Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MOT COHQMMSIOJCAL DEB ATS. Mr. Sherman (Ohio) said he was aur prised at the objeetion to the decision o the eleotoral tribunal. It was constitute! by the votes of the very gentlemen wh< now objected to its'finding. The Senator objecting knew when they voted for th< bill organising the commission that thcs< very questions of taking evidence were tc be submitted to it, and they wore in honoi bound by its deoisions. These objection! now from tho other side of the chambei wore insulting to the tribunal and insulting to those who sustained its decision. He further deolared that the decision of the tribunal was right. A good deal bad been Bfttftbout fraud,, fraud, fraud and'perjury, "trs v 4 looked /upon and pointed at as upholders of fraud. Suppose Congress could go behind theso returns, it would find fraud, murder and violence on the part of the Democrats. The Louisiana returning board might bo imprisoned; tho members might be arrested; they might be driven to their graves, but they had simply obeyed the laws, and Congress had no power, thank God, to reverse the decision of the commission, and he asked if these pure and honorable men were to be assailed throughout the land by libellers and assassins? Mr. Wallace said: The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) says no lawyer asscrt?d the right to go behind the returns, but the record shows that ho himself said that ^jkis bilPgave that right when he resisted its jfatwage, and two of the commission? Messrs. Morton and Garfield?in the de bate opposed the bill because it gave that right. This is sound law, and the Republican party cannot now say the facts are soft ? as wo state them. Gross and palpable frauds on tta people of Louisiana, and through the^ro the American people, have beeu given voice and power to proclaim a lie, to nullify truth, and to reverse the will of a taajoritj of that people. The broad offer to prove falsehood and forgery in the dcstruotion of 10,000 lawful Totes was rejected, and being rejected, the truth of the facts alleged cannot be denied; and this brings us to face the astounding legal declaration that the equities which .ought to aaeottpanf tike* p?w*r of thn|mhfrfrit^ of the whole people*, the vitality government possesses for its own pr'escrva tioMtgainst force and fraud, aud the morality which pertaius to every jost system of laws, are utterly wanting in ours. The people will not respect a decision that re fuses to hear the truth; that endorses falsehood, sustains forgery and places the Federal governmeut at the saeroy of the base.? They will and they should agitate for its reversal. The result befpr.e us is fitly reaohed. It is the decree of party, wrung by party fealty from a judicial tribunal upen a purely legal question. May we never look upon its like again. If the returns certified by an executive whose only title to his place is the Federal bayonet are to be the conclusive proof of the title to the Presidency, then a government of law is supplanted by one of force and fraud. Mr. Sargent (California) said frauds had been oommilted in Louisiana by the Demoorate, and it was by such means that tbey ^ expected to seise the Presidency. It was k< .?.k ? . >L.> - V J ? - vj aiavu uiniug lull law UBJfR RgU IU OS* auin attempted the State House of Louisiana to take the lift of the man whom more than one-half of the people of the State had eleoted Governor. [Laughter on the Democratic side.] Mr. Sargent(IookiDg towards Mr. Withers, of Virginia,) said the Senator might laugh at that faot. Did the Senator laugh at the ikot that one of his party papers in this oity . j waterway?.oounseled the assassination of Gov. Hayes? Mr. Withers?No; I do not laugh at ' Mr. Sargent?Does tho Senator laugh at ?he faot that his party is responsible for the assassination of President Lincoln 7 Does Senator dony that ? ^ Mr. Withers?Yes, sir; I deny it r\f W ,Md squarely. , Mr. Sargent, resuming, said the Demo,critic party waa stained all over with the crime of assassination. It had assassins* tod fVom the beat man God had ever created, Abraham Linoola, down to the poorest no* gro in Misaisaippi. , \ Mr. Withers (Vs.) said before replying to the tirade of mission, in the hope that the member* drawn from the judicial department of the government would give the subject a fair judioial consideration, but he was mistaken. This decision had demonstrated the fact that the members of the Supreme Court, tribunal in (he land, would not rise above party an? mora (has pawittaaosd politicians. This decision that Congress eofld not imjuirs iatofcaud in the electoral vote of a State, was assorting a doctrine of State sovereignty never advocated by its ^ wildcat adherents. He then alluded to the * charges made by the Senators from Califori nia (Mr. Sargent) and from Ohio (Mr. s Sherman) that the Democratic party was 5 responsible for all wrongs committed, and 3 said three-fourths of the violeuce in the * South bad been instigated and brought about by the Republican party. 1 Mr. Boutwell said he was disappointed that the judgment of eight men had not * been taken as a better evidence of the justice of the conclusion reached than the dis1 senting opinions of seven other men. He believed the people of this country would aoeept the judgment of the commission, and that the Supreme Ouort WUttld loewww prestige by tho action of its members. Dissemination op Diseases at Pit. nerals.?There is not wanting cases eithor in this country or Europe to prove the danger of diBsscminating contagious diit? sea at funerals. Not long since the SuflfoW' District Medical Society made some inquiries in reference to this question of dissemination in connection with patients dying of dipcheria, and elicited some very interesting and suggestive facts. The result was the passage of a recommendation to the effect that funerals of persons who had died of that disease should be private. We are pleased to notice that the Health Board of this city have issued a circular not only advising against public or church funerals of persons dying of diptheria but of scarlet fever, measles and whooping cough. There docs not seem to be any good reason why our health authorities should not only actually forbid such funerals to be held in such places, but that the family of the deceased should be compelled to publish, with the announcement of the death, the particular contagious disease of which the patient hud died, so that there should be the least possible danger with strictly private funeral*. W* c :i_ v ...?? ?u Uiiuu n ffuuiu muilljf OI children which was sacrificed to scarlet fevor by a neglect of this precaution, besides many scattered cases. Such, however, are so much more tho rule than the exceptiont that it becomes almost criminal not to give a suitable warning in advance. In this connection it would* be well to consider the possibility of restricting the transportation of the bodies of children dying of these diseases to hearses, rather than permitting the uso of carriages for that purpOtfKtf'iVew York Medical Record. ~? Blackberry Jam.?Yesterday morning, while a little colored chimney-sweep was engaged in sweeping one of the chimneys at the Citadel, in the left wing, over tho Battery Barracks, ho became iastcned in the chimney, and found it impossible to extri-. catc himself. The cries Ot the little fellow attracted the attention of the soldiers, who endeavored to- release him by means of ropes; out, alter several efforts, it was round impossible to move him from his perilous poeition either by hauling down or pulling up, and, before the youngster was brought to light again, ten feet of the chimney had to be torn down. He was almost suffocated when reloased from his imprisonment, and has struok for higher wages ?News and Courier. Tuk Electuio Plant of Nicaragua. ?A. plant, supposed to be new, has been found in Nicaragua, which, if what is said of it be true, it is a great vegetable curios* ity. It has been named "Phytolacca Electrics." It is said to possess very pronounoed electro-magnetic properties. The hand is sensiblv benumbed upon touching the shrub, and the mngnetio influence is felt at a distanoe of seven or eight feet. The magnetic needle is sensibly perturbated, becoming more and more so until it reaohee the oentre of the ahfu^ when ^ disturbance is transformed into a very rapid gyratory movement. The intwuity of the phenomenon varies with the hours of the day, aud at night it is hardly peroeptible. It attains its mazimun about 2 P. M. In stormy weather the energy of the action is augmentod. No insects or birds have been seen on the shrub. Cold Waths on His ErxxjUMcic.? " Amellft, f<n? -4bee-?yes, at thy crnnmaffff' I'd tear this eternal firmancnt into a thousand fragments?I'd gather the stars ono by one as they tumble from the regions of ethereal apace and put theui in my trowsers podkets: I d pluck the sun?that oriental gqd%f day that traverses the blue areh of fc#)vefc*|ii such majestio splender?I'd tear hfa? from the sky and quench its bright ef. ?s%*Rpe i?. the fountain of my eternal love , Cot,. Snixna*.?-Rayafond, the aetor, Is ^Washington, playing to fall houses, rsklogin aereml hundred dollars nightly.? Io lhe lawsuit aoene he has introduced a new thing. When asked if he knows the defendant, be straightens Ifhaeelf up with an emphatio "I decline tet"auswer." This brings dovnathe bouse. I The question is pressed, and he appehle to*the court, "Am I vfl??al or a ijl)"k'n" tbe J * THE HEEL OW THE DTZEQ TYBA.MT When the Potomao boars pass Mt. Vernon, even at this late day, when every vestige of c republican government and American liberty t is gone, they toll a requiem to the momory t of the immortal Washington; but it remains o for the "drunken Qalena tanner" to forbid ii frecborn American citisens in South Caro- ft lina from an innocent display of their patri- a otism on the 22d of February, 1877. Last p night the gallant Cel. Black, a gentleman h and a patriot, who fought for "the old tl flag," and who is hore among us merely as b "a looker cn iu Vienna," in an official way, ai roccived orders, dictated by the dying dog, 0' and instigated by the carpet-bag pretender from Massachusetts, at present in our midst, h note to Cnpt. Hugh S. "fhobipson," of the a militia: ci Post op Columbia. w Columbia, S. C., February 20, 1877. fc Capt. Thompson Columbia, S. C.?Dear it Sir : I have tho honor to notify you that li I have thia day been directod^by the lion- tc orable Secretary of War to iuforin you that bi his Ezcollenoy the President of the Ubitcd tl States directs me to notify you that the mem- at bers of the so-called rifle clubs, who, under at his proclamation of the 17th oi^Octobcr last, were instructed to disband, will not be bi permitted to malco any demonstration or nc parade on the 22d instant, as is said to be tl contemplated; and it is hoped you-V'tll give a, a cheerful obedience to this order, ^nd no- 11 tify the members of your club, or company, tl thereof, in order to prevent a parade tak- 1] ing place. ei My orders roquiro me to see that no such fe parade takes place. oi I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient ai servant, H. M. Black, Si Lieutenant Colonel 18th Infantry, Com- w mnmliiwr Pncl ' WHUUIU^ A VOI?. 1(1 The above is but a fitting sequel to the th wretched fraud which has been perpetrated la upon the American people within the Inst cg few days?a fraud which will go further to- ei wards destroying the great republic, and D all that there was gppd in it, than a thou- si sand rebellions (as tney were termed) by tr the Southern people. si< In consequence of the above order Gov. ^fe Hampton has issued Xhe following pdtjriotic Ml PBOCLAiWATroN : 111! s State of South Carolina, . 4* Executive Chamber, ca Columbia, Feb. 20, 1877. Ilia Excellency Jthe President of the ui United States having ordered that the white hi militia companies of this State should not ce parade on the 22d instant, to celebrate Si Washington's birthday; in deference to the cf office he holds, I hereby call upon these or- pi gnnizations to postpone to some future dny fa this manifestation of their respect to the 4h memory of that illustrious President, whess 0 highest ambition it was a9 it was his chief '$i glory, to observe the constitution and obey lej tk. i r L5_ r me luns ui uir country. 01 If the arbitrary commands of a Chief jc Executive, who has not sought to emulate f? the virtues of Washington, deprive the w citizoDS of this State of t he privilege pt of joining publicly in paying reverence m to that day, so saored to every Amer- I Pc ican patriot, we can at least show by our obedience to constituted authority, however "1 arbitrarily exercised, that we are not un- hi worthy to be the countrymen of Washington. pi Wo must, therefore, remit to some auspi- tc cious period, which I trust is not far distant, ju the exerciso of our right to oommemorate cn the civio virtues of that unenllied character, vc who wielded his sword only to found and p< perpetuate that American constitutional ec liberty whic^ is now denied to the citizens v< of South Oafoliov in ; JPllM^ilAMPTON, SI r... ..J"""' Marrying for Money.?The Rev Geo w C. Baldwut very truthfully says: "Gold ca cannot buy. happiness, sod the parents who pi compel ineuruaaghtcrs to marry Xor money a or station,; jkftmtiit a grievous sin ogainst humanity Cp9 God. And tho Woman who "] marries aj&trl for his wealth! will find ah Chat fine harmllde a terrible bargahn that te all the gliflnring"of heartless grandeur are hi phnaphoraMotglftierings of heart ^retched* m oess: thatjfet heart will be gildo! misery, an and her oflpkge will be like a <$g on the eh bleak side |f a desert mountain, w^ere ^oid jov moon-beam sometimes glitter, but no wrda gi sing, bat wild etoru* howl and hoaqke thuo- co den roar; endd&rodgh the sweeping 8topp?> ei shall be heard we stern voice of lb ^^aw^^Yo^^^hea are oormpted, M yowr fleet aaif it were fire.^>V J| oonw> peopw Dare wondered all kind* oft VI thnature of the soul's exio^ & 14 ^ " f TOOK LAW. Effect on the Wert.?The necessity of cn- St losing with a fence is the baqc of Wes- ?' era farming. A man buys a quarter sec- t'1 ion, and is compelled to make either one jq r two miles of fenee?the quantity depend- \\ Og On the circumstance whether Via "inin? mi ancos" or not. lie may wish to raise 'heat and keep no stock ; but ho is com tiled to icnco just tho same, to defend tjj imsclf against his neighbors' cattle. If lei !iey have not more than fifty head, it will 3H e cheaper for him to go upoD their farms tu ad enclose their pastures, than to build his aj| wn boundary fence. be The squatter fiuds to his amazement that di is feuce will cost five times as much as his lent to raise fifty to A ' huudred acres of Ce heat, but not having money enough to an nee it, is driven to tho alternative of rent- ^ 9*1 ig of others, and letting bis own rich land ^ e idle. Farmers can about as well afford jQ > pay ten dollars per acre for a farm, and L< s obliged to fence only euough to restrain nc leir own slock, as to pay five dollars per ac >re, and be compelled to fence agaiust the ^ ock of the State. ? 0I Manj uien rent all their lives, who would ox uy laud and pay for it, were it uot for the tin irious expense of fencing. The writer iu te' 10 Illinois Report, already quoted, says: t About three-fourths of all the 'sussin' in be liuois uiay be fairly charged to the prac- ha ce of fonciug crops, rather than 6tock.? ^ ad Illinois passed a law thirty, tweuty, or reu ten years since, that stock should be b? need, or otherwise takcu care of by its te<: Cfti vners, I do not believe there would be an :rc of good prairie uncultivated in the pj tatc. 1 know this is a strong statement tin hen we think how uiany acres of the best ,s 1 nd in the world are yet dying out,' but ^ iose who have lived in the State but the m( st tcu years have seen miles of prairie ori mie under the plow right around them, oir en under the crop fencing inoubus.? uring the wheat rnauia of a few ^years ace, a lurge portion of the prairies of cenill Illinois would have been turned bottom sui io up, had it uot been for the cxpcusc of ucing. * * * We have spent mil- wc ri of dollars in Michigan pine to keep pr corn and wheat frouf going off* our run to prey ou our neighbors' hogs and an .ttlo 1" ve Undjr a uniform law compelling every t'1< an to take care of his stock, and insuring tj0 hi against harm from his neighbors, it is iut rtain that thfc population of the Western th< a tea would have been some millions groat' than now, while their wealth would have ? no' tiportionatciy increased. Moreover, the rms would have been better cultivated, jj e houses better built, the burus larger and nn, bre comforablc, and the average stock of sc; ,VA. i.:~i? r ? mvi ?uu iii^uti ijuHiitjf. iietevery VTl gialaturc say to every settler, "Tako care " ^ 'your own stock, and we will soc that j >ur neighbor takes care of his," and two mi rifis will be opened along the frontier att here one now is. The West seems to be srverscly blind to its own interest in this 'ur alter; but it will not much longer be "the ^ tor man's asylum," unless it shall open its sin es, and, by relieving him of the onerous bii encc tax," place the virgin soil within s reach. It*justice of the Present Si/stem.?Tho |oc oof of the bad policy of our present sys- ha m of fencing, has suggested, also, its in- rci stice. To compel A to fence against B's |^ai ittlc, i9 morally aud socially wrong. It in>rt8 the relation of things. It takes prosrty from A without rcudcring to him an * nui [uivaleut. Corn, wheat, oats, fruit trees, re< jgetables, stay at home quietly, trespass- ms g on nobody, and interfering with nobody. I?u we put the onus of fencing on stationy or on locomotive property ? Shall we mj irden with the cost of fcuciog the man pr hoe</property stays where it is put, aud he in not get away ? or on the man whose by roperty has legs, horns, and grinders, with etfi grauiverous appetite? thi The writer in the Illinois Report asks : set [s there any good reason why one man ha tottld be oompeiled to build from one to tht n miles ot fence to protect his crops from gm s neighbors' stock, when such neighbors ' A ight do it with one-tenth the fence ? Can to iy one give iqe a good reason why the law aft tould be thejl a man shall stand guard hei -or his one ltfmdred and sixty acres of it< sin, rather tlan bis neighbor over his one am iw ? Does, fr does it not, seem right that am try man shall take care of his own stock ? for n this hinges the whole question. My , es iythat every man shall take care of his rm sAek; and, a* a corollary, that he shall *MI i impelled to make only ' We*., or so nw tie fence as is necessary to do that thing." The Law of Fencing.?"Law,"says BlackMae, "is a rulo of aocioty, authorising bat is tight and fotbidding what is wrong." t^e "ball not expect to find the law, in 4 present ease, commanding what has been ownrto he flagrantly unjust. We are not am ^appointed. The oommon law does not nai min fny man to fence against stock.?* am r$tylt is to make every owner of stock gr< all depredations that it shall fX \ . ? I Mississippi, like the other reconstructed j tea that have esoaped from tho clutches i the carpet-baggers, is recovering from e effects of the spoliation to which it was < bjectod^for a long time after the war.? 1 le annual report of the Hon. W. II. (iibbs, ' uditor of Public Accounts, shows that i >der Dcmodratic rule, though the taxes < ;ve boon materially reduced, the disburse- * juts for the expenses of the State gorern- ] jnt, up to January 1, were so muoh below j oso^ot the previous year that there was > ft an excess of receipts amounting to over < :60,000, which is nearly equal to the es- < nated sum required for the total expendi res for the year 1877. The receipts from < I sources lor the fiscal year ending Decern- ' ir 31, 1876, were *981,373.25, while the I sbursements byjwarrants for the same 1 iriod amounted to $518,709.03, against 1 ,430,192.82, for the previous year.? ' j?l1)l I IHWUll^, $M| wtpendircs, the Treasurer has retired outstanding rtificatcs of indebtedness and paid bonds d interest amounting in the aggregate to ' 101,728, leaving still a surplus of $160,- 1 [4, with about $300,000 of the State tax 1876 yet to be collected. The Auditor, 1 concluding bis report, congratulates the 1 jgislature upon the fact that under the j w order of things complete harmony of ' tiou and a desire to promote the public ' sal hnve been the governing rule, and ' at Mississippi has entered upon a career ' substantial prosperity. Facta like these | plain the extraordinary political changes \ nt have taken place among the more in- 1 ligent of the colored voters in the South thoso who have sense enough to underind the extent of the robberies that have en perpetraicd by the politicians who ( vc represented Grant's administration in j at part of the country ?JVeto York Sun. , A New Motok.?^hiladelphians are to 4 given a sight of a new machine, inven1 by a clergyman iu Maryland, whieh is , lied the Bradley promether, and it is deribed at length by a correspondent of the liladelphia Bulletin. The writer claims ? it "the motor employed in this invention < a well-known agent, and one that is beyd comparison powerful in action and ly of management. Seernd, that the 1 >de of utilising it is marvellously simple, ] ginal and perfect. Third, that its econ- 1 ly ii marked, being as one to five, if not ( six or eight, iu comparison with steam, c urth, that it is managed so ns to be po- f ivcly non-explosive and without danger y auv staire. Filth, that, the machine i? ? itable for all mechanical purposes; and ? ally, it is unlike anything else in the ] >rld of mechanics, and will excite an in est in economies and revolutionize the ] esc lit mode of propulsion in ovcry depart- I nit of mechanical motion. The machine I d its capacities are not simply a groat in- 1 ntion, they arc an inspiration, utilizing i forces of nature by the principles of tural laws, and confirming to the concepns of man the perfections of the Divine elligcnco in his works. In a lew weeks 8 public will have an opportunity of ?cej in operation in Philadelphia a promeer of the power of fifty horses, which is w nearly ready for exhibition. " A Florida Scandal.?Mrs. Harriet lecher Stowc, sister of Plymouth's pastor i author of the Byron story, has found a uiidal down in Florida to expose. She ites as follows to the Christiun Union: 'wo pairs of red birds have set up an csilishuient in our orchard, the males fiom; mid flaunting in the best Chinese verlion coats, and the ladies more daintily ircd in suits of reddish brown, with scarbeaks and claws. Yesterday, as uiy gay d and lady were making love in the most proved style, another lady red bird aligh1 ou a neighboring bough and began Sing her little song of 'Birdie, birdie, ie.' Iustautly my lady number one w at her like a little red hot fieud and ove her out ef sight and hearing. 1 don't ow that^my lord red cardinal had over >kcd at the intruder ; it is possible he may ve cast an indiscreet eye that way and narked: 'What a sweet voico that lady s!' If he did, he was soon taught better ill that. Pftl froo InvA nnn?nn? d?r " An Amusing Incident.?A rather uising incident is told as having occarcd :ently at a church in Connecticut not my miles from Fairfield. The clergyman, would appeal, desired to call the attention his congregation to the fact that it being J last Sunday of the month he would ndniater the rite of baptism to children.? evions to his having entered the pulpit had received from one of his elders, who the way was quite deaf, a notice to the cct that as the children would be present it p. m. and he had the new Sunday100I books ready for distribution, he would ve theui there to sell to all who desired ?m. After the sermon the clergyman ben the notice of baptismal service, thus: .11 of those having children and desiring I *1 I i ? J" ? -? - ' ' imtc ?uem impiizeu win oriDg mem mis 1 emoon." At this point the desf elder, ? urisg the mention of children, supposed ( was something in referonce to his books, < d rising, said : '-All of those having none, j i desiring them, will be supplied bj me 1 the sum of twenty-five oents." J The Boston Times, s sneday paper, in- 1 ts that the irreverent Bostou boys sing s , w version of "Hold tbe Fort," like this ; i Hold the forks, the knives are ooming, 1 The pistes are on their way; 1 Shout the chorus to yonr neighbor, \ Sling the hash this way. ( Boston must be a very wicked place. Frtkndship and Civility.?Be civil d obliging to all, dutiful where God and tore command you; but friend to one, d that friendship keep sacred, as the latest tie upon earth, and be sure to )und it upon virtue; for po other is either. ' ppy or lasting. w 1 IIH?WI III r ItfTT" t A Gkm.?Sidney Smith out the following from a newspaper, aud preserved it for himself: "When jou rise in the morning, ?av that you will make the day blessed to a fellow creature. A lefl-off garment te the. man that needs it; a kind word to the sorrowful ; an encouraging expression to the iejected?trifles in themselves as light as lir?will do at least for the twenty-four tiours. And if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you arc old; rest assured it will scud you happily and gently down the stream of time to eternity. By the most umpie ariiumeticni sum, look at the result. Lf you send oue person away happy through (he day, that is three hundred aud sixtyIre in the course of a year, aud suppose you lire forty years ouly after you hare commenced that course ot medicine, you hare made fourteen thousaud six hundred persons happy?at all events for a time." Whfn and How >to Eat t ^ When fruit does harm it is becauss it is eaten at improper times, in improper quantities, or before it is ripened and fit for the human stomach. A 'distinguished physician has said that if his patients would uiake a practice of eating a couple of good oranges before breakfast, from February to June, his practice would be gone. The principle :vil is that we do not eat enough of fruit; (hat wc injure its fiuer qualities with sugar; (hat wc drown thsrn in cream. We need .he medicinal action of the pure fruit acid* n our system, and their coolieg, corrective nflucncc.?Medical Journal. A fellow with side whiskers and a white iccktic called into the office and said : "I ft a 8 a little late in getting my work in on ;he ground pig,"but here is something on ove which 1 presume is worth about $10." L'hen he recited through hie nose as follows: 'A passionate waltz in the ball room, A moonlight row on the river, \n odor of pig's feet and otiious Aud a paroxysmal shiver?" He was requested not to repeat tho other leveutcen verses, but to call around for a :heck next Christmas. Collapse ok Republican farer8.? Three Republican papers have expired in Florida since the inauguration of Coventor !)rcw?the Madison Recorder, Feruandina )b*erter aud Gainesville Citizen. They lerived their existeuce solely and entirely rom official patronage, and when that prop vas knocked from under them an imiaediite collapse was the result. Marshal's Portrait of Hampton. There are two distinct portraits of Gov. Hampton. The one issued by the "Hampton Portrait Company," ef Charleston, S. C.f is engraved in line by Marshall, and will be of imposing appearance, and life-size. There is slso i print out representing the Governor. We mggest that our people wait and* seo both picuros, before choosing which they will have. Marshall's famous engravings are attracting inusual attention. The ouperb large line engraring of Washington, from Stuart's cslebratod til portrait in the Boston Atheuicum?a plate ralued at ten thousand dollars?when originally >rought out about ten Tears asro. at oner d1>mi< 4r. Marshall in the very front rank of engravers, ancient or modern, meeting, both in Europe md America, the moat extravagant encomiums if artiste, critics, and men of judgment. It was tven selected for exhibition at the French Acadimy of Design, an lienor accorded to none but he very highest works of art. It is, moreoverhe best, indeed the only satisfactory, portrait if Washington that exists, and is the acknewlsdged standard "household engraving" of him. The late Edward Everett said of it: "The magnificent engraving of Stuart's head of Washing;on. It is truly a superb work." Bancroft, he historian, writes : "I have been for some fears a collector of tho many different engravings of the portraits of Washington. Tbiv is beyond comparison the best of them all?the pnly one that is perfectly satisfactory." Mr. 3serge S. Ilillard, the well known art critic, lays: "Were it the head of some unknown perlon, a lover of art would be glad to have a copy if the engraving for its rare intrinsic merits, ind every American should be ready to make tome sacrifice in other ways in order to possess 10 satisfactory a representation of Washington." Marshall s R. E. Lee, just out, is a wonderful vork, and in a few days his "Qov. Hampton" will go to the people of South Carolina and the :ountry, a noble tribute to a great leader, who tonquers by his high character and by peaceful neans, not by the sword.?Newt and Couritr. And from the Columbia Rtguter the accompanying letter: Tun llamrtos Portrait.?We publish for the nformation of the people of the 8tate the folowing extract from a letter received from Chareston, addressed to Mr. C. 1*. Pelham : "Seme misapprehension exists as to the proprietorship in the Hampton Portrait Company. Permit me to say that a majority of the investuent is held here. As one of the proprietors, am attending to its affairs until other and pernanent airangements are concluded. I origiisted the project of a portrait of Governor (ampton in a high style of art, thinkiug it a vorthy manner in which to recognize his Kxelleucy's public services to the people of this ii~ ? <i ? -? ? ,.-v? in) iiic (iB9i six montus. Tlios# servi(i antitle him to b? presented to his countrynen everywhere in a style equal to that in vhich Washington and Lee and other reresentaive gentlemen of the country are shown.? rime was required for this great work, that care md skill should make it perfect. Its publicaion has been anticipated by another issue, of he merits of which the public can judge. In telectingan artist the gentlemen associated with ne hare given preference to Mr. Marshall.? lu slave Dore, the great artist of France declares hiss to be 'the veritable master of art in America.' If we do not realise all our expecations in a pecuniary point of view by reason >f a different publieation, we must accept that fortune?the penalty of attempting to de (As kit po?$ikl?in art for our host man, we shall hope, .* leverthelees, to peas sea an ample reward in thd PAAfiniWIAK A# A AA a awwa a ? m ??ov Ulllinniiu rOBTHAlT, whioh will Mnmud an appreciative circulation f not ao large aa might have been under mora. .. propitious oircumetanoes. In a very few days the publio san judge for tfcemaelvas, and can rery wall afford to wait a little, and make their shoico with Maasiuii/s srcxpip work, Hiroan rn rn, WM, A, OOURTENAY." Charleston, 8. C? February 6, 1877. * , a, . . . ? Gent's If and Had* fihoes. A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT Just received, at GEK A HUMPHRIES' Hotel Store. . 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