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) I I r ir i n wiwiwirn i ~i irt ? r. ...iir .nnni?a^ai -iim?nr r- i t -rr r Mi "i iiin imruii r i , _ . . ? ? VOLUME 29. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1869. NUMBER 15 1 - - ... ii -f.tli tl. MISCELLANY. from the Chronicle & Sentinel. 1 Parker Pillsbury's Experience. Parker Pillsbury, one of the great 1 fehining lights of the Abolition party, is < giving his experience in South Carolina, j Ita broken doses, through the New York j bulrptndeni. He has rislted the ruins 1 fend desolation wrought through the in- , *" n-irtv hilt 1 Strumentaiuy 01 m* unu. iu keeping with the nnture of the fanat- 1 ic, he does not hold himself in any vuy i Sponsible for the evils inflicted on our < people. Parker Pillsbury tells the colored | people some wholesome truths, however, t fend we want the colored people to profit i by his advice. He tells thctli that the ? Yankees did not free the negroes of the i South cither from motives rf love or t philanthropy, but simply and solely as t a war measure of re//preservation to (At ( . Yankees themselves. \ He tells them furthtir that the ear- ; pct-baggcr has no lore fur thcin?that ? he it an adccntvrer?a rarenous b< ast 1 who comes South to steal and plunder ' a id then return to his Northern den to 1 riot and enjoy what he has rubbed from i the blacks atld whites of tho South. j Parker Pillsbury is, no doubt, sincere r in bis riews and what he says to the * negroes ouly corroborates what has been ' told them repeatedly by the Southern ? people s nee their emancipation. 1 Pillsbury sends this letter to t':e editor of the independent: ft All who travel in tho Southern States since the war can learn lessons, ? if they will, unknown to them before Many have rcpoitcd their impressions ^ to you already, but all is not yet told> 1 am afraid the worst is yet unknown. t| Indeed I think the North knows less of n the actual South to-day than of almost any other portion of the globe. Republicanism bears rule there, and rc_ n ports itself to please itself. Counter j( authorities, especially from Democratic ^ Bourccs, arc cast aside *s unworthy of confidence, as no doubt they ofteo are. Dot it is time one thing was told, and tj believed, too, every where, ai.d that is, that reconstruction, so fat, is a failure. It is a bad failure. From the sole of ^ its foot to its head, if it have any h?'od. there is no soundness iu it-=-none what- . o' ever. It began where it should have p, left off, with political organisations, with suffrage and sovereignty, when the first lessons in civilization bad not c ti been learned, had not been taught, and have not yet been taught. But party ^ supremacy required the measure and it ^ Was adopted, against all the dictates of | genuiue statesmanship, as well as the j demands of justice and humanity. And hence its failure, as could uot but have v been expected. ^ Neither political party Understood ti the situation during the war of rebel- ^ liou. Neither party understands it to- ^ day. Slavery was not abolished by the j, Abolitionist". Still less was it ubolish- y ed by tlie Republican party. In spirit nod power, it survives even the war, K witti all its trues. Like everything else a at the Sooth, it is a ruin; but it is there. ? Both master and slave are th'-re. And v more at war than ever before. And so j n far the Northern element infused be- I ) twecn tlieni instead of reconciling, lias n only made matters worse. The North- u era Republican hates the master, but v docs not love the slave. The North never loved the negro race better than did the South. It did not abolish the ' slave system in form for the sake of the 1 victims, nor at all until driven to the 1 measure by the stern exigency of mili- ' tary necessity for self preservation. 80 * far as any Bense of justice and humanity * ever were intended, it was manifest i enough that the Republican party 1 would have continued slavery unto this ^ day, and unto the judgment day, had * not the preservation of the nationality imperiously ordered and compelled oth- j wise. < And now the Republican party needs , the black man's ballot at the Sooth, . f " end is using it for its own preservation, ] as his bayonet and bullet were nscd for i the national salvation. And he is findi os it out Even in his low estate he r is learning who are not his friends. A majority of the Legislature of 5outl Carolina afe Colored meu, and many o them can neither write nor read. Bill several of their very best friends assur ed me they should never support suel agiin for the sake of the colored ract itse'f?not even to save the State from the Democrat'c ja-tp. Such bu 1 s tt on the very name of government, the) drc'arcd, Was never before seen I have Witnessed etioUgh myself to easily ut < dcrstand that it must he so. At the speuing of the session, colored void! #t 1 * ' . i? . J '1 4l I. were easuy oougnt at nve ao:tors, viuugn later they rose on their pi ice. Out iltrcwd Yankee from Massachusetts, itot a member, but who had sonic tehctucB to lobby through the Legislu' :ure, carried to the capital some cases )f new hats, and with them as lcgilX'udcr drove quite a spirited and suejcssful business. 8ad examples for ffhitc Northern Republicans to set before i people juit emerging from thcd.rkcst legradationand crudest, bloodiest bond ige and oppression lliat ever scourged be human race! With all the frightful ealitics of their past history sti'l iru^hug thcui down, with the withering prcudiec against their color still raging aound thcui on every hand, aud with uch examples continually set before hern by those whom they not only re rard as the superior race, but have been obi a thousand times are their best an < nly friends?what wonder that tbey re not to-day, many of them, one dercc higher in the rcale of mortal being ban when their fiecdotn was first prolainicd! Tome it seemed absolutely omplimentary to human naturo that licy have done no worse." It is often said at the North, and in JC South as well, that what is most ceded here is the capital. That is not ue. What the South needs most is ten and iComrn. Not adventurers, tere plunderers, as so many arc who ave gone there since the war, seeking rliom aud what they may devour ? ivenous beast*, who only go forth to eek their prey intending to go back to Iteir native Northern dens to riot on nd enjoy it afterward. The South cjds intelligent men and women of inustrious, \1 tuous and thriving fin bits, rho will go there and identify themclves with the South, to share her jrtunes for better, for worse?-men who hall regard the colored man for more lion his vote, and the colored woman >r more than her virtue, and both as uportant to them only as they can in Dine way subserve their own interest, rmvt-nicnce and pleasure, With no bought whatorcr as to what 6bail be be fate of their victims. Carpet-bagger i* not wholly an inidious designation here. Most Vorthrn men whom I have Seen are here hut ? fill their pockets as speeddy as possi'c by stlch menus as offer?some as lautcrs, but mnrc as politicians, and of )ff order, many of them, too. The oung Western emigrant who wrote ack to his father, a disappointed office ceker in Vermont, to come to the West nd urged as a reason, that " most aluighty u can tiicn could get into office," rou'd fi. d good ground for such argu nent all through the Southern Slates. Villi such resources as tlie Nor: It i* iow furnishing the South in great liicasire In-r last state must iucvitably be rorsi than the filst. The death of nuios Kendall, one of Jencral Jackson's Cabinet ministers, is lie freaking of another link that bound he present to the past. 3!r. Kendall ras very old, and in his day figured ar<;cly in national politics, coming in or a full share of the fierce Whig optosition of his chief. The deaths of disinguished uiuu in this country and in Europe, during the past month, have )ccn remarkable as to numbers. WnosoEVER.?"I thank G'd. 'said Richard Baxter, "for the Word whosoiter. If God had said that there were mercy for Richard Baxter, I am so vile i sinner that I would have thought He meant some other Richard Baxter; but when He says whosoever, I know that includes me, the worst of all Richarc Baxters." Hon. John A. Inolis.?In a late i copy of the Baltimore Sun, we find a f report of a moss meeting of the Demot cratlc conservative voters of that city. - Among the distinguished speakers there i Was Hon. John A. Inglis, latcaChanecl; lor in thU State, now a resident of Baltii more, whose remarks were greeted with frequent applause. r While We regret the loss to our own s State of such a man as Chancellor In? glis. we must congratulate the Mary: landers on their acquisition of a cititen i so ahlc as a jurist, ancTso pure and up> right as a man. He was called to the Bench of South > Carolina, at a time when it was indeed 1 ah honor to sit upon it; when none hut ' a niah of well kriotfn lc?r?il attainments 1 and of tried intcerity of eharutcr, could think of aspiring to the office. We wish and predict for him an honorable career ir. the State of his adoption. Alsa! for South Carolina, when such men feel compelled to leave it. Sumter Aittcs. ThcCbcster Reporter Fay* that WimItush, the negro senator front Chester County, has induced the femoral front office of Magistrates Eli Corn well, H. C. Crawley, T. M Boulwarc and Daniel G. Stiuaon. These magistrates were appointed by Governor Scott, and only ' two months ago the Grand .Jury of the county advised thut they be retained in office. Two of them, at least, were invited to join the Loyal League, and were told that if they would do the deed they should keep their offices, ar.d even "come up higher." Tl ey declined the , invitation, and Wimbush at once demanded that they bo burled fioro j their offlvdnl scat. Governor Seott bore it in mind that W mhusli whipped Loslie, a brother carpet-bagger, a short time ago, and hastened to grant his request, j Theueccssaryo'derwas issued on Friday last. . i A Pithy Sermon.?Many a sirmon '' lias been spun out to an hour's length ' that did not contain u tithe of the sound moral instruction and counsel to be 1 found in the following brief and pithy. ( sermon from the pen of that good man, and racy writer. Lev. John Todd ; 4\ ou are architects of your own fortune. Rely ' upon your own strength of body and 1 soul Take for your motto self-reliance, ' 1 ii.itnutrv fur vonr fitjir. ' j ?..? ...??.v , .... ?, failh, perseverance and pluck ; and io- ' scribe on your banner?"Be just and fear not."?Don't take too much advice; ' stay at tlio helm and steer your own ship Strike out. Think well of yourselves. Fire ubovc tho murk you in- , tend to hit. A-sunn your pasition.? ( Don't practice excessive humility.? , You can't get above your level?water j don't run up hill. J'ut potatoes in a cart over a rough road, and the small ones will go to the bottom. Energy, | invincible determination with the right motive, are the lovers that move the , world The great arc of commanding is lake to a lair share of lhe world. Civility costs iiotbingnnd buys everything Don't drink ; don't smoke; dou t swear; don't guuiblej don't lie; don't deceive or st? ul; don't tuttlc. Be polile ; be gcuc ous ; be s ll-r? liaiit. Bead good books Love your fellow-iuan as well as you love G?d. Love your country utid obey tin: 1 iw*. Love truth. Love honor. Always do what your conscience tells is your duty, uud leave the consequence to God. > #iw, "^io 1 ? lor uiu it iu&cu to vttw tuptiun of a paragiaph in un Illinois pnpcr, which suys : -'What an ungodly people tlio-e ruscaU of Ohio and Pennsylvania must be! Though Grant implored them to 'let us have peace,' they would have none of it?-uot eveu Peudlclou or Packer." Bhownlow.?Senator Brownlow says in a private letter; "Should I , live to get to the Senate in December, , my friends atid enemies alike will know , how little truth there is iu the statement . that 1 have forsuken the Republican I part, joined the Democrats, or aided | In seeking the election to the Senate of Aodrew Johnson/' A Word To Paretits Do apeak kindly to your little ones ! Their hearts are brimful of loVe for you. Put yourself on an equality with them; join in their little sports and pastime. Do not feel that you compromise your dignity by such acts. It will cause them to open their hearts to you, and you will, uncousciously gain their lore and confidence, by which, with propct traibing, you may save them a world of trials, and perhaps from a career of crime. To my mind there can be no more hea>t sickening sight, than to see a child, large or small, shun the presence of its parents. When you see this tho crae, rest assured there is something wrong. Parents, for Heaven's sake! do not be stern and overbearing toward your children ; recollect you wore a child once; let them feel io their hearts that you arc their best earthly f.icnds, ever ready to sympathize with them io their sorrows or their joys. If they commit an error sometimes, speak to thcin gently of it, not before strangers, or you will destroy all the good effect it might have had by pursuing a contrary courso. Lead and direct?do not drive. Say what you hate to say gently and kindly, not with anger on your brow, and in tones that would lead one to suppose they ncro culprits, and you a stern judge, instead of a loving, tender parent, as you should be. Anger is n blight. God only knows how much has withered under its in Quencc- It has broken bonds of friendship, and severed family ties. Do you try to make home attractive? If uot, you comuiit 'a great error. Let it be, to your children, the "dearest ?pot on earth j" tho great world will beckon them away from the home nest won enough ; care arrd pwin will write their hearts' sorrows on their faces, line their foreheads, dim their eyes, and alut out their dimples. Let ns, therefore, do all we can to make their childhood and youth happy ind joyous; and when they go out from it, to mingle with the cold unfeeling world, it will be to them a green spot ever in memory, to which their minds nan revert with pleasure. Let me say again, speak gently to your children; it will cost you nothing, but will make their hearts glad. Kncourage them to bring their associates home with them ; you can then see if they are proper ones, and point out traits to be shunned or imitated. Cultivate a kindlvdisposition to all; especial Iv to little children. It will pay. Hen Persuader.?The Springfield Republican, in speaking of a new invention for a hen's near, whereby the 2ggs drop through a trap door, and so deceive the hen that she keep* on laying. is responsible for the following: Blobbs :net with a loss, however, with one of the persuaders. Blobbs had a live'y young shanghai pullet of boundless ambition. Blobbs bought a persuader, and his lone shanghai used it. She went upon the nest in the morning Blobbs saw her go, and his heart bouod ed within him. Alas! he never saw linr pnnid fiff ncrain. At niffht he visit* ed the persuader. In the upper compartment w.is n handful of feathers, a few toe nails and a bill. In the lower compartment were three doSen and clovcn ejres! Blobbs saw it all! Her delicate constitution had been unequal to the effort j she had laiu herself awny. Patrick saw it bull pawing in a Cildj and thought what fun it would be to jump over, catch him by the horns, and rub his nose in the dirt. The idea was so funny that he laid down and laughed at it. The more he thought of it, the funnier it seemed, and he determined to do it. Bovus quickly tossed him over the fence again. Somewhat bruhed Patrick pibked himself up, and saiJ, "Well, it is a mighty foinc thing I had laught foorst," A immlor Rtnnurd at an inn in a " Mw,v,v" ?rr neighboring village, and finding tho landlord and landlady fighting cried out: ''Hallo who keefs this house V Tho wife replied : ''That's just what we aro trying to decide." ir1 Heroism of a Child. < Rev. Kdwin Clay, M. P, writes ! from Ptigwasb, Canada, as follows: I Oo Friday night last Mr. Cornelius I Crowly retired with his family to rest ' a little after dark. About ten o'clock < they were] aroused by the sound of fire < somewhere in the building. On springing from his bed he found the whole | body of the house in flames His first ] wad a/it hi>ln. so he ran at '"""B"' "*"* "" ow* r/ -- - - - - - ? once to the barn where two of hip sons t were sleeping. On bis return he found ( it impossible to get up stairs, where ] Bveofhis family were sleeping, of to { bis father's room, where the old man ( and a little son were sleeping together. , But Mrs. Crowly, with her babe in her arms, succeeded in arousing some of ( those up stairs. Her brother and sistor threw themselves out of the window, j. forgetting the three children that were ( still in another bed. The mother's ? a screams aWakcued the eldest daughter, and she came to the window and asked , J| what she should do, when her mother ^ urged her to throw herself down fiom . s window, but she replied, "No; tuy brother and sister must be saved." She J then turned through the heat and ^ smoke and took her sleeping brother, a little younger than herself (uine yeajs) in her arms, and carried him to the window, from which he sprang with no iniurv decent a slight scorching of his ? J * I w _ fucc _and hair. She then returned through the floor and brought a still t younger (seven years) to the window, n and here the dear girl had pioro than ^ she could do, for her sister in her fright c refused to be throwu off, and with the ,1 flames coming up around her, she strug* c gled with her until she put her out of the window, and the child dropped helg^ fessfy to tho groflnd. 7 After hanging a t moment or two upon the window she c dropped down herself, a distanco of t nearly sixteen feet. When she rose v from the ground, she said, "I am done, c mother; I have saved my brother and c sister from being burnt Up." The mo- j thcr, with her turnt children, then walked a distance of six hundred and seventy yards (I had it measured) to ( the first neighbor's houso, In a stato of f nudity, for they had not saved any j nintkimr T aonn sent for. and in , VIWDIIIIl^t A ? / | about three hours after the Bre, was attending to the wants of the suffering children. I saw there was no hope of the dear girl.; from her forehead to the bottom of her feet she was ore mass of burnt flesh. This, with the fearful shock received from jumping so far, and walking such a distance in the cold (the night being very chilly,) caused her to fllnk very rapidly, and at 6 in the morning she died, aged eleven years and eight months, a martyr to the love of her brother and sister. I never saw so much courage and firmness in one so young; and while dressing her bruised and burnt limbs, she uttered no complaint. Her sister died in tho evening; and her uncle suffered fearfully from the efhets of his jumping out of the window. Tho rest, I hope, will all recover. It was a sad sight to see the parents, broken-hearted, weeping over their suffering loved ones. A Boy's Composition.?Ma is my mother. I am her son. Ma's name is Mrs. Shrimp and Mr. Shrimp is her < husband. Pa is my father. My name i is John George Washington Shrimp. I Therefore pa's uarne is Shrimp j so is 1 ma's. i My ma has a ma. She is my grand- J ma. She is mother-in-law to Pa. My 1 pa says mother-in-laws ought to be vetoed. I like my grandma better than ( pa docs. She brings me ten cent stamps ? and bolivars. She don't bring any to t pa. May be that's why lie don't like her. ? Aunt Jcrusha Is ray aunt. When pa f was a little boy she was his sister. I like t little sisters. Dickey Mopps has a little ( sister. Iler name is Rose. Aunt Jcrusha don't like her. She call her "that Mopps girl." I think aunt Jerusha ^ ho shamed of hersolf. uub". Aunt Jerushn is a very pious woman. ' j She uever wants us to talk loud on Sun| daj, and says wo ought to have cold I I iutiers. She hears uio say the cate- 1 chistn, and knows it ail wuuuut ma book. She says Susan Jane is spoiling that boj; Susan Jane is my ma; that boy is me. She says she hopes baby frill early show a change of heart If a Ubatige of heart Wodld make baby stop urying, 1 wish so too. Annt Jcrtisah lites With us Sometimes I think ma wonld rather hate be? lire with somebody else. I asked aunt Xcrusha once why Bhe didn't martyr i imebody and set up for herself. She laid many a man had wanted to marry tcr, but while poor Susan Jane Waa ill itlcb a state of health she cotlldn't think if leering! Besides, she said, what rould become of your papa ? Aunt Jerusha sometimes has a state if health too. On washing day she has i headache, and does her head op in irown paper and vinegar; and I hare o make her toast at the kitchen fire j nd I make some for myself, too. Annt Jcmsha says that nobody nnwa whnt film'has done for that boy. "hat boy's roe again. I told pa what 'c said. flc said it was jast so, lobody did know. Ma says tbat aunt . rerupha means well, and that she's pa's lear sister. I don't see why that's any eason she should scold when I eat cabage with a knife. The first lino of te'egraph In Atnerica ras constructed between Washington nd Baltimore ia the spring of 1844, (trough aid furnished by the Govefnaent. The results of its action were so insatisfactory that the Postmastcf-Gen* ral in a subsequent report, expressed he opinion that the revenue therefrom ould never be made eqnal to the ex* icnditurcs under any rate of eharges "k'ph mip^* ? ?ynw t)i> tm?t ? ory of the telegraph embraces the entire i ivilized portion of the continent, and he Western Union Company, under rhicli coporate title the great majority if the telegraph line in the States are inited, works 52,099 miles of line, qpd .04,584 miles of wire. Deacon B , of Ohio, tl very pt? ius man, was noted for his long prayers, especially in his own family. One Monday morning the Deacon and his rife were alone, and after breakfast a jrayer was offered. There being an inusual amount of work that day, the Deacon's prayer was short, and seizing lis hat and milk pail, he started for he barn. His wife, bciDg deaf, did , iot notice his absence, bat supposing lim to be still engaged in prayer. Oa lis return from milking he was atir* jrised to find her still kneeling. He itepped up to her and shouted 'Amen,' rhcu she immediately arose and went ibout her work as if nothing had hap* tcned. * Colored Talent.?It if announced bat the project of starting in Wasbihg;on a first class newspaper, to be entire!/ >wncd and controlled by colored men, ind conducted in their iutereest and fof :heir benefit, is revived. The scheme s in good hands and trill probably sue* :ecd. The best colored talent in the country will bo enlisted In its behalf. Boston Adxertiser. A gentleman returning home a few jvening since, wa3 asked what was tho tcws from town. 0, nothing much, on* y "tho Methodists in Massachusetts ind licensed a lady to preach." Upon ffhich the lady replied that "the Confederates had hilled out the men closer han I thought." A little boy met his Sabbath school cncher the other day, and innocently iskcd her if to say 'coffer-dam' was iwcariogi Sbo replied, 'no my dear, that made you ask that question ? His tnswer was, I saw an old cow down the ;trcct yonder; she was nearly choked o death, and I thought she'd 'coffer lam head off.' A Californiaa exhibits a gun that ires 300 shots a minute, and is called he most useful instrument for killing jeoplc ercr inrcntcd. The "original press used by Benjanin iranklin" is Baid to be in 176 different linciican printing offices.