The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-05-05
49, CHARLESTON, S. g., April go.


heard all about the late display of the fire
department. Well, Twill only state that it
was an interesting occasion. The engines
were handsomely FURNISHED and tastily dec
GRATED, while the honest rivalry and esprit
of the fremen were really charming. The
Vigilant took the palm for hand engines
and the Esna for steamers. take it for
granted that the young gentlemen were
dined and wined. If they were not they
should have been. And after happy speeches.
song and sentiment. the transition came,
and, like all earth scenes, the pleasant affair
is tale tha t is told.' =:
Melons and blackberries have appeared
in town, and so has Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
That miserable thing called q mans:
damus, in the case of one Pillsbury and his
cohorts against the. present city officials.
weighs like an incubus upon our good city
Those poor, -deluded creatures, who have
waited so long for their mules, are waiting
still. If they wait much longer. said mules
will be stone blind. The darkies visions
have already become Opaque.
They come up and down hither-and have
made Charleston a sort Of Elysium or FL
Dorado, and veritable Ethiopian Meccs.
Maj. Pillsbury, they say. promised them
pig piece, &c. Dunn vivimus vivamusl
Well they still wait to worship at his shrine.
But won't be bury their hopes! ...
Deluded beings! Their patience is truly
wonderful, and under other circumstances,
would be commendable. But they will some
day find themselves in the yocatiye with
spades, and not clubs, as trumpsl Under
any regime the feather is up that will break
this 'eamel's' back They will find that
false friends have placed them between, the
upper and the neither mill stones. Deserted
by one, they will fnd that they have deeply
wronged and betrayed the trust Of the other,
and lost bis favor and affection. ,.-'i :
Pardon me for not dismissing 80 distaste>
,fula theme even before ] began it, but the
fact is. we of The metropolis are over-run, so
to speak, with neurology. It Is an ever
present, positive, ignorant and ,impudent
element, which seeks to sway the political
sceptre, and place the iron heel Of bestial:
supremacy upon integrity and WORTH and
.iusanely distracted as many of them are b.,
the reckless teaching Of greedy agRriaps
and socialists, ct id omne genus, they would
destroy all that throws halo around society
If we rush into empire will history repeat it.
self in an event similar to that Of William
the Conqueror and the Saxon element? i
: Can homogeneous people forget their
traditions? Are we truly homogeneous
peoples Do The circles of. Southern soci>
ETY. grow out of the afinities Of race, or kins
dred or class? cit might have been are the
saddest words of tongue or pen" Had we
in reality been homogeneous people, and
an unit in sentiment and sympathy, it might
have been other with US than it is. -.
All, we'll, these moral storms must come,
and when they do come let US bend and not
be broken, so that after they are past, we
may arise renewed and refreshed as. do the
trees of the forest, when shaken by the rude
blasts of spring, which the more readily en-
ables them to bnd forth in their beautiful
vestments. So, if needs be, "let Us get
angry and sin not" 1t Is the lashings Of
the mighty tempest that purify the waters
Of the great deep. " =
Ever thine. BEATRICE.