsic iunproba bility that Lady Byron, passing by all her thousands of distinguished and trusted acquaintances, woulc select an American woman "little more than a stranger to her to perform this exceedingly deli cat* and important service acoord ing to her own discretion. Bat, i authority was given to publish th< story in the event of the publics lion becoming necessary, the au thority has beau grossly abused The publication cannot be oootid ered as either necessary or proper It can do no good to any ons. 8< far as believed, it ir^iu ies all t< whom it refers. It dishonors^ th< memory of both husband and wife The excuse offered by Mrs. 6. for the publication at this time is the appearance of a Life of Byrofi Vy the Countess Guiccioli, once his mistress, who, as Mrs. 8. alleges, attacks Lady Byron. But the Countess' volume has been before the*public more thau two years, and it contains uot one word calculated; or intended to disparage JL*dy Byron. Mrs. Stowed article fraa wholly uncalled for. It is a disgusting intrusion. It seems to have been suggested by no worthier thought than that it wonld add ty the writer's own importance. " Mrs. Stowe tells the world that Lady Byron loved her husband devotedly throughout all his life, although separated from him, and bad no dount, after his death, that be was a purified angel in Heaven. If such were her thoughts of bim, if she revere^ his memory and believed that he was a dweller in the i abodes of the blessed, how can it i he supposed that she would delibi erafely furnish the materials for > the publication, after her death, of article and desitnied to'bluet his mighty fame, eo tond ly and passionately cherished by . herself, throughout all the future ages I How could she, clinging almost wildly to his memory, and deeming bim a shining star in the , paradise of God, seek to make his - name, one of the loftiest of all time, a scorn, a by-word, and a curse in the mouths of the generations! Did she do these things f " We find in Mrs. Stowe's publication no explanation of the ' means by which Lady Byron became acauainted with the revolt ing secret of her husband's incest with his sister. Certainly others knew nothiug about it, and she was the very one from whom, of nil persons then living, he must have been the most anxious to conceal it. And yet we are expected to believe that she was the only one acquainted with it. If she had known it, others would probably have known it by the same or similar means, or a thousand dissimilar moans, and it would have gone abroad npon the 'eagle wings, upon which x immortal scaudals fly.' " There is another matter in regard to which Lord Byron is certainly calumniated most infamously. We are told by Mrs. Stowe , that he made a regular and persistent effort to convince his wife . that both of them would best promote their own happiness by indulging in the pleasures of sensual lore wherever their tastes and fancies lured them. This is too monstrous to be believed for an instant. There is nothing in it in keeping with the character of Byron. lie was a proud man, as prond as the Son of the Morning. lie was ready enough to indulge, in unlawful loves, but sooner than attempt to persuade his uytfe to do the same thing, sooner than tolerate her in a career of guilty voluptuousness, sooner man tec aimeeit be pointed at and sneered at as the dishonored husband of a libidinous woman, he wonld have invoked all the lightnings of Heaven to rush into | his heart and explode there. , " Mrs. Stowe, as if aware that t her extraordinary story in regard > to incest needs all sorts of bolsterI ing, looks through the poetical I works of Byron, and, without the i least authority, assumes that every ptooage that can be tortured into , seeming adaptation to her purpose . was intended by the poet to apply to himself, This is preposterous. | It is contemptible. Such evidence would never be aonglit except in a i case of a miserable dearth of evi( dence. The immorality of Byron V . life, and a portion of his writings, unquestionably deserves the sever| est coademnation ; hut wo are not I willing that the name of the au. tlior of much of the most glorious wAaImo 2ii f Vnrvl ^ f pvcn jr 111 I.UV uii^iiou inu^UHgU, I the author of poetry alraoet superI hnman in its beauty and sublimity and power, shall be forever aaso' elated tn our minds with a crime [ from which the sonl shrinks with . more horror than from the thought f of eternal death." 3 Mrs. Stowe says that the story r of Byron'a incest has been known for years in Great Britain, but that 1. no one there has cared to make it - public. Ah, a population ot 35,. 000,000 or 40,000,000?and not a > Mrs. Stowe among them all 1 But 5 do not the comments of the Lone don Times, which reach us by the . cable, tell a different story ? Would the Times "bo so emphatic if the story of Mrs. Stowe had been Known in England for yearsf Hardly, we thinlri t The remarkable sermon of the venerable father Hyacinth, and for the delivery of which he has been summoned to Home, concludes with the following strong sentences: 44 Do you know the way Prussia triumphed in the field ?? Twos not because there was a lack of bravery on their sido; it was not the effect of that wonderous weapon, for the acquisition of which men are now so eager *, but it was because the assailant was better edncated than the assailed, and had a superior religious training; it was because every Prussian soldier had a Bible in his cap or helmet. In other places I have asserted, and I assert it again here, that shiah annotitntno !?? strength of Protectant nations is, that when the people come from tlieir work, they enter the family circle, and sitting by their hearths, read the Bible and the national poetry. We arc behind hand with rrotestant nations, and especially with those that dwell beyond the Atlantic and the Straits of Dover, I have trodden English soil on two occasions, and have come to the conviction that the strength of that country is from the Bible." Ricnra.?The man with good firm health, is rich. So is the man with a clear conscience. So is the parent of vigorous, happy children. So is the editor of a good paper, with a good subscription list. So is the clergymen whose coat the little children pluck as he passes them in their play. So is that wife who has the whole heart of a good husband. So is the maiden whose horizon is not bounded by the " coming man," but who has a purpose in lite whether she ever met him or not. So is the young man who, laying his hand on his heart, can say, "I have treated every woman I ever saw as I should wish my sis-, ter treated by other men." Sa IQ tlio ?k? .y uiu ntllU 1/IJ11U WHO gVOT to sleep with a kiss on his lips and for whose waking a blessing waits. AcRTOTJXTlTTtK IN CHINA. TllO Chinamen, who walk over bridges built two'tbonsand years ago cultivated the cotton plant centuries before this country was heard of, who fed the 6ilk-w6rm before King Solomon built his throne, have fifty thousand square miles aronnd Shanghai which are called the Garden of China, and which have been tilled by countless generations, and are as productive now as ever. The area is as largo as New York and Pennsylvania combined, and is all-meadow land raised but a few feet above the river; lakes, rivers, , canals?a complete net work of water communication; the land undor the highest tilth; three crops a year harvested ; population so aense that wherever you look you see men and women in blue pants and blouse, so numerous that 1 you fancy some fair or muster is coming off, and all lmnds have turned out for a holiday. [ Western Farmer. r *| f ? ? - ? ... Lovb is Blindj?A curious marriage occurred last week in St. Lonia. A stone blind bridegroom was led by his blushing bride to the altar of a Justice oi the Peace. That honest and benevolent functionary felt it to be his duty to inform the poor blind man that the chosen of his heart was really one of the ugliest women in the world, and that she had already, to his certain knowledge, buried two husbands. To this the bridegroom responded that he had seen the lady a great many years ago, and that, according to the best of his reoollection, she was then " a tiling of beanty " and 44 a form of life and light." Aa the nnfortunato man insisted upon being married to this dream of his earlier and happier days, the knot was tied ; bnt the Justice swore that he conldn't in conscience take a fee for doing it, and so the poor victim was led away rejoicing. A catfish, weighing 277 nonncts, has been taken in the Missouri 1 River.