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^ ^i'jf's - i^SWR A- -4-- ?=^35===. _-T- ;;.., i, , -^^^...xi ji ? i'i L^Aai.TOI.;'' ^V1^ ^^^^WW^^SuraOAKbLIMAi -MARCH !)" 1877."*' NUMBER THE DECAYED POLITICIANS' RtfBfcfeAT. Ponduck, Mass., July 5,1882.?I want to give you au accouut of uiy visit to one ol the west aduiiiubiy organized and best administered charities on the face of the earth. The Decayed Politicians' lletrcat is, as you know, beautifully situated ou Saline river, about six utiles from hero Being detained in this villago over yesterday by business, I -took advautagc of the holiday to drive thither with a friend, and was kindly received by the Superintendent, Gcu. Butler, who went to a good deal of trouble to show nte the interior workings of the institution. 'The selection of this site wa? fortunate," said Gen. Butler, us he led the way across a beautiful lawn from his private house to Y, . the bM-gu brick Juiilding occupied by the * inmates. ''The lovely natural scenery docs much to soothe disappointment and allay remorse, and there's always a fresh breeze blowing up Saline river." "Are your wards contented as a general tliinjr ?" "Some of tliein arc positively cheerful," said the Supcriuteudeiit with enthusiasm. "And you, General '( After your somewhat active career, don't you find it rather tedious at the Retreat, cooped up with a party of relics ?" "O, I am satisfied," said Gen. Rutler, smiling grimly,and shaking the large bunch of keys that he carried in one hand.? "When Jones of Nevada left all his money for this object, a little more than three years ago, and the trustees invited tne to the post of duty, 1 came like a man and a patriot. Cuminc jn trouvc sir, is my motto." liy this time we had reached the heavy oakeu door at the main hall of the asylum. Our conductor rapped suiaitly with his knuckles. "IIow many outside ?" asked a voice from withiu. "Three," replied Gen. Rutler. The door slowly swung open and a tall man with a long red beard stood to let us pass in. "Good morning, Mr. Ferry," said the Superintendent, pleasantly, "I wish you a happy Fourth of July." ' Que! Two! Three!" said Mr. Ferry in an impressive voice, telling us off with his fore-finger. "All right, gentleman, you can walk in. Oh, good morning, General. I wish you a great many." "We keep him here to open the door,"explained Gen. Rutler, "aud he iuiauiues he has the right to count as well as to opoti."'-'1 In all other respects he is perfectly harmless, and so we humor him a little. It's the only satisfaction he has in life now." The General led the way through a long corridor, and as lie stopped to unlock a door an inmate came up and, touching his cap, asked permission to say a few words in private. "Well, speak up, George," said Butler. "Who has been sitting on you know Y" "If you please, General," said Uoutwell, for it was uono other than the great but unappreciated financier, "nobody has been sitting on mo, sir. But I have solved the problem at last, and 1 want leave of absence to go to Washington and lay my solution before Congress." "Solved what problem, George ?" asked the General, winking at us. "The problem of silver resumptiod, General," replied Iuuiato Boutwcll. "It is very simple when you see it. Will you permit me to explain ?" "I'll give you just a minute and a half, George," said the General looking at his watch. "You see there are from a million and a quarter to a million and a half teethi nor p)i i li i in flip I nitial St:ifp? npr. haps two million. Now every blessed one Vof 'cui has to have a silver dollar to bite ou. If you pass a law withdrawing this immense sum from use in the process of dentition, silver will flow into the national coffers, will find its way into the natural channels of trade, confidence will bo reestablished and " "All very good, Geurge," interrupted the General, "but what is going to become of the babies ? You can't teeth them on greenbacks. Don't you sec that if you withdraw their silver dollars, the entire rising generation will be uuablc to masticate, consequently there wou't be any market for beef, corn, or chewing tobacco, and the deuce will be to pay in trade circles generally. It won't wash, George." "I didn't think of that point, General," said the retired financier, taken a little aback. "No, George, you didn't," continued the Superintendent. "You bad hotter go to your room and think the whole matter over again ; and when you have devised some , way of obviating the difficulty I spoke of, why then we'll talk about a leave of absence to go to Washington." "Now," continued the General, as Inmate Iloutwell moved rather ruefully away, "I'll show you our oldest case, the centenarian of the establishment." We entered a little room, in the centre of which, bent over a table, sat a person of extreme age, attired in a rusty swallow tail coat. He was writ_ intr dilictMit.lv and without, cessation. mm n r* j ; # ^ ( "Look up, Hannibal, said the Supcrmtendent, poking him gently with his cane. "Look up and sec the gentlemen." When the aged Inmate looked up, we saw that lie was tied in his chair to keep him from tumbling out. He smiled blandly upon us for a moment from behind his spectacles, and then began to write again as industriously as ever. "What is he doing?" 1 asked. "He is writing franks, lie h:i* lost all his teeth and his hair and his hearing and his wits, but he can still hold a pen, and lie writes franks from morniug till uiglit, stop> ping only for his gruel... The other inmates * are celpbrating the Fourth b t hero is old Hannibal at his customary occupation.? Ho writes his name on every old envelope, newspaper, or scrap, of paper that he cau bud, and puts them all in the big until box in the hall. Of course, like the contributions of the resc of the inmates, they never go any further than my office. Hut he doesn't know it, and he placidly keeps en writing franks. The only thing that ever exasperates him is the sight of a. postage stamp. I suppose he will writo flunks till the Day of Judgment. Such," added the. General, didactically, "is the force of habit." "You must find a curious collection of epistles iu your mail box, Gcueral?" "lluthcr'f Wo have a good reading room counccted with the and most at., the inmates take '-g.flFrnMjrest in current affairs. Many of them fancy that they arc still influential in shaping political events. They write innumerable letters which nobody over reads but myself. Not long ago I found a letter from Blaine, addressed to the Pope, asking for the Vatieau influence to help him along iu the Presidential campaign of'81 You would have laughed at the piteous appeal which Schuyler Colfax once mailed to President Tildeu. lie wanted the Post Office at South Bend, and said ho could produce certificates of good moral character. Only yesterday 1 found this , brief letter in the box. You may value it as an autograph." The Oeneral had been fumbling in his 1 pocket book and lie handed me the follow- ' ing note, which I have preserved : i Tiik Kktrkat, July .'5, 1880. ] D K\n Syi.pu : Although writing comes hard, I thought 1 would send you a singlo line. I will ' tight it out ou this iitic it' it takes all summer. < L may have made escapes, but my worst enemy , cannot say that 1 ever let any guilty man mistake. U. 8. Grant. I 'What!" I exclaimed ; ''is he hero ''Yes," said our guide. ''Wo employ him about the stables, and he seems tolerably happy. II'you give him a cigar when 1 you pass ttierc, he will bo affected to tears." f The majority of the inmates had assembled in the large courtyard of the asylum, j around which was a high brick wall patroll- . ed by keepers. The recurrence of the national anniversary seemed to cxcito consid- 11 crablo enthusiasm. 1 recognized many I i* _ _ ' 1? . .. 1 ? i o laces once iumiuar, out now almost lorgottcn. The assortment of decayed politicians j inclinh d representatives of every political caste, from the ex-Senator or the ex-Gov- c eroor to the played-out ward striker. I re- 1 marked the peculiar satisfaction with which i Gen. Butler pointed out Blaine. Apart from all the others sat ^Iortou of Iudiunat "gloomy and niorostfJTtlS CTHtf "resting" upon "C the handle of a crutch. 1 started to ap- t proach him, having known him in other j, days. "You'd better not," said llie Superiuteu- * dent, catching my intctition and my armc 3 at the same instant. ' Why not?" ' i ' You'd better not, that's all," said Gen. a Butler, significantly ; and just then Morton j looked tip from his crutch, and scowled across tho courtyard at .John Sherman, ' with an expression in his face which con- t vineod tne that the Superintendent was t right. The Inmates had hoisted a tlag in liouor I of the day, and were making speeches. I ' regret that 1 am not able to report their re- * marks, which wero lull of patriotic senti- ' meiit. I was particularly impressed with ( the eloquent words of old Subsidy J'oineroy, ...k~ a. u^ :1 ... .u r ii "i J WHO Wt'pi its 111? JIU1UMJU to tuu llllU . moved the following resolutions, which were seconded by Schuyler Colfax and passed unanimously : Resolved, That the inmates of tliis ltctrcnt point wkh priilo to the record of their services in the past and pledge their unwavering support in the future to the Government of this grand Republic. Resolved, That the purity of our institutions must he maintained at all hazards. Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to lay these resolutions before Gen. 4 (Sutler, and to ask at the same time that 1 there be plums in the duff on the occasion of . this anniversary of our national independence. In the cheering which followed the read- * ing of those resolutions, one old man?M nearly as old as the centenarian whom 1 , had seen inside?swung his cap feebly, and . shouted in a tremulous voice: "Pluui duff! Plum duff! If any snipe attempts to haul down that Hag, shoot hiui on the wing ?" ; (Jen. Butler gave me a meaning look, < and tapped his forehead without making any remark. As we passed out of the j courtyard into the dormitory building, we j came across a solitary Inmate sitting upon c a bench, lie held a book in bis hand, and was repeating over and over these words: | "A verb must agree with its nominative j in number and person. A verb must agree | with its " i , When the studious Inmate saw us, lie | / liml.i <1 oo cnocrlv nod said ,(\\ ,|| von I , hear me now in verbs, (icneral ?" \ Come. Logan," replied the Superinten- ' dent, "put up your book and go out with the others. It's a holiday. I'll hear you ] to-morrow." I "lie has an idea," said I'utler, as the ] dusky indent moved reluctantly away, i "that the only cause of his political failure i was his weakness in English grammar, and i that, if he can once master syntax, lie will gut back into the Senate. 1 consider it a real kindness to encourage him in this belief. lilcss you, I am perfectly safe in doing so." i "The inmates are <juite happy here," the i Superintendent wont on, as we entered the spacious dormitory. They treat each other affably as a general thing, and if a political discussion becomes at all heated, as once iu a while happens, that small garden hose yonder is equal to the cmergeucy. Of course we are obliged to keep a careful watch on kleptomaniac iumutes like Colfax, Patterson, Helkuap, and others. They arc apt to appropriate little articles belonging to the institution or to each other. Secor ltobeson was caught a day or two ago ransacking Hamilton Fish's trunk, aud although the ex-Secretary stoutly denied any evil intention, a cake of Spauish scented .soap belonging to Fish was found iu his pocket. Robeson is now locked up down stairs, and l'arsou Newman, our chaplain, exhorts hiui twice a day." "What do you do with turbulent subjects ?" "We are troubled-with very tW. Down there, at the euu of that coriioo#', where you sap tlu. grated door, is an iron-barred apartjBicut where the unmanageable and vioUnt are conlined. 1 don't think you want to visit it." Aa the General spoke, a peal of deiuouiao UnpLfi ii ?pithiuniji If. wrrilit'-H-Tfti'Hi' grinning visago appeared at the gate, while the owner saluted us with a volley of horribly profane and ribald abuse. "Who was that (" I asked, as we hastened away. "The only occupants of the apartment for the unmanageable and violent at present," said (leu. Hurler, '"are Hob lngersoll, formerly of Peoria, and Zaeli Chandler of Michigan." "Before I go, General," I said, "I should like to see " "I know whom you uican," interrupted the Superintendent," and 1 am sorry that our rules will not allow me to oblige you. Mr. llayes is a private patient, whose friends pay his board, and he has a room to himself. Nobody visits him hut myself ind Carl Sihurz, who is detailed to attend Iriui. You sec his incut 1 capital gave out. iird he had to be put iu the hands of a revivor. But although a disappointed and Kokcu down man, his heart, continues to jlccd for the poor African." 1 thought that Gen. Butler winked just hen, but it is always hard to speak with jositi veil ess in regard to his ocular demonit rations. Wo had reached tiie door of the asylum, i cordially thanked the Superintendent for lis courtesy to myself and my friend, and dso took occasion to com mend the oxeeletice of his administration. kTf* v*nii xvi'ifn 'in ?/?/ /*!???f /if* '? ic saiil, as wo shook hands," send several :opics of the Sun. The poor follows will bo Iclightcd to see their names in print once liore." . o l'uit Tiik Last Ti mi:.--There is)\. touch rrparrros?ntjimt OolUg tTveffTfo^ liing "for the last time." It is not alone 1 lissiug the dead that gives you this strange lain. You feel it when you have looked :oui*last up >n some cue you have loved ?when you stand in some quiet city street vhorc you know that you will never stand igaiu. The actor playing his part for the ast time; the singer whose voice is cracked , ropelessly, and who, after this once, will lever stand before the sea of upturned faces lisputing the plaudits with fresher voiced tod fairer form; the minister who has ireaehed his last sermon?these all know he hidden bitterness of the two words 'never again." llow they conic to us on >ur birthdays as we grow older. Never again roung?always nearer and never to the very ast?the end which is universal, "the last hing," which shall follow all'hist things, uul turn them, let us hope, from pain to oy. We put away our boyish toys with an >ld headache. Wo were too old to walk my longer on our stilts?too tall to play mar- j >les on the side-walk. Yet there was a >ang when we thought we had played with ; >ur merry thoughts for the last time, and j ue s serious, grown-up worn was wailing] :'or us. May it not be lliat these, too, shall ieein in the light of some far off day as the joyish games seem to our manhood, and ye shall leant that death is but the openng of the gate into the new laud of promsc ??Cm out I II c/r its. 13uy S.mali. Treks.?Nurserymen usuilly describe trees on their catalogues as 'second class," ' medium," "first class" and 'extra.' The difference iu these classes is principally, if not wholly, in the size and Height of the trees ; and as most farmers lesire the best, they suppose that the large 'extra" trees merit that description, and licnco order them. The fact is, however, :hat a small tree will grow faster and (if a i'ruit tree) come into bearing condition soon r than a large one; and, as the A'uc Kny 'urn/ Homestead states, in half a dozen years the tree that was small when planted will be larger and finer than the other.? I lie larger the tree, the larger the roots which it has, and the larger the roots the less libers there will be upon them. A tree that has plenty of fibrous roots will grow readily if proper"care is used in transportation ; but no amount of skill ran eoax a tree to live and flourish whiclitis destitute of these little libers. The roots of largo trees are always more or less mutilated in tlio process of taking up, while small trees sustain little injury fruui this source. Dealers in trees assert that experienced men buy small thrifty trees, while those who arc just starting arc anxious for the largest to be had. Those who are to set trees the coining season will do well to learn from the experience of those who, at considerable loss to themselves, have demonstrated that small trees are the ones to buy. Editors breathe easier now. The new counterfeit ?1,000 notes now in circulation cau be detected by their "greasy fool." * 1 M . - - 1 - 1 DO* PIATT'S BLAST. The Pant out Article that Made Grant llmcl ' \?A Double-1)isttiled Essence of Editorial Atjmt Eartis?Prepare, for the Jityintiing of the End The sickening apprehension felt by the people, to which wo referred last week, that the Supreme Court would bo found as rottoo as the other powers of our unhappy government, has been realized. Tl.? U*. -J - ' -i ? jl in' omii uuuaj mat 111 u?einsi ion years has undo our scll-govcrumcnt a sham and a mockery, :\ud in ihc executive uud legislative branches shamed us before the world, has boeu silently working its way through I'1 hoc est cit izens. The appeal made to .Judges of the Supreme Court from the people, sorely distressed and perplexed, was to save theui I'roui the wicked conspiracy of men they had repudiated at the polls. They saw their faithless agents for years robbing the treasury of their hardcarued taxes; they saw their highest officials indicted for the meanest crimes; they saw a President, coarse, brutal and ignorant, appointing sycophantic pimps to the highest positions ; they saw him the associate of roughs and the commissioner of thieves ; they saw carpetbaggers, sustaiued by bayonets, manipulating the polls, that ignorance and rascality might tyrannize over the>South j they saw rings, organized iu the lobby, control their Congress; they saw huge monopolies, created by their government, eating out their substance; tli.y saw themselves reduced to want, trade paralyzed and labor without employ, an i they made a desperate effort to right their wrougs through the ballot. With a subsidized press against them, wiiii it army ot hungry I'tlico-holders, that, counting those of the tiener il (iovernmcut with those of the States, make a horde of troasuary eaters greater than any standing army ol Mur tpe; with all the accumulated capital in the hands ol' monopolies arrayed cu the side ol their oppressors?they made one despairing effort, and came up froui the poll with a majority of over half a million in their behalf. And of what avail '( Through a dishonest rcturiiunr.Loaml . oTaud ujr "uT*iii?UffcTTttd Iiitve escaped conviction aud punishment under the protecting arm of a corrupt governincut, enough votes arc thrown out to render all their ell'orts vain aud saddle upon them the old corruption and old horde for another term of years?pet haps forever. From tiii- an appeal was taken to five justices of the Supreme Court?for that, 110 more and no less, was the Commission created. It was believed that by such process the question at issue, being a charge of conspiracy against .ortain corrupt men, could bo lifted from the political arena to a tribunal of high-toned, impartial judges, who would decide in accordance with law aud justice. To the amazement and disgust of all thoughtful tuiuds, these jiCticOtfdivided, as the partisans had, on a political line, and three indecent old men joined with the tjuciuies of the people in fixing corruption upon us, and destroying all confidence in the very foundation of our political structure. the ballot. Thev decide that fraud duel not vitiate, and beyond this, that they have nothing to decide, and so send the question to the people. We have not the patience to argue what the people in their broad common sense will not consider; the line-spun legal technicalities under which these aged scoundrels seek to hide their shame. Their real brief is to be found in the utterance of one of their Commission, Jauies A. Garfield, who said, boast iugly : ''You'll have to grin and bear it; we hold the cards and iutend to play them." l'oor political gambler ! The stakes for which he plays arc the rights of forty millions of people, the peace and prosperity of the only Republic known to humanity.? For all that freemen hold most dear these hands, stained with plunder, gamble, as the j soldiers of Pilate severed in division the 1 garment of the crucified Christ. As we said a week since, this is not law, it is revolution; and if the people tamely submit we may bid a long farewell to constitutional government. Fraud 110 longer vitiates. A corrupt administration has only, by its bayonets, to hold a State usurpation long enough in power for a corrupt returning borrd to do its vile task, and the work is dono. If a man thus returned to power can ride in safety from the Executive mansion to the Cupitol, to be inaugurated, we arc lilted lor the slavery that will follow the inauguration. We do uot believe the people of the Uuited States arc of this servile sort. We do not believe that they are prepared, without a blow, to part with their hard earned, blood-stained possessions. Notice is now I served on the citizens of Louisiana and V South Carolina that they must caro f themselves. How soon lamp-posts will be fruit is for them to say. To the people the North and West notice is given that j the toil to which they arc subjected, th bondholders and monopolists may fatten s cure, is repaid by no security for their right ; aud that a shrinkage of values is now order. If there is law for fraud there reason for v'tolcuce. And to that we trial our last appeal.? Wasfiinyton Capitol. THE DHUNKARD'8 APPETITE. Theie was )iviug(says llcarth and I/otn not long since, in Brooklyn, a mau who hi inherited froui r^^uulyyauJAtliiiiLjio--^. ~tite"Tf>r ruui. lie was a hopeless drunkar The man had many noble instincts, an better than all these lie had a loving, fait Iul, brave wife, who made skilful war upi the demon, her husband's master. Keen nizing the fact that her husband was uiul an overpowering impulse, that he long* and struggled manfully to free himself fro the passion for drink, she bent all the cue gies of her womau nature to the ^task < helping him. She loved and sull'ered an toiled until at last the loving and sulTorii and toiling aceomplishcd their purpose.She to- k her husband by tli? hand, an shared with him his struggle, until, aft' years ol' labor, she overcame his devil, ai; saw him a free man again, ller battle wil Hum had been a fierce one, taxing ai wasting her strength sorely, but she w conqueror at last. Her husband stood up< uuinly feet, and showed no sign ol fallit again. Several years passed away, and th reformed man fell ill of eousumptiuu. Tl distinguished physician, from whose lips v we have the story, prescribed alcoholic st:n ulants as the only means possible of pr longing his life. The poor wife was in te ror, and begged the physician to recall tl prescription. She told him of her loi struggle and her victory, and said she pr (erred that her husband should die the a sober man, than that he should fill a Jruul ard's crave a year later. Hut the frei spirit of the'nuin was strong, and he unde took to take alcoholic liquors as a inedicin and to confiue himself absolutely to sui times and measures in the matter us the ph during the months thus added to his lif John Yolnu 13ro\vn, in IIousk t I'ki'RKskntatiyks :?Something has bee said of bargaining with the South. Ye cannot win them over by bribes; they wai nothing but justice. 1 see before me a di tiogushed and cherished frit nd from tl South (Mr Lamar), a gentleman of tl highest ability and unspotted iutcgrit honored by his people and worthy of the trust. I speak not by his authorty, but his name has been mentioned in this co ncclion. I say that I am sure lie wou shrink from such a coalition as his so would recoil from a cruel wound of di honor. The men you could bribe in the Soul arc not worth having. You would loatl them when you got them; they would ha^ no followers or influence at hoine. And they were to join with your party to susta it in its past and present policy, they wou lind themselves political pariahs in the lut of their birth. Nothing will conciliate tl South but justice, and you will so find i Tlicy waut rest, order, home rule. Yoi largess there will be thrown away if giv< to corrupt. These people are' your pcei equals, before the law; and neither I bribery nor force can you change them fro sc. fdoin to villainy. In the precious nan of their manhood and womanhood, 1 rep diatc the intimation with scorn uuuttcr blc. There will be no division in the Demo racv. Lav not that flatterimr unction your souls. It is a. difference to-day on among tlieui as to the policy of the hou And now 1 ask you. my countrymen of'tl Republican party, in the name of justic of peace, of truth, of liberty, of ci ilizution, in the name of all these, I a you to halt. Forbearance has its limits; say it not in menance, but in sorrow ai solemn earnestness. The manacles must fall from the lim j of our sister Southern States. You mi call off your dogs. These unfortunate p< have been baited and badgered until t just sentiments of the world in indiiruati condemn your cruel policy, he never once drank a single drop mo than the prescription called for, and died at last a sober man. as the wile had earnestly prayed that he might. Hut t end was not yet. When the loving ai patient woman laid him in his grave, ai saw her long labors thus cudcd in the vi ; tory tor which she had toiled so hard ai : suffered so bitterly, she turned, in hcrgri to tho brandy which had been let'in t house, and, drinking it, she fell herself ir the power of the devil which she had foug so heroically. And that woman died, n many months later, a hopeless, helph I drunkard. or Thk Action ok tdk Commission Drar Noun'ckd.?At a public meeting in Washoj. ingtou Tuesday uight 1,000 peraons were # present Ex-Cougreasiuau George W. Julian, Keprcscutalivc Bright, of Tennessee, at Gen. Young, of Goorgia, nud others, spoke c. ou the political situation. They denounced s the action of the electoral commission and . ' eountenaneod resistance on tho part of lu Doinooratic menibers to further the count, ou the ground that tho proceedings were te taiuted with fraud and therefore those who voted for the electoral bill wero relieved from thoir obligation to observe it. Resolutions to this effect were adopted. e) _ Hot Blood.?Tuesday morning a difficulty occurred at Winuakoro, fch berwcm 'rtrn^'TtTiTTjT ntfcffTaThert .1 tn l.lnws. and finally v*. i'l I IlUt Vl> J IIVJ vuuiv ? , m J, :i pistol was dnnvu by Millbrd. Mr. Mark l( Brown, tho proprietor of tlie Winnsboro Hotel, hero interfered and endeavored to ,u separate tbo parties. Milford then tired at I'leininj;, but the ball missing its mark strnek er Mr. Brown in the ri^lit shoulder, rouging downward, iutlietinjr a painful but not a fatal wound. The ball was extracted by Dr. ' Aiken, of that place. At last accounts r" Mr. Brown was doing well. Milford has of not been arrested. id ? " ' ' * r "r~ . . _ - _ ,,, Marshal's Portrait of Hampton. There arc two distinct portraits of Gov. Hampton. The one issued by the "Ilnnipton id Portrait Company," of Charleston. S. C., is enL,r graved in line by Mauhiiai.i., and will be of im. posing appearance, and life-size. There is also n print out representing the Governor. We ill suggest that our people wait and see both pic lures, before choosing which they will have. .Marshall's famous engravings are attracting its unusual attention. The superb large line engraving of Washington, front Stuart's celebrated oil portrait in the Huston Athcuieunt?a pinto ig valued at ten thousand dollars?when originally js brought out about leu years ago, at once plncod .Mr. Marshall in the very front rank of cngraie vers, ancient or modern, meeting, bothiu Kurope c and AiPericit. the most extravagant encomiums of artists, critics, and men of judgment. It was even selected lor exhibition at tjie French Acndciny of Ltesigu, an honor accorded to nouo but the very highest works of art. It is, morcovorr" the best, indeed the only satisfactory, portrait 10 of Washington that exists, and is the acknowledged standard "household engraving" of him. The late lal ward Kverctt said of it : "The tnage niticcnl engraving of Stuart's head of Washington. It is truly a superb work." Bancroft, the historian, writes: "1 have been for some k- years a collector of the many different engra,j vings of tho portraits of Washington. This is beyond comparison tho best of them all?the r- only one that is perfectly satisfactory." .Mr. Geortre 8. Ilillurd. the well known art critic, ! says: "Were it the head of some unknown per;li son, a lover of art would he glad to have a copy of (lie engraving for its rare intrinsic merits, a-,-- J''' H'lonl<' lic ready to make e "stf -strnsTfttnury ? or?lcr:Loj^ws? _ -: ' Marshall s 11. E. Lee, jmsI out, is a wonderful ' r work, and in a few days his "Gov. Hampton" " will go to the people of South Carolina and the ill country, a noble tribute to a great leader, who conquers by his high character ami by peaceful >u means, not by the sword.?AVir* etml Courier. nl And from the Columbia liejister the accoms patiying letter: Tiik Hampton Poiitu.vit.? Wc publish for the te information of the people of the State the folle lowing extract from a letter received from Charleston, addressed to Mr. 0. 1'. Pclhain : yi "Some misapprehension exists as to the pro,j,. prictorship in t lie lis. nipt on Portrait Company. Permit me to say that a majority of the invest!,s nicnt is held here. As one of tho proprietors, i). ! am attending to its affairs until other and per. . inancnt at rangemeuts arc concluded. 1 origi'l* noted the project of a portrait of Governor ul Hampton in a high style of art, thinking it a worthy manner in which to recognize his Kx's cellency's public services to the poople of this State during the past six months. Those servile ccs entitle him to he presented to his couutryincn everywhere in a style equal to that iu ic which Washington and l.cc and other rcrcscnta,q tive gentlemen of the country are shown.? Time was required for this great work, that care H and still should mako it perfect. Its puhlicajn tion has been anticipated by another Issue, of the merits of which the public can judge. In 'u selecting an artist the gentlemen associated with 1(] me have given preference to Mr. Marshall.? Gustavo Hole, the grout artist of France dc10 clarcs him to he 'the veritable master of art in it. America.' If wc do not realize all our expectations in a pecuniary point of view by reason Jl of a different publication, we must accept that ;u fortune?the penalty of attempting to do tht best possible in art for our beet mem, we shall hope, ?, .i.-i? ... ?.... --..1- ,u.. lilt vl I 11 I v o ~ | IV JIUSBUB3 till IVHHIU * ? ?uv )y pKont'trrioN of a <;it\ni axdimposixu Portrait, 1(i wliich will command an appreciative circulation if not so large as might have been under more )C propitious circumstances. In a very few days (l> the public can judge for themselves, and can very well afford to wait a little, and make their :i- choice with Marshall's sih:m>io work, nr. tore Til KN. WM. A. OOURTENAY." Charleston, S. C., February ?7, 1877. !y Bice, McLure & Co. ANNOUNCE that they have received u full line of l,c FALL AND WINTER GOODS, !0j to which they respectfully call the attention of y_ purchasers. These goods have been carefully selected, purchased at low prices, and arc offered s* on the most reasonable terms. I The attention of the Ladies is especially di, rectcd to the "a DRESS GOODS, 8//AWLS, CLOAKS, , TRIMMINGS. 1,3 MILLINERY GOODS, ist SILK NECK TIES, KUFFLISGS, //OSIERY, GLOVES AND lie FANCY ARTICLES, on Displayed by RICE, McLURE & CO Oct. 1.7 41 tf SeuNomiblo Goodtt. he fPLANTATION tools, farming implements, SO I t ?* ? ? c /> u (InrnOBu A von .( /* A- /> v anr l/.to lie RICE, McLURJMt Or.. sd Fcb;2 j_ ixl Hand Mndc Slior*. 1C- A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT just received, ixl iV in GEE & HUMPHRIES' r;f. Hotel Store. |l0 April 21,'76 10 If Pure Corn Whiskey. , ( I )L'KK Mountain Corn Wliisiey, for medicinal 10 L purposes, for sale at A. IRWIN, it CO.'H Feb 9 0 ?f