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^ ^ ? t ? - - ' VOL. I. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1885. ~ NO. 49, -j?j-g??gII II | -???i' I, ' ?JONDENSED TIME UAKD Magnolia Passenger Ronte. Id effect March 15,1885. ^ OOINO 80l'TH. Leave Laurens *5 20 a in f8 50 a m " Waterloo.". 6 00 a in 9 55am " Greenwood 7 00am 2 15 p m Arrive Augusta 10 45 a m 7 45 p tn Leay* " 10 50 a ra 10 00 p m Arrive Atlanta 5 40 pm 6 40 am ' Leave Augusta.. .. .11 30 a m Arrive Beaufort 620pm Arrive I'ort Iioyal 6 35 pm " ChalcBton ...... 5 50 pin 44 Savannah 7 00 pm 44 Jacksonville 7 00 am UOINO NOKTII. -Loave Jacksonville *8 50 pm " Savauttah o ao am Leave Port Royal 7 55 am " Beaufort 7 47 am 44 ' Charleston 7 60 am Arrive Augusta 1 50 pin Leave Atlanta 18 20 pm Arrive Augusta G 40 am Loave Augusta *2 80 pm 6 15 am Arrive Greenwood 6 10 pm 11 40 am " Waterloo 7 04 pm 8 30 pm " Laurens 7 50 pin 4 40 pm Daily tDaily except Sunday. Tickets on sale at Greenwood to all points at through rates?baggage checked to destination. Connections made at Greenwood with G. A G. R. K. E. T. Cuaklton, G. 1'. A. Augusta, Ga. WILMINGTON* COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Going Sou h no 48 no 40 Lcavo Wilmington 9 30 p m 11 10 p m Arrive at Florence I 50 a m 2 20 a m Arrive at Columbia G 40 a m Going North no 43 no 47 Loave Columbia 10 00 p m Leave Florence 4 50 p m 1 52 a m Arrive at Wilmington. . .7 40 p m G 10 a m Train ko. 43 stops at all stations; nob. 48 and 47 stop only at Brinkley's, Whiteville, Flcmington, Fair Bluff, Marion, Florence, Timmonsville, Sumter, camden Junction ard Kastovcr. Passengers for Columbia and nil points onc*ur8, o, c * a k b, Aiken Junction and all points beyond, should take no. 48, night express. Separate Pullman sleepers for Charleston and Augusta on trains 48 and 47. All traius run solid between Charleston and Wilmington. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILWAY COMPANY. Commencing Sunday, May 24th, 1885, at 6 05 a m, Passenger Trains will run ns follows until further notice, "Eastern time:" Columbia Division?Daily. Leave Columbia 6 30 a m 5 27 p in Due at Chafteston 11 05 a ni 9 16 p m WEST?DAILY. Leave Charleston 7 20 a m 5 20 p m Due at Columbia 10 45 am 10 09 p m Camden Di virion.?Daily except Sundays. Leave Columbia 9 30 am 5 27 pm Due Camden 12 14 p m 7 42 p m WEST DAILY, BXCKPT SUNDAY. Letrt Camden 7 00 am , 3 55 p m Due Columbia 9 25 a m 10 00 p m Auyu$ta Ditition?East Daily. Leave Cnluuibia 6 30 am 6 27 p m Due Augusta 11 40 am 10 38 ;rm WKHT DAILY. . Jjeavc Augusta 6 06am 4 45 pm Duo Columbiu 10 45 am 10 00 pm Connection* Made at Columbia with Columbia and Oreenville railroad by train arrivine at 10 45 a. m. and departing at 5 27 p. m.; at Columbia Junction with Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad by same train to and from all points on both roads. At Charleston with steamers for New York ?n Saturday; aud on Tuosday and Saturday with steamer for Jacksonville and points on St. John's river. Daily with Charleston and Savannah Railroad to and from Savannah aod all points in Florida. At Augusta with Georgia and Central rail mads to and from all points West and South: at Blackville to and from all poiutsou Barnwell railroad. Through tickets enn be purchased to all points South and West by applyt f ~ VW I). McQuef.k. A..sjeiit. Columbia, S. C. J?nn B. I'COK, General Manager. D. C. Ai.lkh, Gen. Pass, nnd Ticket Ajr't COLUMBIA A NO GREENVILLE RAILROAD. On and after October 5, 1884, Pasrf.hoeh Trains will ran as herewith indicated upon this road and its branched. Daily, txcept Sutxlav*. No. 53, UP PASSENGER Leave Columbia S. C. Jnnc'n 10 45 pm " Columbia C. A G. 1) 11 10 p m Arriv? Alston 12 10 pm " Newberry 1 13 pm Ninety-Six 2 47 p m Greenwood S 09 p m Hodges 3 33 p m Helton 4 40 m in at Greenville 6 05 pm No. 52. DOWN PASSENGER. Leave Greenville at 9 50 am . Arrive BeWon 11 13 a iii Hodges 12 23 p m Greenwood 12 48 pm Ninety-Six 132 pm Newberry 3 02 pm Alston 4 10 pm " Columbia C. A G. I) 5 15 pm Arrive Columbia SC. Junc'n 5 30 p m -- - vuuiaui* BAH, nuAiJ. NO. 53. UP PA88KN<JER. Leavo Alston. 12 52 pm . " Uniort 3 55 pin " Spartanburg, S.U.AC.depot.6 50 p iu KO. 52. DOWN PA8HENOE11. * *> L*-?ve Spart'g R. ft I). Bepot .... 10 35 a n> }>'<X " Spart'g S. U. ft C. I)npot ..10 50 am si1 " Union 12 50 p m Arrive at Alston 3 40pm LAURRN8 RAII.EOAP. Leave Newberry 8 30 pm Arrive at Laurens C. II..'" '..-6 50 pm ??: Laurens C. II ? 4u a in jgS&J.Arrive at Newberry 11 10 pm ?&* ' ( i ?. ABBKV1I.LE BRANCH. !?&><' Leave Hodges 845pm Hi Arrive at Abbeville . 4 45pm Leave Abbeville 1100 am Arrive at Hodges 12 00 p m BI.UK RtDOR RAILROAD AND ANDBR80NBRAMCIf !b Leave Belton 4 45 p ir Arrive Anderson 6 18p it >' **. Pendleton 6 56 p n " Seneca c 6 40 p ti Arrive at Walhalla.. ..703 pn j*eavo w ainmiA 8 50 a n ir'.: Arrive Beneoa tt 15 a n ">'/ " Pendleton ... 9 52 an -K' .v": Anderson 10 S3 an > -V' Arrive at Belton 11 08a n CONNECTIONS. A; With South Caroline railroad lo and fron Charleston; with Wilmington, Columbia ant . y'S" Augusta railroad from Wilmington and al ' point* north thereof: with Chsrrotte, Cotum bla and Augusta railroad from Charlotte an< 'J ./ ;vv all point* north thereof. B. With Ashevill -i/t, ^ and Hp?rt*nbnra railroad from and for point In western If. Carolina, C. With Atlanta an< y Ch*rl?ite div Richmond and Danville railwa< & ' O. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. M. RCAiroaTKB,Gen'l Passenger Agt. J). Cardvtill, ass't Oen'l Pass. Agt. TiiANTlU CUAoi LIJS'JK, j PASSENGER DEPARMMENT, Wilmington, JV. 6'., Aug. 2d, 1885. FAST LINE between Charleston and t Columbia and Upper South Carolina. ^ CONDENSED SCHEDULE. GOINO OOIKU wkst. kAST. e 7 20 am Lv Charleston Ar. 9 05 pm * 8 34 " " ....Lanes " 7 38 " r 9 33 " " .... Sumter " 6 37 " 11 19 40 pm Ar... .Columbia Lt. 5 27 " t 3 02 " " ....Winnsboro.... " 3 48 " r 4 15 ? " ....Chester " 7 44 ?? r 6 05 " " ....Yorkville "1145 am t 7 01 " " .... Lancaster " 7 00 " 4 56 ? " Rock Tlill " 2 02 pm c 6 00 " " ....CbaHotto " 100 " e 12 58 pm Ar Newberry Lt 3 10 pm j 2 52 " " ....Greenwood " 12 59 " i. 6 00 " " ... Laurens " 9 10 am 11 5 *1 " " ....Anderson " 10 27 " s 5 45 " " Greenville " 10 00 " ? 6 45 " " .... Walhalla " 8 30 " 11 4 20 " " ....Abbeville "1125 " r 3 27 " " ....Spartanburg.... " 12 25 pm _ 7 15 " " .... Henderson villc.. " 7 00 " c Solid Trains between Charleston and Columbia, S. C. ft J. F. DIVINE, T. M. EMERSON, n Gcn'l Sup't. Gcn'l Pas. Agent. 0 SPARTANBURG AND ? ASIIEVILLE RAILROAD On and after Apr. 6th, 1885, passenger trains will bo run daily, except Sundar,be- ti tween Spartanburg ana Ilendersonvillo as . follows: " " UP TRAIN. * Leave R. A D* Depot at Spartanburg 4 00 p ui e Leave Spartanburg, A. L. nepot 0 10pm Leave Saluda 0 20 p m 'l Leave Flat Rock 7 00 pm ^ Arrive Hendersonvihe ;. 7 15 p ni DOWN TR^IN. g T.nnvit TTmiflitrBnnrilln 7 OH n m . Leave Flat Rock 7 15 am Leave Saluda 7 50 a m g Lenvo A\r Line Junction 10 15 am Arrive R. & D Depot Spartauburg.10 20 am Trains on this road run by Air-Line tiroe.# ? Both trains make connections for Columbia j| and Charleston via Spartanburg, Union and Columbia; Atlanta and Charlotte by Air Line. JAMES ANDERSON. Superintendent. \ fi t. V. thomson.. j. w. thomson ^ IJIHOMSON & THOMSON, e Attorneys at Lavr, 8 Abbeville, S. C. P jiSy*Office in rear Mr. Lee's. ^ June 8th, 1885-tf. 100 jj f. QALHOUN & MABRY, * r Atorneys and Counsellors at Law. y e . AJIDEVILLE C. II., 8. 0. Office formerly occupied by Judge K 1 Thomson. tf-50 w A I,. W. FERRIX. T. P. C0TIIRAN. P pKHRIN A (-OTHRAN, * h Attorney's at Law, fil Abbeville S. C 8 JHJGENE B.OARY, ? Attorney and Counsellor at Law, h 52 Abbeville, S. C. 1( j' c JAMES S. PERRIX, c Attorney and Counsellor at Law, b Abbeville, C. H., S. C. e gg^-No. 1 O'Neill's Range. a Jan.29,1885-tf 53 * e bout. b. iif.mphii.Ij. wm. p. cali.oi;h. 0 JJEMl'HILL & CALHOUN, t Attorneys at Law, ^ Abbkvili.e, S. C. t Will practice in all the Courts of tho s State. _ 54 j PAVILION HOTEL, [ CHARLESTON. S. C. 1 1 First Class in all Its Appointments. t HATES, $2.00, $2.50. 1 Excellent Cuisene, largo airy rooms, Otis r Pcssenfccr Elevator. Electric bell and lights. _ Heated rotunda. Centrally located. Oct 1, '84-tf 21 1 f flKNTKAL HOTEL, Mits. M. \V. Thomas, Proprietress. Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 49. J7XCHANGE HOTEL, GrRBHVIM.b, S. C. THE ONLY TWO-CLASS HOTEL IN THE WORLD. W. R. White. Proprietor. 48 , jJEW DINNER HOUSE, ' Grkkkwooi>, S. C. Kept by Mrs. F. G. Parks. Cheap rates, ' first class fare. ' June 15th, 1885-tf. Ill I Backleu** Arnica Salve. 1 The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Soros, Ulcers. Salt Rheum'Fever SorM, Tetter, Chanpea Hands, Chilblains. Corns, , and alL Skin'Eruptions, and positively cares Piles,,..or no paj required. It is gutranteed J to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund- , * ed. Price 26 oonts per box. For sale by ' I Cothran k Perrin. 114 . i 1 : ? A LL the new shapes in Hats' and Bonnets i J\. with ftibbons. Birds, Slower s. flat}n? i and Velvet* to match. ' r VUU. HADDON & CO. 62 Batcbet Powders, the most delightful, >t Wr 8. Colhran db Co. &. Remedy for Southern Provincialism. Is there no pratical remedy for the he provincialism of tho Soulhern state a ? The educational advancement naking'tho helps to broaden them, but iren educational work falls into provincial methods. Industrial dovelopnent makes the people's thought more >ractical and their ideas broader, but >rovincialism is a constant hindrance 0 industrial development. Tho inrcasing facilities and occasions for trav1 are important agencies, but the maority of people never go away from loine. Every progressive influence has oine effect against provincial Ctontentaent, but is there no way to striko diectly at the central and comprehensive vil itself? And what an evil it is ! If you havo wondered why a land so ertile and so variously productive has ofc been more rapidly developed, you rill find the reason in the provincialism f the people. If you havo wondered rhy bo much of the best blood and rains of the old Southern States coninucs to go to the more densly popula3d and less fertile lands of the West nd Southwest, you will find the same xplnnation. For years the most lengthened of the old, formerly slavo states, ave been making efforts to attract iminirants, but the emigrations from one of tiem continues to excecd the inimiration to them. Thero are in all these tates opportunities for the investment f c lpital, opportunities similar to whi6h i other states would yield dividends of 0 per cent., yet money remains in New rork, Philadelphia and Boston eager to nd safe investments at 3 per cent 1 r?il mot*-xr * ?t_ ? ? .....j uuuutviu iucii nnu JuuruaiH xpreas surprise. I have recently read he editorial columns of twenty of these urprised journals which constantly ublish invitations to immigrants and loney, and the explanation why men nd money do not go there more wilingly is betrayed iu every one of them, n a single ifsue of these twenty journls I have counted thirty-nine recuronces of such phrases as "we of tho iouth," "the South, etc.,'' Mour Southrn people," and so on. In Mr. Henry V. Grady's recent paper about the nero, in the Century Magazine, he rrites repeatedly of the-south as "she." l stranger who shauld read it would bo ardonable for the inference that the outh was a separate principality. Of ourse it is as easy as it is silly to be vnorcritical- Vint if i? nn> I , . ..J o say that those tricks of phraseology how how deep and thorough, even unonsciously thorough, the provincial celing is. Another illustration is the umorous shrewdness of a tramp who ist year fared sumptuously on his ourney through Virginia and North larolina. and perhaps through the othr states, by assuring every Virginian ousewife that he was a Virginian and very Carolinian housewife that he was Carolinian. He simply used in his rade the old trick of the politicians. Vhen a church happens to call a preachr, or a college elect a professor, in one f these states, there is always a feeling hat a native must have the preference lecauae ho is a native. But there is no iced to pile up illustrations of a.fact i hat is so well known, it is the great outhern peculiarity and hindrance, and he southern problem is to lift this burlen of provincialism from the people. n pontics it is weli known and has hown itself as sectionalism. In socie~ 7 it is. that morbid idea strengthened y tradition that there was no society >ut the old southern social life. In all he avenues of industry it shows itself s that stolid self-contentment and ignoant consevatisin which resists change ind discourages advanoemont. A man >y whoso door locomotives have passed or twenty yoars and has never ridden >n the cars (I know two such men), laturally considers a new foshion in >lowpoints a heresy, -to say nothing of mproved agricultural implements ; and he advantages of manufactories he ;ould never comprehend. It is this )ent-up life?a life whose horizon is ;ho fence of each man's -own fields, or lis countv-linc or his state-line or at nrthest his "section"?that looks upon nnovation as revolution, and is the prime hindrance of a capable people flrho possess a fertile and resourceful land. ^ . 1 The cause of this provincialism is of course largely political. The confederacy survives'in it. The comradeship of the camp is a lasting bond of union, and fellowship iu a losing cause makes strong ties. But it is also an inevitable result of an agricultural life. A man who has never felt the instigation of competition, who has no conception of modern labor-saving mechanical contrivances, who, in fact, has never seen 4 modern manufacturing establishment, laeksingenuity to rave time and.labor, and values his hours too lightly. Of course he cannot be national ia "bis thought. This natural tendency of southern life has been strengthened, too, by tradition. In the celdnial times to the Virginians the son soemod to rise out of the Chesapeake and to go down in the Valley, and they wero hoi barbafoi who lived beyond the sun's setting place, in the later as well as tho earlier years. The southern people do not trftvel. Does this not hint of a possible remedy for this disease of provincialism ? If a hundred intelligent farmors from any southern state were to spend a month on farms in Pennsylvania or Illinois, whero they should see agricultural ma- i chinery, ei t rare steaks, observe how i butter is packed to bo preserved, and how waste is prevented in the barnyard i and In the kitchen, they would feel the i delicious sonsation of a now idea, i Gradually they would confess that time i may bring innovations that are not heraies before it digs graves for them, and i they would understand why ambitious ; VOUrur lifi? nrnfi^rn nrnorraaaiva onmiimn / o r jr- "'O* "ul" ' M iticB. Two-thirds even of the southern i editors (it is a very conservative guests) havo never spent a month outside their 'section," except in hotels and placos of business whero they could not see how i other people live ov find out what other i people think. Tho only class of south- i crn folk that travels is the nohproduc- < tive class?the pleasure-seekers, the I merchant, the politicians. The mass of I the people seldom go beyond the sound i of thetr cow-bolls. Yet it is these very 1 people whose provincialism is tho hin- I drance. Tho politicians and thn lik^ 1 could not trade in this ultra-conserva- ( tism if it did not appeal successfully to the vanity of the masses. i The most direct and impracticable . plan to get rid of this hindering |urovin- 1 cialism?which would be to solve tho I Southern problem?is to persuade them i to go a-visiting?to go and see how . their neighbors in other States live, not 1 necessarily to take blind pattern after < their neighbors, but to get new ideas ] and receive suggestions, most o^" all bo < rid of the vanity that provincialism j breeds. What a moral eain it would bo i if a Georgia farmer could bo convincod 1 that the water in Pennsylvania is as clear and cool as the water of his own i well! The leprous person in the Scrip- < tures who asked if the rivers of his i own land were not as wholesome as the < , as the Jordan was & man of provincial ideas after the Georgian's own heart. Alittle travel and a little sight-seeing i are easy to do in these days, ' snd they 1 | would have simply a revolutionizing in- \ i fluence on the masses of the Southern ! ! people! Why should excursions not be arranged for them ? Your invalid in 1 Michigan can go to Florida for half faro ! for half year; but the Florida farmer ' cannot go to Michigan and return forN less than twice as much money. The i excursion-agent has dono much for en- 1 ligthenment and the pleasure of the 1 pcopie in oiner suues. ivurope n&s 1 been seen by the poor, and ihc Yoscinite 1 valley is nearer the eastern excursion- 1 ist than Niagara was a scorc of years ' ago. Why should not the pleasure- ' giving and broadening work of the ex- 1 agent and of the railroad companies be 1 exercised for the Southern people ? If a hundred farmers and housewives, who ' could spare $100 each, were to visit 1 farms and manufacturing towns in the ' North and West?not hotels merely? 1 their experience would be an object les- ' son that would teach them more than 1 endless disputations about provincialism 1 and sectionalism. A look beyond the 1 barnyards of their daily vision would 1 be incalculably suggestive -to provin- 1 cial eyes, and new ideas?concrete, dotinite, fundamental, plain?are the only ' corrective of the hereditary stagnation of Southern rural communities. There are many^men and women in every one of the old Southern States who would be glad'to make such journeys, if they could be made inexpensively and if the notion were properly presented to them. aucn excursions couiu even be inudc fashionable, and they would give a pleasant and not uninstructive experience to the visited as well as to the visitors. The day has passed when anybody doubts the loyalty of the masses of the Southern people to the Union. In their purpose and in their hopo they are national; but their lives have made them narrow. Their provincialism, however, burdensome as it is, is the soil wherein the finest fruit of patriotism may grow? the love of the earth and devotion to ono's own home. If its morbidness were ' corrected it would become a virtue; 1 % and as a virtue it wpuld be a stimulus to the better cultivation if tho soil, and it would make the old home r.ot only a good place to dio but also a good nlaoe to live.?The American. Spirit of the Frew. Although this is a hackneyed phrase, still it is well enough now and then to surrey the situation to see what the ipirit of the press is, or whothcr it has any. Thomas Jefferson, who, if not the Fa* ther of his Country, was its God-father, ' and'certainly the fatfier of Democraojr; who gave ua tho Declaration of Independence, and maintained and enforced the principles which he saw in the Con? vjfij <vfit5>jflajwjfcfct* !?".y.2TnjlK2j ^ v '% ^V-V;v JiX fip}Z J;; ''? '$ stitution, regardless of Alexander Ham- I ilton, and we might add of George Washington and John Adams too, both of whom ho forced bock into good old Democratic notions, opinions and practices. He (Jefferson,) used to say, that tho press ought to bo allowed to exercise the greatest freedom ; that it would regulate itself and that the utmost freedom of expression, no matter if it did publish a lio now and then, was far loss ^ injurious than anylhiug like supprcs- ^ sion. j Jefferson proved that ho was right by j. submitting to all sorts of misrepresen- ^ Cations and abuse during his eight years j administration. No man was ever "better abused," but ho caine out of it tri- ^ umphantly, and afttiV laying tho foundation of good Democratic government h6 retired with success, naming Madison and Monroo as Presidents worthy to j continue and carry out what he had so ^ well begun: ? ^ The press is ''nothing if not critical." j Its first, and almost its highest duty, in i certain sense, is to find fault, and us ^ this is confessedly easy to do, it is ^ StranffO thut thorp nrn en fntv trnrwl /wli* 0 ? ?? j, ors. All progress is the result of agita- , Lion of one kind or another, aud every- ^ thing would stagnate if not stirred up now and then, especially in this hot ^ weather. Interest, energy, enterprise, ^ life itself, is infuned into communities, ^ Mid the body politic, by discussion, critlism, and so the world moves 011. p It is true?begging pardon for the per- t sonal application?that Dawson, of the c News aud (Courier may sometimes v make a mistake ; may ride a popular t i1 liobby too hard, or overdo the thing in t( appointing a consul, discovering a McKnight murderer, or in trying to cure 'i "lawlessness in Laurens.'' He and ? Crows of the Laurens JJcrahl may be a * long time behind hand in making the 'j discovery of the cause of the late unpleasantness at this late da}'. Pope, of 1 me egisicr, may sometimes write very ^ long-winded editorials, and stuff us ivith figures and statistics until wo can't f rest at night. Williams, of the Greenville 1Yeics, may be so unusually cross * ind cranky at limes, that he is suspect- j ed of having the hydrophobia. Bob Hemphill, of the Medium, "the man with the evil eye," may not often be t lble to seo good in anything. Bacon, of it the Advertiser, may not take much in- t torest in anything outside the State of t Edgefield. Carter, of the Lancaster a Ledger, may seem a little queer and h flighty, and light-headed at times. Mc- <] Kcrral may bo entirely mistaken as to v what will make a Star shine, or the c Cotton Plant grow. Gallant and gen- fc urous Hal Clarke, of the Caiuden Jour- t nal, may bo "everything by turns, and j nothing long." Murray, of the Ander- r son Intelligencer, may sometimes be j unusually dogmatic and pig-headed. v Our esteemed neighbor Petty, of the x Spartan, may growl at everything and a lecture us all, as if we were Sunday j School children, and he was our great- j. grandfather. There may be editors who never write anything origingl, or t have any striking characteristics, and > the editor of this paper may sometimes t write editorials which neither he nor , anyone else can understand ; but still it t is the duty of a free, patient and long ^ suffering people to submit, and to bear t unything and everything of tho kind, t rather than to ruthlessly and violently i suppress us, and interfere with our right j to bore, to criticise, and to abuse them* c It is indeed hard to be philosophical ? at all times, especially in August, t^ut ( philosophically considered, all these n things, though they may appear hard to T bear now, will eventually work out all ^ right, even as Xanthippe's perverseness helped to make a philosopher of So- c crates. In the end no matter what may s intervene, we will see tho triumph of ^ the right, and the "survival of the fit- j test," just as we now see the triumph of ( Ihfi .TftfforBnninn nrincinlns in ?n? ?/?? g 1 " 6"' I eminent, after j-ears of adversity, rc- , gardless of the fact, that John Brown , is considered a martyr, and Grant id be- ] ing buried with the highest civic and , military honors. , As long at the press can be kept free ] from venality and corruption, as long as < it remains honost and docs not soil .out, 1 and become the hired slaAe and advo- ' cato of parties and corporations, as long, I in short, aa it remains free and true to it- 1 self, and therefore to the public all will bo safo. i It may bo prcjudicod and partizan in -1 spirit; it may erroneously and wrongfully prejudgu men to be guilty before 1 thoy are tried, as it has too often der.o, i and will do again ; but it can soon cor* rect these errors, and evils and come 1 back to its true sphere and fulfill its ' highest destiny, to bo forgiven for the 1 mistakes, errors and wrongs u has committed, out of consideration for the good it has done in tho past, and can and will do in the future.?Newberry Observer. Shirts 1 8hirt8 11 Tho Eighinie. still ahead.' If yon have tririd them you xboto what they sire, if you have not you have but to dd so to be pleased with them. Smith & Son. lECNION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ? HUUHUENOTS IN AMERICA. i 'he Snmmer Meeting at New Rochelle * ?A Transplanted Yiue--Prond and Tender Memories of a Brave Race-- . Address of the Rev. Dr. Vldder, of 1 Charleston--The Liturgy of the Siege ' of La Rochelle. [Correspondent Neic* and Uourire.] 1 New Rochkklxk, N. Y. August 24 ? 1 'ho summer meeting of the Hughuenot 1 iociety of Americi was held here to- * lay, and was of great interest. In the orcnoon religious services wore held in 1 he Episcopal Church, conducted by the 1 lev. Charles F. Canedy, and an address ' f welcome was made by the Rev. 0. W. ! iolton. In the afternoon the president i the Society, the Hon. John Jay, pre- 1 ided, and delived an address. A paper fas road by the Itev. CharleB E. Linds- { cy, D. D., entitled "The Hughuenot Set- ' lomcnt at New Rochelle," and another >y Mr. Charles M. Dul'uy upon "St ' Bartholomew's Day, its causes and j esults.'' The Rev. Dr. C. S. Yedder, of ' Charleston, and the Hon. Peter I. Olney, lato district attorney of 1 few York city, made addresses, The Dllowing is the substance of Dr Voder's address : When the sweet American poetess, ' Irs. Sigourney, first visited the remains ' f the Hughuenot settlement at Oxford, lass., of which settlement her own ' j amo of Sigourney was a prominent and athetic part she, saw there?covering ' be ruins with its robe of verdure?a ' liming plant of memorable history, rhich she intimates and interrogates in onching lines: Green vino ! that mantlest in thy fresh embrace roil old irrov rock. I boor Hi?f Minn with then), < >ist brave the ocean surge. Speak. Drank thy perm 'be dews of Laoguedoc ? Or show un- 1 coileed ; 'bine infant fthre mid the fruitful j mould )f smiling Rouesilon ? Or didst thou shrink 1 '"rom the fierce footsteps of a warlike train,-. i Irother with brother fighting unto , death it fair Ilochello ? Hast thou no tale for mo ?" Ah, yes. That littlo vine, brought by he exiles on the ship that bore them. nd watched and nutured through all 1 he vissitudes of their pilgrimage, had a 1 ale for all the gentlo minstrel, and for 11 others, as pathetic as ever melted luman hearts. It bids us to know tolay how passionate and imperishable ras the lovo the llughuenots for the sountrv which hnd oust thorn nnf ?nH iow prccious tbo faith which made hem accept banishment rather than disoyalty to conscience. They who could i lever again hope <o tread the soil dearer , o them than all the world bosidc, bore rith them into the wilderness that rhiuh should remain in its fruitfulness ,nd beauty?that which should waft to hem, in a strange climc, the breath of lome. 1 it is impossible for one who visits for he first lime, this beautiful and historic Sew Rocfrolle, so dear inv' its name and , raditions to all who revere Ilugucnot ncmorics, not to recall tho fact which his incident illustrates. It said, you mow, of the first French exiles here hat one of the most venerable among i hem began to go daily to the shore, and ooking off -in tho direction where iVancs was supposed to be, to sing ?ne of tho psalms of Clement Marot, ,nd then offered his morning prayers. )thers joined him in this service of God, ind loving rememberance of native land, ningling their tears of grief for life-long ies which that dfilivarnncfi hfiri uovernd And tho saine love of country reveal>d itself in tho namo by which their lettlement was to be forever known. It vas natural that the colonists from [Sngland and the Netherlands, coming >ut for the most part under favorable tuspices, and with the counternance and mthority of tho mother country, should eproduce the local nomenclature which lad bceen dear to them at homo. It was natural even that tho settlors at Plymouth?never severing, and never expecting to sever, the tics of language, nistom and fuWlumental elements of religion which united thom to tho land which they had left?should repeat in the now world endeared local names of the old. But the French exiles had been denationalized; their mother had pursued them with rentless hate; had vobbed them of every right to liberty, hope, conscience and life; had denied them sepulture in her coil. La ltochelle itself, the beautiful and honored center of their hopos and stronghold of their faith, had served as tho ,.n.ui >1. n vvjwii vi ugsvmuu() nuiut At would not hare been strange if everything which recalled memories so bit tor suffering so unnatural, undeserved and unexampled, had be?n put away in the very interests of that religion which commanded submission, . resignation, forgiveness., On the contrary, however as brave to confront provocation to hale in themselves as to bear its persecution frOln tfttfera"; unafraid that I0W1 of the . ; ' - / ' "v. . k' ? . \ ?* *? . '</. vfl; - -r country which they had let* would :nake them repent of the ftteadfkatnese )f principle to which it had boon sacrificed, they who settled here called their tiome in a strange land after that bwae in the land of their fathers which was 10 full of saddening recollections. llochelle ! The name is talismantic? is sweet in its melody as sublime in its memory. It tells of s faith and.fortitude 30 heroic, enduring, unquenchable, thafc?-?^ the heart thrills to recall while it forbids Lhe tongue power to descrbe*them. The record of that last siege of Rochelle has never been and never can be, adequately told. We only know of that one spirit ruled in high and low, strong and weak, matron and maid?the spirit of faithfulness unto death for that which was more than them to life. We may J raw from it the inspiration of a like indomitable steadfastness to the truth which they sealed with their blood, or aiad? more sacredly dear by their Bufferings. Their children may learn from it to be as worthy as they are proud to wear tno nrimo which they received in a new lustre. Upon you, Huguenots of New llochelle, peculiar honor. You may paint, not to a spending vine, blooming ilmost in mockery of a dead or dispersed colony, but ta hearts and lire? and lionies which keep pure the faith and ;reen the memories of those who first found refuge here. Guard well jottr heritage of ancestry; your sacred patrimony of truth, the name which liaikff ^ you so.inscperably to a glorious past. The world is waking to recognition of men of whom, in their time, it was not worthy. Nay, even tl^ir children are but beginning to prize their - more than loyal lineage. You cannot hold it too iear. Not of the 6ame, but of a kindred race your present speaker, for many yoars associated with the only distinctivo Huguenot Church in this country, has become an anthusiast' in all thai relates to Huguenot memorials. Some of my brethren here doubtless, regard me ns too zealously narrow and sensitive as to preserving the original forms and features and not being content with the substantial perpetuity of the faet of Huguenot faith. If so, I must claim indulgence, whilst rejoicing ia the privilege and opportunity of cleaving immovably and-unalterably alike to form and fact as they unite in the dear church which I serve, eten though thus it must stand alone . and apart in. external organization from its honored sister churches elsewhere. It Is the ? vine which the Huguenot fathers of Carolina brought with them to their new home, under whose shadow they sat with great delight, and which lives yet, to bear for their children the same fruit which made fathers true and goodhonored and trusted, glad and great. There is a prayer still preserved,. which made part of liturgy of the siege of La Rochelie, which needs only transference to our present circurostances*in defending the fortress of Hnguenofc memories, as well for their ptower over our own lives as for their inestimabfo value in themselves to jirescribe the spirit uy wiiicd we snouia oe ruiea. is is the prayer of tho sentinels upon the battlements of that belea^uored -and. famine-stricken town. Let it be onrji,, in all its spiritual meaning and practical application, and mankind will hare reason to bless the pious and patriotic purpose to recall and repeat the live^ stl the Huguenot fathera. , Conceive the scene! The ancient city, encompassed with innumerable sad implacable foes without, and with the horrors of want and suffering within. Before setting forth upon their solitary and perilous vigils, the sentinels bowed before God in these words of sublime trust: "Oh Lord God, since it hath pleased Thee to establish us upon-the watch for tho preservation of this place, in whieh are now gatherod a great number of Thy faithful servants, vouchsafe to grant us grace that sleep overtake us not, and that we be brave and constant, in sustaining and bearing patiently, for Thy Son, Jesus Christ, suffered death,) alt work and injury |from the weather, esteeming ourselves happy, since in so doing we shall bo keeping with Thee the watch of Israel, which never slumbers, and wearies not of doing good jto.lts own ^ and, above all, may we walk.upon this guard as before Thee, who aeest all things, even to the innermost heart, so that, in all loyalty'and fidelity each one of us may discharge his doty towards Then and Thy Churtjli, as well as obey tho commands which our captain* give us, according to theauthority . which Thou hast givon them over u?. Pray* ing i nee aiso inK xnou wiu ToaolMfe to give them always wisdom and virtu* to lead us well and to command in oon? formity to Thy will. "And in order that we maintain the** things, and others like nnto thorn, e*e? , as now everything is disappeariog^ 9?v* ered hy the darknetia cre?pi?f off* Thine earth, vouchsafe thus, br TVtai infinite mercy, to cover And coaoeil all oar faults and inquiries ftoely pardofc. ing them, in the name and 7a*?r of Thy Son, Jesus- Christ, otur Lord, ftripp, , whom we ask thee all these jprityn*. and others which Thoti 1S1 expedient for the faerejfce of ^ThV The lore or ^Uf 'gt^d ''()od thor i th* gteorij poaee and Mr Lord Jesuit Chut, through the comma*. ion of 'ho Holy Spirit, rcat with a* an<j H>? church fereter." * WvA.'X: ' / .1