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The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02
ABBEvLLE SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 1852

answer. lie was too deeply troubled il
spirit to assume at the moment cheerful
tone, and he had no wish to sadden the
hearts that loved him, by letting the de
preston from which he was suffering be
come too clearly apparent. But the eyes
OF Mrs. Freeman saw quickly below the
surface.
Are you not we'll, Robert p she inquired
tenderly' as she drew his large arm chair
toward the centre of the room.
"A little headache he answered, with a
slight evasion.
Scarcely was Mr.. Freeman seated, ere
pair of hands was busy with each foot
removing gaiter and shoe aud supplying
their place with soft slipper. There was
not one in the household who did not feel
happier for his return, nor one who did not
seek to render him some kind office.
ltwas impossible, under such burst oi
heart-sunshine for the spirit OF Mr.. Freeman
long to remain shrouded. Almost imper.
ceptlbly to himself gloomy thoughts gave
place to more cheerful ones, and hy the
tins tea was. ready he had half forgo tten
the fear which had SO haunted him through
the day. Rut they could not be held bac k
altogether, and their existence was marked
during the evening by an unsual silence
and abstraction Of mind. This was observed
by Mrs. Freeman who moro than half
suspecting the cause, kept back from her
husband the knowledge of certain matters
about which she had intended to speak to
him, for she feared they would add to his
mental disquietude. During the evening
she CLEANED from something he said, tie
real cause of bis changed aspect. At once
her thoughts commenced rnnning in new
channel. BY few leading remarks, she
drew her husband into conversation on the
subject of home expenses, and the propriety
OF restriction in various points. Many
things were mutually pronounced super
fiuous and easily to be dispensed with, and
before sleep fell sootbingly on the heavy
eyelids of Mr.. Freeman, that night an entire
change in tkeir style of living had been
determined upon-a change that wou Id
reduce their expenses at least one half.
4 see light ahead were the hopeful
words Of Mr.. Freeman, as lie resigned him
self to slumber. T..
With renewed strength Of mind and body
and confident spirit, he went forth the next
day-a day that he had looked forward TO
with fear and trembling. And it was only.
through this renewed strength and confident
spirit that he was able to overcome the
difficulties that loomed up mountain high
before him. Weak despondency would
have ruined all. Home had proved his
tower of strength, his walled city. Strength
ened for the conflict, he had gone forth
again into the world and conquered in
the struggle.
4 see light ahead gave place to The
morning breaketh y Orange Blossom.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02
THE TWO HOMES,

Two men, on their way home, met at
street.crossiug, and then walked on togeth.
er. They we're ne'ghbors and friends.
This has deem very hard day. said
Mr.. Freeman, in gloomy voice. And
as they walked bomeward they discouraged
each other, and made darker the clouds
that obscured their whole horizons.
Good evening" was at last said hurriedly
and the two men passed into their homes.
Mr.. Walcott entered the room where his
wife and children were gathered, and with
out speaking to any one, seated hi insef in a
chair, and leaning his head back, closed his
eyes. His countenance wore sad, weary,
exhausted look. lie had been seated thus
for only few minutes, when bis wife said
in a fearful voice:
More trouble again.
'What is the matter now asked Mr..
Walcott, almost starting.
John has been sent home from school,
'Whata' Mr.. Walcott partly rose from
his chair.
He has been suspended for bad conduct. ,
%, dear, groaned Mr.. Walcott ;-'where
is he?'
up in his room; sent him there as
soon as he came. You'll have to do some
thing with him. He'll be ruined if he
goes on in this way. I'm out of all heart
with him.
Mr.. Walcott, excited as much by the
manner in which lis wife conveyed unpleas-
ant information as by the information
itself, started up, under the blind impulse
OF the moment, and going to the room
where John had been sent on coming home
from school, punished the boy severely,
and this without listening to the expla.
nation which the poor child tried to make
him hear.
Father !! said the boy with forced calm
ness, after the cruel stripes had ceased, 4
wasn't to blame; and if you will 90 with
meto the teacher, can prove myself limo.
cent
Mr.. WaIcott had never known his
son to tell an untrutb, SUD the words fell
with rebuke upon his heart. T.:
Very we'll, We will see about that he
answered, with, forced sternness and leav.
aag the room, he went down stairs, feeling
sanch more uncomfortable than wien Bs
went up. Again fle seated himself. m bis
large chaasasAfa again leaned back his
weary head and closed his heavy eyelids.
Sadder was bis face than before. As he
sat thus, bis eldest daughter, in her sixteenth
year, came and stood by him. She held
apsper in her hand.
Fatbsr'r-he opened bic eyes-'hsres
my quaaaF,s bin bsse the modssy 81
to tahea sobaH vitH q ss moresss y
4 am afraid nss assy s4s. .Wslcott,
half ia deapsk. 81
:Nearly ali the gatssistr bring in their
money To- tnorrov, and It: porAifes. me to
be behind the sthessL sF& 5g
The dsnghser spokes sfrsesu1ls. Iii. wa.
ooaysed her szidss s,i,G .his hsudS ib add Si
she wsnsoif mustsring nd podtiag.
N u mo'sifytRe;,, satd M Wsiko,S.atsss "
little SHARPLY; and l., dppls Foadsr ths.
Hslsa feels annoyed aboqs It. es1bshill As.
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HINTS TO GIRLS.
Did you ever see lady
Look into strangers face,
In an omnibus or rail car,
As if saying, "Sir, your place'"
Did you ever see lady
Walk up to the church pew door2
Lace and ribbons all demanding,
"Yield your pew" and nothing more
Did you ever see lady
.Flirt into an old mans chair,
And, unheeding age and honor,
Let him stand-no matter wherea
Never see the stage-coacl emptied
For some fidget in her pride,
And the wearied man Of business
Tumbled out to ride outside 7
Never go to hear lecture,
When some fashionable dear
Would come in and make a hustle
When you most desired to hear
Routing half the congregation,
And disturbing oil the rest,
As if she were all creation
Being fashionahly dressedi
Now, dear girls. if you're so thankless,
So exacting and and so free.
Time will come when gents will answer
',Ia'am this seat belongs to me-"
Never, girls, disturb a lecture
Church, or ball where'er you go;
Still respect the rights of others
This is "Woman's Rights" you know.
Never ask ask man abruptly
To resign his chosen place;
If It's offered, thank him kindly,
With smile.upon your face.
If the road is,long and weary,
Aad he cannot find another,
Bid him share the comfortswith You,
AS you'd share it with a Brother. -.
Thus you may receive forever,
Given with spirit free,
True respect love, and kindness,
Better far than gallantry.
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,.sA dspdss .ho were great pfopsioa u
diaa0ads sHags !yas epssdsy aourishiag Bic
Angsn.b before Rsbest' Eroaghs the diam.
stas sh ths ides of ;mplssaisg shiaEatI
~ satd Bsougb, .Isd' sathsf kaSss SSali
:hahss ,!.6aa YMssr 90 I hesa., I xass ahisk
could 81 ia'asd 6 thskseE l.saapsI :,e !. - =
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02

The Eab ANswERED.---A priest in q
,ich abbey 10 Florences named arignoIi,
being a Asherman's son, causeda a net to be
spread every dsyfob tie table of bis apart
rhs:as :::Si,A: p. ss;at as' he.ssid IN mild bf
hiss origin, The aBbo dying this dissstns
bled humility procured Elm TO IS sehossn
his suocessor; and the, net tHas used no
more, .Wherslselti4 4.nss sid ~ friend to
.hitn the day, atssrgasdsy Oh entsgidg sIbits
:sbathneps@ rThsssis 10 tfbIshst aS6asAb,
for e sAa ssss saiA G(fsigss q'sasa BE ssh' 1!
'!0 SF88oH sI EsS-! ,,.G.u.s.s
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02

In the speech Of Kossuth, delivered in
Glasgow, there occurs passage which de-
serves ensbrinement by itself, for its impress
sive truth and beauty:
4 have lived too long and too practical a
life,' said he, to do vain things. Sympathy
what is that II A sigh, that flutters from
the lips of tender girl and dies in tho
whispers of the breeze. People in their :.
d'vldual capacity may know Of sympathy,
but when peoples aggregate sentiments
become collected in the crucible of policy.
sympathy vanishes in the air, like the dia-
mond when burnt, and nothing there r..
mains but an empty crucible surrounded
with the ashes of gross egotism. The time
has not yet come when nations will act
from sympathy. That may be done when
the world shall know of one Christian M.
tion on earth. Until now, l know of no
Christian nation, because l know of none
which, in its national policy, ever has acted
upon the Christian command. DO unto
others as thou wouldst have other do unto
thee =.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02

AN ARAB ON CRIEolINE.-We extract
tho following from letter by a missionary.
in Syria, on the all absorbing subject Of the
oripoline One day an Arab from GhIr-
zng called upon us. and said that he had
seen great curiosity at Beirut. Said be,
The French and English ladies there wear
large umbrellas, under their dresses. am
sure Of It. ] saw the frame work. And
when the sigsoras passed along, 1 saw the
merchants move away their baskets and
boxes in the narrow strsets 10 let them
silasa., ~
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A SAD LOSS.

An enterprising travelling agent from a
welI-known Cleveland Tomb Stone Manu-.
factory, lately made business visit to a
smoall town in an adjoining county.
Hearing in the village that man in the re-
mote part of the township had lost his wife,
he thought he would 60 and see him, and
offer him consolation, and grave stone on
his usual reasonable low terms. He started.
The road was horribly frightfil one. but
the agent perseverad, and finally arrived at
the bereaved mans house. The bereaved
hired girl told the agent that the bereaved
man was splitting fence rails "ovsr insthe
pastur, about two miles" The indefatiga-
ble agent hitched his horse, and started for
tho @pastur," and falling into all manner of
mud'holes, scratching himself with briars,
and tumbling over decayed logs, the agent
at length found the bereaved man.
In a subdued lie asked tn man If had
lost his wife. The man said he had. The
agent was very sorry TO hear it, and sym
fethsed with him very deeply in his great
aff1iction but death, he said was an ;nss-
tiate archer and shot down all of both high
and low degree. Informed the man that
"what was his loss was her eternal gain"
and would be glad TO sell him grave
stone, to mark the, spot where the beloved
one slept-amarble or common stone, as be
preferred, %at prices defying competition.
The bereayed man said there was little
difficulty in the way
yon lost your 4witei" inquired
the agent =. s,sr-.' h.- .,s.,. ..-. . ...,-
s"Why yes, Il hnve,, said the man bat no
grave stun aint necessary for. yop see The
cussed critter aint dead. She's scooted ,oitA
another man" The agent retired. = s.sy
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Ok = ag ssioieed, uiy aeai, wife; 70 a. yca vi
10 such good health said spsrk.. to i8is
sifss .'Haslsh'r WA the quick sstdst,
"why, have bad tbs plague ever JasSj
Wss naHied5Fo sMpj;&fl @@'ual rt9E%5
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02

~ fire eating Irishinan, covered with
wounds, received in duela, challenged "a
bsrrister, WHO gratiied him BY accepting
The duellis', unable to stand witl,ont s,,p,
port, requested that be might have prop,
Suppose said he, 4 lean agains. this mile,
staueP with pleasure, replied tbs Law.
yer, 100 condition that ! may ssu susinss,
the nezti' The challenger burt into into q IA al
Of laughter at sbs JOKE, and svere bs would
nat fight - goodh humorsdg . gensls,nap. "a
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-09-02

AN ARAB BEAuTY.-There sat on the
hoorswith bright eyed little girl beside
her, a young woman of rather pleasing as.
pect, extremely fat, with well-formed lips
and chin, and large black eyes, wearing a
gay'colored handkerchief tied round her
head, and another tied under her chin, and
loose blue muslin robe. from under the
skirt Of which appeared one of her baked
feet.~ On each check was little blue mark,
and her jetty eyebrows were joined by a
streak of black paint. In her little plump
hands, tatooed and stained with heuna, she
held bellows, with which she was coaxing
fame in little furnace filled with CHAR
coal, on which stood small dish of pata-
toes:-The East
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MN dine at the hotel, down there, without
my company.-Wo've taken all our meals
together for the past two days, and lie began
to find his appetite fail"
Whether the S. was credited on the
Judgement, or pocketed as, personal per.
quisite, I never knew.
A WORD IN YOUR EAR.-Wear fan.
mel waistcoats, keep your feet warm and
dry, change the stockings often, guard
against sudden changes from heat to cold,
and above all beware Of these insidiously
mild spells of weather, which tempt to
laying aside the overcoat, and other extra
protective garments. If ever there was a
season when all this good advice, which
was hackneyed before the days of Corna-
ro, was needed, i is during these very ideu-
t'cal, treacberous, half pleasant, chapgeable
days. Be careful now, if you are ever to
be careful, with your diet, your dress, your
disposition; for on these three all health
depends. Those who everfeed are most
liable to become bilious, and bilious peo.
pie are, of all others, most likely to fret and
be cross and to catch cold. Either of these
or bad cold-tends to shorten
life. One, day Of the blues, one real fit of
anger, is another day substracted from the
grand total of life; while neglected cold
ls very apt to amount to general Topping
Of all lifeeitself. AS we said before, until
summer is fairly in, moderate your desires,
curb your apPetites, don't try the second
glass, or third piece Of pie, keep the head
cool and the feet warm, and, n short, be
altogether 'virtuous, and you will be com.
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A GOLDEN Morro:N'I count only the
hours that are serene,' is the motto of
sun-dial near Venice. There is softnsss
and harmony in the words and in the
thought unparalleled. OF all conceits it is
surely the most classical. 'Tcount only the
hours that are serene.' What bland and
e-dispeIling feeling! How the shadows
seem tosfade on the dial-plate as the sky
lowers, and time presents only blank uu.
less as its progress is marked by what is
joyous, and all that is not happy sinks into
oblivion! What fine lesson is conveyed
TO the mind-to take no note of time but
BY its benefits, to watch only for the, smiles
and neglect the frowns of fate. to compose
our lives Of bright and gentle moments,
turning always to the sunny side of things,
and letting the rest slip from our imagina.
tions, unhceded or forgotten! How differ
ent from the common art Of selftormenting
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CARD-TABLE SraNALs.-Never let man
and wife play together at whist. There are
always teleg-aphs ; and, if they fancy their
looks are watched, they can always commu.
nicate by words. found. out that could
never win Of smigmag and bis wife. I
mentioned this one day, and was answered,
No, you never can win Of them.'-'Wbyr
said I.-Because,' said my friend, they
have established code.'-'Dear me = said
L; Signals by loeksa'--'Nos said be by
words. IfMrs. smigmag is,to lead, .smig,.
mag says, Dear, begin Dear begins with
d--so does diamond; aud out cotassese
from the lady. rfhe has to sad, md sbe
says, s., my loysPs shs yauts,a spads.
Harriet, my dear, how long you.are, sorting
your eardsv Mrs. smisusg stpmps down
q hsart;; ,apa q gentle .Eouas, my loves, on
either side, produces eIub.--1Reodos
Hpok y: ~ .45i atseff - g:.s,,.. ...4.-. aza,,.
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THE WINTER OF THE HEART.

Let 1t never come to you. Live so that
good angels will protect you from this terri
ble evil-the winter of the heart.
Let no chilling influence freeze up tho
fountain OF sympathy and happiness from
its depths-no cold burthen settle over its
withered hopes, like snow on the faded
flowers; no rude blasts of discomfort moan
and shrek through its desolate chambers.
Your life path may lead you amid trials
which for time seem entirely to impede
your progress, and shut out the very light
OF heaven from your anxious gaze.
Penury may take the place of, ease and
plenty; your luxurious home may be ex-
changed for single lowly room; the soft
couch for the straw pallet, the rich Wand
Sfor the coarse food of the poor. Summer
friends may forsake you, and the unpity-
ing world pass with scarcely a word of com.
passion.
You may be forced to toll YEARLY, stead.
'ly on to earn livelihood. you may en-
counter fraud and base avarice. which
would extort the last far,hing, till you we'll
nigh turn in disgust from your fellow be.
ings
Death may seven the dear ties that bind
you to earth, and leave you in fearful dark
ness.
The noble, manly boy, the sole hope of
your declining years, may be taken sudden
~ from you, while your spirit clngs 10 him
with a wild tenacity which even the shadow
OF the tomb cannot wholly subduc.
But amid all these sad trials and sorrows.
DO not come to the conclusion that nobody
was ever so deeply afflicted as you are, and
abandon every sweet anticipation of better
days in she. unknown future.
DO not lose your faith in human excel
ence because your confidence has been be-
trayed; nor believe that friendship is only
delusion, and love bright phantom
which glides away from your grasp.
Do not think you are fated to be miser-
able because you are disappointed in your
expectations and baffled in your pursuit.
DO not declare that God has forsaken you
when your way is hedged with thorns, or
repiue sinfnlly when He calls your dear
ones to the land beyond the grave.
Keep holy trust in heaven, through
every trial bear adversely with fortitude, and
look upward in hours of temptation and
suffering. When your locks are white
your eyes dim and your limbs weary-when
your steps falter on the verge of Death s
gloomy vale, still retain the freshness and
buoyancy of spirit which will. shield you
from this winter Of the heart.
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often get you into scrapes; are you not
afraid some one some day will break your
head"
"Break whose heada' he thnndered ::
didn't Col s. Of New Orleans, a man that's
killed seven men in duels, when l went to
dun him at the Astor House-didn't he grab
me by the slack OF my breeches, and
hold mo out of the fifth story window, and
shake mo there above the pavement, and
said shall 1 let you fall. and breal, your
neck on the stones, or shall l take you in
and kick you down starsa
= Well, ,",said TanxiousIy, which did lie do
thenl
"What did do ? said pay me that mon
ey! and didn't he pull me in and pay every
cent?" 4
The intensity Of his manner, as he thus
related his exploits, cannot be rendered on.
paper especially when lie exclaimed4@ssith
closed teeth and the fingers Of bis round
hand cinched-'.pay me that money r'
He took the transcript and limped out.
In another day the hapless debtor, and
over match for all the regular thumb screws
OF the law, came in to beg piteously would
call off the blood hound. l told him it was
the creditors affair, not mine. Next day l
met BurIing at the corner of Cortland street;
looking mild and happy, and asked him
how he succeeded. II havu't got it yet
was the reply. "lIe hasn't found me out,
but he has stpaid me five dollars to let
him dine at the hotel, down there, without
my company.-We've taken all our meals
together for the past two days, and lie began
70 find his appetite fail"
Whether the SIS was credited on the
judgement, or pocketed as, IA personal per.
quisite, I never knew.
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: For coIlectipgpf Richard Roe:
Commission ,,as; >~.p.aj = $4,000
Ard 1.-THE croHd kept stopping to read,
so,thas there was,all, the whsle tse or three
.ksndfsd people standing on the Dossors
payeanens and readiag a,ss my bill aid
thsh his'sigh, spd hnsting thssf jokes /
hsd hired ehsisf@s q III Il hsls ss.srhsea,
by. he hsda4 4sss ahis nsesertha aisssp
risp,sinsl besepS s,pones Il, ths HSh lid
;says esase. ,hsl y.p4 sssosl, ana II I Wont, ID
,staa teS that ltsisa 81 ii his To .mossy, & ssSa
a.he an sssssss, ~ = ssts:ss;.. ,..,,sI
Bal ~ hsua. asas yaas iasaaas
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VOLUME VII.---NO. Is

A CHARMING CREArURR.-A youpr
clerk has been for the last four years en-
ployed in the counting honse Of Paris, =
merchant, in the Spanish trade. This lat
has neice brought up in Spain. and an
orphan. She is not beautiful, but refined
and intelligent. At balls which she attend
ed here, the past winter, escorted by her
uncle, abe danced but little; the truth BE-
ing that she was seldom invited, except
when the Young clerk cl,aneed to be pres
ent and offered the cirility Of requesting
her to he his partner in - qnadrilIe. It was
thus that their acquaintance was made and
ripened.
a fortnight ago the clc,k obtained per-
mission from Majemoisele Fabricia to de-
mand her han'l in marriage from ber guar
dian, his employer. The latter seemed sur
prised, and received the proposal with cool
ness. However, after long consultation
with his neice, he gave his consent, and the
marriage took place soon as the necessary
form"lities could be accomplished.
Two days subsequently, at breakfast, the
young bride, observing tho discomfort o.
her husband at being obliged to return to
his business so early in the honeymoon, said
well, don't 60 today. Don't 20 any
moreu
Not go to the counting. house, my love
That IS easy enough TO say, but-'
1T is easy enough to do, Also
"lndeed how so?"
"Notbing more simple in the world. l
have million and half Of fortune! In
my apparently modest position determined
to choose husband with good heart.
DO you blame met" The gentIena,'s re-
ply is not recordcd.--Paris Letter.
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TERMs---Two DOLLARS PER ANNum
BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON.
HINTS TO GIRLS.

PO z T r x
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-05-20

na- inspection of Us. Marsh & Cos
Lowsburg Foundry, recently, revealed to
US about $50 Respers already prepared
for market, including Marsh's latest i'm
rrovements One of these ca,led"Penn-
sylvania" reaper-is SO constructed that
grain may be cut and thrown one size,
without the necessity Of at once binding
it SO as to be out of the way of the horses
when next passing around This is very
desirable, as it leaves the grain and bot
tom grass more time to cure perfectly, ,and
enables the farmer TO cut with fewer work
mon
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-05-20

at is plain to our apprehension that
fde movement of which Mr. Forney is
tie leader, is premedited and irreparable
'eyolt against the Democratic organization.
1t is equally obvious, that no matter what
|nly be the present intentions of these
leTscns, they will fall by irresistible
|.rayitation into the bosom of the Black
'eplblican party. In support Of this
Epnion, We propose to adduce various
|sos"nt considerations when we have OPP
soriunity for more elaborate discussion
VI the matter" The above extract is
'aken from Tile !S,rtes, the organ Of Sen
sl0r DOUGLAS, at Washington
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-05-20
DttO,

On the iqth inst, Mr. JONATHAN NESH1T. aged CO
wears. lie Of the oldest and respected
r-,identers of our Borough. The funeral will take
place the Presbyterian church. today tFriiay) at
2, +. NJ.
In Levi. Up 18th inst CORNELIUS RUDY, aged
about - wears.
on 18th inst, 70 Jackson rp, Snyder &C., GEORGE
IAULE, s.sl slVai - yeats.