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< g ,^,1 11 -I I ' Iitwn W-????? I Hbmr'ii' "l Hill" 1 in ti - *. .. 1 I ^ X \ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ i *'* " ' ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ * DEMOTED TO UTBEATUR1, THS AKTS, SCIENCE, AGRIGUX<TBKE, HEWS, POLITICS &C., &C. E fdMS?--TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM,] ,lL?et it b? Instilled into the Hearts of your Children that the Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all your Rights." Juniun. [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, I860. VOLUME VII.?NO. 17. minis, lEwists & to, AND COTTON FACTORS, AITOITSTA, OA., CONTINUE the sn!e of Cotton nml other produce in their jWio Fireproof Wore- i 7ioute, ' Corner Jackson &. Reynolds Sts. EST Cusli aj Vftncos iiiiuU' when ?l*?sir?1. AMOINi: POUJ.LAIX, THOMAS J. .IKNN1NUS, ISAIAH I'L'RSK. Sept. 8, 1859-1'J-tf. O. M. CALHOUN, Warehouse AND SUMHAL COMMISSION MERCIIWT, IReyirald'a St., between Jnckson nrul Mcintosh G-a.; will attend strictly to the sale of COTTON, BACON, GRAIN, Ami nil other produce consigned to him. Per ponnl attention giving to the filling of all orders for Hnirging, Hope and Family Supplies. Liberal Cash advances made jjii product: in Store. j! June 24, 18f>0, 8 tf THE MARSHALL DOUSE,! i ABBEVILLE . 11^ S. i f'piJE UXr>F.RSK:Xi:i> wotiM r.spectfiilly ! L inform the public that lie has taken the 1 lflPi'e aiid ( (iinniiiili(it>fl llllTKI. L*?w?*i??? ?_ I i ii*"' " ** "" I" MARSHALL HOUSE," | nitusted on the North-Enst corner of the Public j Square. Having hnJ many years experience as n Hotel Keeper, lu-flntttrs himself that he will ' i "oe able to please those who may favor him with ! , their patronage. His table will always be piovidcd with the j best the market alFords. Every effort will lie msde to render bis House | | a home for the wcarv traveller. ; , JOlINSOV It VM I V ! 1 Dec. 1G. 1857 33 tf . HOWARD ASSOCIATION. 1 I'1II(>A?CL!MI1A. i ji Ji'nevnlrnt iitxlihttiim rttaldixlfd b>t *]irri<il I tnd-nnncut. for lh' r>h> f of thr tick and J/ix tretxrd. njflutrd trilh I 'irulcnl mid J'Jjddeinlc \ Bifatft. MEDICAL Advice given gratis liy 'lie Ar:t- ; I ing Surgeon t?> all who apply by letter I with u description of their coudittoil, (age, occti- I pntion, habits of life, ?fcc.,) ami ii> eaw* of ex treme poverty.Meilteiiie furnished fre* of charge I Valuable Reports on the New Remedies em i ployed in the Dispensary, sent to the atllieted in i denied letter envelopes, free of charge. Two! or three Stamp* for postage will he uceeptilde. ' , Address. JUt. .1. SKI 1.1.1 N IKUXillTuN. I i Acting Surgeon, Howard Association, Jiu. ill South Ninth Street, Philadelpeia, l'u. | liy ord*r of the Directors. i F./.R A 1>. IIKARTWKJ.L, President i (Iko. FAllientld, Secretary. [Jan.'2i>.l*2in | to sellt i O JEL n E3NTT. * I'1IE STORK MOUSE and LOT at Uo.ltf.-8 Depot, recently occupied by ROBERTS A ADAMS. The House is> conveniently situated, containingGr?*eery mjiA Dry Goods rooms, ' neatly Hniched, u counting roooi, ?o<l a very ' commodious room taphtairs. ' To persons wishing to engage in mercantile 1 life, we Buy this is oiw *if the bett country ' atamls in the State. Tltirly Thousand Dollars j worth of goods may be sold here annually, ' into good hands. 1 J. X. COCHRAN. ' Jan. r., 1860 37, 3m. 1 ? ?? i ^Professional Card. drTdXbensox VX7"OULD respectfully informs the citizens of ' j T t Abbeville. Village and viciiiity, <ii?t ! be hos removed his residence to the dwelling adjoining tho Episcopal Parsonage, where he 1 "expects to be permanently located in the prac- ? lice of his Profession. His Office will be at e the Drug Store of Mr. D. McLacciiliv, where ' he will generally be fouiwl during U*e dav. ' Abbeville, 8. UU, Dec. 24th, lSi^,34, 3in } sr. Zj. oiiAna, i BEPAIKEK OP WATHCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY, fiODOES' DEPOT, 8. O., I ? TS prepared with all necessary tools and mn- 1 X Aerials to do anything in his line of buai- ' neu at the lowest rates. All work warranted do well for twelve months, if not send it ' back and it will be done free of charge. Give ttte atrial and satisfy yourselves. Terinacaali. June 11, 18M),7~12iu, VERELL & JACKSON, . HOUSE PAINTERS, GRAINER8, VARBLERt) a WT\ n?ntm mi V CAX&a OAAUXJU), NINETY SIX, S. <3. J. r. VERKiL. . CALEB JACKSON. JfD. 27, I860, J5hn J ^ NOTIOE1 ~~ To Guardians, Trustees, &c. t S A IX Guardians, Trustees and Committee*, - j _?Jl. who are accountably io this Office, are jiereby notified to make their Annual Returns tQjne by the IMA day of April text All defaulted* mil b* rultd indi*&rbniruUely- Guardiana who have not jet oomplated their appointment " by entering into Bond) are requested tp do so at an aarly day. t WM. F1 PARKER,**, a. D. | Oommiaaioner's Office, ) - t Fab- 18, I860 44 8m f I THE LXDEPEXDEXT PRESS, BY LEE & WILSON. ABBEVILLE S. C4 Two Dollars, in Advance, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the Expiration of the YearAll subscriptions not limited nt the lime i>f sul???.Til>injr. will be considered n tmMinitc, nml will be continued until arrearages nre j?niil, or at tlit: option of the Proprietors. Orders from other St :ites must iuvnriublv lie accompanied with the t.'iish.ffi^ CANDIDATES. Tlic friends O. M. MATTISON re ! ppeetfidlv nnnooiu'u him as n candidate for Tax Collector at the next election. The Mends of .1AMKS A. MoCOUI) ro<q?c*K.fnlly aniHMiin'e him as a Candidutc for Tax Collector at th? next election. The friends of Dr. J. V. M.ntMit - fullv announce liim ns n Candidate for Tax Collector at the next election Iff Wc ?r<! authorized to announce S. A. IIOlKilvS as a Candidate for Tax Collector, at the ensuing election. The friends of C?pt. W. S. HAKIMS respectfully announce him as a Candidate fo I lie office of Tax Collector of Abbeville L)istri nt til*! C3T The ii'tiitrroiix' *.//; -of WESLEY A. I BLACK K#(j., respectfully announce him ns a Candidate for Tax Collector at the next elec- , lion. The frimtofa HEX It Y S. CASON respect. | tilly aiiiiuotiune hiriK as41 Candidate /or Tax1 Collector, at he eiimirni; -eltvJCkio:. IjT Ti.<- iOHN A. fH'NTKK r? ppretfiilly ntuiomiee tiim ? candidate for tlie nllict* of Ordinary, nt the next eleetwn. Tlie friends of Col. J. G. HASK1X respectfully announce liim a candidate fur tlie utlice of Ordinary, nttlie next election. ( T1IK ONLY Airi li'i V UNRIVALLED IN MARKET1 . WITH 1MMKKSK It IIOMH AND EUROPEAN j< demAND. j r?"^11P- renvoi) why, is that by Nature's own J _1_ process it roiiircs the natural color per- , iniiiicitllv after the hair becomes ijray; supplies llie nntural Hoids, anil thus makes it glow oil I l?ald heads, r-?iiK<v?c all -dvuditair, itching, mul ( lii-at finiH *h-e <juii-1s and tones up the | . nerve.-, ami thus cures a!! nervciis headache. and ' may by relied upon to cure all diseases of the \ >calp and hair; it will stop and keep it- from . falliiit: oil"; nmkcx il *?ft, healthy utiil * 'tca*t*ful, land if used by I lie young two or three j times a week, it will never fall or become gray I hen roaoer, read the following and judge for 1 yourselves: t Xkw Yop.k, Jan. 8 18."i8. . Messrs. O. .1. Wood it Co?Gentlemen : ! ' I la vim; heard .i good deal about I'rof. Wood's I 1 Hair Restorative, and my hair beint; quite gray, I made up my mind to lay aside the prejudices j ' which 1. in common with a great many persons j ?. iad against all manner of patent medicines, i ; in.i a riiort tun - ago I i-ommciiced using your 1 article. lo t<-st it for myself. ' ? The result has been so very *atis<"nrt-"ry tliat j [ am very glad 1 did so, and in justice to you, ; * !?? whII us forth* encouragement of others who | j ruv Kv as ji?ay a?i 1 was bul who having my j | prejudice without tuy reasons Utr netting it | ifiiln, ure unwilling tu> giv? your Restorative a < trial till they have further proof, and the hest proof heing oceu'nr demonstration, I write you Lliis lett-:r, which ynu may show to nuy such, < mil also <1 ii vel tliein to me f<>r further proof, v who inn in and out of the X. Y. Wire Hailing fctahlishmeut every <lav. v My hair is now it* natural color and iiilbeli ^ mprovei! iti n|>|ieiitince + very way heing glossier and thi'-k>-r and inueh rn?>re healthy look? 1 ng. 1 am. Yours Hespeetfullv, 1 llKN'KY JBNKINS. Cor. Colombia and Carroll Sis., Urooktyn ' Livingston, Ala.. Feb. 14. 1858. j !>.?,.? w...... 1. ~-u;_ .* ....... ?I'l-or.nr.; l our 1 luir Uestora- j Live lias done much good in this part of the ^ ountry. My liair has hecn slightly diminish- j injr fur ?cvernl years, eansed, I suppose, from t*lii;liL burn when I was quite an infant, 1 1 wive been iisinir your Hair Meliorative for six j weeks and i find that I have a 6lie Lead o lair new growing, after hiving used nil other * "emedieH known to no effect. I think it the r uoi>t valuable remedy now extant, and advise . ill who are uillieted that way to use your etnedy. I You can puhlitJi this if 3-ou think proper. \ ( Yours. &< .. 1 S. W. MIDDLETOV. ( Piiilahelpiiia, Sept. i>. 1857. ^ I'bok. Wood?Dear Sir: Vour Hair Uuctora ive i? proving itnlf beneficial to me. The f 'runt, and also die back part of my bead almost out its covering?whs in fact uai.n. I have lsnd but 2 half pint bottles of j'our Iteeiora t ive, an<l now the top of my head is well itudded with a promising crop of young hair ind the front is altvu receiving its benefit. I <; lave tried other preparations without any . >en*fit whatever. I lliwik from my own per- ' onal r?oomiN?i<dAiiontI eaa induce juany others e o try it. Yours, respectfoli)L D. It. THOMAS, M. D. H No <1R1 Vln?Stri>?t. The Restorative is put up in bottle* of three lizee, viz: large, medium, and amall ; the small nohls J a pint, and retails for one dollar per J, Dottle: tlie uu'dium holds at leant twenty per . :eut more in proportion than the small, retails Tor two dollars per bottle; the large holds a ti ipmrt 40 per cent, more in proportion, and re- , tails for $3 a bottle. O. J. WOOD <fc CO. Proprietors, 444 Broad- a way, New York, and 114 Market St, St. Louis Mo- . . e And sold by alt good Druggists and Fancy C 3oods Dealers. o southern uolse. spears'& hight, ? rN rriTT ' ^ luii occupy ineir old stand, opposite the O Planters' Hotel, No. 816, where they eon- ti Untly keep on hnnd one of the LargeetStocks a n the Southern Country, .comprising every a^ icle in the Drug and Fancy Goods Trade. All t< if whieh they will sell at New York Prices.? *. 'rice before you buy. [Jan. flO, I860, 20-tf DR. JAIdfiS F. 1HABRT P r? WOULD Inform tho publio that he has returned to the village, and ifriil continue he practice of medicine. He may he fotlnd at H le MARSHALL HOUSE, ujiless professionally tj ngaged. ' JUreh 1, 18*0 44 t? A WHERE BEST MAY BE FOUND. Tell mo ye winged winds, That round my path wo y roar, Do yc not know tonic fpot, Where mortals wept no more! Some lone ami pleasant ? Some valley in the West, Where free from toil and pain, The weary soul may rest? The loud wind* softened in a whisper low, And sighed for pity as they answered?*Xo j* Tell mo, thou mighty deep. Whose billows round me play, Know'st thou some favored spot, Some islnml far away, "Where wretched man may fitiil, The liliftd for which lie sighs f Where sorrow itewer lives. Ami Friendship never dies f The wild wave rolling in perpctunl flow, Stopped for a moment as it &uuiv<ercu?'No ! And Umu, cerencct moon, That with each holy fiv^e. Dost look upon tlic earth Asleep in night's embraceTell nie, in nil tliv rounds, Hast lliou not?e*u some spot Where miserable man Might find a happier lotf Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woo, And n voice, sweet but cad, responded?'No t' Tell me my secret Soul? OJ tell me Hope and Fuitli, 3s there no reKtetiug-p'.aee From tun'ow, p'm and-death f Is there no happy *pot Faith, Hope and Love, best boous to mortals given, Waved their bright wings and answered?'Yes ] in Heaven J' j From I Uc Home Circle, HEMINISECNOF.S OP n.1VT?5TJm?v a n i MANUAL-LABOR SCHOOL. hi* a stci)k.*t or 1637. When the door of the Clmrcli was j opened, fifiy-siK of us went up ami gave I jur hands to the preacher. There was a ! nornl sublimity, or beauty rather, in the I iceuc, whicfe ?mue appreciated, while oth- ! ;rs went off into a doleful prophecy as'-to j jow juany would stand six uioritlis out. | liy brother and I were in the number, and .ve wrote home the joyful news. The hoy hat went up just before me, (for wo went ; tp single tile, through a narrow pass,) and ; .vanned the pastor's hand that look mine, i >va& a rememberable youth. S. M. li. was rom Camden, South Carolina ; a little my enior in years, and much iu manner and naiilincss. llis spirits were like tlx* ilrwun if a pebbly brook?flowing, bright, unailing, and gladdening. Though a buy, must speak of him as lovely. We vera bosom friend*. The beautiful letters if his siater, travelling that year abroad ? nto Ireland?were read to me, tind enjoyed villi exquisite relish. " As one mourn:th fur his mother" has nut passed into a noverb; but it would, if all sons were ike Sammy. One morning, about nine >'elock, as a company of u* were in our j OOll). 1 saw him irut nil n <di?ir mill I ------ D " I " - ? ook at Mr. N.'s watch, hanging on the vail. A shade passed over his face, and he vent Hway. I missed hiiu from church ind from dinner. In the evening he came ip, like oue who hud taken a degree in loliness. It was the anniversary of ? =* J -Christian mother'* death, and he had kept t alone, in meditation and prayer, and svideutly hud wept much. What iutfii nee has a dead mother over a living son ? \n influence strangely tenacious, and most >owerfu! when he is most in danger ? iway, absent, and alone in tiie world. I ead of Sam's death a year or two ago believe he held faithfully to bis religion; <ut the obituary hketch intimated?what I vas prepared to learn?that his social and un loving nature was his chief besetrnent to ho last. He is still ahead of m?, and I ollow on. At Cokesbury I found out that there vere differences of pronunciation among joutli Carolinians. The folks of the low ountry (iliey consider themselves the high) iRve a brogue of their own, and to my ar it is rich and sweet. Abroad, they ire known ns Charges Ionian*, ami their peech betrayetbjhem. I say it is rich nd sweet to my enr ; so much so, thai I Dve to hear even the negroes talk that are nought up in tiial region. A distinguished raveller snys lie abhors the London, and lie New England, and the Limerick brogue, nd all provincialisms and brogues in gen- < ral, s?v? two?those of Charleston, South !arolioa, and Dublin, Ireland. The boys f beaufort, Barnwell, Colleton, unci Orngebtirg, talked not like those from the pper Districts. Tliese last* in that day, ad no railrqad communication with the ? coast. They partook of thai perverse Vesternism wh*oh calls stars stair a ; and ien turns round and calls stairs tiara f? I L.n amusing instance of (his occurred be- < ireen a boy from Pendleton and myself.-" I was apple time, and* we had ? fine ' rchard away off ina field. I-was up a tree, ' eeting and eating, when nn earnest voice aached me, (I knew the voice,) saying i smetliing about heart, and come down.?< ' Tou may be sure I didn't, come down at 1 i it news, but went a few limbs higher op? J it last he made itte understood tliat j whs on a horse, with a bag of apples: ' would I plcaso cotno down and pull llie { bars, and let him out? , And we had a new currency at Cokes- I bury. As before stated, labor givo us ap- < petite, and Hour was not cheap then as i now. liiscuit was a luxury. Sunday night and Wednesday night were known . as " 1 iscuit nights." To save the well- j behaved from the grabbing boys, at ordi- i nary, three biscuits were counted out to | each plate. They were our property, and j ? _.?n i??i...:? ?i i i i n xui v>lliv.lllill lull VUUIU UU Ili;l<IU Oil I I the issues of the big oven?real sub-lreas urv, like gold ami silver. Biscuit was al <uost a legal tender. Set) two boys swapping knives or books : " How much boot do you give me ?" " I'll give you so ninny biscuits." One boy from Orangeburg, whea bis > numerous creditors conferred nuioug them* selves on bis solvency, was found to owe thirty-six biscuits! Great self-denial was required to pay sucb debts. Tbink of it! mree not uiscuits smoking under a hungry bov'a nose, and his creditors clamoring across tiio table, and sometimes making collecting tours?"Pay me my biscuits!" At that <Jay a camp-ground formed part of CokesLury. The tents were hallowed spots. Nearly every pious student found a closet, to which, at morning, noon, and evening, ho quietly retired, and read his Bible, and communed with his Father in heaven. Tlio tent-apartments, separate, clean, and dry, and lloored with straw, were well adapted for such a use. There, : :.i.. ii.- nil - * iii ? mum;, mo oiuie or religious volume : lay, turned down at tlie place where reading was left off, and ready to bo resumed- 1 Tlie students' habits in this respect were j just enough under each other's observation ' for mutual watchfulness. Absence for a few times might be accounted for by sick? ; ne?s or unavoidable detention ; but if by and by (lie place " where prayer was wont to be made" became deserted, the ill omen , \vji? correctly inierpre'cl, ami the hack? ! eliding soul sought afuer. That camp- ' ground might seem a small circumstance, , but in my memory of C?ke*hury it was a ! material feature in the religious life of its I students. Private prayer was an institution, and tlte devotional habits of young convert* !, were regular.XHence their stability.? ; The firpt year y{ spiritual life is of great ! importance, whey viewed in This light.? ! The closet, the cloeel ! when and where ! was there ever deudiiess to the world 01 depth of piety without it ? To it ihe weary Saviour retreated for strength, and lie 1ms ( for ever consecrated it to the rest and coinfort of hie follower*. Often, as he returned , from lliu conflicts of outward life to the , place of seefet prayer, the pious Wilbere ? ..ii lorce wottKi repeat 10 ii tinsel I : i " The c?oi retreat, tlie pleasant shade, With prayer uu<l praise Agree, A11 1 seem by (liy sweet bounty inudc For those who worship thee." y i Under these auspices my first year tn ' the Church was passed, anil I shall ever l>e thankful fur it. Here tho little pocket Uible was read through fur the first timeWe went to church three times every Sabhath, to clas meeting once a week, and (o ' Sabbath-school. Not only was there a great deal of preaching, but it was good ' nrftnidiinnr nml a <.f I? rPt-- ' ' . O. kJ " sermon preaehed especially to us, before breaking up to go I mine, was by that saintly man, Malcolm MT'iierson. Among ' other things lie said, "You leave, my young friends, many of you, such menus \ of grace as you may not find elsewhere. 1 You will have temptations. / tell you ' boys, the Devil has roils in souk for you, However it may have fared with the other boys, this one has proved it so. That summer we had ft camp-meeting [ don't recollect much about it, except that my father enme up to fee. us, bringing messages of love from hotivj, and good things put up by Mother's hands; and that old Mr. DHimelly was the generalise sim'o oo the ground. I imltt say ??ome. thing of him. for he was si character, llis voice wae fine yet strong, like the sound that conics from slmrpeniug a cross-cut saw on ft cold, clear morning. The picture of (yiintiiin \\O.I. !?/? -U i? ........ r. vv. uiu million Bushier ana early Wcsleyan preacher, reminds me of ^ /anues Dantielly: -Bt? ut in body, Abort)' broad, courageous face*,"both. True, Webb? ^ lacked an eye, but Donnelly matched that j in lack of a Jog. Ilis wooden leg was a ^ feature. Its resolute tbmnp, thump on tlie floor was expressive, of decision. When , he put his fool down, it was there?espe- ' cially his wooden one. On it he wheeled wil|i tremendous force, in the &h:?rp appeals ' that bis brill voice rani; out to eaiats and " sinners, on the- right and on the left. In one of hi* rounds, he ?aw a preacher, who. * bad Jast got off a sermon, lounging onT a 8 bed with tout df. " Ah 1 that's the way * with' yoa preaching gentry i weed a short j! row, and then lie down." Ite hated to* bactfo in all its tssea, especially srtloked? "thU makbg ghbtfaeys at your woUth* -ft Ofcl nose#i"2'9?e'^ a.daody puffing a ?1- U jat At the Ufit door* he repaid biai.? * ' O, Mr. Dannelly, excuse mo*, a fiiend ;ave mo tliis." " Mistaken, Sir: an ac juuinluHce, you mean." IIo had a way all lis own of pouring it oti and rubbing it in. 3nee, after the building of tlio new church, iho Lord's Supper was to be celebrated.? Preaching over, the non-communicants and doners had gone out, and stood, a crowd, ibout tlio door; the communicants drew j up nearer the altar. Lo ! the elements j liad not been provided. Brother Williams j bad depended on Brother Bo bo, and ho : l?ii Brother Hodges or Brother llcrndon, ami so il was. Dannclly wailed till this state of things was fully ascertained, mid then, without saying a word, -went thump, thump, thump to the door. Pivoting himself on that wooden leg, till insiders and outsiders were within his raking fire, he began : " No sacrament to day. You can go home. If it had been a party or a picnic, I'il be bound these Christians would hav? come up, every one with his basket fudi. But it was only to celebrato the death and suffering of our Saviour, and not one of them has hroin?lit ? ninm ?f l.ro..,l ? o " l,wvv' ''' You can go home. Lord, have mercy 011 us." . Towards tlie close of the year, I went timidly to him for my Church-letter. "What! not coming back to Cokesbury !" " No, Sir ; should like to, but my father is going to move to Alabama this winter, and I can't come back." " Use your letter, you reckon, if I give you one? Do ashamed of your religion?" u I mean to j>ut the letter in wherever 1 go, and will try and never be ashamed of being a Christian." Then, for the first time, under a doughty, rough exterior, the old man showed me his kind heart, lie drew me to him and blessed me, and said, " Yes, you shall have a Utter." I Our Tftchers.?Mtjor Mat. Williams's i)e]?irtiue<it was mainly the mathematics. I came not much in contact with hiiu, and therefore (ell his influence only x+> a fine spirit insensibly diffuses itself upon nil around. Small in stature, he towered tall | when lie buttoned his coat ami stood up to ii refractory student. His mettle was of Rxqni.-ite touch ami temper. He filled up my ideal of the sans jteur el sons rep roc he. Willi the rector, as he was called, Kev. A. II. Mitchell, (now Dr. Mitchell,) I had ino-t to do. Ilo siugularly inspired fear and love. His voice and altitude subdued ii boy right off; and his higher qualities continued the beneficial sway. Often since, L have met liiin on tlio Conference floor mi J the platform, and am afraid of him still. Olio thing against him : he will not remember or confess that I ever went to school to him! _ f' We made a fuir crop In tho field?corn find fodder, poaa, potatoes and cotton?and gathered it; besides cleaning some new ground. In the school-room our examinations passed off well. Collier made the valedictory, and as it was the first one 1 aver heard, it made ine cry heartily, llow | nine uiu t then suppose Hint vale, vale, lonr/nyt vule could ever wear out. But col lege boys and commencements can wear 9ut any tiling. The best part was yet to :ome. The Steward culled the laborers,, md gave tliem a check on the Treasurer ror their hire. livery lioy win giaded in manual labor as in study. Tho stoutest md steadiest " hands'' got paid at the rate >f three cents an hour ; this was the mnx111 uiu. Tho brush gang got inuch less.? \s for me, I never was any great things at vorking; but my pile astonished me.? Mimpiastera had just come iulo vogue, aud he amiable Treasurer, M(. Shackleford, to >lease us, had sent down to Augusta and jot a supply for the occasion. Five cents ooked like five dollnrs, and felt the same ti the pocket. When it came to paring >ut, though, jou got poor fast. Seriously, hat money was not the least valuable part >f the education then obtained "at Cokesjury. Had our fathers or null- uncles ;iveii tl?e axine sum to us, nono of us vould hnve known its value. Coine ea?v, jo easy. But we had labored for it, a?d hat labor furnished \ih with a.unit of val10 whereby to estimate iu worth... Kvecjf. ive cents stood for two or three hours of' weat ami dust; and, with the blisters oft* lis hands, almost any boy would look4 at east five times at it before giving Ave cents or a cigar, that ia puffed away in_ a few ninutes, leaving a residuum of smoke and ?liec, . , " 1 "Good-bye, Sam; good-bye, Bei?, and 1 \?n, and Joe; good bye, lionry: write fo ne." And remembering the pocket-Bible^ 2 ran a#ay 10 fetch ft from the tent, not. t rithont dropping tears thnt tTia consecrated pot should know me fto more. Taking Lege at Stoney Point to Aiken, and thence 4 y railroad the two little .bora ate eooa at ' ' i orae. v - farewell to (3ok?bdry | Witb grate11 )ove? 1 .shall ev?r fegard the providence ttfc directed my steps tlierev for the truuk as packed more than once to ttart for 1 other places. May all our church schools send forth a generation to bless then), as I <lof in my heart, bless Cokesbury. It lias never put on any collego airs, but hoUls on its way of usefulness, aa a achoul. Though twenty-two years have gone by since 1 i obeyed the call of its bell to morning and ! evening prayers, I love it still. No one i reads the published reports and every thing | about it, even to the calls for meetings of ! ' . . t the IJoard of Trustees, with more interest j than I do. It is in the care of a noble Con- j ! ference, and long may it live. If I were rich, I would endow it. Changing about for the next few years, J among stranger* and at new schools, "dry ; and thirsty places where no water was," ! often did the holy M'l'hereon's sermon come to mind. My Cokesbnry fm-nds, on ' iinJing out my post-oflicc in the new j country, remembered to write to me, but 1 without thoughtful concert, for by one j mail I received three letters, and the postage j broke me flat. (What times those were? twenty-five cents fur every letter !) One there was, who quitted Cokesbury tlie year after I did, whom no distance nor lapse of lime dimmed in my grateful memory. In tlie course of years, we lost sight of each other entirely. After a long wh le ! it vaguely reached 1110 that he had been ! unfortunate in business, and rested under a cloud, and, soured with misfortune, had j gone to borne place unknown. Often 1 6aid within myself, " If this soul is ever saved and shines, it ought to be in his crown who noticed me in the prayer mcc'.ing.? Where is he, and how fares it with hitii ?' One morning in as I was crossing (Jravicr steeet, New Orleans, a voice called)) " Mr. , can we engage your services j fur a funeral this afternoon i Mr. C. died 1 last ni<?lit." "Mr, C.," I replied, " what I was his full name ?" lie tuld it to me.? j M Where did ho die ?" Pointing to a large j granite front store, corner Magazine and i Gravier streets, lie answered, " There, in 1 . i his room on the thrid door. I will step up ; there witlrvon, if you wish to see." I asked ' to go alone. Tho tidy Creole nurse?her ; mission done?was adjusting the furniture, and folding up clothes. A uofHu rested on , two chairs, in the middle of the cheerless room. I uncovered the face, and there lay my dear friend, B. F. C.! ... Strange conjunction ! Like two voyagers on lifu's tempestuous sea, whom the waves had long parted, here we were again ! My thoughts and feelings, as I gazed upon the dead face, and reviewed the past, were such as I can ] have but once. I uncovered tho hands, j folded I))' strangers on his breast, am! took hold of the one that, in the Cokes- ' bury prayer-meeting, was laid 011 my head as tie told me to pray, and placed a chair for me to kneel dowu upon. It was to cold ! and stifle t Madame , the landlady, otU of re- ! spec* for lier hoarder, whose amiable 11:1- ; ture always gained on those about him, i offered her parlor for the funeral services. 1 The store was closed, and the employer* ! and clerks attended. Few, formal', and def- i erential was the company?just such as ' can be found only in a great commercial city, and on such an occesion. My friend had even won upon " the leading man of tho firm," from whom I learned that he had been there for a good white; was tetifing, not making new acquaintances, sel dom going to church, and was not aware ! that lie belonged to any Church, Protestant , or Catholie; rather thought ho was a | Protestant?"very moral man, very up- j right,- ami a gentleman " The company ! were surprised at the emotion of the ! preacher, until lift*departed from the ritual , so far as to let them know that the dead i w#s no stranger to him. The preacLer ! was the mourner. The last henedic- | tions were pronounced at the tomb, and I thus again was fulfilled the saying that is ; writter?f"_Th& last shall be first, and the! first htfiuV v Tfic HiTTf e np t ID* Tl?ft i Jife, iu'"by fair the greater number of caad(ltf must necessarily bo fought^bp bill; fltjd to i *in it ^Wlthoutra struggle wero perj^pps to { win it without bonor. If'there wdr'e no, ' difficulties, there would bo no success; if | there were nothing to struggle for, thero ( Would be nothing to be achieved. Difli- i c'oltle* wjay intimidate the weak, but they < set OiJy as a stimulus to men of pluck and. ' resolutfoh. All experience of life, indeed, serves to prove that the impediments thrown in the way cjf human advancement mny ? for the most part bo overcome by fifeadyj e good conduct', honest z?al, activity, perse- | vereDce, and, above all, by a determined J resolution to surmount difficulties,and stand t upjfetnfully against misfortune. I i ?- i < Tftr out van's brcbet.?An agtd '* slergytftan, who bad-known not ooe day's : iHqew, wiu iuked bit secret, *D<ry feet and r jarl/ rUiog/waf kw reyly'(.(mm are my 8 jnly two precautions.' HibiU of ' Good Society. * ?i i Lore, while it frequently ocpuopis pare t; Marts, often purifies oorrupi bwrla. FOR Tin: 1N *H* t| fc SI > 1J ST I'll ICRS. rHK AGAVE AMERICANA OK MEXICAN , . MAGUEY. During niv residence in Mexico I availed myself of the oppoituiiily to lca*u many interesting facts with reganl to the method of culture rind the domestic uses of the Mexican Maguey. Next to our great rjuuthevrt staple, I know of no oilier vegetable production, whie.li supplies a'once t lie various wantsof tlie inhabitants, a'.i 1 at tlie s iinet'iiiic enters into almost every branch of industry and manufacture. It constitute!; (lie chief income of many ofthelatid proprietor*; who devote immense tracts and even large estates almost wholly to its cultivation. It flourishes equally as well; on the high a; id table lands of Puebla or the most alluvial toils cit' the valleys of Mexico. < >n elevated lands beyond the ^neatis of irrigation the excessive heat and long protracted thought, impels the roots of the Maguey to draw its sustenance manv feet hem-atli il>.> It re-quires little or no cultivation ai'u-i* being planted, as nothing else will scarwlv vegetaU.* iti i]jc aiiil soils it stems to deliglit iu. Tin; pbitils fire set out eight feet apart, after having previously lain for sever:!I days exposed lo the sun; seven years being required to perfect their growth. A single plant when fully matured is valued at eighty dollars. A field, of ten :u4es wotlld . bb worth $10,000. In some localities the Maguey is chiefly used for hedges, iu which easy they are allowed to bloom undisturbed; The main stem rises io tlie height of twenty feet, with as many subordinate, steins oi biavches, leaving on each a large yellow bloom or ".ollcctiyn of flowerets rescmblinnr o tlie common sun-flower. The stem, which is hollow or filled with pith, is made lisp of ih t!ie constriictioil Hf the huts of tho l'eons or laborers. A lull grown Maguey would of itself cover an siiea of twenty square feel. In setting thetii out it is unnecessary to tuake full provision for tho leaves which are longitudinal r.nd readily find vnerfnt sfiaee for intersection. The leaves vary from three to ten icet in lengthy they diverge frotn the parent stem, and aro armed withH multitude of impervious thorn* which renders them so invaluable for hedges The Peons are compelled to cut pathp. through the fields Hint they may he enabled to visit the plants during the sf-ason of bearing. 1'iior to the period of blooming, tho opefatibn of collecting the sap or pulque commences*. The heart of the full grown plants is taken out, and a small cavity ex>cavated after which the leaves are bent over it, to shelter it from tile wcitliier. In a fwur .love - mi; o(i|i vuiiiuii:iii;i;3 i" iiuw II! aL thl rate of fu'.ir quarts per day, fol- futifr years, wlu-n it uecorhes cxhallsted ami dies. The motlicr trunk is tlicn exhumed and dried in llie sun, and furuishes an excellent substitute for fuel, while a new plant or sei* on Irttieii frdiM a vigorous platlt replaced* in its stead. And thus a field of Maguey is perpetuated. Morning and noon a l'er.n visits the fields to collect the pulque, and soihetimes rescarifying the cavities to induce a iefiow of sap. On his back ho carries n water-tight vessel, enclosed in a net work, which is secured by a leather strap, parsing around hU forehead, am! into which the tluid is emptied w hen drawn, from the plant bv means of a l?ng gourd Jjavjng a small orifice at each end. The operation being greatly facilitated by the suction of the lips. After the sap is collected, il i.s cmveyed to ripen sheds ami placed in large tubs lined \Vith raw-hido to allow il to fernicnl. Wh'eh tic-ly taken from the plant, it lias a s\Veet taste lesembling freshly drawn milk; if drank in this state it acts a* a potVcrftil fcathavtii'i In about twelve Iionis it undergoes a urmplete fermentation, rendering il one of the inont delightful beverages in *h?j world. Whett tho sap is fodr days old il becomes ropy and has a disagreeable flavor resulting from a slight putrescent*}'. The lower class of natives esteem it more hichlv then- fur i?c greater intoxicating qualities and get (hunk on it every day. \Y lieu ii lias ijmie through its first stage of t-lYerVi Sconce, ii is put up itl skins, conveyed to the nearest malket on the hacks of animals and fold to tlio proprietors of lite pulque shops who retail' it to their customers at the rate of a cluco, h drink, or a little moio than one cent per glass. uvxu.iiiu! iA.>viiijr, in.mu <ji i'liiu apple juice ami pulque, called "I'ttitfiic L<y? jioenia" i? also retailed tVoin the shop.? The higher class are more foiijJ|r-.o'f.it in this waj', and teldom pit down to dine without having it upoivjheir tables. 1'ulqUe.if put up in corked bottles improves with age, when it rivals the most delicious wine?,anil t ho best chartipaigne is far inferior Id it. If d?ank in moderate quantities it proiri&t&a digestion, and a general healthy action Of the system. If used immoderately itcausesincorpulency without the enarvatirig cfFects of other stimulants. Uf the fibres of tlili leaves nearly all the roping bagging, sewing thread brooms, brushes, and mattresses used in the country, is innilb. . lleside* immense quantities of ttrliiskey, brandy and other spirits is flitbornted from tlie sap. The feculff of tliu ttem may be made into soap and sugar while :lie finest paper is manufactured from Lbo inner covering of the leaven. Almost the first object that attracted my ittenlioo on my arrival at Puebla was tho unafl red fliiga bung obliquely from the loors in certain localities, wbich I found op examination, to be the emblematic sign of jt Pulqveria or drinking house. The seenes >f violence and blood shed so often epacted n these receptacles of vice, are truthfuilv >ortrayed upon the interior walls of a Puljiteria. In the distance is seen a fitdd of dagueys; bard by a distillery of ardeut spirts ; intespersed with figure* as Urge as life epresenting quarrels, combats and deadly trife. In this wise the Mexioan venders 6f ntoxicating drinks a?V more Ijpuesi than ome of their brethren of the sametvpf, rbo sell Che deadly jk>kon without btmnfr h? charity to admonish their customers' ?f be evils IlWjr to follow. \ HODGES DEPOT. ',