The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-11-30

prayers, loaded with blessings and shield
ed petitions for your long life and felicity.
Give us back Jefferson Davis, and by
so giving, in your own right, do what, as
your Excellency is very well aware, has
never yet been done, conquer the women
Of the South.
All of which is most respectfully sub
mitted
THE Love OF HONE" 1t is only shall
loy-minded pretenders," said Daniel Web
ster, awho either make distinguished ori-
gin matter of personal merit, or obscure
origin matter of personal reproach--
Taunt and scofing at the humble cond;-
ton of early life affect nobody in America
but those who are foolish enough TO in
dulge in them, and they are generally
sufficiently punished by tho~publlshod re-
buke. A mat4-7vno IS not ashamed of him.
selesrccd not be ashamed of his early con-
dition. 1t did not happen to me to be
born in log cabin, but my elder brothers
and sisters were born in log cabin, raised
among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire,
at periods early that when the smoke
first rose from its rude chimney, and
curled over the frozen hill, there was no
Similar evidence of white mans habita-
ton between it and the settlement on the
rivers of Canada. It's remains still exist;
I make an annual visit carry my
children to it, to teach them the hard
ships endured by the generations which
have gone before them.
1 love to dwell on the tender .1ecollec-
tions, the kindred ties. the early affec-
tions, and the narrations and incidents
which minglc with all L know of this
primitive family abode l weep to think
that none of those who inhabited it are
now among the living; and if'cver l fail
in affectionate vcneration for him who
raised it, and defended it against savage
violence and destruction, cherished all do
nestle comforts beneath its roof, and
through the blood of seven years rcvolu-
tionary war shrunk frc;n no toll, no sac
rifce, to raise his children to condition
botter than his own, may my name and
that ofmy postcrity be blottcd forever
from the memory Of mankind"
FEMALE Soc1ETY-We endorse every
word of John Randolph about ladies' So
ciety. Read what he says, young man.,
and act accordingly:
".You know my opinion of female soci-
ETY.. Without it we should degenerate
into brutes. This observation applies
with tenfold force to young mon and
those who are in the prime of manhood
For, after u certain time in life, the liter
ary man makes shift "a poor one, l
grant) to do without the society of ladies'
TO young man nothing is important as
spirit of devotion (next to his Creator)
to some amiaLie woman, whose image
may occupy his heart, and guard it from
pollution, which bcscts it on all sides. a
man ought to choose wife. as Mrs.
Primrose did her wedding gown, tor quail
tiles that "wcar we'll" One thing at least
is tsuc-that if matrilnony has its cares,
celibacy has no pleasures. A Newton or
more eminent scholar may find enjoy
ment in nero study, man of literary
taste can receive in books powerful aux
iliary, but man must have q bosom
friend, and children around him, to cherish
and support the drcarincss of age"
Josh Billings avors the world with a
brief essay on dogs. "Dogs in the lump
says Joshua, +" are useful, but they are not
always profitable. The Ncwfoundling dog
is useful to save children from drowning.
but you have got to have pond of water
and children running about careless, or
else the dog amt profitable There amt
nothing made boarding a Nufounlin dog
Rat terriers are useful to ke.ch rats, but