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BY W. A. LEE AND IIUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. JULY 8, 1870. VOLUMEXVIII?NO. 11. i
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STANZAS.
Come back, O Paring of Earth !
Come Iwck thou loug-lo?l spting;
W ? lone for tlio light of love aud mirth
Thai airs of April bring;
We long for tho sjfl mo>s rose.
For a IVosh g.soeti on the leave.?.
For the sunny b.mkj where tho daffodil
Mows.
An 1 the swallows in the oaws; ,
We are tired of the winter's gloom.
Of the enow 11 ike cloud and pale;
And we loug lor the orchard's erowa of
Idootn
And the6or.g of tho niglttiuga'e.
Come back, O Spring of Yon ill!
Come buck to the hoary head,
Wo long for the light, of joy and truth.
And the hopes tiuil are lona since d?.ad :
Wo long for the brooding wit.g*
Of those blue, eternal skies
TImt gilded the duli<st and meanest things
WitIi the glory ?*F l*nnt?li*o,
Wo arc tired of the ceaseless boat
Of waves on 'he weary shore,
Ol the eia>h of tongues ami tiie Iratnplo of
feet.
And thobeait ioo dull to bo r,
And we long (iu vain) b r tiie sunlight
eweet
That is vanished for evemiore.
Conic back. O ?pritig ??f Love I
1 "?>me back to the heart giown cold !
Wo long (or the moon in I he elm tree grove,
And Autumn's niUt.s of gold ;
We I. ng for the evening hours
When the rook.-* had goao to rest,
And through myrtle blooms of garden
uywoiu
Wo gazed at the crimson Wept, t
Wo long for one liour to borrow
The lieu it of deep content,
Tin: light of ii time when all our sorrow
Waa uu hour iu ab-cncc ppent
Conic bad:, O Spring of ITe.avcn I
(."o'lic bad; to a world forlorn;
Wo long for the twilight of curlh'a pad
even
To melt in a golden morn ; <
Wo long for the niiaU to l iso
That hang o'er the good and truo, '
To ace once more, through opening skies,
The eternal.siainlcas blue; '
An<l to walk by the palms of Taradisc, <
When Heaven aud Eurdi arc new I.
Cnumbir's Journal' s
WYBROWE'S WILL.
BY "itUY." I
f
I.
On ntj wnj* down lo a garden par- !
ty at Fill ham one one line afternoon, f
with my friend Charlie Twistlcton, 1 \
heard the following story of a lady
concerning whom evervbodv \vn.s insf. ^
then talking: ,
Wybrowe, Brazilian millionaire,
iclat, seventy, or thereabouts, marries j
Helen Chetwynd, impecunious belle, f
a'tat, nineteen, daughter of a British K
diplomat in those parts ;?<iik1, after
two years of connubial felicity, con
sidorately dies. Wybrowe is jealous
as a Spaniard ; and his jealousy loolcs
beyond his own life. So ho leaves a c
terrible will behind him. This cunningly
contrived document provides d
that his* widow, then just twenty-one, c
Khali receive and ciyo}1- an incomo of v
?15,000 per annum so long?as she u
ihall remain unmarried. That if she ^
do marry again, she shall receivo ab- v
Bolutely nothing?the entire estate ol' v'
tlie deceased passing to two distant 0
relatives, believed to be living in ob- c
Bcuro poverty m ijonuon. 1
Now comcs the most curious part of
the story.
A good many men besides old Wyl?ro\vo
went mad about la belle llelcnc
out in Brazil; notably a man who
was thought to bo nearly as big a
Oojsus?a half Spainiard, haif-10nglishman,
by name Alvarez .Smith.
This hybrid was said to have the temper
of o fiend, the faec of a baboon,
and the complexion of a jaundiced patient.
The frantic vehemence with
which, when at last lie did speak,
'Smith pleaded his case to her, nearly
frightened Miss Chetwvnd into hj-s
terics; tho malignant black scowl f
that twisted his ugly face till it grew
absolutely awful in its hideousness, ^
when she unconditionally declined
his proposals, and shrank Jaway from '
him, haunted her sleep for many a
night afterward. * )
Alvarez Smith went away and <
thought out his vengeance. This is
how ho took it, after waiting patiently
for thi'cc veers.
During old Wybrowc's lifetime ho ]
kept quiet and made no sign. When ;
tho old man was dead, Smith broke in
upon tho widow, and with full knowl- '>
C(l?ro of tho nrovisions of WvIii'owo'h f
will, renewed hia former propositions. '<
They were rejected again?this timo
with tlio addition of certain words
that Helen Wybrowo would havo J
been more prudent uotto have spoken i
to such a man. j
Tho same steamer wli'c'i brought
Ibo widow homo to England had
among ite pasflcngei-s Alvarez Smith. 1
xuo never spoice once to ner, or moiost- '
ed her in any way during the voyage; <
but his hungry black eyes would rest
upon her in a way that frightened
her in spite of herself.
Those eyes watched her into the
railway carriage at Southampton;
met hers as sho got out on to tlio
platform at Waterloo; and again, as
the doors of her sister's house in Park
lane closed upon her. Every time
sho .went abroad sho met them; sleeping
and walking, Alvarez Smith haunted
her. It was intolcrabla; but what
could sho do 7 Sho left town ; he followed
her. Sho shut herself op in
the house for days; and th<S first person
sho saw -when, by day or night,
she came out again was~Smith; always
Alvarez Smith. Mrs. Wybrowe
grew nervous and ill under tho imj>lacablo^proBecution,'
whibh it was impossible
to put an end to. And tho
worst of it was that she felt her persecutor
was gaining a certain power
over hor; that those terrible eyes of
JiiB fascinated her like a basilisk's.
Sho never avowed this feeling to Lady
Oswestry, her sister, but she couldn't
help confessing it to horsolf.
In a few weeks dftejf her arrival in
London, old Wyjbrowe's lawyer communicated
to her tho following startling
intelligence yfA. -po.Mop had
bought up the reversionary interest
.?f > aer husband's two distant relatives
in the income that had been left her,
subject to her* remaining unmarried,
Wybrowe's kinsmen, too poor to bo
troubled with many scruples, aud eonv;
i ?
t
I
sidcring Hint it was barely likely :i
woman would give up fifteen thotisaiul
pounds a year when she could
kccj'^it'on .such easy terms, had greedily
accepted the ollol- that had been
made them; had accordingly executed
the necessary legal documents;
had received a stipulate I sum down,
and had emigrated Id Australia,
f The person who had just bought
them out was,consequently, the per'
son who would claim the heavy forfeit
from Helen V?rybio\ve in the
event of her marrying again. And
it was hardly needful to tell her that
^luirjidis 11 III lie. OUC gllCSSCU lllUSUUClively?Alvarez
Smith.
This, then, \v;h her position she
jnust either, at twenty-ono condemn
herself to a lile-long widowhood, or
relinquish a magnificent incoino to
the man she detested. True a court
of law might, an her lawyer told her,
set the will aside; but how could a
woman petition such a court? Her
woman's delicacy, at all events, rendered
that out of the question in her
case. Again, there might be men
who would think (and who could afford
to think) lightly of marrying a
beggar; and among them there might
be ono whom she could love. J)ut
wise in her generation, Mrs. Wybrowe
built no castles in the air of this sort.
She.acccptcd the situation telle quelle
etuit; shut herself up no longer; went
among her kind; encountered her
basilisk with an impassablo visage, j
1 J _ J * ?
nun lui'iuron nor tormentor l>y an ingeniously
arranged sequence of flirtations
which passed masters of the
art.
II.
1 know it in that moment when our
ryes met. I knew that I, Francis
Drasdyl, world-worn, case-hardened,
[>ecoeorante cynic of-seven-and-twenLy,
was to love t his woman; that I
lid lovo her already.
Rather tall, graceful as Diana in her
;tatuesquo summer draperies, a
"Helen of the low arcli'd brow
And uinber Lair, and dowj violet eyes;"
i woman with a child's face, stamped
l?efore it* time, with the mark of passion
or of pain, a little thinner and a
itlle paler than it should lifwo Imrm
wimps, but with rill llic stronger,
subtler, attraction for me that it was
;o?this was .Mrs. Wybrowe, as 1 saw
icr that day.
I don't remember what she and I
alked about when wo left alone, or
iow long we sat under tho big beech.
1 know she spoke, and that every
iow and then tho great violet eyes
urncd slowly upon me; and, when
ho was silent,
''Filled with light
The iutoi'vai of eound."
I was in Elysium, and lost tho
ount of time. A step, soft and catiko,
that neither of us heard, como
lown the wait*. A dry branch crackd
under the cautious tread, and then
i'0 bi.th looked up. A man passed
s. I knew him instinctively. The
crco black eyes, contracted in their
i*rath, which met mino in one brielj
indictive glare, could only belong to
no man.
That lithe, dark personago with the
olino tread, and the ngly, yellow
ihyniognomy, must needs be tho hero
I' Charlio Twistleton's Btory, the
nan who had bought up tho arbitranent
of Helen Wybrowe'a fate?Alrarez
Smith.
Jlr never looked at her this time,
>nly at me. 1 wonder whether the
nan's instinct told him, even then,
hat I loved her?
Mrs. Wybrowe roso a little pale:
he dark circle under her eyes more
>lainly visible, a sort of hunted look
lpon her face that made my pulse
.hrob angrily.
"Amy scorns to havo forgotten rnc,"
;hc sriiil, "lot us go p.nd look lor her."
Wc walked across the croquet-lawn,
'or a while silently.
Then sho said, "You know that
nan who passed us just now ?."
"I know him now," 1 answered ; "I
lever saw him before, and only heard
>f his existence two hours ago."
Her paic chock (lushed painfully.
"Then you have heard ?"
"Everything," I answered, . stopping
her. 'iTherc is .Lady Oswestry
yondor."
Mrs. Wybrowo quickcncd her pace
ind said nothing more till sho was
lafe under Amy Oswestry's wing
igain.
III.
The scoRon was over; London emptying
fast; duns presping; tho heat
intolerable. Ilowbeit, I abode still in
Iho Sahara of Bruton Ptreet. Aunt
iEcdusa had gono down into Kent
with the I3oodle9, having extracted
from me a promiso to como down for
tho September shooting?a promiso I
only intended to Keep it
Tho "if" was in Park lano. Lady
Oswestry had not yet mado her movo
hesitating between Buxton and Lindenbad;
and I was watching the
turn of the scale. For with Lady
Oswestry would go Helen Wybrowo.
And where Helen Wybrowo went I
meant to follow. I had notspokon yet,
though nearly a month had passed
since that day atFulham I had marked
with a whito rose. Sho had hardly
given mo a chanco. And yot sho
knew, who knew mo as I was, that I
loved her?had loved her from tho
moment oar eyes met -for tho first
timo. And I know my strange, willful
passionato darling?my Helen,
\yho was like so othor?I knew sho
loved mo with tho ono love of hor
life. Only between her loving mo
and my winning hor, there was much.
Nevertheless, the mask wo both woro
before each other as beforo others,
was getting too stifling to bo worn
much longer. It fell from both of us
at .last.
I hod hocft sitting with her, in Lady
Oswestry's morning-rooms, under the
shelter of tho sunshados, among tho
flowers, ono day for noarly an hoar.
My lady was hoavcii knoWs where;
and wo had been alone all tho time.
Commonpl&c^ had : languished and
I died, .There ; had been 4 silence,
I which thoso heavy violet eyes filled
i divinely onongh, oat which both of us
'know must he broken; and only in
n o way.
1 looked uj> into licr faec. In its
\ .'issior.-pallor, in tlio trembling lij?.
j mi the scarce restrained tears that had
J gathered slow ly to the eyes, I read
what made mc talce her swiftly in my
arms; and then the silence was brokeri
by tho sweet sound of her own
name?u]lelen 1"
She shivered, as she had shivered
i?i that val.se, only, this time; not
with fear. And her head, with its
diadem of amber hair, sank down
upon mv breast: ami I bent mine, tiil
J my lips touched hers, and clung to
them. I had won her! Noty;-t.
Tho next moment fcho hud l'reed herself
I
' Oh! why have you dono this?"
she sobbed?wailed almost.
"Why? Because I love you, Ililen,
Because you Jovo me. And because
you and 1 know this is .so."
"Yes," sho murmured; "yes; you
lovo me. 1 know that. 1 knew it
that day at Fulham. As no ono has
ever loved?ever will lovo me. I
know that."
"And you love mo, Helen. You
know that too."
"And yet you ask me?" I began,
so far ofl" my head as to bo going to
arguo with her.
"Bccausc this should never have
been. All between us must end here
and now.
"In heaven's name, why?" I broke
m,ramer ma<i Willi tins piece ol lcminino
cruelty. "Why must it?"
"Frank," she said, coolly now,
"Frank, this is folly. You know my
sloiy. You cannot marry a beggar
as I shall he."'
"Xor you, n cequ'il parait."
"Selfish nnd cruel 1"
Even at that moment I couldn't hut
admire that truly feminine retort.
She went on.
"1? Am I thinking of myself?
And yet this is my fault. I knew
what has happened must happen.
Yes; it is I who have been selfish. I
knew it; and I ought ?. Hut?oh !
Frank, I knew you loved me; and
my loveless life seemed so bitter?so
bitter! And "
And here she broke down .sobbing.
.My wilful passionate darling I She
was trying to persuade herself that
she was acting nobly and disintcrcs
tedly; and being noways fitted for
such self-martyrdom, was failing signally.
She ought to have nipped this
love of mine sharply in tho bud, but
lacked tho will. And now sho was
trying to saenneo it, ana lier own
love, on this shrine of duty?now
when sho was my' own, when she had
rested her head upon my breast, when j
she had given her lips to mine. 1
I'didn't repeat my folly of attemp- .
ting to ai'guo with her. Her hand ]
was strong enough against mo as it 1
was without such strengthening. I j
didn't take her in my arms again and \
stifle hcrfccblo spoeial-ploadiug with
kisses. I let her say her say. And ;
then when she had sunk back into tho ]
low, deep fauteuil, weak And trem- <
bling and defenceless again, I knelt <
besiilc her, and holding fast in mine ]
the little soft, hands I never meant to ,j
let go, I toid her how it must needs |
fiiro with me if sho had her way. j
And I was conquering what I knew \
nil along my own of right; tho violet
eyes were lull of happy tears ; the j
words I looked to hear already trembling
on the full lips that had grown
meek again, when?there was a rustle
of woman's draperies; and through
the chialoscuro of the room, Lady
Oswestry bore down upon us,
And Jlclen rose, and, before I could
slay her, had Hod away swiftly upon
her feet, leaving mo to faeo my lady
alone.
To which I did as best I might.
For a while Lady Oswastry looked
grave and judicial; then, by degrees,
benignant, but mildly reproachful;
when I took my leave, protective and
honestly propitious. It was arranged
between us that I should come to
Park lane early tho next day.
At a frightful undue hour I drovo
there. A hansom had just pulled me
at tho door; tho late occupant was
speaking to the groom of the chambers
in tho hall. I was just in timo to
hear tho functionary's answer to the
questions put to him :
c-:.. i-,i~ 1 nr..
v nil* J.uj' ill J ll lUI'B H ^ "
browc left town for the continent last
evening."
The other swung round on his heel
with a fierce "carojo 1" and again 1
stood facoto faco with Alvarez Smith,
tlio man with the evil cyo.
[To be Concluded next week.] I
Tiie Three Great English Lawyers.?It
is rumored in England that
Lord Hathcrlcy, tho Lord Chancellor,
is about to resign. He is very pious,
belongs to tho Iliglx Church party,
and attonds tho early servico in Westminister
Abbey daily. lie is childless
and a son of Sir Matthew Wood, a
former distinguished Lord Mayor of
London. If Lord Ilathcrly should
resign, it is thought that ho will be
succeeded*by Sir Iloundell Palmer,
who is confessedly at tho head of the
English bar, and a man of wonderful
capacity for work. His incomo from
his practice is enormous, fivo hundred
dollars being tho prico of an opinion
from him. lie is tho son of a country
gentleman, and, in spite of his multifarious
duties, finds timo to teach a
class of poor boys in a Sunday School
every Sabbath, and has compiled "A
Be ok of Praiso," which is a standard
wAvlr in PKnunt* TTZf -.iL ^ .1? - -1
iivm in v?iv viiuiuii, Jiir) JJ1UI/IIUUICIli
ways, laborious application and iron
constitution cnablo him to transact an
amount of business that would crush
a dozen * ordinary men. Sir John
Dude Oolerldgo, the Solicitor General,
stands high in private life, and, like
S. T. Hartloy and all the Coleridges,
is a man of fino order of intellect,
llis father, the Right Honorable Sir
John Coleridge, was a distinguished
judge,'and, having designed his talented
son for the bar, sent him to Oxford,
Where hia versatility of. talent at
egpee made him a reputation. Ho is
Qlso a. member.01 Parliament for Ex
cter, and makes about sixty thousand
dollars a year.
/ I
T1IE CATTLE MONTH.
liatllo Ivt-cor-Is of tlio BIoulli of Juuv,
Tlio "leafy month" I.r.p n melancholy
record i:i hi*lory, The Cincinnati
h'nouircr reminds iss that the lSlii
in.-!l.\viis tiif liny.fiah anniversary of
the battle of Waterloo, which was
fought on 1 l:o lSlh of ,5 line, 1H15. JL
was the mc;-t remarkable conflict of
modern times-. Wo nay remarkable,
l?,cau:c it was the laoci. decisive ami
imj.orlant in it;i results. The word
Waterloo Is us pa.'r-cd not oil 1 \* into
historv b:;L into the !:nru:i<'o itself.
It designates on ovcrlhrowal thai ifinal
in its character, aud lVoin which
tiiorc is no appeal. The 13th of June
I>>13, wi.l ever figure one of the great
landmarks of lime, it is like the sea
fight cl* Antony and Lcpidug withOcl:iviii3
Ciosnr, which decided tiie *furlunes
of the world. There is much
in the hi. lory of Waterloo which is
not understood I>y the masses of the
people. As is well lrr.own, the arrival
of L.lucher and his Prussians to
tlie aid of Wellington docidcd the vie
lory, whiclip otherwise would have
been with the French. He arrived at
G o'clock in the evening. The 18th
of June is among the longest days of
the year, and it had been determined
by tho French Emperor. Napoleon,
to open the contest at the break of
day, which is before four o'clock.
But for two or three days previous
there had been heavy falls of ruin.
Waterloo, which was a wheat field in
the neighborhood of Brussels, was
converted almost into a morass. jS'apoleon
had a large preponderance in
ihe number of his great guns, 230
against 170. He was strongly in favor
of the artillery service, in which J
he had entered as a youth in the Col- 1
lege of Briennc. Tbo advantago (
which he had in it lie was not in fa- !
vor of surrendering by commencing 1
the action when the field, from there- J
cent rains, was unfavorable to his can
11011. lie, therefore, waited until the '
ravs of tlio hot. Klin lirwl < l?n *
field, and mado it passable for artillo ,
ly. Tho action did not commcnco un '
til eleven o'clock in tho morning. .
when otherwise it -would have com- 1
mcnccd before six o'clock, five hours
previous. This delay was fatal to ]
Napoleon. The Prussians arrived at
six o'clock in tho afternoon, and
changed tho fortunes of tho day. 1
Had it not been for tho delay of five 1
hours on tho morning of the 18th, of !
June, the British -would have been defeated
and in full and irreparablo re- (
treat before the arrival of their allies. 1
As Victor Hugo aptly observes in 1
his remarkable and eloquent work, 3
"Los Miscrables," -'A few drops of j
rain, moro or less, changed tho for- *
Luncs of tho Continent of Europe." *
But this was not the only mishap of
Napoleon in this extraordinary cam- ]
|">aign. In its very outset one of his
Gieuerals, Bourmout, deserted to the 1
?ncmy and carried with him all his 1
knowledge of the military projects of *
iho Emperor. There was a surprise }
but it would hav.e been far greater had 1
it not. been for tins unforeseen and 1
unexpected desertion. "Wellington '
and his leading generals were attend- \
ing a brilliant ball at Brussels. . The 1
troops wcra scattered and cantoned
all over the country when the news '
was brought that Napoleon, at the
head of 120,001) nion, had made hi*> ap
pea ranee in Belgium. Tito scene
that ensued is beautifully described
by Lord Byron in "Childo llarold,"
in which ho says :
"Tboro tv.ip n ponr il of rovlry by
Aii-1 Ilelgiurn's Capital 'ui>l gat-bored iben
IIit beauty &ii<1 her chivalry,.ninl blight
'Ibclarnj.saUoneo'cr fiiir women and brave
men."
1
Tho Duko of Wellington was
caught nappiag. He h:ul made arrangements
with tho distinguished
f rencli traitor and hero of many revolutions,
Fouche, then tho Minister of
Politeness under Napoleon, to communicate
to him tho movements of
the great Emperor. lie Kent them
but with doublcd-faced duplicity stopped
them on the frontier, bo that in
easo of either reverse or success ho
was to have a plea in his defencc.
The accession of Bourmont to tho allied
councils explained the whole, and
then thcro was mounting in hot haste
and the mustering far and wide of
tho steeds of war. Tho celebrated
Marshall JNcy was directed to occupy
tho four roads of Quarto Eras, which ]
done would havo rendered a.junction i
of tlio armies of Bluclicr with Wcl- (
linglon impossible. During an inelc- i
mcnt rainy season the gallent Mar- <
shall had procoeded to within two or (
threo miles of tho point designated. \
Ilis troops wcro greatly fatigued, and ]
as his scouts reported that tho plaeo ,
was unoccupied by tho enemy, lie des- |
patched a courier to Napoleon inform- j
ing him that they wcro already in
possession of tho French troops.
When moruing dawned and Ncy proceeded
onward ho found tho wholo i
French army in possession of Quartro i
Bras, which was unoccupied several
hours before. This was tho dircct j
and fatal causo of tho loss of tho battlo
which ensued.
On tho day itso!f Noy brought out
tho cavalry for an attack on tno British
lines several hours too soon, and
boforo tho infantry squares had been
broken. Napoleon observed it with
great distress, and accuscd Ney of
destroying his cavalry. But whero
was Murat, tho brother-in-law of tho
Emporor, who would havo commended
it? On account of a porsonal
quarrel with tho Emperor, ho was
j compelled by that potentate to ro[
itfain at a distanco, in exile, when his
I 1 1.1? 1 1
I |fi vovuv/u mx'uiu pruuuuiy iiuvu uniuig*'
ed the destinicsof tho world. With
Grouchy'? dcfcction, with tho failure
td join tho Emperor with his fcorps ov
erybody is familiar, Tho cannon of
Waterloo was heard in hie command.
He was advised by his officors to pro
ceod to tho seen o of firing: Ho* was
told that it wrs a general engagement;
that tho Emporor had tho whole European
army on 1/ia hands. It was
remarked that it wan tho cannon of'
Austorlitz, but still he would not slir."
i ' ' ' 1 * : \ V ' i ':! ''
Appointed to watch BInclier with the
Prussian army, he .neither did it, nor
did he join the imperial force;'. The
result ,.v:f the destruction ?f the 11mp.-ivr.
I l was a rcmarlrablo of>ii?c-id.'ncc
that forty years afterward, in
1S55, tho .Urilwh and French troops
combined, at the t-i> go of Sihastnpol,
on tho Kith of June, took tho Mdai
Icoff, which was the key to itn pOBsession.
Tho i>ritish failed in tho lictlan
fort. l>;iL tiie French. bv :l Riirnriso.
' J ? 1 1
captured the main fortress above alluded
to, from which they speedily
shelled cul the iius-;ians from tho Kcdan.
The 17th of June was 11 ic ar.nivcvsary
of t!.c battle of IJunkrr Jlill,
fought in 1775, ninety-five years ago.
That was the lir.st battle of the American
devolution, which lasted for seven
years. "Waterloo was the conclusion
of the French devolution, which
had lasted for a period of ever twenty
year.?.
liut theso are not the only great
modern battles of this month. On
the 1 ilh of June, 1800, occurred the
tho great battle of Marengo, which
assured to Napoleon the consular
throne of France. On tho 14ih of
.June, 1S<)7, he won tho battlo of
Friedland against llussia, which terminated
the campaign against that
Power, and made him for years the
arbiter nf Europe. V?re may therefore
say that the present month, historically
speaking, is a month of hati
1I>T
From tlio T>annor c-f tho South.
EMIGRATION.
Live Oak, S. C., May 20, 1870.
Dear Banner:?lJc-Iow you will find
an articlo relative to immigration
suggested by a letter from an acquaintance
(I trust a friend) of ''bctLcr
days" ante-bellum. If you regard
it worthy of publication, or calculated
to contributo in any wise, Jo a
'consummation devoutly to bj wishHi,"
you may insert it in the columns
df tho Banner: Cato.
Plan for tho recuperation of tho
South, by fostering the emigration of
'free and independent settlers in families."
lat. Lct.cach and every proprietor
who has a, thousand (1,000) acres of
and, dither arablo or in virgin forest,
jeyond what is necessary for the supiftrt
nf liimcnlP nml f-nnili'
said body into plots of forty (40)
lores ouch.
2d. This done, let liim say to the
miigrant who may desiro to locate, I
,vill givo you title in fee to this or that
>lot as the emigrant may select, for
our bond (secured a mortgage of the
llot,) conditioned for the payment of
'orty ($40) dollars annually for tho
crm of ten (10) years.
I surest title in fee, becauso this
vill give tho emigrant or tenant the
'strongest of human motive interest"
o beautify and improve his plot,
.vhilo a tenant-at-wili, or for years
:an havo no such motive, not knowing
vhen he may bo evicted. The tenant
n fee as ho plants his shado trees,
lis orchard, or his vineyard can safely
say, I may not live to reap tho benefit
>f these, but "bono of my bone, anil
lesh and llesh of my flosli" will.
Let us see how this will operate as
ar as the proprietor is concerned.
!*y this means he will havo upon his
jody of a thousand (1,000) acres,
,wcnt.y-iivo (^r?) tenant?, each paying
imuiaiiy forty (8 10) dollars, aggrega.ing
or.o thousand (->*1,000) dollar.*,
md this, too, for land that might
jtherwise not only lie idle, qut rcall3*
>c an expense to tho extent of taxation
at least. Let us now look at tho
subject from the emigrant or tenant's
stand point. It will take, perhaps,
bur (1) acres for his dwelling an<l
>ut-huildings. Deduct the.so and he
las left for cultivation thirty-six (3G)
lores, which, if planted in cotton,
tvilhoul accidents, that cannot ho
brcsccn, and thereforo cannot be
guarded against, with -proper manuring
trul like culture will yield (1ft) hales
)f cotton weighing four hundred (-100)
rounds c.ich, which, at tho moderato
irico of twelve auda half (12J) cent?,
'should cotton ever again get that
ow,) will bring the tenant nine ($900)
inndred dollars. Now deduct four
lundred ($-100) dollars to cover his
\nnual payment, support,, and contingencies,
and tho tenant has left
five hundred ($500) dollars to begin
Ids socond year with, on his investmont
of forty ($40) dollars. Thero
are other advantage^ that might aciruo
to bothfpropriotor. and tenant,
npon which I havo not touched, and
which may bo tho subject of anothor
lommunication. Though no agriculturist,
thcoi'ctically or practically, I
liavc endeavored to stato in this what
observation and inquiry constrained
tno to belicvo not only possiblo but
practicable. Cato.
"What to Read.?Arc you dcficiont
in imagination ? Road Milton, Akon3ido,
Bnrko and Shalcspeare.
Aro you dcficiont in judgment and
good Bonso in tho common affairs of
life? Road Franklin.
Are you' doficient in sensibility?
Read Goethe and Mackcnzio.
Aro you doficiont in political knowledge?
Read Montesquieu, tho Federalist,'Webster
and Calhoun..
Aro you deficient in patriotism ?
Read Demosthenes and tho Life of
Washington.
Are you deficient in conscienco?
Read sorao of President Edwards'
works.
Aro you deficient in anything?
Read tho Biblo, hut don't conclude
yonr "intorprotation" op construction"
of tlio same right, and everybody
elso wrong. ,
? ?
J i . i . I * - i . . t
A good balapqe?-the balance of
$111,000 000 in the national Treasury.
Tho Government ia gotting on well
enough; ..indeed, to turn this balnnco
roto ilio. pockets,ot tiio people by a
voduction o?tl?oir tfixop, (including
tho abolition ttr th'o income tax,) to
the 'extent of *100,000,000. Why
VorK IMd.
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Tlio Charleston Sunday School
Convention.
ClIAKTiEBTON,
June 13th, 1870. J
J)r. Isaac firanch, Abbeville.
Dear sir:?I would bc/r leave respectfully
to call your attention to the |
'accompanying* lleporl; adopted by
the lust Sunday School Convention,
and would stale that tho Minutes
have boon carefully written out, read
and prepared for tho press, under the
immediate supervision of the commitI
co I (' ! fKcirivl Mm*. I ttn!t!i/<o i /
lion will do much good ?my own \
heart has been wanned lip by the per- <
usal. The burning words uttered and \
the expression ot so many old soldi- c
crs of the cross and Sabbath School 1
laborers, will tend greatly to encour- 'J
ago those who may doubt or feel dis- \
coi:raged ill tho glorious Sunday a
School worlc. v
The proceedings will make about o
175 pages of tho sizo of tho "XJX li
Century," and tho lowest estimate I t
can got for printing 1,000 copies of ?
samo is $320. I havC 6170 cash in n
hand, which inclurlcs the contribution ii
of some of tiic District sent sinco tho t
adjournment. Tho assessment of ?5 ?
to each District represented in tho v
Convention, will, therofore, not bo suf- n
ficient. I would in tho spirit of the s
Resolution ofter you tho opportunity s
of contributing what amount 3-our h
District may feel able to give to aid in b
the publication of tho proceedings. p
I have in obedlenco to the order of y
the Convention contracted for the r
printing, and stand ready cheerfully y
to pay any District's part, which feels b
itself unable to contribute. a
Yours, truly,
J. IN. HOBSON. v
si
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REPORT OF TIIE COMMITTEE. J
. Mi*. J. M. Johnson, of Marion, c
Chairman of tho Committeo on Print- 0
ing, reported that they had agreed to
assess each County (85) Fivo Dollars ct
or more if nocessary, for the purpose J.
of raising funds to publish the pro- .
cccdings in pamphlet form. Ho also .
stated that a lint had been prepared .?
consisting of delegates who would be
expected to plcdgo for payment of ?
tho same.
On motion, the Report of the Com- 1
mittco was adopted, and delegates
were appointed to tako up a collection
in tho respective Sunday Schools of
their Counties to defray tho expenses ;f
or printing tho Minutes of tho Con- c
vontion, tho samo to bo remitted to ,,
T AT Dnl.nnn nl 1 C? /"I
iui. U . MUUOUUj V^lliU iu?iuu, iD. v^. fj
Tho delegate from Abbcvillo ia Dr. c
Isaac Branch. jt
Any Sabbath School, or individual,
who feels disposed to contribute for []
this laudablo object, will pleaso send' c
in their contribution, and they shall Ci
bo forwarded at once. ti
ISAAC BRANCH.
, m, 01
fi
The Mechanism of Man. F
ii
Wonders at homo by familiarity * '
cease to cxcito astonishment; but f*
hcncc it happens that many know so K
little about tho "hotiso wo live in"? ^
that human bony. Wo look upon a
house from outside just as a whole or
unit, never thinking of tho many
rooms, the curious passages, and tho
ingenious internal arrangements of SJ
tho house, or of tho wonderful struc- ^
turc of the man, tho harmony and A
adaptation of all tho parts.
In tho human skeleton about the P
timo of maturity, aro 1G5 bones. 11
The muscles aro about 500 in number. ?
Tho alimentary canal is about 32 feet '
long. Tho amount of blood in on M
adult averages thirty pounds, or one- c
fifth Of the entire weight.
The heart is six inches in length
and four inches in diameter, and beats ?
30 times per minute; 4,200 times per
hour; 100,800 per day; 30,772,200 per q
year; and 2,0G5,^ 10,000 in throe score ?
and ten; and at cacli beat four and a
half ounces of blood is thrown out of j,
it; 175 ounces per minute; C2G pounds ^
per hour; 7 3-1 tons per day. All tho _
blood in tho body* passes through tho
heart in Ihrco minutes. w
Tho lungs will contain about one ai
gallon of air atJthc usual dcgrco of
inflation- When brcatho, on an average,
1,200 times per hour; inhalo GOO ^
gallons of air, or 24,000 gallon per I1
day. Tho aggregato surfuco of the Cl
air colls of tho lungs exceods 20,000 a
squaro inches, an area very nearly P
equal to tho floor of a room twolvo C(
feet square. f1
Tho avcrago weight of tho brain of M
an adult malo is tliroo pounds and B<
eight ounces; of a female, two pounds u
and four oanccs. Tho nerves aro all
connectcd with it, directly or by spinal
marrow. Tho norvos, together b
with their branches and minuto ram- it
ifications, probably exccod 10,000,- 'I
000 in number, forming tho "body fi
guard," out numbering by far tho tl
greatest army that over was marshall- ic
cd. t'
Tho skin is composed of threo layers,
and varies from ono fourth to
ono-oigth J^of an iooh in thicknoss. ?
Its averago area in an adelt is estima- ^
, ted to bo 2,000 sqnaro inches. Tho ^
atmospheric prossuro being about j
fourteon pounds to tho square lnoh, a j,
portion of modiumsize is subjected to (
a pressuro of 40,000 pounds. ^
. Each squaro inch of skin contains ^
3,500 sweating tubes or porspiratox-y
pores, each of which may bo likened
to a littlo draintilo ono fourth of an *
inch long, making an aggregate t
length of tho entire surface ot tho bo? <
dy of 201, 166 feet, ot a ditch for *
draining tho body almost forty miles ,
long.. ' " '
Man is mado marvclously. "Who is
eager to investigate tho curious, to (
witness tho wonderful works of Om- f
nipitont Wisdom, let him not wander
tho-wide world round to seek them, 1
but examine himself?7.'*The proper
sj,udy fof mankind is ^nan."
-? *".' i? ;!
Th# softest *bed is the /bed host j
.shaken! and tho resting place for i
many of qs is at the top of the hill. i
I
From Lippiurott's Mngazino for Julv.
The Condition of Mormon Women.
Although the men aro educated j
thoroughly, especially upon points
likely to alloct tho spread of their belief,
the women arc left in utter and ?
complete ignorauec. J n all tho many t
houses, even of tho highest of tho
laud, to which wo afterward had ac cs.%
wo Kiiw scarcely a book save
.hose on Mormon ism, and not a single
?aper or magazine. Wo spoke of
,ho day both al home and abroad, j;
md met with entiro blanlcness; nono c
if them had any idea of what we
vcro talking about. Then, beforo a
jirl has roached full womanhood, li
vhilo her ideas arostill unformed and t
ihildish, she is married, probably to a
nan old enough to bo her father.
Pake any girl of fourteen or fifteen? b
vhtch is the common marriageable ^
go in irormondom? even an educated P
firl, and how ablo i3 sho to form
pinions and right judgments ? Then
cave out the education, and her abili- jj
ies will surely be at tho minimum.
!o, by these three levers do Mormon
nen, v.'isc in their generation, act I)
pon tho hearts of tho '.vomcu among JJ
hem: First, by appealing to tho roli- ti
;ious element so strong in every .
roman; next by keeping her in igoranco
of everything that mi^ht '}
how her tho fallacy of the claims to ^
upcriority of tho men; and lastly-,
y throwing upon childish shoulders *
urdens of care and weights of rcsonsibility
under which mature j,'omanhood
must often faint. Wo are jj
cminded of Him who pronounced c1
roe of old upon thoso "bind lieavy
urdens and grievous to bo borno."
nd lay them upon others' shoulders, tl
The place occupied by a Mormon ei
rTife in her husband's household is m
imply that of a servant, with fewer
riviloges than has Jane the cook, or
jucy tho waiter, in our domestic
conomy. Sho has no "afternoon k
ut"?no wages to do as sho will with
-no "followers," and no chance of a ai
liango. But sho has hard work, un- S(
ealizable in our comfortable houses; jr
lio privilege of wailing upon the man3r
of the house when ho chooses to
all upon her services; and the belief w
hat the more natientlv sho boars tho .d
ross of Iho present, tho moro beautijl
will bo tho crojvn of thcluturo sho .
opes to wear.
A New Jce Making Machine.? a
'hero comcs from Germany a proraio
of relief from the want of ico. A j
crtain Franz "Windhauscn, of Brunsficlc,
lias invented a new machine for
rcezing water without tho aid of >v
hcmicals. Tho process takes placo
1 a cylinder, wlioro tho air is first $.
owcrfully condensed, then cooled by D
10 admission of water, and finally w
xpanded till its pressure is about tl
}ual to thatof the atmosphere." By
lis ihcans, it is asserted, tho very
stonishing result is obtained of lowring
tho temperaturo of tho air to
fty degrees Celsius (four degrees sv
'ahrenheit), bo that when conducted
1 moderato quantities into a Bpaco VJ)
liroigh which water flows, "tlio wa jj
ir is almost immediately turned into Qj
;e, of which enormous blocks nmv
liu.'j be obtained if desired. *
a<:
The Fraxkixo Privilege.?Sena )r
Stockton, of .New Jersey, In his
r>eech in tho Senate, Tuesday, in fa- \\
or of abolishing the franking privi- n(
?go, made the remarkable statement ;n
iat out of the thirty-three thousand fr
crsons who cxcrci&cd that privilege ^
1 this county, but seventy-five, at the j^(
utside, Democrats; namely, the memera
of Congress, of that party, to
hom the right of frco postage is se- tj
urcd. in
sc
tc
The Alltciator-Horsf.?Tho- Auusta
Chronicle & Sentinel learns that
planter near Midway, in South Carlina,
about sovonty miles from An- w
usta, has cultivated hiscntiro farm bs
lis year, so far, at least, as plough- 1?;
ig is concerned, with an alligator,
ho animal is an unusnally largo ono
-350 pounds, and is perfectly docilo
nu domesticated. no is said to j"(
'orkf splendidly in plough harness,
ad is far superior to mules or horses. w
Dickens ? Pihlip.?Mi*. Franklin ^
hilips, of Boston, asserts that, iu a (lt
anversation with him, Mr. Dickens Ar
vowed himself a Unitarian, but ex- m,
ressed great revcronco for tho Episapal
ritual and said that ho should ^
ttend tho liochestor (Eng.) church, ^
' persons could only lcauo after tho
jrviccs, and not bo oxpcctcd to relain
and hear sectarian sermons. dj
6c
We aro informod that bot.h Spartan- hi
urg and Grccnviile havo, by heavy ai
lajoritics, voted **or tho Air Lino. c<
'ho citizons hopo for tho host results IN
om this enterprise, and they invest h
heir raatorial future with bright vis- h
>ns of all that follows solid prosperi- Y
Y ^
: e<
The first number of tho True Goor
;ian, by Samuel Bard, editor and pro- ^
>riotor, was issued Thursday morning ^
nd presents a handsomo appcarancc. ,v
i'rom articles in it, it is inferred that c
t is published in tho interest of tho a
Jrant wing of tho Republican party, p
Ltlanta can now boast of having five q
laily newspapers. &
. Tho best joko of the seasop/la^fl e
ho Cincinnati Inquirer, js ^vOrdor of f
Jecrotary .Boutwell that /&*' person,
'oxcept membors ofJCowflss* land or
>ho administration,j^shalf have access ?
,o, tho rooms in which mcraoy, is re- *
seived and poui^d, .V rinjew on the "
vrUtcn_pcrmif*^on of tfae Secretary 0
)f tho Treasura' ;jTho "exceptions" ;
iro just what'sThe matter with the o
mblic funds' "now. ; a
'?\ J ^II I. .1 ' ,> ' . Is
P T* G*ry, of Edgoaeld, ?
#Sj^S . . ?* ; la
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SCRAPS.
The most popular general?General
loliday.
To keep warm of a cold day, wonen
double tho capo and men douhlo
ho horn.
To 4;uro corns, hold your foot by
ho stove until tho corn pops. Said
o bo a fiuro cure.
"Young ladies of tho lower parlor."
* what tho kitchen girls, of Boston
all themselves.
3to who is not the better for his rcigious
knowledge will assuredly bo
lie worse I'or it.? Whalclu.
It is only by lal or that thought can
o mado healthy, and only by
bought that labor can be mado liaj)y.?Jiu
skin.
An Illinois jury lifts awarded damges
of three-quarters of a cent in a
Gel ease against an editor.
The "History of tlio Devil" has just
ecn published at Lcipzic. Daniel
>o Foo wroto a work, with a similar
tie, in English.
Washington's body servant still .
ves ? llis whole name, this time, is
fimuel Randall Motts; he lives in
yraeuso, New York, and ho is only
13 years old.
The continued illness of both Mr.
amos Gordon Bennett, Sr., and Air.
loracc Greeley, occasions much auxity
to their friends.
Red Cloud is of tho opinion that
10 pacific Indian policy of tho Govrnmcnt
consists in driving the red
ten into tho Western Ocean..
A gasoline lamp, on a truck in Jer>y
City, exploded a day or two ago,
illing the driver.
Florida sees Chang, tho Chinese gint,
and goes a foot bettor in the pcr>n
of a resident nine feet Bix inchcs
i height,
A colored man named Jack Brown
as drowned at Charleston on Thursay,
by the swampiug of a batteau.
General "Wade Hampton has beaten'
is sword into an 818,000 steam
low.
Between tlio extraordinary heat
nd tho long drought, France is in a
ad way. In Paris tho water of tho
ver Scino is so low that grass is
rowing at tho foot of tho quay
rall3.
A Cincinnati man has been fined
10 and costs for chcorring for Jelf.
avis. Wo would liko to know under
hat head in tho penal codo of Ohio
iflf nffrtnnn nnmAn
mw viivuw UVUAVQi
Mothers used topYt>Yido a switch
v their daughters from the nearest
ish; now tho daughter gets her own
vitches from tho hair droasers
In 6uit of Nowton Seibert and wife
. John Leeson, for assault, tried in
altimore on Friday, tho plaintiffs
jtaincd a verdict of 83,000. The asLult
consisted in Lccson's having
isscd tho hand of Siobcrt's wife,
gainst her will, during her husband's
jsonco 'from home.
A eolored girl, named Lueinda
rhito, while, picking blackberries
sar Savannah, Georgia, on tho 253th
slant, was bitten by a rattlesnake,
om tho cftccts of which sho died in
few minutes. Blackberrying has
jen discontinued in that vicinity.
Tho workingmcn of New York cif
'are organizing in opposition to tho
trod action of Chineso labor,?and
crot sessions of tho labor unions aro
be held to discuss tho flibjcct.
In his Cuban mcssago, Mr, Grant
jprccatcd thecruolty of tho Cuban
ar. liy whoso orders woro 1,400
irns burned in tho Shenandoah Yaly,
in a single day?
In Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Rrown tried
i fill a kerosene lamp from a can
ithout blowing it out. They buried
;r tho day but one, and tho house
as not Iusurod. Total loss.
Drunkenness is on tho incroaso in
nrls, which tho citizens; charitably
>bit to tho English and Americans,
i St. Pctei'sburg a drunkard, no
attor his social position, i(l condemnl
to swoop tho etroots for a day.
ho Parisians demand this measure.
iffht Still COmfiB frnm flm AT/\i.#K
A story is afloat in tho papors that
ralt. Whitman started in iifo as a
I'ivcr of omnibusos. Ho is a tj-pcsttor
by trailo. From type-setting
o prooeeded to write for nowspapors",
ad for years was a contributor ta the
>lnmns of the various journals of
few York. This was the occupation
o followed for a livelihood. There is
ardly one of tho journals in New
ork?especially the weeklies?on
'hich ho did not at one time bold an
ditorial position, x
Tho Jackson i&arfcin states that
horo has beonfc'<4bu8t np" in tho
Iississippi Railroad ring. This ring
ros composed of Radioal and Demorat
ic members of Xogislaturo; but
t a recent meeting Democratic
ortiOti, being informed Of tho modo
roperatiotts by which it-was propsed
to swindle the people, not only
etired from the concern, bjU denouncd
tho swindle tn termi more forcible
ban elegatot^ ?.
jLa Ramkk?BBOuaHTO^.-r-Oat of
. titerary set verjrfew know the auhorlof
"Omda" and "Pock." These
tighly ook>red works of. imagination
ro by a Woman,?a Miss Jja Ramec,
3k lady whose father was a French
cor. Sho lives with hor mother at
MA Af i?-T ? 1 ?
mv v* iui ko nvbvist jui uuiiuun, ana
nd frequently giver^partiea there.
he is neither youngs nor is'the favord
by nature with the physical adantage
"which she lavishes on Iter heoines.
The' anthor of similar bo?fe||jftt|Hw^
uoh as '^Cotnoth up *4 a FlowaN^^BBA
lH?4 aaa R9?e is She/'. &e.; if alsvfl m
,dy?n, Miss, BrongLtou, '** j|l
i._ .