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treated** a tended " ' *; wat. " Address by Qr. George IV. BagLv he\jbn the South Carolina Frets ' How the Delation* of our Boyhood icert Dispelled by the War?The Incurablt * .Folly of the Cottontot?A Virginian'i Tribute to South Carolina? The Vista of her Glorious Future. Ma. President and Gextlemen ok 'the jfress Association ok* South Carolina: Permit 1110 to congratulato you on *ho restoration of your State Government. A bright day has dawned after a long and very dark night. Much of your recent tri uuiph is duo to your owu stout hearts, but much more to the disturbed ccudition ot'tho . cojiQtry. Had tfce volume of business rewould have been crushed like an egg-shell, and the negro nud the carpet-bagger would have retained power indcfiuilcly. This is a discordant note, but it is the truth, and by the truth we must live. You do not waut, I am sure, the decorous namby-pamby and the job lots of damaged advice which make up the staple of the addresses generally given on occasions like this ; aud if you did, could not get them from me, who know but little decorum and am but a poor adviser. Extend to mo, the oforc, I pray you, forbearance which is born of that highbred courtesy for which South n 1- .. - ... L _ J1 v_,arouuians nave ever oeen uisuuguisncu. A protty showing, indeed, I should make were I to preach to the text chosen for me. ^'Southern Journalism." Fancy 111c with a Richmond papor in one hand, and tho average rural, paper of my State in the other, coming here to igstruet tho editors of South Carolinn ! Comparisons are odious, and 1 will not make them. Although I have been alternately the accoucheur and the undertakcrjof newspapers in both town and country, aud although 1 have been tho correspondent of leading journals from Massachusetts to Texas. I confess to you fraukly that I know nothing about Southern journalism. Yes. I do kuow one single thing. I know that if the money paid annually over the counters from Baltimore to Galveston for Northern papers which abuse or, worse still, pity the South, were paid to us we would all bo rich. Whereas the most of us, like English curates and American insurance agents, are but gcutccl paupers. Knowing this, I lay down the dictum that no people will ever be free, or deserve to bo free, who do not support their home papers in preference aud, :< ?ii I IIUCU UU, IU VliU UAUU31UII U1 Uil UlllCl pa* pcrs whatsoever. How is that for sound and high political science, and honions it comport with yqurideas of free trade? By your gracious leave, then, I will drop the subject of journalism and select for my thesis uTho Southern Fool." That is quite iu my line of business. 1 am accustomed to handle that class of goods, and like a good business uian L stick to my last. Arc tutor, you know. And it may turn out that the Southern Fool bears, T will not say a paternal relation to, but has a connection with, Southern journalism much less remote than we would have the public to believe. Wo shall see. lint first a digression. When a boy I was scut to school in Princeton, N. J The propriety of sending a lad 400 miles away from home may well be questioned. Certainly it may be doubted when the money expended for his education is needed in the State of his nativity. Before the war, there might have been an excuse for indulging educational whiuis, but what possible excuse is there now ? ])r. McCosh says, there are 80 Southern students at Princeton ; at 8400 apiece, that is, 882,000 a year ; enough almost to support the average Southern college. Arc there any fools among us for the want of sense ? But we have no school equal toNaso.... 1-1 ..11 u? v nrtlinrn otm fViQctinti \va hnvA """ 'J - a school better than that, ainl equal to at$ on this continent. About my school days in Princeton I remember many things, but this thing especially?that the Southern boys there taught inc, a lad of ten, to look down upon tho boys of the North. Was that wisdom or folly ? and if folly was it confined to boys alone? Arc all such boys dead now ? Last fall I revisited New .Jersey. It is a love'y land. What land is not in October? "Tnis land," said t to myself, ''is not merely tamed, it is civilized, it is enlightened in iu thorough culture." But I care not to live iu it. No. There are people who would leave Paradise to go to Orange Courthouse .and I am one of them. Dwell in a country twhere there are 110 sassafras bushes, 110 su <mac, nor any briar patches? Never! Sit John Malcolm tells of the astonishment and disgust of an old Persian woman at hearing there were 110 date trees iu England. Live there? Not she. No more could I live undei a sky without a buzzard. 1 could not if I would, and would uot if I could. Yes, 'tis a beautiful well husbanded land and tho people who dwell in it are a grcai '.people, not yet in their prime, mewing stil a mighty youth?who that visited tho Ex position can doubt it ? and with an incon ccivable destiny before them. We also o - c\ .t 4 : 1 A- * mc isoiuii :iro great,?greater in ucicai, n the grandeur of self-restraint, (as you Soutl Carolinians have just proved to the confoun ding of your enemies,) tnmnM^^ter in de feat than in war Why vntfmt these twi peoples come together without gush, fanfar ouade or montal reservation, and he friendbj one people, absolutely. All good mei in both sections ardently desire it. The; long for it. There can be no peace, no pros perity without it. Why cannot it be ? 1 d not know. Why is it that no iiouso is bij enough to In Id one family after the s >11 and daughters are grown? Why must magnet, have two poles, and what i> tli meaning of this ''inevitable duality wbiel bisects all nature?" A battery with on wire can do no manner of work, and sunn why there is an imperative necessity I'm t\v cannot be dor l without liatp aa well as love nud as much i oue precisely as the other ? Bab ! Thcf analogies are mislouding?it's all stuff?th crazy. Say you so ? Then are we pr< ?lpare?l to couie flat and pluuip to souaethiu : practical viz., the Southcru fool. ; The first Southern fool whom I shall n< i tico is the worst, for ho is more knave tha fool, a hound whose bide I intend souio da to tear off and hold his quivering carcass u i to stiuk in the nostrils of both sections. J is he, who, having goue North and acquire money by hook or by crook, mainly by crool proceeds to take unco himself all the glor nnri t.ho r?tinn nf fKn !?/> """v v? vuu uuunij uiov/n uo uv; shame, evades her suffering, aud over whelms us with his advice. His advice quotha! Why docsu't lie couic dowu am put his shoulder to the wheel ? Advice - V|IUU my -mjul; |;pinlcmcii) h'"* Mil vice from a fool of this sort is the acme o all meanness. It is the very inversion o gcuerosity, which naught impoverishes thi giver, but makes us poor indeed. Will i beggar give me a handful of his rags? Tin figure is coarse, horribly coarse, but not si coarse as the fact. It was a shoal of this kind of cattle (i that Irish enough for you ?) of these advice Sivcrs (Northern born though) whoswoopci own upon us after the war to teach us hov to grow cotton and tobacco with machinery and free labor. They would hear nothing for they knew all things. The lastnincom poop of them failed igncminiously, and ir my Slate not a few of them discovered tha in the simple matter of cheating any Vir giuia clodhopper was more than a match foi the shrewdest Yankee, lie made him paj three prices for his worn out farm, one thin ctfsb^md in a year or go took, back the faru for the deferred payuicnts. The more foo the Virginian for this goose-ripping policy but none the less a fool the Yankee. Prior to tho war the Southern fool mad< his wishes the measure of political events and sentiment served him in lieu of scusc lie believed in llell and Everett (I votcc l'ur tlicm?none of my people shall be big ger foils than myself.) in Fillmore, Join Cochrane, Putler, Sickles. Jiah ! As if ihi designs of an army could b^ disooyercd bj the attitude of the chaplains,-the teamsters sutlers and bummers in the rear, instead o; by watching the movements of the van guard. Is the Southern fool doing any bet tcr row? Docs experience teach anything] Very little.to individuals, to nations uolh ing. When the war broke out the Southeri fool begjin by underrating the strength o his enemy, by lookiug down upon the Yan kefls as Uit- Southern, boys had done ai Princeton. (Joining to lueli 1IT0Ba alter tn< battle of Manassas, with the body of a deat comrade, L was told that a great Southeri statesman was in town. 1 hastened to hiu at once, for I wanted to see ahead. "Mr X.," said I, "the papers tell us that Liu coin has called for 200,000 men." Hi laughed a low laugh, leaned back a little and said cheerily. "Oh, yes, the Chinesi raised a million, with gongs and stinkpot: according, and ten thousand allies uiarchct straight to Pekin." 1 was greatly coinfor tod. This Chinese idea prevailed at Montgom cry, where, I am told, the lirst order fo arms was for nine thousand, possibly tei thousand stand. Passing over the inino follies of retaining proved incompetents a the head of grand armies and elsewhere passing over Lee's extreme weakness in no holding his lieutenants up to the stcrncs accountability, I come to the capital uiistak of the war. It was natural the Southeri / I -I IJ 1.. I, A I IOOl SllOUKl IIlilKU It. l\ iitfuuouuiv; ^vutiv man?I can see him now; wo all renminbi; him ; above the medium height; a suit c black broadcloth, black satin vest, felt lint gold fob chain, gold headed cauc and high heel, high-top boots?a gentleman who di< .nothing with his hands and a good dual wit his tongue, thereby making himself vcr agreeable to himself, llut there was on redeeming quality about the fellow?h wouldn't take the lie, and he would lightwould snuff out your cephalic wick at te paces, or fight you with anything from toothpick to a coluutbiad. A fight to hit was a five minutes' affair, and if enough lii was left in himself or his enemy to shak ' hands, he was ready to make friends, an thcri an end on't. What more natural tha i that he should believe that war meant figli i ing. I It was a fatal mistake, the cardinal crn , of the whole struggle*. War?nine-tentl ' of it, at least, as Alex. II. Stephens said : the time?is business, the plainest possib matter ot tact business, jusi sucn ousinc: I as is done every day here on your wham ; and streets, only with more energy. J)i s any of you enter the Yankee lines at tl: r close of the war ? I did, and what did I se< [ I saw in succession a team of mouse colon mules, a team of cream-colored mules, and , team of snow-white mules, six to a team, an t all seal fat,(specimens of the train) the waj 1 ons brand new, nnd the wagon cloths - deal cleaner than the shirt 1 was then wea - ing. A little further on I saw a corps i f 20.000 negroes whose cauip was like a M; ) ground when Merrie Kngland was in i i prime. Why, gentlemen, war to this pe - pie was pastime, it was aesthetics and poetr and I can readily believe what has ofl< ) been asserted, that All#. Yankee coirinpgto - would gladly have paid the expenses of bo! i, sides in order to prolong the war indefiuit 1 'yv Ah ! hut they had the. money. Yes, tl - paper, whereas we had the great stapl o which were absolute values, only wo did n H have the business sense to use them, s What is the relevancy of all this? Wh a is the use of raking up tiie a.-hes of the uei c past? The war is all over?long, long np li ! Say you so. and think you so? That i? wh ? ails yn:; now. The wars of powder and sh are ( > (lie warfare of life what the few lion o of lighting me to the long months of pi deration which make or mar a campaign ; 10 I and in this life-warfare, us it) the noisier and jf | briefer wars, you are to be saved by your to strong, hard business common souse, and ie that alone. The eud of the struggle at Aps pouiatlox was but the beginning of auother ; g und much more desperate struggle?tho oh- I jeet of which is the conquest of your most i )- cherished ideas in politics, religion and so- I n cial order?the rearrangement of the very 1 y molecules of your brain?the facing about t p of your inmost soul?no less. This is the ( t now "irrepressible conflict," which, like the t d old, will bring us all to grief, years hence, c A twine of two-threads, scarlet and sable, c y State rights and slavery, was involved in c r til) late "rebellion" ns nnr ennsiilerntn Ynn. t - kce friends love to miscall it. Ouo was f s, severed completely, and, Stat?s rights man I J as I au>, 1 would to God sometimes that the f ! other had been definitely cleft in twain, for I???ln.ll >i 11 V mill. Utni?nrrtu -wjrwi,anig n f trouble in time to come. I f The next form of Southern fool which I c s shall consider is the agricultural fool; what t a I should call in Virginia the tobacco worm, n c but iu this State the Cottontot. Gentlemen, p 0 there arc Hottentots and there are Cotton- u tots. The oxides of years lie upon my gco- li s graphic memory, and I am a little confused o - as to Ilottcutots and Patagonia ns. I only 1 1 kuow that they arc extreme Southern pco- t ? pie, and that iigither are famous as yet for f f intelligence. The Cottontot belongs to the v , same category. A Cottontot 1 take to he a 1 - person who, growing uothing hut cotton, has J i to buy every earthly thing that he uses or tl t consumes; consequently rarely if ever saves tl - anything, and finds himself at the end of fi r the year the property of his commission tl f merchant?himself the property of the si 1 Northern man, for you'll look in vain to find tl l a business which docs not have a Southern n 1 noodle at one end playing drudge for a smart d , Yankee at the other. The cottontot, I say, n finds himself tho property of his commission a 3 merchant, who don't want him?wont have w , him at auy price, and yet can't get rid of Si him without bankrupting himself. A prct- ti i ty cxempiincation 01 tne vicious business n - circle all round, isn't it? b 1 frieuds, during the twelve years that tl j have elapsed since the war, at least thirty- tl f six millions bales (three millions a year) of b , cotton have been grown at the South. At ai f 850 a bale, a low estimate, this amounts to I - sixteen hundred millious of dollars. What t< has become of this enormous amount of b ? money ? What benefit have we derived lVom S - it, and where has it all gone ? Thanks to o the Cottontot, it has gone precisely whero c: 1 it cauic from, and beyond a mere support, f we have derived no benefit from it. Is this ti - to go on forever ? Y<fs, as long as the Cot- tl I tontot polidy a^eondant. Because " ; cotton is uin 1 uiduey cn?p ?un DC5aiv.se wOiti 1 have virtually driven East India cotton out u of the market?M. Rivctt-Caruac, late cot- <j ton commissioner, having been forced for tl lack of cotton business to go into the holy y opium trade?the Cottontut is again ex- h claiming "Cotton is King." lias he heard h , of the new Egyptian cotton plant, the "Ea- ti s inia ?" Not he, and if he heard he would n s not heed. Well, Cotton is King, in a sense. ^ 1 So is tobacco, so is tar. provided you have h enough of cither, and it will fetch a good p price. , It tor was two doliars a gallon, and ' d - 1 held a million barrels, tar would be king, r aud I would be a prince; but if tar ruled at i v . i it ... __l 1 1_ _ . A. ? i mat price, mere wouiu ue a corner in uir t r in New Yurk, and you and i and other Cot- 'J t tontots would not own enough to grease a a cart wheel. p t The Cottontot is a fuol iu various other J it ways?in the mode, for example, of buying j e hk goods. There can bo no plainer busi- o a 4icStfpropbsitit)n than this?that when a man a !- has cheated aud deceived you repeatedly, i r common sense requires that you shall drop t if him instantly and deal with him no more ( t, forever. Duty to yourself and your family i i- demands that you should never forget and t 1 never forgive in this ease. And what is c h true in business is equally true iu politics, i: y is it not ? Your political life depends on t c your answer to this question, llut what y e docs your Cottontot do? Coming to town t - and finding some adventurer with a lot of | s n auction goods or a compromise stock, lie i a quits the old established houses, well known i l) to him, aud spends the very money due to v e these houses in buying trash and shoddy j c from this adventurer. Finding himself t d cheated again, he simply laughs, aud says, i 11 "I tell you these chaps arc smart, they are 1 t- keenerr., they arcbut if the old cstab- t lished house so much as disappoint him, lie t >r damns it as "an infernal unprincipled Van- i is kec concern." ' . \ it An exceptional year comes and the Cot- j. le tontot actually saves money. What does ho i s do with it?lend it to his poor and needy t ;s neighbors? Ulcus you, no. He is a fool,but i d not quite big enough fool for that, lie ( ic wants his money where he can lay his hands 1 j? on it at any moment. Tinio was when a f d man's word was as good as his bond,but now 1 a almost all bonds arc three times worse than ] id any man's word. So the Cottontot wisely 1 carries this money to bank, where he ena counters another Southern fool, who pays t r- him fi per cent, for his money, and then .< rxP l-?twL I* 111 1 n.ap wnll L'liinvinrr ( l/l It'livin iv civ iv vi am | ?*- vviivj ..v.? . iy when lie lends it that ho u killing the busi- 1 ts 11 ess of the borrower. For what is a bank, i 0- rightly conducted ? It is simply a heart, a yj pump, an acinic ram for receiving and for- i mi warding the circulation. And what a fool of < 1-s .a heart that heart would be which would de- > th liberatcly engorge itself, producing valvular I c- disease, hypertrophy and aneurism at the j expense of the atrophy if the rest of the 1 ic body ! Yet that is precisely wli t so many i es banks arc doing on a small scale and that ot greatest of all human dolts, the North, the banker of the nation, has been doing on a at grand scale. I'.ver since the war it has been ad stalling itself with circulation, taxing \ ir;o. ginia, with her three millions of banking ( at capital, seven millions annually, and New . ot Kuglaml. with one hifndred ami sixty mil its lions, only five millions a year, viewing all re- the while its withei ing Southern extremities i- 1 ; 111 mi .. i. ji- ...... L ^ k , with complacency and eveu delight, uutil at last engorgcuiout bus produced stagnation and paralysis. To that and to that alone, not to any sympathy for your troubles or admiration for your heroio endurance, you owo your prescut release from boudago worse diau death. If now, in true Southern fash- < iou. you go about to gush because the iron liaud is lifted for u moment, to fancy that i mmau nature can become angelic in a day, < :o abaudon common sense ami common pru- ' lcuce, <o iorget the past, and tocltaco from neuiory the impressions which suffering has i counter-sunk in it, and which should remain < clean-edged and bright lor at least half a < century?if you do this, then are you Cot- { ontots indeed. Hut you are not going to < brgct. They will not let you forget. You t it tie comprehend the drift of events if you : ancy otherwise. ? Ah ! but tho millennium is jcoiuui'r-=^i.s 1 1 ,iavo sWui a num- 1 ier of millenniums in mv time. They rev- i r last ten, and rarely seven years. Thanks I o the President, who has done his duty, I lothing more, an era of good feeling ap- icars to he setting in, and so long as his ( measures are just and impartial he ought to t i.avc, and doubtless will have, the 135 votes t f the solid South as often as he wants them. < lut if iu return for his nets of .simple jus- i iee Mr. Hayes asks us to break ranks be- 1 ure 1880, 1 say emphatically, Nay! Hut it j rould be just like the Democracy to do it. t 'hey split in 1860 between Douglas and > Srockiuriuge, aud through the crevasse i bus formed cauic the rail-splitter to deluge s his land with blood. Will we repeat that i ally ? '*1 shouldn't wonder." Happily in > he absence of tho blows from the Radical ? ledge-hammer which have hitherto welded t Ijo South together, making it more and 1 lore solid every year, we have that at our I oors which will keep us in close order for 1 innu tnnittt vnore #r\ ?c fon ? J) ""'"J J""'" VUU.V. XUID J-W.WOV. lid stupid generation requires a sign, and 1 i rill give it to them. It is this : When Mas- ] iichusctts shall have voted the l>cuiocrntic ( ickot for five successive years, then, and 1 ot till then, will the color line be really s roken ; then, and not till then, may gen- 1 leincn vote the Republican ticket; and for s lie South to divide before that time would I c the madness of the moon itself. This ttcmpt to revive the Whig party is. as the 'opular Science Monthly says of Plcasen>n's blue-glass book, the "ghastliest rubish'" of the century; and when I see a outhcrn paper sucking a little thin postfiice advertisement pap, I am at loss whetlir to laugh or to weep. To come back to the Coltontot. The ferlizers he buys in Charleston almost double lie value of his crop. "Aha !" he exclaims, they have stuffed the bags for inc. hoping ) No y*'?^ ?*'? Ai?. II? facturcr; you uie"iiii?nly ' Smart, uuc uoi uife smart enough for uie. I've got you liis time, and the next time you catch me 1 ou'll know it." Or. neglecting his crop, # e is disappointed in his fertilizer; while " is neighbors, using precisely the same ar- * icle, and giving due attention to their fields, < lore than realize their fondest expectations. 1 Vhereal the Cottontot swears loudly that { is neighbors have been favored at his ex- < ense, and that he has been grossly swin- ' led. ? llere, then, is the source of nearly all our < roes?this Cottontot devotion to a single ' rop and the accompanying over-smartness. < 'lie cure is plain enough ; and it has been I uunralily lormuiateu rty o .e 01 your cuy > tapers iu the aphorism, "Jircmf amf meat i i'rat} cotton fast." The mission of Southern ournalism is to put this motto at the head i f every paper from Norfolk to Galveston i nd to keep it there. 1 would print it iu 1 ndeliblc ink on the foreheads, tattoo it in 1 lie arms, and brand it in the palms of the > Jottontots. JJut the press has not been die in this good cause, for already we see < lie effect of its labors. Mr. .John Ott, one I if the ablest, and certainly one of the most ? iscful, men in Virginia, furnishes us with his most cheering fact, viz: "In 1870, the (Vest packed 104.915,807 pounds less pork i han it did iu 1875. This is the reason asigncd by Western journals: 'The provison trade, owing to falling prices during nost of the year, proved less profitable than isual ; and, on account of the political comilications iu the .Southern States, the dcnand for distribution has been for several nonths intcrferred with.'" Oho! Mr. iVest, your excuse incthinks is somewhat hin ; we are raising our own pork ; that is ho wholo secret. JJut will the euro just mlieated suffice ? 1 doubt. It is a fact vhich tlio Press will do well never to for;et that the increase in our provision crop s due much more to the low price of cotton linn to the wisdom of the Cottontols, and f cotton agaiu touches 20 (cuts, he will Irop corn instantcr. 80 would it be in Virginia if the lo ?' grades of tobacco should iccidentally double in value. There is, as t well know personally, no cure for folly.? IJray a cottontot or a humorist in a mortar, ic will be a cottontot or a humorist still. Gentlemen, we want to bo friends with lie North ; we want to win back, 1 will not lay their love?grown men care little for lach other's love?but we do want to win jack their respect; and there is but one xay under heaven to do it. "Revenge 1 riinothcus cries." and I am for vcngeucc, mmediate and dire. I would not rob them jf their money as tLcy robbed us of our slaves; I would not have them suffer and t>e strong as we have sulferod and are strong, Mid intend to be stronger, but 1 would indict upon them that suffering which brings not strength hut weakness, namely the suffering of impotent envy. 1 would snatch the last mail of them bald headed from taw, and go into the wig business to-morrow morning, I ?>ouhl make every one of them, gnash out every tooth in his upper and lower maxillaries. so that I might forthwith bo canonized hv dentists the North over as St. 1 Gumbo in Kra Kalse-set-o. This slang is detestable, but do you know I 11 k - it . Slang does so pierce and grieve the small souls of purists?those jtettie inaitrrs of literature, with whom Shakespeare aud myself, who closely resemble oach other, never had .and never can have any patience. My friends, we arc to win back the.respect of the North just as the respect of every other people is won, and that is by regaining our lost wealth. Less cotton and more meat nrst, auu, second, manufacturing our dwii cottcu. That is the solution of the itIioIc ilifliculty. The first two pages of Adam Smith tell what advantage there is in manufacturing raw material, and, if you ;onsult Col. Chilton, at Columbus, Ua., or ?ol. Palmer, at Columbia, S. CM he will jive you the exact prceentage in our favor jver the New England manufacturers.? Against their seven month; of consumption uid five months of production we have elov?u uiouths of work and only one, if that, of tal, the thrill, skill, energy and daring of Vow Kngland, wc will be but repeating the oily of a certain boy at school in Princeton. ATullum numrn abrst si sit prurient bt. We sail not possibly be too wary in this lifo-andloath industrial struggle with a people whose n pita lists arc at this moment mapping out sotton and iron mill sites in the South as ninutcly as the Prussians mapped out Prance previous to the late war. Hut supposing we get rich, cuoruiously rich, as wc >ught to do, and in time most certainly will, That then : \\ hy every man ol us will pull ip stakes as soon as the s tuitncr begins and ipend every surplus cent in New York, Saa toga, Long Branch and Newport. And vlio shall blame us, seeing how frightfully lull our own watering places are ? Neverhelcss, nothing is more certain than that ieorgia and iSouth Carolina arc destined to >e enormously rich. It is writton in the look of fate that this noble commouwcultli ihall have recompense for her unparalcllcd ifllictious. And when you get rieli I want rou to conic to Virginia. I)o you ever think if the good old State? I hope so. Your irotliois sleep under her sod, and from that tod many of you that arc now living have ooked up uight after night to the utianiwcring stars, wondering where you Would )o on the morrow. Yes, you remember Virginia; you can never forget her. Her lien are much too prone to claim all glory or themselves and their State; but her wolien, have you 110 tender recollections of hcui in the hospital and the home ? Well, hen, get rich quick and conio back to old Virginia's shore. We have got there the netticst and sweetest girls in the habitable vorld. This I say in a tone so low that inly (lie long male cars of this audience can icur nic But it is so. We have got also 1 lull line of the most bewitching widows k?* HAH UtAAlf liq ift/C# tu? Iiut o OOI1Io IvuiuloO 4i?a4 m?*o lot so pretty. We do nothing by halves iu Virginia, and when we set about producing 111 ugly woman we put upon the market an icutc, penetrating, diffusive, pervasive, acrid ind altogether niiimoniacal variety of hid ousness that nothing earthly can touch.? Hut for pretty gills aud widows you can't j;o amiss. They are so thick in Richmond .hat if you venture 011 the street with an umbrella under your ann, and turn around iudden'y, you will knock do.rn two 01 three if tliem. They have been waiting witli the iwcctest patience lor the kings ana princes af Knrope to come over and marry them, but llie lbo!s over there have gone to lighting, and I am afraid their patience and their lew good clothes will vicar out together.? And when I think of their bright eyes dimming, and the roses in their checks lading in old-maidenhood, it almost kills inc. 1 can't marry thcin all?would to goodness that I could?I have done all that the law allowed uic to do in this matter, nud now I want you to quit playing Cottontot, get rich tjuiek, and coine to Old Virginia and help me out in the matrimonial line. We have a fine set of young men growing up and already grown, plenty old enough to marry? blooded fellows?that have gouc to work, and, like racehorses at the plough, intend to break (he traces, burst their hearts or make a deep furrow iu this hard old work-day l.i t.i vvuriu. 1 iiuj nvuim iiuv wujuuv vu uiuujiu^ any man's rich sister, but of all men's they would prefer a South Carolinian's. Come, then, to the Old Dominion?a fair exchange is no robbery?and, by the g ds! the next generation or two will see a race of men compared with whom Washington and Calhoun, Jefferson and IMnckncy were but teetotums and mumble-pegs. There is one other weakling to whom 1 would like to pay my respects. 1 moan the Southern politician, wh fancies he can become a statesman by rejecting the acquisitions of modern science, the application particularly of biology to social problems, and, confining himself to the old ruts, hopes to make a little ill-digested history and the speeches of a few eminent men of a bv-gone age serve in the stead of those general laws, which, embracing matter and mind alike, enable us to forecast the futuro and to forci . ? .i !_ i. i.? a., L_ L..I BCD lioi wnai we iiiiiik we uugiu, ?u ue, uuv what in the nature of tilings must inevitably be. Time will not permit iiic to do more than allude to thi? subject; but. coming down to immediate matters, I should say that the supreme Southern political fool is he who, in this critical moment for his section, places contidcncc in any promises whatever made by his party foes. In conclusion, let me thank you for inviting me to address you. No compliment is more grateful to a Virginian than one that comes from the people of Carolina, for here lie finds a passionate devotion to the State which rivals if it docs not surpass his own State pride and love. Catolinians! do you love your mother? Does a mother love her afflicted and stricken son ? Does a son love the invalid mother for whom he sacrifices his time, his pleasures and his hard won earnings? Lovelier? Ho would die for her. Yea more, he would live for her, would "lend her half his powers to eke her living out." And when the painful night watches arc all over anil the patient sufferer is hid iu that uarrow bed where there is no more suffering, the son comes back from the grave, bearing with him ail amulet that no uiau may ever sec but which will keep him unharmed through life. Nay, henceforth a p nower and more elevated life, hallowed by self-sucri6ce,is his. 80 with you, Carolinians. You have suffered as no cultured people iu modern times have suffered, and, so sure as Heaven, tho steadfast love you have shown to your murdered mother will bring its exceeding groat reward. You have trodden the wine press alone. Here full the utmost fury of your enemies, and here cntue the least sympathy of your friends, for was it not said (the idiots have not vet stopped saying it) that you''brought on the war?" The wine press ! Your 8tntc was tho wino press and your souls tho grapes ou which for twelve yoars a uiob of jeerini; devils, drunken with vxi mniivv nuu tftrnmt ItJ trie ?? derisive laughter of halt tho nation.? Twelve years, four thousand days and nights of torture, of shame, of humiliation, for yourselves, your wives, your daughters, your tender children. Four thousand days and nights, and to the proud and sensitive nature smarting under indignity, every moment is an age. llurke and l'itt lifted their voices in behalf of the oppressed Colonies ; the "loud ery of trampled Iliudoston" awakened the eloquence of Sheridan, but the Poland of America? Found not a generous friend, u pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor tucrey in her woe!" ******* "Naked and desolate she stands, Her name a by-word in all lands." No man of commanding genius in either branch of the National Legislature stepped forth to plead her cause in words that might, have shaken both Continents and be quoted for all time. Not one of tho Northern poets ?those gentle beings whoso hearts blood at every wrong from Tnrtary to Timbuctoo? could pan a line for Carolina. Cordon, of Georgia, was your iriend, good and true ; and at the lust your advocate nnd champion was that press which men aforetime loved to call satanic?the New York Herald? and the poet who sang your wrongs were of your own rearing. Yes, Carolinians you have been tried as by lire, and by that tire the dross has been iiurgcd away, leaving metal of proot only. 1 look to see here a race of uien nobler than any that have gone before. Already from the flames emerges u figure, calm, contained majestic as an antique bronze?a form to which all eyes were lately turued in admiration, and in gratitude that outweighed aduiiratiou, for he had saved his country from civil war?Anaxunilron Agamemnon, Wade llamptou, King of Men ! Happy UiA-luaul iliat <d*iiu* btai Chief MacUsTuTcr. ira7,?r?W?ff 'M"t ' would sec that no section, no State suffered needlessly. Having braved nil things, he fears nothing; and having endured all things, he would brook with equal patience the malice of his foes and the deadlier flattery of his friends. Is it too much to hope that he will take the place in Washington for which he is so well fitted '( It may never be ; but the day that sees him or some such Southern man installed in power will be the dawn of peace, the end of the war. Hut stay ; T am told that near at hand there is somewhat to cat and drink withnl. (J one, let us sacrifice the bird dear to Minerva, let us boil the owl in Fulcrniun or tho Ciecuban vintage, and, having dined oil fools, we will sup on concentrated wisdom. Sowino Grass Seeds.?The following directions for sowing grass seeds will be found useful at the present time:?In sowing we advise, for obvious reasons, that the soil should bo clean, iu good condition?the surface made level and firm and perfectly pulverized by harrowing and rolling. A cahn, still day, when rain is approaching, is most suitable for the work. After sowing, the surface should be only lightly harrowed and rolled. A firm seed bed and a depth of covering of a quarter to half an inch is most favorable for the vegetation of small seeds. If covered deeply they do not grow at all,or in very small proportions; if not covered, many of the seeds arc picked up by small birds, and the vegetation of those that escape depends upon their being washed into the soil by rain. Young grasses arc injured by frost. The proper season, therefore, for sowing extends from March to September ; the spring months nre preferable. If the land works unkindly, seeds will not vegetate well and a larger quantity must be sown to obtain a stand, Grass scuds may be sown with or upon land already planted with wheat, barley or oats, as a regular crop, with every chance of success? except in cases where the cereal crops are over abundant and lodged. When sown without a crop?for the safe protection of the finer grasses and to increase the produce of the first year?it is advisable to add to the quantity of grass sown and also a bushel of oats or barley per acre. Tiik Last of Damf.i,.?The usurper Daniel If. Chamberlain, has pone ; no one regrets this; lie left iu a hurry and under n black cloud. Ilis ill-gotten effects were all that was left of hitn, and these follow. Yesterday there arrived on the train from Columbia 108 packages directed to D. It. C., New York. These contained furniture and other baggage, and was transported by I lie Enterprise Railroad to tho steamship City of Atlnnta for New York. This severs his connection with .SouthCarolina forever and leaves nothing behind but his notorious name.?Journal of Commerce. Youdooistu is on tho increase among the negroes in Nashville. Frequently, when arrested and searched at the polico office, their pock its arc found to contain scvoral human fingers, a piece of load-stone, a lock of hair, and other prophylactics against being conjured. The St. Louis Republican thinks it is no wonder the Republican papers are admitting that the extension of suffrage was a mistake.