The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-07
The Southern Press.

The Rochester IN. ~ Union and
american closes recent editorial with
the following tribute to the Southern
press:
Having watched with care the progress
of events IN the South since the cessation
of hostilities, and having looked with no
little solicitude to the press of that sec
ton with purpose to know how the
situation was accepted, we are compelled
in candor to concede that the develop
merts, so far, are as favorable as true
Union statesmen could expect, or the
most sanguine hope for. The leading
journals of the South accept the situation
in which they find their States at the
close of o war that terminated adversely
to their hopes, and regard the Union as in
evitable. They therefore have set them
selves about helping the people to make
the most and the best of their situation
to get into fraternal relations once more
with the States that remained loyal--to
enter the paths of peace, there to culti-
vate the soil and pursue the avocations of
civil life that will make them again COM
Portable, and repair in some degree for.
tunes shattered in the conflict.
No one can read the Southern papers
with fairness-and without bias-and not
admire their tone under the circumstan-
ces. To charge that they are offensive,
and are not conducted with decency aud
propriety is, to say the least, very unjust.
But these charges go out from source
where fairness cannot be looked for
where there is not even that magnanimity
for fallen foe that characterizes tribes
of men who are not classed as civilized.
We know that now and then something
offensive may be found in Southern pa
per; and this is of course seized and cir
culated and fed upon as choice morsel
by those whose aim is to disturb peaceful.
relations everywhere, and who in their
madness delight to ride upon the whirl-
wind they can create.
CHOOSING A W1FE.-Never marry q
woman because she has handsome face
or well-turned figure, for we soon be-
coiAe inseusible to angelic forms and
faces. If her countenance has life and
intelligence her figure is passable-if
her walk and carriage are modest and
lady-like-and if the whole appearance
indicate she has mind, heart and soul,
why she is worth all the simpering, firt-
ing, affected misses that ever brought
good looks as their only marriage dover.
If the fair one you are addressing is rich
in houses, lots, farms, bank stock or rail
way shares, her worldly gear should not
prove an insurmountable objection; but
if she is poor like yourself, so much the
better. There is nothing like young
couple, about the age of twenty, starting
in life with warm hearts, clear beads,
easy consciences and empty pockets. You
have something to live for, to hope Tor, to
work for, to love for Your early strug-
giles with the crosses of this cross world
will only bind you the closer to your
young, ardent and loving wife. And
then those long, cold, cosy evenings
how delightful to sit by your humble
hearth, after the tolls of the day are over,
coniuring up bright visions of the future,
occasionally looking down to catch look
from pair of dark, loving, sympathising
eyes, that fairly dissolve your heart in
one sweet, gushing stream OF tenderness,
affection, pure devotion and bright, joy
GUS and undying love! Never marry a
girl without having some faint idea of her
temper and disposition. 1t is possible
you have been visiting her nightly for a
twelve month, but still you do not know
her. Remember, every time you pay her
visit, you put on not only your best
clothes, but best looks, and you may take
our word for it, that on all such occasions
she is in the same predicament.