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Abbeville Press, 1860-11-23

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be accompanied witli the Cahli. St^ BATES OF^ADVERTISINQThe I'rflpi'irlont of tlie Abbeville /Ye** and Abbeville Biuiinr have established tlie following rales of Advertising to be charged by both papers: tviry Advertisement inserted for n less time than three tiiontbs. will he eharm-d by the insertion lit Otoe Dollar per Square, (1? inch ?the spitecof \i coliil lines or less,) for the first iusertion^^d Fifty Cents for cach tub<equeut ineert^H^** I square 3 mon tns7 $5 I A month ?8 ; 1 v?ar $12 ? squares 8 " $8 j 0 " #10; 1 year $20 ItquarcsS " $10; 6 " $14; I year$26 I squares 3 " fcl'it 0 " $20; 1 year $80 5 squares 8 " $16; 0 " $25; t year $35 3 squares 3 " $20; 6 " $30; lycur$40 1 squares 8 " $25; 6 " #35; 1 year $15 3 squares 3 " $30; 6 " $40; 1 year$50 One column, one year $35. Obituary Notices Exceeding one square, or twelve lines, will je charged for, as ud verlisementa. ?3gr All Communications not of general iner?M will bu charged for. tsr Annourioiiiu Candidates Five Dollars, fg" All advertisements not having the num. ier of insertions marked on the copy, will ba niblishcd till forbid and charged accordingly. Money for Job Work and Advertising rout any except regular patrons will be consid:red due as soon ad the work is done.

perrorm glorious anthems with the hill echoes?Low the eye, which is lifted from the valley to the tall peak whereon rests the thunder cloud, carries the heart with it in atj instinct"of involuntry awe ! The niero prairie floor seeins to me a wilderness witaout an altar?Nature without gallery or done?earth without proper cauthedral wherein '.he elements shall unbidden wor? ship God. And the following lively description: To overtake a thunder shower, whirl through it, and outrun it, was the first of the day's exciting uovelties. Wo saw it ahead of us, on the prairie, as ypu *eee a simple hlack cloud iu the-'sky, with sunshine all around it. It was moving in the same direction as ourselves, probably at about twenty miles an hour; and we soon began to overtake it with our bettor harnessed thunder and Itghtning. The conductor pointed the dark mass out to me some ten or fifteen minutes before we entered the outer skirt of the shower; and we were io ' / a pelting rain, with lightning and peals of thunder, for nnrlmnt tun minntoa?

they are ill treated by their liege "lords; cooped up in prison-like harems, and denied every luxury and enjoyment. On the contrary, the husband in usually very indulgentito his wife; consults and takes her advice on masters of description, and is not unlrequently completely ruled by her ; for, no doubt, t'>e i oble arts of henpecking. coaxing, and worrying, are fully as well understood, and as often practiced, by ladies in this country, as by their fair sia^rs in any quarter of the globe. Out dfjdoors the lady enjoys most unlimited liberty. She may attend the baths and mosque?, at times when .the men are not thore, whenever she pleases; she may go and visit her parents and fe> male acquaintances, staying at their houses for some day9 if she choo6$f,<without givjng her husband any previous warning of her intentions; and sl^e may have her own visitors at home, ^nd entertain theiu in any way she like-*, while her better half <.iinnnt.in?0rf??

UAFS AND HATS AT C. P. REMSEN'S 1"4 Brond Street, opposite the Augusta Hotel, Augusta, Gn, and Columbia, S. C. * JUST RECEIVED, the following new goocfrj-. Gents' Fine Moleskins, Casnmeres and Soft Huts, various colors and sly lea with a complete stock of Genu' Fuie Boys and Children's Fancy CAPS. ^'so, Country-ruadc Wool Ilats for Plantation u*e. JOHN WOOLLEY'S Grraniteville Hats, He is now manufacturing all qualities of Fur Hats, as Low as ?1.50. My Goods are all made to order, and warranted for style and durability. The public is invited to call and exan-ine for themselves. Oct 5 1860, tf C. P. BEH8EN. Copartnership Notibe. THE undersigned have formed a Copartnership under the firm of OR-R <fc LKE, for the practice of Law and Equity in the District of Abbeville. J AS. L. OUR. W. A. LEE tySTr. ORR will attend to any business committed to his care in the Districts of Anderson, Pickens. Greenville, Spartauburg and Lau -

WIH^ ? noia IMIIIICU IIIUUUCI UIUUU UCIUg laid away iu my memory.. But it is to the wild animals of the prairie that the switness of the rail traiiTw most inexplicable. Ages upon ages have ? established certain relative rates of speed between mat. and tho subject races of creation?the.mounted hunter* being the fas* test pursuer for which tlito-elk and reindeer the bear and the prairie wolfr the.fox. and wild cat, the skunk, ottor, aud marten, are at all prepared. The sinnU lirte 9^ rail track, JMajprly hidden ' in grass, ia Tibt recognized by these wanderer over the vast plainr&f the West, and'* while thinking theipselves safe in their own horizon-edged wilderness, they suddenly see t^e coming of the new iftonster. It is n daily experience on the trains on this-railroad .across Illinois,-to overtake ii'ome "one or mo&. ofthena; nitd'it' is curious (so the different - ? -1 1 -- - 11 - I ? ?

and earrings of different sorts; and usu ally an aigrette springing from a band encircling the head. Their hair is arranged in large side-locks, and long plnited tresses hanging down behind. They paint their eyelids at the edge* jyith a kind of collyrium, made of ore of antimony ; and smear the eye brows with a kind of black paint. . The life led by the Persian ladies is listleas and indolent, and to any civilized woman would be ^nsipid to a degree.? Their duties consist in the superintend< price of household affairs and the attendance to the care of their children ; and their amusements consist in visiting thwir female acquaintances, and reociving their visits in^roturn; witnessing the performance of temale dancers, singers and sto ry.tellers; playing in the gardens of their houses, riding in their takhterivun ,or liorse litters, smoking, or bating sweet -

r J -r W WWVM|\? I CIUOIIJUCI that swallowing one's food is not lite first process nece?aary to healthy digestion. If we had gizzards, wo might then swallow our food whole as ducks do; but instead of gizzards we havo teeth (some of lis); and are commanded to nse (hem in grinding food fur the stomach ; but if we compel the .stomach to do both its o wn work and that of the teeth; it will toon give signs of. debility and disease in the shape of acidity, headaches, sense of weight over the whole man, irritable temper, despondency, '' 'Our fannefs seldom spelid more than ten or fifteen minutes, at aoieal, and then go immediately to the field/and engago in the most laborious work. At feast one hour should jt>o spent after-each meal in

uu.iuai m unitwABi. -ii you enter the churches you will, indeed, sometimes . Qtid litem jrpry'well attended, especially jb<Jse in which a popular preRolier or a fashionable one preaches; but the number of hearerStstanJs in proportion with that of ttfe population of the parish-?' efl. You know that io Berlin, out 5f 485,000 inhabitants, scarcely inore.^tfjan f5,000 attend the churches. It vpaf be that in other towns the proportion is a 1H* *Je larger ; bat an entirely satisfactory one Will be found but in very few. ^ome class, es of solely, especially the officials of public administration and justice, appear io imagine themsvlvetftlo be ib possession of an hereditary dispe sation,.a? it were, from all church attendance. Tbe disregard

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